Aims: Study the role of glycine-arginine rich (GAR) domain of fibrillarin in Giardia lamblia. Study Design: Identifying a specific glycine arginine rich (GAR) sequence of Giardia fibrillarin which plays an important role in ribonucleoprotein particles complex formation with snoRN...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/4391
Aim: We investigated a foodborne outbreak to determine its magnitude, source of infection and causative agent using laboratory confirmation. Study Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study Place and Duration of Study: Koforidua Township of the New Juaben Municipality, Eastern Reg...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/5846
Background and Aims of Study: Malaria in pregnancy remains one of the infectious diseases threatening the health of pregnant women and the unborn child in Africa. The use of Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) as intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) has be...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/4868
Major objective of the present work was to induce haploid plants in Cucumis melo var. conomon cv. Mudicode (Common name: Kani vellari). Ovules of Kani vellari plants were collected one day before anthesis and were cultured in vitro on MS medium supplemented with IAA, IBA, NAA, 2,...
Aim: The paper aimed at examining the asymmetric effect of oil price shock on exchange rate and domestic investment in Nigeria. Study Design: Country case study. Place and Duration of Study: Nigeria. Time series data ranging from 1970-2010. Methodology: This study utilised elabor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4098
Aims: This study investigated the potential of soil thermophile Geobacillus stearothermophilus for the biotransformation of phenylalanine and tyrosine. Study Design: G. Stearothermopilus grows well at 65ºC and has a good potential for transformation and biodegradation of many com...
Aim: The somatotropic axis (SA) comprises genes associated with economically important quantitative traits in livestock like mammary and muscle growth as well as carcass traits. Insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and its receptor (IGF-1R) are two important genes belonging to the SA....
Aims: Understanding the pattern of inhibitors binding to p-glycoprotein (Pgp). Study Design: Pgp is an ATP dependent transporter protein, responsible for multi-drug resistance in metastatic tumors. It removes toxins by exporting a variety of structurally unrelated compounds outsi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2013/3268
Zineb Qmichou, My Mustapha Ennaji, Mariam Amrani, El Mostafa El Fahime, Marouane Melloul, Meriem Meftah El khair, Mohammed EL Mzibri, Meriem Khyatti & Mohammed Attaleb·Microbiology Research Journal International·2013
Aims: Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) is the primary etiological agent of cervical cancer. The variations in the amino acid sequence of the HPV16 E6 and E7 oncoproteins are known to correlate with both their oncogenic potential and geographic distribution. Study Design: The...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/5465
Aim: Categorical formulations for thought processes and communications are provided. Study Design: Category theory and Sheaf theory. Place and Duration of Study: June 2010 to April 2013 in the Department of Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University and the Institute of...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2013/5472
Truancy is an antisocial behavior perpetrated by many students in the lower secondary school, and which is specifically rampant in Osun State of Nigeria public schools, which if not properly addressed could abort the laudable objectives of the Universal Basic Education (U.B.E.) i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/4399
The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of firm size and profitability on the extent of corporate social disclosures by Oil and Gas firms in Nigeria. A sample of twenty quoted companies selected using the simple random sampling technique was utilized for the study. S...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5147
Aims: The dairy industry faces growing scrutiny of its environmental stewardship. The potential impact of an individual operation on the environment varies with animal concentration, weather, terrain, soils, and numerous other conditions. It is hoped that management practices fo...
Aims: The purpose of this research is to develop a novel expandable gastroretentive dosage form (GRDF), based on unfolding mechanism. It consists of a drug loaded bilayer polymeric film, folded into a hard gelatin capsule. Gastric retention is achieved due to unfolding of the dos...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/4891
Aims: The study was planned to see the effect of regular physical exercise on levels of lipid profile, activity of lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzymes in those involved in regular physical exercise (among athlete in circus) and those...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2013/4711