Aim: A suspicion about adverse drug reactions is sufficient for adverse drug reactions reporting. However, assessing the causal drug-disturbance(s) relation is the primary issue in physicians’ clinical practice, due to their principal responsibility among health care workers for...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15269
Aim: Renal excretion of aluminum is impaired in patients with chronic kidney disease, thereby increasing the risk of toxicity. Our aims were to determine the serum aluminum level in children on regular haemodialysis and to assess the effect of aluminum on PTH and blood parameters...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16146
Aims: This case reports is about a patient with diagnosis of thymoma with intercurrent infection with Toxoplasma gondii. The state of immunosuppression caused by thymoma had probably facilitaded the development of an infection with Toxoplasma gondii, that determined lymph nodes i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/8667
As bronchial carcinoids are known to be notably rare, adequate histochemical investigations couldn’t have been carried out on these types of tumors hitherto. In this study, we investigated bronchial cytokines in a carcinoid tumor localized in the left main bronchus. Bronchial res...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16006
Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is considered as one of the frequent diseases affecting humans. Usually, emphasis has been on bacteriological etiologies but this study focuses on fungal etiologies. Aims: The aim of this study is isolation and characterisation of fungal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12559
Aims: Calcifying pseudoneoplasms of the neuroaxis (CPN) are rare, poorly understood lesions of the central nervous system that pose a diagnostic challenge because they mimic the more common calcified lesions of the neuroaxis. We highlight the relevant clinical presentation as wel...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16543
With the growth in transmission lines all over the world an evident observation comes in front regarding the effect of high voltage on the plants. High-voltage transmission lines are used to transmit electric power over long distances. High voltage may have positive or negative e...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/12970
Studies were carried out on the leaves of Cassia alata. The leaf powder of Cassia alata was extracted with 80% ethanol defatted with n-hexane and resolved into water-soluble and water insoluble parts. The water-soluble part was then extracted with ethyl acetate and the extract wa...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/16171
The essential oil, obtained by hydrodistillation in an all glass Clevenger apparatus, from the air-dried leaves of Ipomoea batatas L. (Lam.) growing in Nigeria was analyzed by gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrome...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/16454
Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) was applied in investigating the subsurface layers along Adibawa-Zarama pipeline route in the Niger Delta, Nigeria in an attempt to determine the depth of aquifer. A total of thirty (30) VES sets were executed using Schlumberger array of a maxim...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/14567
Background: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible, fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Recognised in 1986, the disease causes a spongiform degeneration of the neural network in the brain and spinal cord of infected cattle leading to incoordination, atax...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/16124
Extracts from Rosmarinus officinalis L., more commonly known as rosemary, have been approved for use in the EU as food additive E932 under Regulation 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council. Rosemary extracts are currently widely used to increase shelf life of food p...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/10404
Aims: Ethyl acetate extract of honey bee Apis mellifera (600 mg/kg/bw) was investigated for its effect on parasitemia and some haematological parameters in Trypanosoma brucei brucei infected rats. Methodology: Five groups comprising of four mice per group were used in the study. ...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/15970
An experiment was carried out to assess the growth and development of quality protein maize (QPM) genotypes to various plant populations under different irrigated conditions in a semi arid ecology of Northern Nigeria. Field trials were conducted at the Irrigation Research Station...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12631
The present study aims to evaluate the interaction between soil rhizobia and legume plant, by comparing two Acacia species (Acacia cyanophylla Lindl and Acacia pycnantha Benth) grown in four different Moroccan soils, by measuring plant dry matter yield, and nodule numbers and wei...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/15760