Aims: The present study was performed to evaluate the effect of recurrent insulin induced hypoglycemia (RIIH) on renal prostaglandin I2 (PGI2) and thromboxane A2 (TXA2) production during hypoglycemia-induced hypertension. Study Design: In the current study, renal microdialysis wa...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/29661
Aims: The present study was aimed at finding the geomorphological impacts on the quality groundwater quality along the Bay of Bengal of Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Study Design: Groundwater samples were collected and assessed for the identification of various...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29538
Subsoil competence evaluation was carried out in Emure Ile area of Ondo State, Southwestern Nigeria, with the aim of evaluating the competence of the subsurface geology in hosting civil engineering structures. Geotechnical investigation involved analysis of six soil samples for m...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29609
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) production in Eastern Africa remains low due to a variety of factors including soil nutrient depletion. As intensive row-crop production evolves, improvements in managing soil nutrient quantity and availability of less renewable nutrients like P...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/30151
Asma Abdelaal Abdalla, Siham Ahmed Balla, Mohamed Salah Ahmed Mohamed, Hind Mamoun Behairy, Naiema Abdalla Waqialla Fahal, Dina Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim, Maha Ismail Mohamed & Ibtisam Ahmed Ali·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Background Information: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are number one killer in the world among non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The principal underlying risk factor for CVDs is hypertension (HTN). Objectives: To identify the prevalence of hypertension, the stages of HTN and the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28539
A field trial was conducted at Enugu Southeast Nigeria (6°29'N; 7°14 54'E), during the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons to quantify short-term effects of soil improving legumes [groundnut (Arachis hypogaea), Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean L), Soybean (Glycine max) and Pigeon...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/30001
Nickel and aluminium doped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles were synthesized by sol-gel method and their structural, morphological, and antibacterial activity were studied. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) studies reveals that all synthesized ZnO nanoparticles have hexagonal wurtzite struct...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOCS/2016/29704
The objective of this paper is to extend the Universal Probability Space (UPS) in [1] to include complex events. The UPS consists of Borel sets, elements of which are tensors. It is shown that the UPS has a defined metric and this metric is in fact the probability measure (P). Th...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/29924
Recently there has been a renewed interest on the signaling pathways and metabolic changes in cancer cells. It is well known that there are several oncogenes and tumor suppressors that affect cancer metabolism and re-engineer it for better growth and survival. The best descriptio...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/29641
The antibacterial activity of Bifidobacterium breve against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA from human middle ear infection (otitis media) as well as methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) strain was tested in vitro. MRSAis a multidrug-resistant mic...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/28724
Aim: The activity pattern of digestive enzymes (protease, amylase, lipase and cellulase) was studied in two species of freshwater prawns Macrobrachium rosenbergii and Macrobrachium malcolmsonii juveniles. Study Design: Digestive capacity of individual species may vary. In order t...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/29404
The overall prognosis of beta thalassemia patients has improved considerably during the pastdecades mainly due to regular blood transfusions, improvements in the iron chelation therapy, and also enhanced surveillance with imaging studies examining the iron overload and other clin...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2016/29558
Existing data suggest a negative correlation between maternal sleep deprivation and male offspring reproductive capability. However, there is dearth of information on the critical period of development during which reproductive organs may be programmed. Thirty pregnant rats were...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/29782
The first three spills of rainfall in 2016 were harvested from areas impacted by gas flaring and exhaust emissions namely: Ibeno, Eket, Onna, Mkpat Enin and Uyo local government areas south-south of Nigeria. Control samples were harvested from Ibiono Ibom local government area wh...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/29762
This article presents the effects of thermal radiation, Soret and Duffour terms on MHD fluid (which is the study of an electrically conducting fluid and its interaction with magnetic field) with oscillatory suction over a vertical plate. The solution of the dimensionless equation...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/30060