Abstract
Prednisolone and prednisone are synthetic corticosteroids used to treat different diseases. They are well known to be used for treating many conditions like asthma, autoimmune diseases, many skin conditions, and may help to prevent or at least to suppress inflammations and immune responses. It was proved previously the correlation between prednisolone and the function of liver in patients having liver problems. In patients with alcoholic hepatitis, for example, prednisolone was accompanied with a short-term reduction in the rates of mortality, but this effect was not clear after 2 years. This research was performed to study the possible effects of prednisolone on the histology and the enzyme histochemistry of the liver and kidney in healthy rabbits. Twelve females adult rabbits (Six animals considered as treated group and other six animals as control group) were used in this experiment. After two weeks of adaptation time, treatment by the drug began. Animals treated by prednisolone oral dose 20 mg daily by gavage. Animals sacrificed under anesthesia, then ordinary histological sections (stained with hematoxylin-eosin) and frozen sections (by freezing microtome for Alp activity) of liver and kidney were prepared. The histological results and the ALP activity in both liver and kidney were found to be normal in treated group in compare with the control group. Prednisolone has many various effects on the physiology, psychology, immunology, even the molecular and genetics, varied from beneficial effects to undesired side effects. In the field of hepatology, prednisolone treatment was found to ameliorate many symptoms and enhance many biochemical and histologic abnormal changes in many types of liver diseases like autoimmune hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, septic shock patients, and cases of liver transplantation. In conclusion; according to the results of this research there no any effects of prednisolone on histology of liver and kidney and the ALP activity in these organs.
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