Recently, biomarkers in medicine have gained comprehensive scientific and clinical interest. Biomarker or biological marker defined as alteration in the constituents of tissues or body fluids provide a powerful approach to understanding the spectrum of chronic diseases with appli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6917
Aims: To isolate pure compounds from the methanolic fraction obtained from successive fractionation of defatted ethanolic extract and evaluate in vitro antioxidant and anticancer activity of the crude ethanolic extract, methanolic fraction and pure compounds isolated from methano...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/7053
Aims: With pickled perilla leaves as raw materials, this paper proposed the optimal ethanol extraction conditions and made a profound analysis for extract in the compositions of major active ingredients, nutrients, mineral elements and amino acid to characterize the nutritional a...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/7453
Vitamin D (VD) is known to have pleiotropic effects on various tissues and organs including those of the immune and musculoskeletal systems. VD deficiency has been suggested to trigger the onset of autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), although the significance...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7647
Amani S. Al-Rawahi, Giles Edwards, Mohammed Al-Sibani, Ghanim Al-Thani, Ahmed S. Al-Harrasi & Mohammed Shafiur Rahman·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2013
Aims: This study was undertaken to analyze total phenolics and total flavonoids contents; and total antioxidant capacity of pomegranate peel extract and to identify the major functional components in the extract. Study Design: The extract was subjected to ESI-MS/MS. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/6417
Aims: Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT), the most common of porphyrias is triggered by several factors, including iron overload. Type I Hereditary Hemochromatosis is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait of the mutation p.C282Y or as a compound heterozygous form p.C282Y/p.H63D in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7303
In order to assess the antibacterial activities of methanolic and aqueous leaf extracts (MLE and ALE) as well as that of methanolic berry extract (MBE) of Lantana camara Linn, we screened each for antibacterial effects against 14 bacterial isolates using agar-well diffusion metho...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/6992
Aims: To describe two unusual complications of a typical solitary pedunculated femoral osteochondroma that included a distal fracture of the exostosis and a missed fragment following surgical treatment as well as to evaluate the progress of the untreated free fragment at follow-u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7207
Aims: In a previous study (2004) we explored the clinical and microbiological aspects of bloodstream infections (BSI) in a multilevel geriatric hospital, and concluded that follow up and monitoring of these parameters is warranted. The purpose of this new study is to evaluate the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6892
Aim: This study investigates the wound healing activity of ethanol leaf extract of Erythrina senegalensis using excision wound model on albino rats. Methodology: Several herbal extract formulations were prepared with Petroleum Jelly ointment base. Cicatrin® powder (neomycin-bacit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/7260
An efficient protocol is described for the rapid in vitro multiplication of an endangered medicinal plant, Caralluma diffusa, via enhanced axillary bud proliferation from nodal explants collected from young shoots of six-months-old plant. The physiological effects of growth regul...
The reactive, macroporous glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and divinyl benzene (DVB) polymer was synthesized with a mixture of cyclohexanol and lauryl alcohol as liquid pore-forming agents and nano-calcium carbonate as solid one via suspension polymerization. The surface structure of...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/7241
The study was conducted during two summer seasons (2005/06 and 2006/07) under Dongola area conditions (Northern State- Sudan) to investigate the effect of three tillage practices (disc ploughing (20 cm depth) followed by disc harrowing and levelling, chisel ploughing (30 cm depth...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6706
This Study was conducted to compare gender dimensions in farm households with challenges of food insecurity in Orsu local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Cross sectional data from forty male-headed and forty female-headed farm households selected purposively from a random...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/7366
The purpose of this study was to prepare a stable oil-in-water emulsion formulation of deltamethrin. Oil-in-water emulsion was prepared by using a two-step procedure. Stability studies were performed at different accelerated conditions (0°C and 54°C) to predict the stability of t...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6372