Aim: To investigate the antidiabetic effect of Parkia biglobosa ethanolic root extract in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji Arakeji Osun State, Nigeria,...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/24877
Aim: To evaluate the potency and efficacy of co-artemisinin brands used in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Gombe State North-Eastern Nigeria. Materials and Methods: A total of 185 patients with malaria aged between 5-60 years attending Federal Teac...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32303
Background: Medicinal plants have been sources of a number of important compounds which have been discovered during last century. In the light of their established therapeutic efficacy, the pharmaceutical industries are using crude extracts of medicinal plants for manufacturing d...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/31127
In the last decades evidence has been collected that the depletion of the visual magnocellular population (a fast-conduction cellular system made of large ganglion neurons) plays a pathogenetical role in developmental dyslexia. Smaller size of the magnocells and reduction of thei...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32962
Aims: The objective of this study was to prepare and characterize poly (ethylene glycol) methyl ether (mPEG)-conjugated chitosan (CS) nanogels, mPEG-CS, at different molar ratios for 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) delivery (5-FU-loaded mPEG-CS nanogels). Study Design: The chemical cross-l...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32493
This study investigated the antibacterial potential of the methanolic extract and other different fractions obtained from the crude extract of Hyptis suaveolens leaves on some selected Gram positive bacterial isolates. It also assessed the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of th...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32562
Aims: Piper longum, a medicinal plant, grows wildly in Northeast India. In our earlier study, the chloroform extract from leaves of P. longum L. (Piperaceae) exhibited promising in vitro antidermatophytic activity. The present investigation was undertaken to isolate and identify...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/31874
Aim: This study assessed the hepatoprotective potential of aqueous stem bark extract of Boswellia dalzielii on paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity in adult rabbits. Study Design: Fifteen adult rabbits weighing between 1.4-2.0 kg were divided into five groups (I, II, III, IV and V...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/31357
Background: Family medicine (FM) physicians are bound to providing healthcare services at a variety of clinical and community settings. They should be equipped to competently handle health emergencies in a multitude of professional procedures. Medical education on patients often...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32234
Aims: To determine the molecular properties of common antihistamines and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs). To identify interrelationships among these two groups of drugs utilizing pattern recognition methods and statistical analysis. Study Design: After determinati...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32695
Aims: Oxcarbazepine (OXC) is a newer antiepileptic agent that has recently become increasingly used either as monotherapy or as an adjunct to other AEDs in adults, adolescents, and children with partial epilepsy. Our aim was to define the the potential risks of the anti-epileptic...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32345
Aims: The present paper focuses on natural polymeric nanoparticles (NPs), described in the literature as the most effective natural polymer that have been introduced in the last decades, We have recently developed an innovative approach to this aim: a new osteotropic biomaterial...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/32428
Aim: The study was conducted to investigate the antibacterial activity of Psidium guajava and its major antibacterial constituents (Phytochemicals). Materials and Methods: The aqueous and ethanol extracts from the leaves and stem bark of the plant was tested using well diffusion...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/31126
Objective: The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the CNS depressant, antidiarrheal and antipyretic activities of ethanolic leaf extract of Calophyllum inophyllum L. Methods: In the present study CNS depressant activity of C. inophyllum was carried out using hole...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/29994
This study was carried out to investigate the protective effect of oral administration of T. occidentalis against copper induced oxidative stress. Forty two adult male Wistar rats were divided equally into six groups. Group 1 were orally gavaged with standard animal feed only, gr...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/31295