Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the hypoglycaemic and hypolipidaemic effects of the aqueous leaf extract of Tithonia diversifolia in Wistar albino rats. Methodology: Aqueous extracts of the leaves of Tithonia diversifolia was screened for hypoglycemic and hypolipidaem...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6142
Biosensors have emerged as new alternatives in environmental toxicity assessment. In the development of biosensors for heavy metals detection in environment, whole cells are highly favored as these cells are able to reflect the real toxicity effects of heavy metals to living orga...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9472
Aims: This study was designed to investigate the chemical composition (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry [GC-MS]) and antibacterial (Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria) activities of essential oils extracted from aerial parts of two medicinal plants, Mentha longifolia L....
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7899
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
Aims: The problem addressed in this paper, was to reduce the number of sieves in order to propose appropriate methodologies for the estimations of abundance, secondary production, community composition and structure of benthic fauna associated to a Zostera marina meadow. Therefor...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8508
Aim: The current research was designed to evaluate the biological and antioxidant activities of Chrysanthemum coronarium. Methodology: Two main experiments were designed to evaluate the biological activity of ethanolic extract Chrysanthemum coronarium first one concerned with hep...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10112