Aim: This study sought to investigate its effect on hepatic and renal biomarkers of female pregnant rats. Place and Duration: This work was carried out in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti bet...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230471
George Mafany, Edith Brunelle Mouafo Tamnou, Armel Zacharie Ekoa Bessa, Joséphine Ndjama, Gisèle Liliane Machuetum, Frank Aristide Tchouape Noubouossie & Moïse Nola·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2021
Groundwater samples were collected during April and August 2016 from five hand-dug wells in Soa subdivision, Cameroon, Africa, with the aim to assess the microbiological quality of them and the health risk they (it) posed to the population in the study area. The low piezometric l...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230470
Aim: Many food animal production facilities are sited close to human residence. This research work seeks to establish the occupational and environmental burdens of unsafe acts and conditions in backyard poultry production sites in the area of study in order to validate the compli...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230468
The garden snail, Limicolaria flammea is a seasonal pest of several horticultural crops in most of the agroecological areas in Nigeria. The level of damage to crops is especially enormous in the South because of its ability to feed on different crops and the timing of abundance,...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230469
Sunset Yellow (SY) is an organic azo dye that is used extensively as a coloring agent in many industries, such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals ,and foodstuffs. Many studies have conflicting results about the genotoxicity effect of SY. Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230466
Aim: Fruits and common vegetables are now becoming too expensive for the poor consumers in Nigeria. The search for cheap, readily available and (locally sourced for the people in need of) nutritious food prompted this research work. Study Design: Six underutilized wild vegetables...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230467
Aims: The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of inclusion of Prosopis seed coat fermented with rumen content at different levels as energy source on the serum biochemical composition and heamatological indices of broiler chickens. Study Design:Data collected were subject...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230464
Aim: Globally, burden of liver and kidney diseases has been on the increase in recent times. The present study therefore investigates the hepatoprotective and nephroprotective potentials of unripe plantain Musa paradisiaca on CCl4-induced oxidative damage in albino rat. This was...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230465
For most conispirally-coiled Gastropods with determinate growth, the geometry of spirally-winding whorls is usually constrained by a strong negative correlation between whorl growth rate and the number of whorls reached at adulthood, as originally reported by the late S.J. Gould....
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230463
Two recent attempts to model the long-term trend in mean density of Antarctic krill in the southwestern sector of the Atlantic using the KRILLBASE dataset using different statistical methods as well as inclusion versus exclusion of data from “non-scientific” nets have resulted in...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i1230460