Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), marked by excess fat in the liver, has become the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide, affecting over 30% of adults. Its advanced form, metabolic dysfunction associated steatohepatitis (MASH), includes liver ballooning, and inflammation, and can progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite the increasing burden, effective pharmaco...

Empagliflozin (EMPA) is one of the sodium/glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors that has been recently approved for the treatment of diabetes mellitus type II. Recently, EMPA has shown protective effects in different neurological disorders, besides its antidiabetic activity. Kindling is a relevant model to study epilepsy and neuroplasticity. This study aimed to investigate the potential protective effects of EMPA (1 and 3...

This exploration focuses on the removal of chromium from actual tannery wastewater, collected from the HARBY TANNERY factory in Rubiki (Badr City), using an economical sorbent made from activated carbon derived from rice straw (CRS). The CRS sorbent is activated using H 3 PO 4 . The experiment aims to assess the impact of various parameters, including chromium initial concentration, sorbent dosage, treatment time, agitation ve...