Traditional herbalists in Nigeria use various herbal preparations to treat various types of ailments, including diarrhoea, cough, 'neonatal fistula', convulsions, skin diseases, etc. (1). Most of these preparations are used in the form of concoctions (soup or drink made usually from ingredients after boiling) or infusions (soaking the plant material and allowing it to stand for varying lengths ...

In this study, a combustion synthesized AlN powder was sintered using microwave as heating source. The microwave was 2.45 GHz and the sintering process was carried out in a single-mode cavity. The sintering temperature was between 1800°C and 2000°C with a power ranging from 400 to 700W. The as-synthesized AlN was ground to under 2μm and yttria was used as sintering aid. The effects of the amoun...

KAPOPORT, STANLEY I., AND JEANNETTE M. BIDINGER. Eject of stretch on contractility and ionic contents of the sartorius muscle of Rana pipiens. Am. J. Physiol. 226(Z) : 452-457’ 1974.-When sartorius muscles of frogs are soaked in Ringer at room temperature, they gain Na, lose K, and lose contractility with time. These changes are retarded by stretching the muscles to ZO-30Y0 of their rest length...

Long-term light-soaking experiments of amorphous silicon photovoltaic modules have now established that stabilization of the degradation occurs at levels that depend significantly on the operating conditions, as well as on the operating history of the modules. We suggest that stabilization occurs because of the introduction of degradation mechanisms with different time constants and annealing a...

The isolated rat diaphragm has been used widely as a convenient tissue with which to study glucose utilization by muscle. Some data have been published on the influence of various extrinsic, non-hormonal factors on carbohydrate utilization by the diaphragm, such as substrate concentration, pH, and ionic environment (14). The principal effect to be discussed in this paper is the increase in gluc...

In present work, the effect of citric acid (CA) addition in different amounts (0, 1, 5 and 10 ml) on the structure of hydroxyapatite (HAp) was investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy techniques. The crystallite dimensions, lattice parameters, unit cell volume, cr...

Background: Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum - graecum L.) is an annual medicinal plant belongs to the legume family and has anti-diabetic, anti-fertility, anticancer, anti-microbial, anti-parasitic and hypocholesterolaemic effects. Objective: Evaluation of growth and trigonelline /mucilage content in fenugreek under application of plant growth regulators (PGR). Methods: The experiment was conduc...