Aims: Evaluate retrospectively the effectiveness of treatment with oseltamivir in a Brazilian subpopulation infected during the 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) and compare drug activity based on the presence or absence of other disease risk factors and also the time from onset of...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2012/1310
Aims: To evaluate the effects of aqueous extract of V. amygdalina on lipid profile and lipid peroxidation status in rats. Study Design: Experimentation. Place and Duration of Study: Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Benin, Benin city, Nigeria...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2012/1095
The effect of the same concentration of heavy metals lead (Pb), mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd) pollution on oxidative stress parameters in A. hybridus leaves after fifty days was investigated. A. hybridus leaves from soil sample without heavy metal pollution served as the control....
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1205
Over the past two decades, emerging data have found that YKL-40, a secreted glycoprotein, is elevated in a broad spectrum of human diseases including cancers, liver injury, asthma, diabetes, inflammatory diseases, and cardiac disorders. In breast cancer, increased serum levels of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1282
The synthesis and characterization of two new ruthenium diporphyrazines is reported. The ruthenium (III) chloride in cyclotetramerization reaction with 5,6-diphenylpyrazine-2,3- dicarbonitrile or 1,2-dicyanobenzene resulted the green and blue diporphyrazinato counterparts respect...
Aims: Pharmacological-challenge magnetic resonance imaging (phMRI) is powerful new tool enabling researchers to map the central effects of neuroactive drugs in vivo. To employ this technique pre-clinically, head movements and the stress of restraint are usually reduced by maintai...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1412
Aim: To identify the prevalence, common symptoms, signs, partner contribution, common diagnosis and outcome of infertility in a resource poor setting. Study Design: Descriptive retrospective study. Place and Duration of Study: Ebonyi state University teaching Hospital, Abakaliki...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2012/1170
Sixteen genotypes of rice (Oryza sativa L.) were evaluated during 2008 and 2009 growing seasons at two regions at the State of White Nile- Sudan (EDduim and Kosti) to assess stability of performance, and identify high yielding genotypes. The aim of the comparative study was to as...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2012/1193
Fifteen genotypes of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) were studied at two locations (Elrawakeeb and Shambat) of Sudan, during the years 2003 and 2004. The study was conducted to determine the interrelationship between yield and yield components and other quantitative traits,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2012/1108
In this paper, by using contraction mapping theorem, analysis approach and decomposition of solution space, the multiperiodicity issue is discussed for Cohen-Grossberg-type (CG-type) bidirectional associative memory networks (BAMNs) with discrete and distributed delays and a gene...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2012/1138
By a sub-supersolution argument and a perturbed argument, we improve the earlier results concerning the existence of ground state solutions to a quasilinear elliptic problem where for some α ∈ (0, 1) is non-negative and is a locally Holder continuous func...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2012/1133
Aims: To assess Socio-economic effects of schistosomiasis on irrigation rice farmers in Modern, Improved traditional and Traditional irrigation schemes in Morogoro Region. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Mkindo (improved traditional) in Mvomero d...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2012/1215
Provision of Infrastructure is a facilitator for economic advancement at various levels. The impact on local economic development and the mitigation of poverty is immeasurable. Lack of or poor infrastructure has always impeded economic development. In some cases, CBOs embark on p...
Diet, besides its simplicity and affordability, has been clinically recommended as the first line of intervention in type 2 diabetes. However, compliance with the so-called diabetic diet has been notoriously poor, mostly because the social and cultural aspects of eating as well a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1199
Aims: 222Rn, a radioactive inert gas is a large component of the natural radiation that humans are exposed to, can pose a threat to the public health when it accumulates in poorly ventilated residential and occupational settings. About half of the total radiation effective dose t...