Joanna R. Rozisky, Gabriela Laste, Liciane F. Medeiros, Vinicius S. dos Santos, Lauren S. Adachi, Isabel C. de Macedo, Wolnei Caumo & Iraci L. S. Torres·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Aims: Morphine treatment in early life is a practice widely used in paediatric intensive care units. However, the consequences of this treatment on behavioural responses throughout life have been poorly studied. It is well known that behavioural symptoms after morphine exposure a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/3586
Aims: To identify the effect of the oral bacterial extract OM-85 on essential parameters of asthma control. Study Design: This was a double blind, prospective study, consistent of a 4 week run-in and a 24 week double blind period. Place and Duration of Study: An outpatient clinic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4458
Aims: There is an increasing recognition of the putative association between the use of biomass fuels and the risk of cataracts. However, the exact strength of this association is currently unknown. Our aim was to synthetically quantify the association between biomass fuel use an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5297
Aims: To evaluate hospital evacuation in light of recent hospital evacuations in Bangkok and surrounding areas. This information was compared with results reported in the literature. Study Design: Retrospective and qualitative. Place and Duration of Study: Bangkok, Thailand, Dece...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5059
Demian F. Obregon, Yuyan Zhu, Antoinette R. Bailey, Samantha M. Portis, Huayan Hou, Jin Zeng, Saundra L. Stock, Tanya K. Murphy, Michael A. Bengtson & Jun Tan·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Aims: Implicated in autoimmune encephalitis, neuromyotonia and genetic forms of autism, here we report that contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2) contains a potential autoepitope within the extracellular region. Methodology: CNTNAP2 sequence-similar regions (CSSRs) from h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6135
Aims and Objective: Giddiness is one of the commonest presenting complaints to the emergency physicians. Differentiation between ‘peripheral’ and ‘central’ etiologies is important to avoid unnecessary investigations and avoid missing a potentially serious diagnosis such as an isc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5688
Aim: This study aims to evaluate serum uric acid levels and assess its effect on endothelial dysfunction by measuring flow mediated vasodilatation (FMD) of brachial artery in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Study Design: Observational and prospective Place and Duration of Study: The st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5487
Aims: The present study investigates in a mouse model the extent of immunomodulatory effects after exposure to cadmium chloride (in vivo) in the testes. Study Design: Experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biotechnology, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, I...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5498
Aim: The aim of this study was to examine whether a Human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) infection increases the risk of MS in individuals harboring particular cytokine receptor α-chain gene alleles. Study Design: MS patients and controls were assessed for HHV-6 DNA and for single nucleo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5550
Aims: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in European populations. It has been shown previously that neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), pre-operative albumin, and haemoglobin are useful prognostic indicators. The aim of this study was to assess how these factors inf...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5444
The study aimed at measuring the profitability of swine farmers, as well as determining the influence of the farmers’ socio-economic characteristics on their output. It was conducted in Kaduna State, Nigeria using structured questionnaire administered to 120 swine farmers. The re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4137
In many situations, instead of a complete sample, data are available only in grouped form. In this situation the values of individual observations are not known, but the number of observations that fall in each group is only known. Here the model under consideration is the expone...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4408
Evaluation of Eyram field reservoir has been undertaken in this work for determination and distribution of petrophysical properties, fluid type and hydrocarbon contact within B-Horizon using log data. Eyram field is located in onshore area of the Niger Delta and it essentially co...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5462
Aim: The aim of this study was to report the seasonal variation in phenological pattern as a function of rain fall and temperature. Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted in Nikyal valley located at altitudinal range of 1500-1900 m within the longitude 74o 04′ to 1...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5329
Soil contaminated with heavy metals can result to very serious environmental hazard. As a result of this problem, this research was carried out to investigate the concentration of heavy metals (Fe, Zn, Pb, Cu and Cr) in and around Uwelu scrap car dumpsite in Benin City, southern...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5052