Background: Despite all efforts to establish the pathogenesis of malaria, it is far from being understood, and resistance to existing drugs remain a problem in several strains of Plasmodium. Different complications arise during malaria infection, and among these is the alteration...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/40708
Water is the second essential factor for life after oxygen and it offers a number of benefits and services to man and his environment. The effect of human activities on the physicochemical and bacteriological qualities of water samples from Ujiogba River was carried out using sta...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/40435
Cypermethrin, a type II pyrethroid, widely used for pest management causes environmental pollution and health hazards. Previous studies have shown that cypermethrin has teratogenic effect on rat foeti born to exposed dam or buck with no information on its effect on their reproduc...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/40290
Field trials were conducted in seven localities across the Western Highlands of Cameroon from April to September 2015 to evaluate the seed tubers yield performance of some potato varieties. Three improved potato varieties (Cipira, Tubira and Jacob 2005) were used in the experimen...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/40485
The biodegradability of anionic surfactants and the presence of surfactant degrading bacteria in the New Calabar River situated in Choba, Nigeria was investigated. Eleven (11) locally manufactured and six (6) imported brands were studied alongside sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) us...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/40131
Purpose: In the field of urine drug testing, there are several strategies to manipulate a urine sample to become false negative and a wide variety of instructions and manipulation kits are offered on the internet. Some adulteration techniques for urine seriously disturb immunolog...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/40427
Two field studies were conducted at the Multipurpose Crop Research Fields of the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong–Ashanti in the transitional agro-ecological zone of Ghana from September-December, 2009 and April-July, 2010 to determine the effects of various rates of Lum...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/40179
Characterized by abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in adipose tissues, Obesity is one chronic disease that can impair health. It is independently associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), specifically coronary heart disease and stroke. This prompted the American Heart...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/39891
One of the major problems of a quiescent or sedentary lifestyle is Obesity. Such lifestyle encourages and poses increased threat to the development of myriads of disabling medical conditions like muscle weakness, postural deficiencies, diabetes, compromised aerobic capacities, hy...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/38052
The study evaluated growth and vegetative response of fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis ) to levels and time of micro-dosing Urea fertilizer. The experiment was conducted in two growing seasons of late and early cropping seasons of 2015 and 2016 respectively at the Teaching...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/37533
Dimethylamine (DMA) is a water-soluble basic (pKa=10.73) secondary aliphatic amine. DMA is a common degradation product of trimethylamine oxide, an end product of nitrogen metabolism in fish. At sufficiently high exposure duration, DMA caused severe nasal and lung lesions, irrita...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/37417
Talha Bin Emran, Tajbiha-E-Mowla ., Shahriar Ahmed, Sumyya Zahan, Ahmed Rakib, Mohammed Shamim Hasan, Mohammad Nurul Amin, Tasmih Rob Mow & Mir Muhammad Nasir Uddin·Journal of Applied Life Sciences International·2018
Context: Urena sinuate L. (Malvaceae) is a well-known medicinal plant and it is used in traditional medicine systems. Objectives: The current study unravels the neuropharmacology, antinociceptive, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects of the chloroform extract of Urena sinuat...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/39073
Body Lotions which are intended to beautify and protect the skin are often prone to fungal contaminations either in the course of their preparation, transportation and/or accidentally, during use by the consumers which may lead to their spoilage. The purpose of the study was to i...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/39662
Refinery effluent requires treatment to reduce residual hydrocarbons before discharging into the environment, due to their toxicity. This study was conducted to investigate the efficiency of Pluerotus ostreatus to bioremove Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) in effluent discharge...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/38551
Muazu Issifu, Kwabena Darkwa, P. U. Krishnaraj, Shreenivas A. Desai, Ramesh Bhat, Tammineni N. Sathish, Yashavanthkumar J. Kakanur, Cobes P. Gatarira & Tommex A. Freeman·Journal of Applied Life Sciences International·2018
Aims: Identification of superior genotypes combining high nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and high grain yield under low nitrogen supply is imperative to the development of nitrogen use efficient wheat varieties for use by farmers in low input wheat production systems to combat the...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2018/38410