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2018 | Current Trends in Biotechnology and Pharmacy | Pp. 230-244
The study was designed to investigate the effect of growth culture conditions, namely: Media composition, incubation period, temperature and pH on the production of antimicrobial compounds from three selected actinomycetes isolated from waste dump soil in We...
2018 | International Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology | Pp. 33-39
Low breast feeding rates, early introduction of complementary foods, heavy workload of the care givers, lack of ready-to- prepare formulations and the infrequency of feeding of the weaned children are the major causes of Protein Energy Malnutrition in western...
2018 | Journal of Diabetes and Endocrinology | Pp. 11-19
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the capacity of lycopene against diabetes-induced oxidative damage in Wistar rats. Thirty Wistar rats of both sexes, twenty-five of which were diabetic, were used. Diabetes was induced by a single intraperitoneal injec...
2018 | Wiley
Modelling of heat transfer through the finned hollow cylindrical surfaces of an insulation testing rig (ITR) is the main concern of this work. A differential volume approach was employed in developing thermal differential models. The analytical solutions of t...
2018 | Epidemiology: Open Access | Pp. 1-7
A deterministic mathematical model was developed for the transmission dynamics of Monkeypox virus. Themodel incorporates imperfect vaccine compartment for the human sub-population. The equilibrium states of themodel equation were obtained analyzed for stabili...
2018 | Journal of the Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics | Pp. 113-129
In this paper, a deterministic mathematical model for transfusion transmitted malaria with sterilizing immunity is developed.The model, which consist of seven mutually exclusive compartments for human and mosquito populations has a disease freeequilibrium (DF...
2018 | BMC Research Notes | Pp. 1-9
Objective: In this systematic review, we present the molecular epidemiology and knowledge gaps of the carbapenem resistance in East Africa as well as the future probable research interventions that can be used to address the emergence of carbapenem resistance...
2018 | Journal of Diabetes and Endocrinology ISSN: 2141-2685 | Pp. 11-19
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the capacity of lycopene against diabetes-induced oxidativedamage in Wistar rats. Thirty Wistar rats of both sexes, twenty-five of which were diabetic, were used.Diabetes was induced by a single intraperitoneal injecti...
2018 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3717328
Donepezil is the most common drug used in the treatment of disorders associated with memory loss, especially that inAlzheimer’s disease.Healthy individuals however have continued to use it as amemory enhancer. This studywas aimed at evaluatingthe combined t...
2018 | American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience | Pp. 9-14
 Despite the significant achievements in the treatment modalities and preventive measures, the prevalence of gestational diabetes in Africa has continued to rise exponentially in the last few decades. There is growing concern on the use of oral hypoglycemic...