Use of enrichment, ecological risk and contamination factors with geo-accumulation indexes were employed to evaluate the Content of Cd, Cu, and Ni in the soils around Ameka mining area, South of Abakaliki, Nigeria. Ecological risk indices and contamination indexes namely, enrichm...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24908
Background: Hepatocytes have a fundamental system of efflux proteins that protect cells from toxic insults. Unconjugated bilirubin at higher concentration is toxic to cells and its intracellular accumulation is limited by the induction of efflux proteins such as Mrp3. In vivo stu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25139
About 20% of people with multiple myeloma (MM) produce only light kappa chains which is produced in 80% of cases. This population of MM patients may be missed where the laboratory could not effectively detect free light chains of immunoglobulins as it is the case in most developi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25188
Aims: Antley-Bixler syndrome (ABS) is a rare disease which is a complex of skeletal, visceral, extremity and genital anomalies and occasionally is associated with adrenal insufficiency due to P450-oxidoreductase deficiency. In this article we report a patient, a suspicious case o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24651
Objectives: Microalbuminuria is an integrated marker of both kidney disease and endothelial dysfunction may be associated with global vascular risk. The purpose of the study was to assess the association of microalbuminuria with risk of nondiabetic nonhypertensive ischaemic strok...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21351
Aims: To highlight the challenges and the diagnostic dilemmas in resource restricted settings to diagnose and treat Tuberculosis (TB), especially when it co-exists with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Presentation of Case: A 7-year-old HIV-infected male child admitt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24733
Objective: To describe the serum level of urea and creatinine, and as well as CD4+ T cell count of blood among HIV positive patients before and after initiation of HAART in St. Paulo’s general specialized hospital. Methods: A retrospective follow up study was conducted among HIV...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19358
Technical difficulties which affect the outcomes of abdominal operations are common in obese patients, especially in rectal and gastric cancer cases. In several studies, it has been shown that increased body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased morbidity, reduced lymph n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25148
Introduction: Epidural analgesia is said to have depressive effects on neonates. There seems to be sufficient instances in the literature that have compared maternal outcomes in relation to epidural analgesia. However, there is lack of instances in the literature on neonatal outc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24182
Anatomical knowledge of the coeliac trunk and its branches is indispensable for surgeons in order to avoid post-surgery complications and malpractice and that’s what inspired us to review this important topic. The coeliac trunk is the first ventral branch of arising from the abdo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23879
Aim: To examine the effects of ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol on the locomotor functional recovery of rats with incomplete spinal cord injury. Methods: A total of 80 male Sprague-Dawley rats (180–200 g) were used. Seventy of them were subjected to spinal cord injury (SCI) and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24533
Aims: This study aimed to determine the use of specific medicinal plants based on traditional medicine from community of Attars (Traditional healers) in the province of Mazandaran (North Iran). Place and Duration of Study: The province of Mazandaran in north Iran, between March u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24795
A field experiment was established at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources to evaluate the effects of organic fertilizer on yield and yield attributes of tomato from October 2014 to March 2015. The experiment was laid out in a randomised complete block des...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24630
Tur is the most important Kharif pulse crop of northern Karnataka. Over the years, the farming community is shifting to cultivation of cash crops due to higher profitability leading to decrease in acreage under pulse crops in general and Tur in particular. The current study was c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/24718
Aims: Enterococcus faecalis strain SLT13, isolated from the Leben microbiota was investigated for their technological properties. Place and Duration of Study: The study was undertaken in the LETMi laboratory, Tunis, Tunisia with collaboration with CWBI, Gembloux, Belgium, and at...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/17309