Objectives: Prevalence of hypertension is on the rise in most African countries while control remains poor. In the literature, there are effective interventions which could be implemented in hospitals of low resource setting such as Nigeria to improve control of blood pressure. T...
Aims: To construct normal values of Valsalva ratio for heart rate responses during Valsalva maneuver (VM) and arterial pulse amplitude ratio as reference values for different age groups, and to investigate the effect of aging alone , without , the presence of risk factors, on a...
Rosuvastatin-Ca was prepared in solid dispersion as buccoadhesive tablets to increase its bioavailability and the release of the drug from its buccoadhesive formulae due to its poor aqueous solubility. The solid dispersions were prepared using β-cyclodextrin, polyethylene glycol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/9257
Aim: In the present study, Sumatriptan succinate was formulated as oral elementary osmotic pump with a zero-order drug release profile. Methodology: The effect of different formulation variables i.e. different types of osmogens, concentrations of osmogen and concentration of coat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/8666
Aims: The effect of various concentrations of colchicine on adventitious shoot regeneration of two Petunia hybrid cultivars was studied. Study Design: All collected data were analyzed using the SAS software. One-way analysis of variance of the treatments was conducted for each ex...
This paper examined the household energy consumption patterns in different apartments of various households. An assessment of the energy sources in Offa Kwara State, Federal Republic of Nigeria was undertaken with the intention to guage their consumption patterns. Analysis to see...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8077
Background: Complex relationships exist between socio-economic inequality, social stratification, drug addiction, and criminality in society. A great deal is now known regarding the neurobiology underlying behaviours such as drug addiction and criminality. Most sociological and p...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7109
Aims: To ascertain the effectiveness of edge detection and contour detection algorithms to identify hard exudates and hemorrhage region in fundus images of diabetic patients. Study Design: Canny’s algorithm was selected as the edge detection algorithm, and Snakes’ algorithm was s...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7812
The present study is an analysis of the evolution of the ecological environment natural habitats on a number of years framed in three decades. It is interested in the coastal ecosystem (ecosystem, habitat nature, and Posidonia) in Oran (Algeria). The research activity has exactly...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9033
Rheology of polymer concentrated solutions represents a cross-disciplinary field, using wide spectra of theoretical tools from physics and chemistry. They effectively thicken the oil at all temperatures, but the increase of viscosity is more pronounced at high temperatures. The l...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9271
Aims: Recent studies have demonstrated that all molecules of the respiratory chain are present in the photoreceptor outer segment (see Calzia et al., Biol Cell 2013). Furthermore, our group (Roehlecke et al., PLoS One 2013) could show that, after blue light stress of the retina,...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9550
L. Velázquez, M. Téllez-Téllez, R. Díaz, M. D. Bibbins-Martínez, O. Loera, C. Sánchez, S. Tlecuitl-Beristain & G. Díaz-Godínez·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: Effect of culture medium pH (3.5, 4.5, 6.5, 7.5 and 8.5) on the activity and number of laccase isoenzymes of Pleurotus ostreatus grown in solid-state fermentation using polyurethane foam as a support was evaluated. Methodology: Pleurotus ostreatus was grown in solid-state f...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10016
Praveen Kumar Devarbhavi, Kishan Ashok Bhagwat, Tammarao Patil, C. R. Vasudeva Murthy & Srikumar Chakravarthi·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
There have been reports of several developmental anomalies of the pancreas in the past two decades, and among these, one of the rare entities is dorsal agenesis of the pancreas [1]. Our report is on an 18-year-old male patient who presented with total agenesis of the dorsal pancr...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9509
In this study, the seasonal variation on selected major minerals (Ca, P, K, Mg) and proximate composition of Mesopotamian catfish (Silurus triostegus Heckel, 1843) were investigated. Fish samples used in this research were obtained seasonally from Atatürk Dam Lake within the boun...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9056
Aims: Lipases (triacylglycerol acylhydrolase EC 3.1.1.3) are enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of triacylglycerol at the oil-water interface to release glycerol and free fatty acids. In this study culture conditions and nutrient source modification studies were carried out on...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9879