Millions of children are exposed to concentrations of air pollutants, including fine particulate matter (PM2.5), above safety standards. In the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) megacity, children show an early brain imbalance in oxidative stress, inflammation, innate and adaptive immune response-associated genes, and blood-brain barrier breakdown. We investigated serum and cerebrospinal flu...

INTRODUCTION Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world as well as high perinatal mortality. Unfortunately, the country does not have the resources to assess this critical indicator with the conventional health information system and measuring its progress toward the goal of ending preventable maternal deaths is almost impossible. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) conduc...

This study utilizes a decade long (2005-2014) monthly data of Total Column Tropospheric Ozone (TCTO) in Dubson units to evaluate the spatial and temporal trend of LAO over some major cities of West Africa, namely Lagos, Accra, Niamey, Abuja, Bamako, Dakar, Agadez, Conakry, Kano, and Ouagadougou which are either capital cites or major commercial hubs, where the population ranges from 0.09 millio...

The weekday-weekend effect of anthropogenic emissions in cities, driven by the associated weekly changes human activities, provides a unique opportunity to assess sensitivity observation networks (e.g., ground-based and space-borne instruments) on urban emissions. In this study, we focus cycle amplitudes nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), (CO2) Los Angeles (LA) megacity, where signif...

1 Department of Biochemistry, Ekiti State University, P.M.B 5363 Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. 2 Functional foods and Nutraceuticals Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, PMB 704 Akure, Nigeria. 3 Nutrition and Toxicology Division, Food Technology Department, Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, PMB 21023, Lagos 10001, Nigeria. 4 Department of Biomedical Technol...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Skin Spotting Variation Associated with Biometric and Reproductive Parameters in Naturalized Populations of Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, from Southern Chile Nelson Colihueque, Francisco Javier Estay and Miguel Yáñez Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Biodiversidad, Universidad de Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile Piscícola Huililco Ltda., Pucón, Chile Departamento de Estadísti...

As part of an effort to improve the teaching of medical ethics in the College of Medicine, Lagos University two-day workshops were organised. Participants included people from various walks of life, for example politicians, lawyers, doctors, and patients. The workshops were quite successful, and have led to more extensive teaching of medical ethics in the college.

INTRODUCTION The similarities in presentation of cortisol excess, growth hormone deficiency, hypothyroidism and metabolic syndrome suggest that subtle abnormalities of these endocrine hormones may play a causal role in the development of metabolic syndrome. The aim of this study is to determine the levels of cortisol, thyroid and growth hormones in adult Nigerians with metabolic syndrome and de...