Aims: Research for sourcing laxative crude drugs among Nigerian Cassia/Senna species has continued. The roots of Cassia sieberiana and Senna obtusifolia, reported as mild laxatives, were subjected to pharmacognostic and toxicity investigations to form part of their monographs. St...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/14470
Presentation of the Case: Criptogenetic strokes represent a challenge, particularly in geriatrics as the patient’s clinical complexity, the polipharmacotherapy, the epigenetic modifications of a life course may complicate the case clinical presentation and the prognosis. We repor...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/14411
Aims: This paper aims to investigate the influence of cage location on the biomechanical behavior of lumbar spine with Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF). Methodology: Firstly, a three-dimensional finite element (FE) model for L4-L5 low lumbar spine segment is establis...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15576
Aims: The aim of this paper was to determine the thermal conductivity and the thermal effusivity of the compressed soil building blocks as a function of their water content. Study Design: Samples with dimensions 53x40x20 mm3 were produced for experiment. Eight containers and an o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15243
Background: The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has been beset by unprecedented growth in emergency admissions to hospital which are specifically medical in nature, while surgical and trauma admissions are only showing the level of low growth expected from demographic cha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14845
Aim: To determine the presentation and outcome of microbial keratitis among patients at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) in Ilorin, Nigeria. Methods: A 12-month, prospective, hospital-based longitudinal study was conducted by examining all patients with clinical feat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/9889
Aims: This study was carried out to determine the fish fauna in the Gediz River and by comparing the fish fauna with that of neighboring basins from a zoogeographical point of view. Place and Duration of Study: In order to establish the taxonomic and zoogeographic features of the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/14889
Small cell lung carcinoma is a rapidly progressive neuroendocrine tumor having a poor prognosis. It is considered as a systemic disease, because it has diffuse involvement, distant organ metastasis, and regional lymphatic involvement at the time of initial diagnosis. While small...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13754
Aim: The study is to investigate the impact of Costus afer methanolic stem extract on lipid metabolic profiles and bilirubin levels in alcohol-induced liver cirrhosis progression in rats. Materials and Methods: Male wistar strain albino rats were randomly divided into five groups...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/14577
Clostridium thermocellum Cel5L – Cloning and Characterization of a New, Thermostable GH5 Cellulase Aims: Clostridium thermocellum is a thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium that ferments cellulose and produces ethanol. While many of the predicted cellulases have been characterize...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/15199
Aims: Aqueous extract of Grewia mollis stem bark was analyzed for its phytochemical constituents and mineral elements. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry, University of Jos, Jos, between June 2013 and July 2013. Methodology: The phytochemical screening and mi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/14162
Aim: To assess the toxicological and histopathological effects of feed formulated with catfish (Clarias gariepinus) exposed to palm kernel oil (PKO) biodiesel on kidney in albino rat. Study Design: Randomized experimental controlled study Place and Duration of Study: The study wa...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/15169
In this introductory paper we overview existing approaches to enzyme – catalysed reactions. From the Michaelis – Menten kinetics to quantum scatterings several models are considered. We try to introduce our ”information – driven measurement engines” (an other model of enzyme acti...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/14298
Aims: The production of green composites based on natural fibres is rising with regard to increasing environmental problems and declining fossil raw materials. Bast fibres of papaya (Carica papaya L.) accumulate on plantations at a large scale but remain an unused resource. The c...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/15407
Alisha Akya, Farid Najafi, Nasrollah Sohrabi, Siavash Vaziri, Faizolah Mansouri, Mohsen Azizi & Farideh Akbarzadeh·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aims: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one the most common bacterial infection and Escherichia coli (E. coli) has been isolated from the majority of UTI cases. On the other hand, the rate of UTIs caused by quinolones resistant E. coli is increasing worldwide. We aimed to perform...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/12676