Abstract The effect of consistent exposure of the inhabitants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria to crude oil may induce undesirable biochemical changes in the biota. Alterations in some hepatic function indices of male and female albino rats exposed to Bonny light crude oil (BLCO) by skin application were investigated. Sub lethal dose (500mg/kg body weight) of the BLCO was applied to shaved ...

Aim of work: The role of pancreatic polypeptide family including Neuropeptide Y (NPY), and Peptide Tyrosine Tyrosine (PYY) in obesity development and its metabolic changes is controversial due to multiple receptor involvement. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the effect of a potent Y2 receptor agonist; Peptide Tyrosine Tyrosine (PYY3-36) on high fat diet (HFD) induced obesity i...

Gametocytes, the precursor cells of malaria-parasite gametes, circulate in the blood and are responsible for transmission from host to mosquito vector. The individual proteomes of male and female gametocytes were analyzed using mass spectrometry, following separation by flow sorting of transgenic parasites expressing green fluorescent protein, in a sex-specific manner. Promoter tagging in trans...

Adult male and female albino rats (R. norvegicus) were administered rodenticide, zinc phosphide ranging from 4, 2, 1, 0.5, 0.25 and 0.125% in the diet containing 10(A), 17(B) and 24%(C) protein. Zinc phosphide induced 100% mortality at 4, 2, 1, 0.5% in diet A; 4 and 2% in diet B; and 4% in diet C. The results reveal influence of dietary protein in modulating the toxicity of zinc phosphide, sugg...

I N THE COURSE OF OUR INVESTIGATION on the hemoglobins of various strains of laboratory rats with the use of starch-gel electrophoresis in a discontinuous buffer system, we have recently demonstrated the presence of three distinct patterns of hemoglobin, arbitrarily denoted as patterns I, II and III, in a local random-bred stock of Albino rats; out of 124 investigated male and female adult anim...

Background: Green tea is a popular type of tea that is made of unfermented tea leaves. Green tea has been used for thousands of years by people in Eastern countries for a variety of health reasons. One of the primary benefits of Green Tea in regard to fertility is not in what it contains, but rather in what it does not contain. Materials and Methods: In the present study attempts to investigate...

Research interest in proteomics is increasingly shifting toward the reverse genetic characterization of gene function at the proteome level. In plants, several distinct gene defects perturb photosynthetic capacity, resulting in the loss of chlorophyll and an albino or pale-green phenotype. Because photosynthesis is interconnected with the entire plant metabolism and its regulation, all albino p...

Male and female sterilization is used in many countries worldwide as a permanent method of contraception. Failure rates for female sterilization are affected by age at sterilization and by the method of tubal occlusion. Laparoscopic sterilization has low complication rates but is not available in parts of the developing world due to the lack of facilities, equipment and expertise. Less invasive...

MALE AND FEMALE. By Margaret Mead. New York, William Morrow and Co., 1949. 477 pp. $5.00. Margaret Mead has made an assumption, not necessarily held by all present day sexologists, that there is a fundamental difference between the human male and the human female, and has utilized four hundred and seventy-seven pages in impressive documentation of this thesis. Seven Southwest Pacific societies,...