Aims: To determine the immunomodulatory effect of aqueous extracts of Auricularia sp and Pleurotus sp mushrooms using an immunosuppression animal model. Study Design: Pre-clinical experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Colleg...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/1994
Aim: This study was designed to determine the antitumor and antioxidant properties of crude methanol extract from the leaves of Plumeria acuminata (Apocynaceae) (MEPA) against Ehrlich Ascites Carcinoma (EAC) bearing Swiss albino mice. Study Design: Study design is methodology, me...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/4472
Aims: Study the release of fluconazole from different O/W creams and PEG ointments. Study Design: In this study, different formulations were prepared with changing one of the added excipients and study the effect of this change on the drug release and then the selected formulatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/3702
Let R be a commutative ring. It is well known that any artinian module is co-hopfian and any artinian module is mono-correct, but the converse is not true. Furthermore, commutative rings on which co-hopfian modules are artinian have been characterized. The aim of this work is to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/3962
This study attempted to show the distribution of fishery incomes between fishers and fishing gear owners with particular focus on Lake Tanganyika. The study was cross section case study. Field work took place in Kigoma, Tanzania along the lake from May 2010 to August 2011. Partic...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2013/3794
Luminescence spectral changes of solid EuCl3·6H2O in the presence of N, N–dimethylformamide (DMF) and methanol (MeOH) vapors were studied. Difference spectra and 2 dimensional correlation spectra obtained from luminescence spectra were used to determine base components of the lum...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/3442
The corrosion resistance behavior of inhibitor enriched organically-modified silane (Ormosil) thin films on 2024-T3 aluminum alloy substrates were investigated using accelerated salt spray analysis techniques such as ASTM B117. The specified literature composition of the sol-gel...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/3824
Objective: To assess the impact of Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Package among pregnant women regarding correct knowledge of susceptibility of the low birth weight neonate to certain morbidities. Study Design: A community based intervention study. Place and Duration of Stu...
The role of herbs in increasing sex capability has been well demonstrated in science, However, the effect of Rocket (Eruca sativa) which known, as sex herb in animals, was studied in this work. It was found that 1:10 methanol w/v extract was effective in producing two types of ca...
Aims: To evaluate the effects of the juice of Citrullus lanatus (watermelon) on gastric acid secretion and pH in Indomethacin-induced ulceration in male albino rats. Study Design: The experiment was divided into two studies. Under each study, four groups of rats were pre-treated...
Aims: This study is developed to discuss whether the plant morphology and seed characters (macro and micromorphological and protein pattern) can provide an additional fundamental tool helping in explanation of the taxonomic trends at specific and infra-specific level within the 4...
Aims: The present study focuses on evaluation of tyrosinase producing endophytic fungi from Calotropis gigantea, Azadirachta indica, Ocimum tenuiflorum and Lantana camara. Place and Duration of the Study: The present study was conducted at centre for Scientific Research and Devel...
In the present study, ovarian follicular fluid concentrations of trace elements and biochemical metabolites in relation to follicular size were investigated in dairy cows. Ovaries were recovered from 40 female adult Holstein Friesian cows 5–7 years of age with clinically normal r...
It has been recognized that pluripotent human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) must be transformed into fate-restricted derivatives before use for cell therapy. Realizing the therapeutic potential of pluripotent hESC derivatives demands a better understanding of how a pluripotent cel...
Soil-borne fungal and bacterial root pathogens can cause serious losses to agricultural crops. The enhancement of disease suppressive properties of soils will limit disease development, thus, being of great importance for sustainable agriculture as well as organic farming systems...