%0 Journal Article %A Aqababa, Heidar %A Mirzaee, Hamideh %A Zarei, Ali %A Akbarpour, Bijan %A Changizi Ashtiyani, Saeid %T Investigating the Effect of Chelidonium majus Alcoholic Extract on Pituitary-Thyroid in Hypercholesterolemia Male Rats %J Complementary Medicine Journal %V 4 %N 1 %U http://cmja.arakmu.ac.ir/article-1-229-en.html %R %D 2014 %K Chelidonium majus, Thyroid, Cholesterol, Rat ., %X   Introduction: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effect of alcoholic extract of Chelidonium majus concentration of cholesterol and thyroid hormone levels in the male rats having hypercholesterolemia.   Methods: In this study, 40 male Wistar rats were divided into five groups of control group (n=8) with normal diet, observing group with fat dietary, and three experimental groups receiving the same fat diet plus ethanol extract of the Chelidonium majus plant of 100, 200, 300 (mg/kg). After this period (21 days) blood samples were collected and after measuring the amount of thyroid hormones of T3, T4, TSH and also the amount of cholesterol, the data were analyzed by using SPSS software , ANOVA and t-test.   Results: There was a significant increase in the amount of cholesterol, T3 a nd T4 serum level in observation group comparing with control group (P %> http://cmja.arakmu.ac.ir/article-1-229-en.pdf %P 757-765 %& 757 %! %9 Research %L A-10-228-1 %+ Ph.D, Assistant of Professor, Department of Physiology, Azad University of Arsanjan, Arsanjan/ Iran. %G eng %@ 2228-5091 %[ 2014