Background: Prenatal consultation of a couple and medical follow-up of a pregnant woman is an essential part of health care while absence of these is associated with significant perinatal morbidity and mortality. Herein, a non-followed pregnancy resulted birth of a neonate with h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12738
Monomelic amyotrophy (MMA) known as Hirayama disease (HD). The first report appeared in 1959 when Hirayama described 12 patients [1] then, a large group of patients was found from Japan [2,3]. MMA from South India was also reported in 1984 [4]. The disease accounted for males ove...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/11574
Introduction: Hypertension is a global public health concern. Among the factors that contribute to this crisis, the poor control of hypertensive patients is a major concern. Patients’ lack of adherence to the medication regimen is often considered to be the main reason for this f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13061
The general objective of this study was to describe a socio-economic factor that influences consumption of processed sweet potato products. The study was cross sectional in design and was conducted in Shinyanga and Mwanza regions. The study employed individual interviews, focused...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/8975
The need for the reduction in poverty status of rural people through the development of Agribusiness is of paramount concern to most governments. Agribusiness in Africa is considered the catalyst for economic growth and poverty reduction. The importance of Agribusiness to the dev...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/11997
Occurring widely in Africa and beyond is Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth, a medicinal plant with several attributes and considerable potentials. Various parts of the plant are used locally to treat cancer, ulcer, gynecological disorders, genital infections, skin diseases, diabetes,...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/8632
Aims: The objective of this research was to evaluate the chemical properties of Date-Palm waste as culture media and its effect on number and yield of tomato fruit. Study Design: The experiment was conducted as factorial in a completely randomized block design with 9 treatments...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/5968
Aims: In this study, paraoxonase (PON) enzyme was purified from mature seeds of sun flower by using affinity chromatography (Sepharose-4B-L-tyrosine-1-naphthylamine) and the effects of some chemicals were tested on paraoxonase activity as in vitro. Methodology: Paraoxonase was fi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/10437
K. M. Anigo, A. S. Abdullahi, A. Olagunju & A. S. Michael·Advances in Research·2014
Aims: The effect of open and controlled fermentation on the proximate and anti-nutrients compositions of Glycine max were investigated. Study Design: Ability of fermentation to improving the proximate composition and lowering the antinutrients in G. max was studied. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/10359
Fatty acids (FAs) play a major role in many physiological functions and offer various health benefits. Separation and isolation of fatty acids thus, is of great interest. A set of experiments were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of select transition metal salts in separat...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/11921
Samples of extracts from Hibiscus sabdariffa calyxes were stored with different preservatives (sodium benzoate, sodium metabisulphite, boric acid and citric acid) for eight weeks and studied forthnightly for change in certain parameters. A sample (control) was also stored without...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/10940
The bioavailability of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) and chromium (Cr) in blood and urine samples of electronic repairers in Kaduna-Nigeria was assessed using Fast Sequential Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. The mean blood concentrations of Pb, Cd and Cr in the subjects were 29.33±...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/12580
Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder with high mortality rate and with defects in multiple biological systems. Two major types of diabetes are recognized, type 1 and 2 with type 2 diabetes (T2D) being by far the more prevalent type. As diabetes affects multiple biological fun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/8764
Background: Several of the comorbidities and risk factors associated with COPD and other pulmonary disorders are also similar to those for lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) and cerebrovascular disease. The later condition is often manifested as cognitive impairment,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13110
Aims: Nemaline rod myopathy (NRM) is a rare form of congenital myopathy characterized by slowly progressive or non progressive muscle weakness and pathognomonic rod-like structures within the muscle fibers. Muscle weakness and hypotonia are apparent from the neonatal period. We r...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12813