The prevalence of trichomoniasis was carried out among ante-natal attendees at the State Hospital Ijaiye Abeokuta. 200 pregnant women systematically selected were examined. Vaginal swab were collected with sterile swab stick and urine samples were collected into universal container from each respondent of age 16 to 50 years and parasitological examination carried out. Results showed that (19.5%...

Herpes virus saimiri (HVS) immortalizes T lymphocytes from a variety of primates and causes acute T cell lymphomas and leukemias in nonnatural primate hosts. Here we have analyzed the requirements for growth of three HVS-transformed human T cell lines. The cells expressed the phenotype of activated T cells: two were CD4+, and one was CD8+. All three cells responded to all allogeneic human cell ...

Cyclic terpenes and terpenoids are found throughout nature. They comprise an especially important class of compounds from plants that mediate plant- environment interactions, and they serve as pharmaceutical agents with antimicrobial and anti-tumor activities. Molecular comparisons of several terpene cyclases, the key enzymes responsible for the multistep cyclization of C10, C15, and C20 allyli...

The evaluation of visual quality of color images has become very important and challenging task due to explosion of multimedia and graphics content on internet. An image exhibits loss in color information due to introduction of noise, blur, blocking artefacts, channel distortion and also during lossy compression. The primary goal of Image Quality Metric (IQM) is to measure emergence of such dis...

Next generation image compression system should be optimized the way human vision system (HVS) works. HVS has been evolved over millions of years for the images which exist in our environment. This idea is reinforced by the fact that sparse codes extracted from natural images resemble the primary visual cortex of HVS. We have introduced a novel technique in which basis functions trained by Inde...

All known DNA tumor viruses are known to target and inactivate two main cell cycle regulatory proteins, retinoblastoma protein (pRb) and p53. Inactivation of pRb promotes host cell cycle progression into S phase, and inactivation of p53 promotes cell immortalization. The DNA tumor virus Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV)-encoded latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) was shown to...

In humans, a well-developed serotonin system is localized to the pancreatic islets while being absent in exocrine pancreas. Assessment of pancreatic serotonin biosynthesis could therefore be used to estimate the human endocrine pancreas. Proof of concept was tested in a prospective clinical trial by comparisons of type 1 diabetic (T1D) patients, with extensive reduction of β-cells, with healthy...

A general exact weak solution to the nonlinear equation of conservation absolute vorticity in a thin layer an incompressible medium on rotating sphere is proposed. It takes into account helicity point vortices and non-uniformity depth layer. This used develop model observed interactions spiral atmospheric vortices. The fusion two helical (HVs) considered. We also analyze prognostic applicabilit...

Assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced from electric vehicles (EVs) and hydrogen (HVs) requires understanding of the carbon intensity electricity generation. Without decarbonisation generation, environmental benefits low emission (LEVs) will be diminished. The UK aims to produce net zero by phasing out banning sale new conventionally fuelled (CFVs) 2035 in favour LEVs. A comparison U...