Synergistic enhancement of rat intestinal alkaline phosphatase activity by taurine and sodium butyrate protects against endotoxin-induced bowel inflammation.

The effect of sodium butyrate (SB) and taurine on rat intestinal alkaline phosphatase (RIA) and the effect of the interaction of taurine and/or SB with bacterial lipopolysaccharides on ALP activity were investigated. In vitro analysis of the activity of RIA was carried out using various concentrations of SB and/or taurine. Substrate concentration-dependent kinetic study was performed at 1-10 mM of taurine and SB at 5.

Sequence analysis reveals asymptomatic infection with and possibly leads to infertility in females: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Genetic evidence of asymptomatic () and () infection associated with infertility among females is lacking because suitable high throughput molecular methods have not been applied.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the occurrence of and in the genital tract of females with asymptomatic infection and infertility as well as determine their genetic relatedness.

Materials And Methods: The study group included 100 asymptomatic females and 31 females diagnosed with infertility.

A review of some common African spices with antihypertensive potential.

Hypertension is the most common non-communicable disease, with about 1.28 billion hypertensive people worldwide. It is more prevalent in men than women and more common in the elderly.

The epidemiology and chemotherapeutic approaches to the control of urinary schistosomiasis in school-age children (SAC): a systematic review.

Background: Human schistosomiases are acute and chronic infectious diseases of poverty. Currently, epidemiological data of urinary schistosomiasis (US) in school-age children (SAC) and adults are often reported together making it difficult to ascertain the true status of the disease. Based on this premise, we set out to carry out this review.

Statistical analysis of bank deposits dataset.

This article presents the statistical analysis of the deposit activities in each of the account types of a leading bank in Nigeria. The mean effect of these account types on the bank was determined using analysis of variance (ANOVA). Further test which include the Tukey's simultaneous test for differences of means was also conducted.

Rapid mapping of urinary schistosomiasis: An appraisal of the diagnostic efficacy of some questionnaire-based indices among high school students in Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria.

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, over 200 million individuals are estimated to be infected with urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis. In a bid to lay a foundation for effective future control programme, this study was carried out with the aim of assessing the diagnostic efficacy of some questionnaire-based rapid assessment indices of urinary schistosomiasis.

Methodology: A total number of 1,363 subjects were enrolled for the study.

Effect of 2 Models of Care and Factors Predicting Patients' Adherence to Doctor's Appointment Attendance in Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.

Background: Provision of antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings has put pressure on the available infrastructure.

Objectives: The study examined patients' adherence to Doctor's appointment attendance after an intervention changing the model of care and factors that predicted adherence.

Methods: Observational study was carried out over four years.

HIV/AIDS communication in four Nigerian mainstream newspapers.

Introduction: One consensus in discussions on HIV/AIDS communication in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is the need for communication models to focus on activity rather than cognitive indicators in order to achieve desired improvements in health behaviors and outcomes. Past failures of HIV/AIDS communication efforts in LMICs have been attributed to emphasis on cognitive indicators. This study analyses HIV/AIDS communication models in Nigerian newspapers.

Comparison of microbial communities involved in souring and corrosion in offshore and onshore oil production facilities in Nigeria.

Samples were obtained from the Obigbo field, located onshore in the Niger delta, Nigeria, from which oil is produced by injection of low-sulfate groundwater, as well as from the offshore Bonga field from which oil is produced by injection of high-sulfate (2,200 ppm) seawater, amended with 45 ppm of calcium nitrate to limit reservoir souring. Despite low concentrations of sulfate (0-7 ppm) and nitrate (0 ppm), sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and heterotrophic nitrate-reducing bacteria (NRB) were present in samples from the Obigbo field. Biologically active deposits (BADs), scraped from corrosion-failed sections of a water- and of an oil-transporting pipeline (both Obigbo), had high counts of SRB and high sulfate and ferrous iron concentrations.

Metabolic dysfunctions in Nigerian pre-eclamptics.

Aim: The patho-physiology of pre-eclampsia is not fully understood. This study determined the plasma levels of markers of oxidative stress, thyroid hormones, nitric oxide, C-reactive protein, and nutritional profiles in pre-eclamptic patients.

Methods: Thirty-two pregnant women with pre-eclampsia and 40 women with normal pregnancy (controls) participated in this study.

A comparative study of two communication models in HIV/AIDS coverage in selected Nigerian newspapers.

The current overriding thought in HIV/AIDS communication in developing countries is the need for a shift from the cognitive model, which emphasises the decision-making of the individual, to the activity model, which emphasises the context of the individual. In spite of the acknowledged media shift from the cognitive to the activity model in some developing countries, some HIV/AIDS communication scholars have felt otherwise. It was against this background that this study examined the content of some selected Nigerian newspapers to ascertain the attention paid to HIV/AIDS cognitive and activity information.