Honey is a naturally sweet and viscous fluid produced by honeybees (Apis mellifera) from the nectar of flowers. Proline, free amino acid, tannins, phenols and flavonoids content were determined in eight samples of Obudu cattle ranch honeys. Antioxidant content (ascorbic acid equi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1581
Aim: The effect of chloroquine, folic and ascorbic acid on malaria parasite induced oxidative stress was the focus of this study. The study relevance derives from the need to understand the specific roles of these individual organic acids used in combination with chloroquine. Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/956
Aims: The nutritional effects of drinking Terminalia littoralis Seem. decoction, used in ethno-medicine as prophylactic agent against sickle cell crisis, was studied. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry, Federal University...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1867
The tubers of some wild yam species (eight) found in the Ivory Coast forest were collected and their classification according to their nutrients and antinutritional factors was made by principal component analysis (PCA). The principal component analysis (PCA) of individuals, cons...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/2017
Angiotensin-I-converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism has been associated with the genetic susceptibility to coronary artery disease (CAD) and also with the lipid profile in different populations. One hundred and eight Egyptian patients with CAD and one hund...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1622
Aims: To evaluate phytochemical content and biological activities of Hypotrigona squamuligera honey. Study Design: Standard chemical tests, DPPH antiradical activity assay and agar diffusion methods. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Chemistry (Natural product section) a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijbcrr/2012/1562
The effect of Gongronema latifolium and Ocimum gratissimum supplemented diet on diesel petroleum induced liver damage in rats was investigated. Rats were acclimatized for two weeks and divided into three groups. Oxidative stress was induced with diesel petroleum (4 ml/kg body wei...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1023
The effect of the same concentration of heavy metals lead (Pb), mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd) pollution on oxidative stress parameters in A. hybridus leaves after fifty days was investigated. A. hybridus leaves from soil sample without heavy metal pollution served as the control....
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1205
Diet, besides its simplicity and affordability, has been clinically recommended as the first line of intervention in type 2 diabetes. However, compliance with the so-called diabetic diet has been notoriously poor, mostly because the social and cultural aspects of eating as well a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1199
Total demand for ethanol due to fear of crude oil depletion and the need to mitigate global warming due to green house gas emissions is increasing year after year. The present study was undertaken to investigate optimum parameters for ethanol production from Ziziphus mauritiana b...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1096
Aims: To elucidate the structure-activity relationship of snake venom phospholipase A2, the primary structures of two phospholipase A2s from V. aspis venom were analyzed, and the three-dimensional conformation models were compared. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and D...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1074
Aims: This study aimed at determining the level of thiaminase in the Limicolaria flammea with a view to ascertaining the nutritional and health implications of its consumption. Methodology: Proximate analyses of two tissues, headfoot and hepatopancreas, were investigated to asses...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1087
Aims: To study the genetic and transcript profiling of the genes specifying cytosolic HSP90s in Triticum aestivum. Study Design: Random sampling. Place and Duration of Study: Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, between August to December, 2011. Methodology:...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1134
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a widely used flavour enhancer with a number of adverse effects. Earlier studies have shown the induction of oxidative stress in some organs of experimental animals after chronic administration of MSG. Some reports have also shown some alterations in...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/827
The modern science mainly treats the biochemical basis of sequencing in bio-macromolecules and processes in medicine and biochemistry. One can ask weather the language of biochemistry is the adequate scientific language to explain the phenomenon in that science. Is there maybe so...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/503