Background: Multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic and often debilitating disease that mostly affects young people who constitute the active part of community. The incidence of the disease has increased in recent years. Fatigue is one of the common complaints in patients with ms, w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24518
Aims/Objectives: To assess the attitudes of pregnant women based on their knowledge about anaemia and adequate diet in its prevention. Study Design: Descriptive. Place and Duration of Study: The ante-natal clinics: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo and Osun State T...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23427
ntroduction: It is known that hypoxia affects human physiology and consequently impairs cognitive functions. In particular, low memory performances are common in a hypoxic extreme altitude environment. Aims: The aim of our study was to evaluate the effects of moderate hypoxia on...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25558
Background: Bacterial resistance is closely associated with the use of antimicrobial agents. Prolonged therapy with antibiotics can lead to the development of resistance in a microorganism that initially is sensitive to antibiotics, but later it can adapt gradually and develop re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25023
Background: When using energized surgical devices in the vicinity of nerves, care must be taken to reduce the risk of thermal or electrical injury. For example, during thyroidectomy, it is critical to avoid damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve while dissecting and coagulating...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25233
Olusola Olalekan Elekofehinti, Richard Oseh Osehodion, Tolulope Tosin Adeyelu, Tomisin Happy Ogunwa, Isaac Olatunde, Omosigho Aiwuyo & Oluwamodupe Cecilia Ejelonu·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Aim: The current study investigated the hypoglycemic, antioxidant and hypolipidemic effects of the aqueous and ethanolic leaf extracts of Anarcardium occidentale in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Study Design: In vivo experiment. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochem...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24357
Jindřich Kopecký, Ladislav Slováček, Birgita Slováčková, Zuzana Šinkorová, Jiří Knížek, Stanislav Filip, Petronela Trojanová, Ondřej Kubeček & Otakar Kopecký·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Aims: In up to 50% of cases is pancreatic cancer accompanied with depressive symptoms or already developed depression. There is well described connection between pancreatic cancer and qualitative changes in immune system. The purpose of this pilot study was to observe the quantit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25200
Introduction: Fabry disease is a x-chromosome hereditary disease with an incidence of 1/40000 newborns. Nowadays it presents as much in males as in females and its first clinical symptoms are seen in pediatric patients. Patients have reduced or no activity of alpha-galactosidase...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25294
Introduction: The latest estimates of global cancer incidence show that prostate cancer has become the second most common cancer among men in the world. A number of reports have linked oxidative stress to prostate cancer. Although oxidative stress has been found to be much preval...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25093