Crude oil exploration is associated with spillage causing environmental degradation including loss of soil fertility and biodiversity. Various technologies are available for remediating crude polluted soil, but, bioremediation seems to be more environmentally friendly cost effective. Thus, the current work on using cow dung wire croton leave as amendments. It was conducted a batch process monit...

1. Proteins extracted from the seeds of the Euphorbiaceae Croton tiglium and Jatropha curcas were separated into three major peaks (I, Hand III) by Sephadex chromatography. 2. The crude protein from both seeds and peaks I and II from Croton and peak I from Jatropha were toxic to mice, to different extents. 3. The crude protein and peak I and peak II from both seeds, inhibited protein synthesis ...

This author discusses the utility and versatility of the modern croton oil peel, which, unlike older formulations, may be used for all ages and skin types for effective and long-lasting skin resurfacing. He provides the rationale for various croton oil concentrations, focusing on avoiding complications while achieving a desirable clinical result and includes a comprehensive guide to application...

In this study, the influence of fatty acids of both conventional and non-conventional oils in supercritical transesterification method has been reviewed. Literature on oils such as moringa oleifera, manketti, croton megalocarpus, palm and soybean has been reviewed to establish an understanding of the supercritical transesterification that employed methanol as alcohol. This study reveals that lo...

In her paper Reconstructing Nursing: Evidence, Artistry and the Curriculum, Marks-Maran (1999) attempted to outline a new postmodern paradigm for nursing. Whilst I fully support this timely discussion of new insights into nursing theory and practice, Marks-Maran unfortunately presents a very idiosyncratic version of postmodernism which is both simplistic and, at times; inaccurate. My main conce...

Carcinogenesis is a pathological process which may be mimicked in experimental models. The entire process may be subdivided into three steps: initiation, promotion and progression. The three steps of this model are routinely generated in mouse skin tissue, using the carcinogen 7,12 dimethylbenz [a]anthracene (DMBA) as an initiator, and cocarcinogens such as 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate ...

In previous experiments by Berenblum and Shubik (4), tumors were induced in mice by a single application of a carcinogenic hydrocar bon, followed by repeated applications of noncarcinogenic croton oil. Friedewald and Rous (7) similarly showed that tumors may be induced in the rabbit by a suboptimal dose of carcinogen fol lowed by wound healing and applications of non specific agents, such as tu...