Objective: Postmenopausal women usually experience symptoms related to vasomotor instability due to a decline in estradiol levels. Certain plants have been found to have components that are same in structure and function to female estrogen and progesterone. This study conducted t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/163
Malaria caused by plasmodium parasite is at the moment the highest killer disease in the tropics, killing mostly pregnant women and children under the age of five years. Efforts are on to developing more potent antimalarials from plants’ sources that will be cheaper, without adve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2011/273
Road Traffic Noise is causing huge socio-economic loss to the nations all around the world. In a study it is estimated that in Europe itself the traffic noise accounted for at least €38 billion per year (0.4% of total GDP of EU22). It is almost as high as one-third of socio-econo...
Peptides were synthesized by the reaction of Fmoc-amino acid chloride and aminoacid ester hydrochloride in DCM. The obtained peptide ligands were characterized by elemental analysis, NMR, IR and mass spectra. Three copper complexes of peptides Fmoc.Ala-val-OH (F-AVOH), Fmoc-Phe-L...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2011/307
Kumar et al. (2009) provided an algebraic characterization for an indefinite Sasakian manifold to reduce to a space of constant holomorphic sectional curvature. In this present paper, we generalize the characterization for indfinite S -manifolds, which is a space of constant ho...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2011/270
The antibacterial activity, in-silico DNA molecular docking, DNA binding and photocleavage studies of newly synthesized pyrazole is described. Antibacterial potential of these compounds screened against a wide range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria showed significant z...
Background: Down Syndrome (DS) is the most frequent chromosomal abnormality in live births with an incidence of 1 to 1.7 per 1,000 births and a variable physical expression. Down syndrome screening has been an integral part of routine prenatal care in recent decades. Currently, t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/317
Mimusops elengi (Linn.) commonly known as Bakul is one such tree native to the Western Ghat region of the peninsular India. However, today this tree is also found growing in other parts of the tropical and sub tropical regions of the world. The stem, barks, leaves and fruits are...
The study evaluated the effect of combined extracts of Vernonia amygdalina (VA) and Gongronema latifolium (GL) on the pancreas of streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic Wistar rats. Thirty-two (32) albino rats were divided equally into 4 groups. Groups A and B which served as norm...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/215
The aim of this study was to investigate the antihypertensive effect of the methanol extract of the leaf of Napoleona imperialis (p. beauv) in adrenaline induced hypertensive rats (AlHR) and compared with those of Propanolol in a cross over design. Napoleona imperialis leaf extra...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/274
The studies developed in this work aimed to find alternatives to biodegradation or bioremediation of soils contaminated with gasoline or gasohol. So, the biodegradation of benzene, toluene and o-xylene (BTX) in soil samples contaminated with gasoline or gasohol by a bacterial con...
In the framework of gravitational theory of general relativity, this article has systematically and radically solved the problem of galaxy formation and some significant cosmological puzzles. A flaw with Einstein’s equation of gravitational field is firstly corrected and the foun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2011/294
Delgado R. Marcos, Parsons Jason, Garcia Humberto, Corral A. Alba Y, Cruz J. Gustavo, Campos T. Alfredo, Duarte M. Alberto & Gardea-Torresdey Jorge·Physical Science International Journal·2011
Lead (Pb) and arsenic (As) levels on PM10 were measured for indoor and outdoor atmospheres and soil samples in Chihuahua City (Chihuahua, Mexico). The concentration of both Pb and As in the soil samples was determined and compared using two instrumental techniques, Inductively co...
Aim/Background: The present study was planned to evaluate the antidiabetic activity of ‘Folk recipe’ a combination of traditional medicinal plants in normoglycemic and alloxan-induced diabetes rabbits. The level of antioxidant activity was determined by DPPH in relation to the to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/245
E. Y. Osipova, T. V. Shamanskaya, O. A. Kurakina, V. A. Nikitina, B. B. Purbueva, A. Y. Ustugov, D. Y. Kachanov, E. V. Skorobogatova, Z. M. Dishlevaya & S. A. Roumiantsev·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2011
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been widely used in different areas of medicine because of their immunosupressive properties and influence on regeneration of the damaged tissues. The objective of this study was to examine the kinetics of growth (MSC from 4-3 passages had signif...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/282