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
Noise pollution is one of the man-made environmental hazards that is given the least attention. By World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition, noise pollution is unwanted or excessive sound that can have deleterious effects on human health and environmental quality. Industrial...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/13791
Introduction: The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is the greatest challenge to human kind in the 21st century. Over 35.5 million people are infected with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) worldwide and the majority of these infections are in the reproductive a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/13342
The shelf life of Eugenia aromatica in the control of Callosobruchus maculatus and Sitophilus zeamais was considered from its formulated dusts that was prepared and preseved for 5 years. Dry fruits of E. aromatic was obtained, pulverized and sieved to a particle size of 150 µm wh...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/11788
The District Gilgit and surrounding areas of northern Pakistan are rich in floral diversity. The research surveys were conducted during 2011-2012 to identify medicinal plants being used and their uses. The continuous field visits during March to August to collect the indigenous k...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/9310