Cancer therapy has been a major scientific and medical focus for decades, treatment of which has proven to be a challenging task, especially in the light of its escalating incidence all over the globe. The material and moral costs of understanding the nature of the disease and fi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21795
Background: Sickle cell disease which is considered to be a hypercoagulable state has a worldwide distribution. Protein C is a naturally occurring anticoagulant with anti inflammatory and fibrinolytic properties. Objective: To evaluate the level of Protein C in Nigerian Patients...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21539
Traditionally, the main model of the pharmaceutical industry for developing new drugs has been based on monotherapies, new molecular entities (NMEs), and their underlying one-target-one-disease dogma. It is no surprise that closely related fields such as the cosmeceutical and nut...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/18997
Mucormycosis is an emerging and slowly rising fatal infectious disease in most countries. It is the third most common invasive mycosis after candidiasis and aspergillosis. Hematologic malignancies notably acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) and diabetes mellitus (DM) especially whe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19714
Introduction: Well Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) represents 80% of all thyroid malignant tumours, with good prognosis and a survival rate higher than 90% at 20 yrs. Total or subtotal thyroidectomy is the treatment of choice, with radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy reserve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20375
Sameer Al-Ghamdi, Khaled Aldossari, Jamaan Al-Zahrani, Saad Al-Qasem, Ali Al-Gonaim, Ibrahim Al-Tamimi, Saad Al-Juhaim, Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi & Hussain Al-Ghamdi·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2015
Aims: To estimate the prevalence, attitude and magnitude of consumption of energy drinks among health science students. To establish the relationship between consumption of energy drinks and smoking. To determine the relationship between energy drinks consumption and the students...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19808
This in vivo study was carried out to investigate alterations in the levels of proteins and enzymes produced by the liver of HIV infected pregnant women and HIV infected non pregnant women under different antiretroviral therapy. Forty six human patients (Pregnant patient, n=21, N...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19651
The aim of the “Dismantling Psychotherapy Research Study” was to evaluate whether the psychotherapist is more or less active in connection to his or her countertransference, the therapist-patient-interaction and the patient’s level of object relationship quality. We worked with 2...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21985
Objectives: To establish the local reference range of prostate volume according to our subset of population. To correlate prostate volume (PV) with age, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). Methods: A cross-sectional study with 119 healthy adults aged 40-79 years w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20530
The socio-economic importance of trypanosomosis and ancylostomosis in both humans and animal necessitated the investigation of the clinical signs of single and conjunct infection of both parasites in dogs. Sixteen dogs grouped into 4 of 4 members each were used in the study. GROU...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21363