A. A.
Two thousand five hundred and thirty two (2,532) males, aged 25 -50 years potential blood donors were randomly selected from the total number of volunteer blood donors who satisfied the initial...
The effect of sea water salinity (1500, 2500 and 3500 ppm) on the growth of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum ) cultivars (Trust, Grace and Plitz) was studied. The sea water salinity delayed seed...
- Grau-Crespo,
- R.,
- Cora,
- F.,
- Sokol,
- A.A.,
- ...
Massive-Star Supernovae as Major Dust Factories (2006)
We present late-time optical and mid-infrared observations of the Type II supernova 2003gd in the galaxy NGC 628. Mid-infrared excesses consistent with cooling dust in the ejecta are observed 499 to...
- ESSIEN,
- J P; EKPO,
- M A; BROOKS,
- A A
Among the 33 moulds isolated from 20 samples of wood-smoked Chlamydoselachus anguincus (shark-fish) 20 isolates were capable of producing metabolites toxic to fertile Hubbard Golden Comet (Niger...
The antisickling effects of dried fish (tilapia) And dried prawn (Astacus red ) (2005)
- NWAOGUIKPE,
- R N; UWAKWE,
- A A
The antisickling effect of dried fish (Tilapia) and dried prawn (Astacus red ) were investigated to ascertain the ability of the extracts of these samples to inhibit polymerisation of sickle cell...
Effects of chromatographic fractions of Euphorbia hirta on the rat serum biochemistry. (2005)
The effects of the chromatographic fractions of Euphorbia hirta Linn on the serum biochemical parameters in rats were investigated. The ethanolic extract of this plant was subjected to...
- A. O. AKPANTAH,
- A. O.,
- OREMOSU,
- A. A.,
- NORONHA. C. C.,
- T. B. EKANEM & A. O. OKANLAWON
The effects of Garcinia kola seed extract on oestrous cycle, ovulation and foetal development were studied in adult female Sprague-Dawley (S-D) rats. Cyclic female rats weighing 150 to 200g were...
- DOMINGO,
- A.A
Trabalho apresentado nas Mesas Temáticas do XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005 A tecnologia coloca em...
- FONSECA,
- A.A
Trabalho apresentado na Sessão de Temas Livres durante o XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005. Estudo...
Da 'Cultura Feminina' de Simmel aos weblogs: mulheres na Internet (2005)
- BRAGA,
- A.A
Trabalho apresentado no NP 13 - Comunicação e Cultura das Minorias no XXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Porto Alegre RS, 2004. Este texto...
Feminilidade mediada por computador: aspectos da comunicação contemporânea (2005)
- BRAGA,
- A.A
Trabalho apresentado no NP13 - Comunicação e Cultura das Minorias durante o XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ,...
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the...
- Stoner-Ma,
- D.,
- Jaye,
- A.A.,
- Matousek,
- P.,
- ...
In neonatal pulmonary hypertension, the pulmonary arteries fail to adapt to extrauterine life and remain thick walled. In a previous study on normal neonatal resistance arteries, perfusion myography...
In systemic vessels, haem-oxygenase (HO) is induced during oxidative stress and known to modulate vasodilatation and vascular remodelling. At birth, with the transition from placental to air...
Functions of AP-3 and AP-1 in Tyrosinase Sorting from Endosomes to Melanosomes (2005)
Monitoring Editor: Sandra Schmid Specialized cells exploit adaptor protein complexes for unique post-Golgi sorting events, providing a unique model system to specify adaptor function. Here, we show...
Nitric oxide is involved in development and postnatal adaptation of the pulmonary circulation. This study aimed to determine whether genetic deletion of nitric oxide synthase ( NOS) would lead to...
Response to bosentan in children with pulmonary hypertension (2005)
- Maiya,
- S.,
- Hislop,
- A.A.,
- Flynn,
- Y.,
- ...
Objective: The dual endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan is known to be safe and effective in adults with pulmonary hypertension (PH). There is little experience in children. Design: In this...
A 10-year-old boy was found to have an unusual presentation of the Sprengel anomaly, omovertebral bones, and segmentation defects of the vertebral column at the cervical, thoracic, and sacral level....
- EYO,
- A A; FALAYI,
- B A; ADETUNJI,
- O M
Three isoproteic 35% crude protein diets were formulated with same basal ingredients and ranging levels of extruded soybean, beniseed and yellow maize meals and fed at 5% body weight to groups of...
A systematic approach to process optimization for production of rifamycin B was applied to a strain of Amycolatopsis mediterranei . Examination of the growth revealed 6 different morphologically...
Amplification of gene expression of the most productive colony type of Amycolatopsis mediterranei strain N1 under stress of chloramphenicol, resulted in isolation of a variant NCH with...
Optimization of the physical and physiological parameters of the fermentation process using the gene amplified variant of Amycolatopsis mediterranei (NCH) was carried out. Optimization of the...
