Background: Sexually transmitted infections are a major public health problem especially with the advent of HIV/AIDS. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of Syphilis among HIV seropositive persons. The study population was seropositive persons accessing antiretro...
Objective: Energy drinks are popular and widespread and raising concerns about implications on human health. Hepatological, histological and renal function tests of Sprague-Dawley albino rats were investigated in rat liver, brain and kidney by administering “power-horse” energy d...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different levels of chemical fertilizers (CF) alone or in combination with farmyard manure (FYM) under lime or no lime amelioration on biological properties of the rhizosphere soil of peanut, grown as intercrop with sabai gra...
Asset-liability management is a means of managing the risk that can arise from the changes in the relationship between assets and liabilities. Value-at-risk (VaR) and tail conditional expectation (TCE) have also emerged in recent years as standard tools for measuring and controll...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2011/355
The aim of this study was to investigate the anti-diabetic and wound healing properties of Cissus multistriata leaf extract. Diabetes mellitus was induced with alloxan and graded doses of methanol leaf extract of Cissus multistriata were administered orally to the experimentally...
Objective: Postmenopausal women usually experience symptoms related to vasomotor instability due to a decline in estradiol levels. Certain plants have been found to have components that are same in structure and function to female estrogen and progesterone. This study conducted t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/163
Malaria caused by plasmodium parasite is at the moment the highest killer disease in the tropics, killing mostly pregnant women and children under the age of five years. Efforts are on to developing more potent antimalarials from plants’ sources that will be cheaper, without adve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2011/273
Road Traffic Noise is causing huge socio-economic loss to the nations all around the world. In a study it is estimated that in Europe itself the traffic noise accounted for at least €38 billion per year (0.4% of total GDP of EU22). It is almost as high as one-third of socio-econo...
Peptides were synthesized by the reaction of Fmoc-amino acid chloride and aminoacid ester hydrochloride in DCM. The obtained peptide ligands were characterized by elemental analysis, NMR, IR and mass spectra. Three copper complexes of peptides Fmoc.Ala-val-OH (F-AVOH), Fmoc-Phe-L...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2011/307
Kumar et al. (2009) provided an algebraic characterization for an indefinite Sasakian manifold to reduce to a space of constant holomorphic sectional curvature. In this present paper, we generalize the characterization for indfinite S -manifolds, which is a space of constant ho...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2011/270
The antibacterial activity, in-silico DNA molecular docking, DNA binding and photocleavage studies of newly synthesized pyrazole is described. Antibacterial potential of these compounds screened against a wide range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria showed significant z...
Background: Down Syndrome (DS) is the most frequent chromosomal abnormality in live births with an incidence of 1 to 1.7 per 1,000 births and a variable physical expression. Down syndrome screening has been an integral part of routine prenatal care in recent decades. Currently, t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/317
Mimusops elengi (Linn.) commonly known as Bakul is one such tree native to the Western Ghat region of the peninsular India. However, today this tree is also found growing in other parts of the tropical and sub tropical regions of the world. The stem, barks, leaves and fruits are...
The study evaluated the effect of combined extracts of Vernonia amygdalina (VA) and Gongronema latifolium (GL) on the pancreas of streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic Wistar rats. Thirty-two (32) albino rats were divided equally into 4 groups. Groups A and B which served as norm...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/215
The aim of this study was to investigate the antihypertensive effect of the methanol extract of the leaf of Napoleona imperialis (p. beauv) in adrenaline induced hypertensive rats (AlHR) and compared with those of Propanolol in a cross over design. Napoleona imperialis leaf extra...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/274