___________________________________________________________________________ Background: Umbilical cord blood analysis may give a clue to the state of health of both pregnant mothers and their neonates. However, there is paucity of literature on some of these indices from our area. Objectives: This present study determined the red blood indices of maternal and umbilical cord blood in Owerri, Nig...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of one football training period on haemorheological variables in regularly trained footballers. METHOD Ten subjects were randomly selected from the reserve team of a football club in the Turkish Premier League. During the last week of the football season, one day before a standard training session and two days after the previous league match, venous blood ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of fenugreek seeds on aspegic induced gastric mucosal ulcer in rats. Forty-eight male albino rats of Sprague Dawley strain were classified into normal control group and five aspirin induced gastric ulcer groups which divided into non treated control (+ve) and treated groups that were drug, fenugreek seeds extract, fenugreek oil and fenugreek p...

This study describes the effect of heparin on blood pressure, cardiac output, and total peripheral resistance in spontaneously hypertensive and one-kidney, one clip Goldblatt hypertensive rats. Administration of heparin (200 units/day/rat) for 8 weeks to young (6-week-old) spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) resulted in an attenuated rise in blood pressure; mean blood pressure in heparin-trea...

Hematology and serum chemistry values were obtained from 28 male and 22 female stray dogs in Chittagong Metropolitan area, Bangladesh. The goal of the study was to establish reference value for hematology and serum chemistry for these semi wild animals in relation to age, sex, reproductive stage and body condition. No significant differences were found for mean values of hemoglobin, packed cell...

PURPOSE This investigation quantified the effect of changes in plasma osmolality on the measurement of hematocrit (Hct) and the implications for the subsequent use of these data to calculate changes in plasma volume and application to the World Anti-Doping Agency Athlete Biological Passport. METHODS Two groups of eight male volunteers visited the laboratory after an overnight fast. In study 1...

BACKGROUND The issue of resistance in malarial infection makes development of novel drugs a necessity. An alternative source for discovering such drugs is natural products. Croton macrostachyus H. (Euphorbiaceae) is used in Ethiopian folklore medicine for the treatment of malaria and found to possess antimalarial activity in vitro. However, no further scientific investigations have been carried...