Background: Feeding preferences of Odontotermes obesus on five different commercial wood species were studied under choice and no choice trials both in laboratory and field conditions. Feeding preferences as a quantitative parameter of wood consumption by O. Obesus were recognize...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36225
Aims: This study aimed to investigate the in vitro toxicity activity of ethyl acetate extracts of endophytic fungi isolated from soursop leaves (Annona muricata L.) against colon cancer and analyse the bioactive compounds from the fungal extract with best anticancer activity usin...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/34657
Background: In Egypt, the prevalence of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection is 14% of whole population and about 80% of the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma have underling hepatitis C. Aim: To explore the diagnostic value of serum miR-122 as non-invasive diagnostic markers...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/37073
Aims: This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of ethyl acetate extract of endophytic fungi isolated Sir G5 from soursop leaf (Annona muricata L.) in vivo breast tumor growth using Sprague-dawley (SD) female strains induced by 7,12-dimethylbenz(α)anthracene (DMBA). Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/34656
Aims: This study was designed to investigate how CO2 and nitrogen availability alters growth, leaf gas exchange, primary and secondary metabolites production (total phenolics and flavonoid) in three varieties of L. pumila. namely var alata, var pumila and var lanceolata. under CO...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36540
K. N. Opara, M. S. Ekanem, N. I. Udoidung, F. M. Chikezie, G. Akro, L. P. Usip, D. E. Oboho & M. A. Igbe·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2017
Background: Mosquito resistance to routinely used insecticides is threatening malaria vector control strategies in sub-Saharan Africa. This study reports the susceptibility of wild populations of Anopheles gambiae s.l. from Ikot-Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria to insect...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/35388
Olga Gorelik, Yelena Shatskikh, Maksim Rebezov, Svetlana Kanareikina, Vladimir Kanareikin, Oksana Lihodeyevskaya, Nadiya Andrushechkina, Svetlana Harlap, Marina Temerbayeva, Irina Dolmatova & Eleonora Okuskhanova·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2017
In this paper the results of chemical and mineral composition of new sour milk bio-product with sapropel powder are presented. Sapropel in powder form added to the formulation of sour milk of 1.5% of total mass. Sapropel is characterized by high percent of mineral elements concen...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36937
A pot experiment was carried out to observe the performances of fifteen tomato genotypes under three different salinity treatments in the net house of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka during November 2013 to March 2014. Two fa...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36855
Pollution is the entry of contaminants into the environment or ecosystem which causes adverse change. The severe cases of radiation contamination lead to changes in DNA leading to genetic mutation, as happened in Hiroshima and Nakzaki in Japan and Chernobyl. Radioactive contamina...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36640
Abdellaoui Smail, El Aissami Aicha, Benkhemmar Omar, Amina Ouazzani Touhami, Rachid Benkirane & Allal Douira·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2017
Chlamydospores of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. albedinis are well known as fungus survival spores in soil, also act as a causal agent of Bayoud disease of the date palm. Till now, there are a little study in the literature about the favorable media for the formation of chlamydospores...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/35653
Poor fruit set in mango is consider the main problem that reduces the production. This study aims to raise fruit set, minimize the percentage of fruit drop, increase tree yield and improve fruit quality by providing the trees with biosimulated nano materials (calcium/yeast nanoco...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36395
Aim: The present study aimed to investigate the protective effect of Artemisia Judaica (A. Judaica) against doxorubicin (DOX)-induced toxicity in male mice. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Cell Biology, Genetic engineering and biotechnology division, National researc...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/35990
Objective: The study is aimed at investigating the effects of oral administration of aqueous and methanol extract of the root of Sphenocentrum jollyanum on testicular size, testosterone, follicle- stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone and prolactin levels in male Wistar albino...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36598
Aims: This experiment was conducted to investigate and distinguish the relationships in the production of total phenolics, total flavonoids, chlorophyll content, total biomass, leaf area, leaf nitrate, proline, net photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters under thre...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36401
Aims: To understand the potential use of adult Zebrafish as a wound inflammation model to screen phytocompounds and chemically synthesized subjects. Study Design: The experiment was designed to use healthy adult Zebrafish wound models, each group containing 30 fishes. One group w...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/35910