Purpose: This study aims to provide a prevalence survey of antibiotic usage and HAIs and evaluate the cost of antibiotic therapy. Methods: All inpatients on surgery, paediatrics, medicine, and ICU specialities were surveyed within a period of one week, April 2016 at Near East Uni...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2018/v25i230095
Aims: We performed an initial in vitro study with a single molecule to evaluate the possibility to develop a larger series of hybrid compounds active in Chaga’s disease. Hybridization is an important approach to confer to a single molecule the biological activity of two distinct...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/46885
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether exhaustion exercise causes endothelial damage and to investigate the effect of ellagic acid on this potential damage. Methods and Materials: The study was carried out on 32 male and adult Spraque - Dawley rats at...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/45923
Aims: This work is to develop accurate and simple spectrophotometric methods with the first derivative for estimation of Ibuprofen (IBU), Caffeine (CAF) and Paracetamol (PAR) in bulk and pharmaceutical preparation. Method: The methods use ethanol 90%: 0.1 N sodium hydroxide (25:7...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/46503
X-ray is used routinely in many medical procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. But despite many benefits, there are several complications including breakdown of different bio-molecules, lipids, DNA and proteins that cause cytotoxicity in the body tissue by severa...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/46764
Background: Dry eye is one of major ocular surface disorders affecting millions of people. The chronic discomfort in these conditions interferes with the quality of life for a long period of time. A typical clinical symptoms of dry eye are ‘burning sensation', 'irritation', an...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/45816
Background: Metabolite profiling, or metabolomics, has become a powerful approach that has been widely adopted for clinical diagnostics. This study aimed to evaluate the metabolomics profile in obese and obese diabetic patients as the early predictor of diabetes with obese patien...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/46359
Objective: This study was aimed to evaluate the interactions between commonly used drug eluting stents (DES) and prescribed medications in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients those underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Study Design: Retro-prospective, Multicenter...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/46632
Moringa yields at least four different edible parts viz., pods, leaves, flowers and seeds. Moringa leaves are the excellent source of protein, β-carotene, vitamins, A, B, C and E, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, folic acid, pyridoxine, amino acids, minerals and various phenolic compo...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/37179
Traditional plants have been used to treat hepatotoxicity by folk medicine practitionars. Trichosanthes dioica (TD) has been used in folk medicine to alleviate several diseases. In the present study, the ethanolic extract of Trichosanthes dioica leaves has been utilized to study...
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Research Article10.9734/JPRI/2018/46204