TY - BOOK AU - Radwa Taher Mostafa Elsharkawy AU - Rehab Ali Abdelmoneim , AU - Samia Mostafa Kamal , TI - Effect of nigella sativa on the integrity of parotid salivary gland of albino rats and its activity for insulin and glucagon / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Radwa Taher Mostafa Elsharkawy , KW - Insulin KW - Nigella sativa KW - Parotid salivary gland N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Oral Biology; Issued also as CD N2 - This study investigated the effect of Nigella sativa (N. sativa) on age changes of parotid salivary gland structure and of the activity of the parenchymal tissue for secretion of insulin and glucagon like peptides. Forty five male albino rats were subdivided into three equal groups; young rats aged one year served as control second group sacrificed three months later to reach old age and third group was also sacrificed three months later but supplemented over this period with N. sativa in a daily dose of 300mg/200gm body weight ER -