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
Downy mildew (DM) of pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] caused by Sclerospora graminicola is the most widespread and destructive disease. In DM affected plants disease symptoms appear suddenly with the emergence of green ear, which exhibits all possible degrees of prol...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/496
Carbon tetrachloride and its toxic metabolites consistently produce liver injury in many species including man. The hepatoprotective potential of Chromolaena odorata Linn. (C. odorata) was evaluated in male rabbits against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver damage. Carbon tetrach...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/406
Background: Ovomucoid is a serine proteinase inhibitor in the egg whites of all avian species at a concentration of about 10 mg/ml. The involvement of proteinases in a multitude of control functions in an organism has created an interest in their physiological inhibitors. Regulat...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/366