The objective of this study was to estimate natural, fishing and total mortality, survival and exploitation rates of Clupeonella cultriventris in the southern Caspian Sea. Survival rate and natural mortality were calculated using catch curve and Pauly methods, respectively. Natur...
The objective of this study is host-parasite relationship among Loranthaceae flowering shrubs, Myrmecophytic fruit trees and ants. The study was conducted in 2009 in the garden plots and orchards of houses in the Logbessou district of Douala, Cameroon. We inventoried a total of 1...
The fore limb or pectoral limb of Pariah kite (Milvus migrans) was studied for gross morphometry. It was procured from Department of Wildlife Health and Management, Veterinary College, Jabalpur, (M.P.), India. The pectoral limb of Pariah kite was comprised of following bones; Hum...
Objectives: This investigation focuses on the excited state aquation reactions of a series of [Cr(N)xCly](3-y)+ [(N)x = (en)2, (pn)2, (tn)2, (dien), (trien) and (tetren)] complexes in binary solvent(methanol/water) media. The main objective of this paper is to study the quantum y...
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the treatment of HIV/AIDS with locally available medicinal plants and its opportunistic infections, mainly skin diseases, in the population of Mezam Division, North-West Cameroon. Methods: Information was gathered from 3 target gr...
This review aims to sensitize researchers, regulators and other stakeholders to the centrality of clinical research to drug development from herbs used in Traditional Medicine (TM). The review uncovered and dwelt on the fact that: while clinical trials of chemical medicines (phar...
Harmonic Analysis technique has been employed in predicting the hourly air temperature variations over Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. The variations in hourly air temperatures over the two stations are periodic and thus have strong tendency of being repeated the next day, if all other...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2011/353
Preliminary studies of the estimates of the horizontal dilution potential of air pollutants over some cities in Nigeria have been carried out using wind impact area diagrams, obtained by using standard deviation to calculate angles of spread of the pollutants, whose concentration...
Aims: Soluble cytokeratin (CK) fragments and inflammatory interleukins (ILs) in bone marrow (BM) aspirates of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are expected to indicate presence of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) and anticancer response of the host, respectively. The present study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/508
Retroviral vectors based upon the Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) have been used due to their high efficiency of stable gene transfer. Core binding factors (CBF) are heterodimeric transcription factors containing a DNA binding Runx 1, Runx 2, or Runx 3 subunit, along with a n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/483
Background: Popcorn is cereal grains originated from a wild grass (Zea mays everta). Human consume popcorn as snacks. Popcorn provides a full complement of nutrition benefits, including dietary fibre, protein and essential micronutrient. Processing methods, such as, sprouting and...
Objective: To determine delayed viral response and its influencing factors in non responders patients of chronic hepatitis C who were not taking any antiviral treatment 6 months after completion of their conventional interferon therapy. Study Design: Retrospective; Cohort Study ...
Anatomical alteration of leaf tissues components were investigated in regards to adequate and inadequate watering in Mungbean, Vetch and three Lentil cultivars namely Baraka, Adlib and Nineveh. The possibility of mitigating the alteration of these adversities by the aid of GA3 wa...
A novel fly ash supported solid base catalyst (MgO/fly ash) has been synthesized by using F-type fly ash and Mg(NO3)2 as precursor. The synthesized solid base possessed stable Si-O-Mg phase with sufficient hydroxyl group to catalyze liquid phase, solvent free and single step cond...
Aim: This study was designed to enhance the scope of sputum analysis by using it as a clinical tool in gene/protein expression, by making the paraffin embedded blocks. Methodology: The specimens were prepared as smear and cell blocks for cytopathologic examination. The preparatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/421