Smallholder farms in the semiarid and subhumid tropics are particularly vulnerable to increased climate variability. Indigenous agrisystems that have co-evolved with variability may developed resilience strategies. In Southwest Ethiopian Highlands, dominated by multipurpose perennial staple enset (Ensete ventricosum), characterised flexible harvest timing, high yield, long storage, putative dro...

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is increasing throughout the world quickly driven by the increase of obesity, hyperglycemia due to the resistance to insulin, lipid accumulation renal, inflammation and activation of the renin-angiotensin system (RAAS), which contributes to the development of microvascular and macrovascular complications, as in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy (N...

OBJECTIVES To determine if interventions during the pre-hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) diarrhea phase are associated with maintenance of urine output during HUS. DESIGN Prospective observational cohort study. SETTINGS Eleven pediatric hospitals in the United States and Scotland. PARTICIPANTS Children younger than 18 years with diarrhea-associated HUS (hematocrit level <30% with smear evi...

The aim of the present study was to assess the possible prevention of cisplatin-induced impairment of GFR by theophylline in patients with various malignancies. The trial design was parallel, randomized, single blinded, and placebo controlled. Patients received cisplatin at a dosage of 50 mg/m(2) either combined with etoposide, ifosfamide, and epirubicin or with paclitaxel and 5-fluorouracil/fo...

BACKGROUND Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman is a major food security crop in Southern Ethiopia, where it was originally domesticated and during millennia became pivotal crop around which an entire farming system has developed. Although its cultivation is highly localized, the enset-based farming system provides sustenance to more than 20 million people. Precise ethnobotanical information of ...

Enset [Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman] is an important root crop serving as a carbohydrate rich food source in Ethiopia. Perennial crops, like enset, are often exposed to recurrent dry periods which could greatly affect their growth, physiology and yield. The effect of induced drought/irrigation on the proximate composition and carbohydrate content of harvestable plant parts (pseudostem an...

Purpose of the study. The pharmacological effects ornithine are primarily due to its participation in neutralization ammonia and metabolism amino acids. To clarify mechanisms action ornithine, a chemoreactom analysis aspartate was performed comparison with S-ademetionine (S-AM) ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA). Methods. investigated substances on urates (derivatives uric acid), vasoactivity, vascula...

Enset-based food systems are unique to southern Ethiopia where they serve as a staple for millions of households. Enset, banana relative which the entire pseudostem and corm edible, possesses highly unusual combination crop traits including perenniality, flexible planting harvest times, tolerance very wide range environmental conditions, together earn it local name “the tree against hunger.” Pr...