- Fafioye,
- O.O. Adebisi,
- A.A.,
- Fagade,
- S.O
Acute toxicity tests were carried out with aqueous and ethanolic extracts of two botanicals on Clarias gariepinus juveniles. 96-h LC50 values for Parkia biglobosa aqueous (AEPB) and ethanolic...
HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION OF CLARIAS GARIEPINUS FROM A LAKE AND FISH FARM IN IBADAN, NIGERIA. (2004)
- OLAIFA,
- F.E.,
- OLAIFA A.K.,
- ADELAJA,
- A.A,
- OWOLABI,
- ...
Adult Clarias gariepinus (African Catfish) were purchased from EleiyeleLake and Zartech fish farm in Ibadan. Water samples were also collected in February (dry season) and June (rainy season),...
To the theory of spin-charge separation in one-dimensional correlated electron systems (2004)
- Zvyagin,
- A. A.
Stochastic representation of a class of non-Markovian completely positive evolutions (2004)
- Budini,
- A. A.
- Kuhn,
- A.A.,
- Williams,
- D.,
- Kupsch,
- A.,
- ...
2004: 8.201
- Taylor,
- R.,
- Cronin,
- A.A.,
- Pedley,
- S.,
- ...
A novel, inexpensive, double lumen suprapubic catheter for urodynamics (2004)
PURPOSE: We describe a novel, double lumen, intravesical, suprapubic catheter designed to meet the requirements of pediatric urodynamics that is easy to use and has minimal complications. MATERIALS...
Bioremediation of a Crude Oil Polluted Tropical Mangrove Environment (2003)
- ODOKUMA,
- L O; DICKSON,
- A A
A combination of bioaugumentation with hydrocarbon utilizing indigenous bacteria, biostimulation with agricultural fertilizer (NPK 15:15:15) and tilling were employed as remedial options for 20 weeks...
- SPIFF,
- A I; UWAKWE,
- A A
Caffeine (1,3,7 - trimethylxanthine) was extracted from Nescafe® (product number CC5AA) a brand of "instant coffees" produced by Nestle foods, Lagos, Nigeria, using Harris method adapted from FDALS...
The ability of cassava waste biomass (untreated and acid treated) to remove heavy metals (Cu(II) and Zn(II) ) from single-ion solution and wastewater was investigated. All experiments were conducted...
Minireview - Yam diseases and its management in Nigeria (2003)
- Amusa,
- N. A.,
- Adegbite,
- A. A,
- Muhammed S.,
- Baiyewu R. A.
This review presents different diseases associated with yam and the management strategies employed in combating its menace in Nigeria. The field and storage diseases are presented, anthracnose is...
Pharmacological reactivity of guinea pig ileum to aqueous extract of Solanum aethiocpicum was determined in vitro. Extract of the vegetable contracted the isolated ileum in a dose dependent fashion....
NON-FERMI LIQUID versus FERMI LIQUID BEHAVIOR OF THE GENERALIZED ANDERSON IMPURITY (2003)
- Zvyagin,
- A. A.
Nonlinear Hall effect in a time-periodic electric field and related phenomena (2003)
- Ovchinnikov,
- A. A.
KCNQ/M currents in sensory neurons: significance for pain therapy (2003)
Neuronal hyperexcitability is a feature of epilepsy and both inflammatory and neuropathic pain. M currents [IK(M)] play a key role in regulating neuronal excitability, and mutations in neuronal...
Caries status and cost of care for children served by the Eastern Health Region in Trinidad (2003)
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Circulating endothelial progenitor cells, vascular function, and cardiovascular risk (2003)
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular risk factors contribute to atherogenesis by inducing endothelial-cell injury and dysfunction. We hypothesized that endothelial progenitor cells derived from bone marrow...
- Zhu,
- J.,
- Quyyumi,
- A.A.,
- Wu,
- H.,
- ...
OBJECTIVE: Previous studies suggest that heat shock protein (HSP) 60 has a contributory role in atherosclerosis development. We examined whether circulating HSP70 protein and anti-HSP70 antibodies...
The effect of exogenous caffeine on human hemoglobin-S (HbS) erythrocytes was investigated in vitro, using caffeine concentrations in millimole per liter (0.0mM-10mM) on three criteria; osmotic...
The Growth and Survival of Clarias Anguillaris Fingerlings Fed on Various Lipid Sources. (2002)
An experiment was conducted over 56 days to determine the effects of shea butter oil, parklard and palm oil on weight gain, food conversion ratio and survival of Clarias anguillaris fingerlings...
- ABIA,
- A. A; HORSFALL,
- M Jnr; DIDI,
- O
The use of pure activated and differentially thiolated cassava waste biomass as adsorbents for the removal of metal ions such as cadmium, copper, and zinc in aqueous solutions were studied by means...
