Pistia stratiotes shown renoprotective properties in ischaemia reperfusion injury models in rats with and without diabetes.

Abstract

Renal reperfusion injury (RI/R) is characterised by oxidative and inflammatory bursts; Pistia stratiotes (PS) has a long history of use in avoiding these bursts. Some studies have shown that it may lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels simultaneously. Hence, the purpose of this study was to show that PS changed renal reperfusion damage in diabetic and non-diabetic rats