Background: Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) is the commonest tumour in Africa. It is a rapidly growing tumour. Its multi-organ involvement and complexity of signs and symptoms, call for an urgent diagnosis and treatment to achieve a better prognosis. Objective: To determine the occurrenc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13724
Aims: The study was designed to investigate the hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity of automobile gas oil (Diesel oil) and its biochemical effect on hematological and oxidative stress parameters in Wistar male albino rats. Methodology: Preliminary toxicity study to determine the vo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13719
The severity, epidemic duration and general epidemiology of viral epidemic depends on determinants such as viral strain, ecological, environmental and socioeconomic factors. The West Africa Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and in Ivory Coast, Liberia an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14257
Aims: To study the effects of cataflam, aspirin and the ethanolic extract of Cannabis sativa on nociception in CD1 albino mice of both sexes. Method: Twenty (20) albino mice were divided into four (4) groups of five (5) each. The control group (group 1) received normal saline ora...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15032
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a neurobiological frontier that isolates brain tissues from the blood vascular system. Its main role is to protect the brain and the central nervous system from external fluctuations in hormones, nutrients and drugs, while allowing the passage of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15493
Eclampsia has been studied extensively over the last decades. Several pathophysiological mechanisms and animal models have been proposed for the disease. However, to date, none of them can fully explain the neuronal pathophysiology of eclamptic convulsions and the associated dele...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14598
Phosphorus is most limiting mineral in the diet of fish and must be supplied in the right quality and quantity to prevent its deficiency or toxicity in fish. A 70 day feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the utilization of Dicalcium phosphate and different bone meals as phosph...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/9118
There is gender division of women in farm labour in Niger State. The gender division of women in farm labour assigns women more works in the processing of groundnut as Agricultural food products and yet, women have no access to improved methods of groundnut processing and depend...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/10957
Aims: Rivers often are twisting (meandering). There is no a simple physical model, which would explain the cause of formation of meanders and would describe their main (general) features, abstracting from the peculiarities of the real rivers. The resent work is devoted to creatio...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2014/14888
Aims: The aim of the present paper was to define the agro-climatic suitability of the Argentinean semiarid and subhumid regions to produce grains from A. caudatus. Study Design: Agro climatic zonation utilizing Arc-Gis 9.3. Place and Duration of Study: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ju...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2014/15198
Aim: The objective of this study was to isolate microbial species having the ability for production of invertase enzyme and to study some optimal culture conditions for maximum invertase production by an isolate of Aspergillus niger OSH5 which showed the highest invertase activit...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/11539
Objective: To evaluate the global and segmental diastolic function of the right ventricle using pulsed tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in patients with clinically stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) without pulmonary hypertension (PHT). Methods: Twenty stable patient...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/14459
Zobo drink is an indigenous non-alcoholic drink made from hot water roselle calyces of Hibiscus sabdariffa. The drink has gained wide acceptance, as it is consumed by several millions of people from different socio-economic classes and background in West African sub-region. The g...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/15534
Stereoselectivity is a fundamental principle in living systems. Stereoselectivity reflects the dependence of molecular processes on the spatial orientation of constituent atoms. Stereoselective processes govern many aspects of brain function and direct the course of many psychotr...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2014/14787
Introduction: Male live births occur slightly in excess of female births but the ratio is influenced by a very large variety of factors. This ratio is remarkably stable but may exhibit sudden shifts in response to influences such as population stress. A World Health Organisation...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/14429