- ARIYIBI,
- A.A; OYEYEMI,
- M.O.,
- AJADI,
- R.A
The effect of breed on serum biochemistry and hematological parameters of clinically healthy dogs was studied by collecting blood from the cephalic vein of ten (10) Alsatian and ten (10) local dogs....
ANTI-ULCEROGENIC EFFECTS OF Phyllanthus amarus IN RATS (2002)
The effects of aqueous and methanol extracts of Phyllanthus amarus on indomethacin-induced ulceration, gastric acid secretion and on some haematological parameters in male albino rats were...
Non-Fermi-liquid behavior: Exact results for ensembles of magnetic impurities (2002)
- Zvyagin,
- A. A.
In this work we consider several exactly solvable models of magnetic impurities in critical quantum antiferromagnetic spin chains and multichannel Kondo impurities. Their ground-state properties are...
Role of open boundaries in the Bethe ansatz solution of the Kondo problem (2002)
- Zvyagin,
- A. A.
The Bethe ansatz solution for the Kondo problem with open boundary conditions is presented. We show that one of the features of the generic Kondo effect-the finite magnetic susceptibility at low...
- Zvyagin,
- A. A.
The exact solution for the generalized Anderson impurity model is presented. Here localized electrons interact in the shell via a Hubbard-like repulsion and Hund's rule exchange interaction. An...
Background This is a study of the associations of adult leg and trunk length with early life height and weight, diet, socioeconomic circumstances, and health, and parental height, divorce and death....
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Purpose: Estimating the absorbed dose to tumour relative to normal tissues has often been used in the assessment of the therapeutic efficacy of radiolabelled antibodies for radioimmuno-therapy....
- Lyons,
- R.A.,
- Djahanbakhch,
- O.,
- Mahmood,
- T.,
- ...
Peritoneal fluid, endometriosis, and ciliary beat frequency in the human fallopian tube (2002)
- Lyons,
- R.A.,
- Djahanbakhch,
- O.,
- Saridogan,
- E.,
- ...
Birth upregulates nitric oxide synthase activity in the porcine lung (2002)
Developmental changes in the lung occur at birth, allowing for the transition from placental to air breathing. Here we have measured nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity in the porcine lung pre and...
1. beta-adrenoceptor activation leads to pulmonary vasodilatation. The increase in circulating catecholamines at birth may assist the postnatal fall in vascular resistance by their activation. To...
Predisposition to atherosclerosis by infections: role of endothelial dysfunction (2002)
- Prasad,
- A.,
- Zhu,
- J.,
- Halcox,
- J.P.,
- ...
BACKGROUND: Several microorganisms have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We hypothesized that infections may predispose to atherosclerosis by inflicting endothelial injury....
Prognostic value of coronary vascular endothelial dysfunction (2002)
BACKGROUND: Whether patients at increased risk can be identified from a relatively low-risk population by coronary vascular function testing remains unknown. We investigated the relationship between...
- Gonczy,
- P.,
- Bellanger,
- J.M.,
- Kirkham,
- M.,
- ...
- Zhu,
- J.,
- Quyyumi,
- A.A.,
- Rott,
- D.,
- ...
BACKGROUND: Antibodies to mycobacterial heat-shock protein (HSP) 65 have been reported to be associated with carotid artery thickening. We examined whether antibodies to human HSP60 are associated...
- O. A,
- DINA,
- A.A,
- ADEDAPO,
- O.P OYINLOYE,
- A. B SABA
The haemopoietic properties of a local plant, Telfaria occidentalis (Ugu) was investigated. A total of 20 rabbits equally divided into 4 groups (A,B,C and D) were used. Group A which served as the...
- Mayer,
- A.,
- Tsiompanou,
- E.,
- O'Malley,
- D.,
- ...
In radioimmunoguided surgery (RIGS), a radiolabeled antibody is given i.v. before surgery and a hand-held gamma-detecting probe is used to locate tumor in the operative field. The rapid blood...
Clinical applications of phage-derived sFvs and sFv fusion proteins (2000)
- Chester,
- K.A.,
- Bhatia,
- J.,
- Boxer,
- G.,
- ...
Single chain Fv antibodies (sFvs) have been produced from filamentous bacteriophage libraries obtained from immunised mice. MFE-23, the most characterised of these sFvs, is reactive with...
- Di Pasquale,
- F.,
- Deng,
- H.,
- Fernandez,
- F.A.,
- ...
Renal tubular dysfunction in multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (1997)
- Morris,
- A.A.,
- Olpin,
- S.,
- Van't Hoff,
- W.,
- ...
- Asano,
- N.,
- Kato,
- A.,
- Matsui,
- K.,
- ...
- Vitali,
- C.,
- Bombardieri,
- S.,
- Moutsopoulos,
- H.M.,
- ...
Lamotrigine-induced carbamazepine toxicity: an interaction with carbamazepine-10, 11-epoxide. (1992)
- Führer,
- A. A.,
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