BACKGROUND Infection with Helicobacter pylori is considered a potential risk of developing gastric cancer in association with contributing host genetic factor. IL-1β and IL-1RN polymorphisms appear to maintain and promote Helicobacter pylori infection and to stimulate neoplastic growth of the gastric mucosa. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS In order to elucidate the effect of these polymorphisms in comb...

BACKGROUND The etiology of pancreatic cancer remains largely unknown. Although epidemiological studies have reported that many environmental factors may contribute to the development of pancreatic cancer, only age and cigarette smoking have been established as consistent risk factors for the disease. OBJECTIVE Studying the biological clinical and histological features of patients with pancrea...

Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is a potentially life-threatening zoonosis caused by Rickettsia conorii and transmitted by the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus [1]. Although MSF is one of the oldest recognised rickettsioses, there have been few reports about this rickettsiosis in North Africa [1,2]. The present work on MSF cases occurring in children is a subset of a larger study condu...

This research explores Algerian writer Kamel non-fictional text, Le peintre dévorant la femme . The text addresses questions relating to religious extremism, the meaning of art, death and eroticism, relationship between l’Occident l’Orient through visual aid Picasso’s 1932 Année érotique Central this is notion hybridized public intellectual (Daoud) entering spheres (Franco-Algerian beyond). con...

In order to find new sources of natural antioxidants, the antioxidant capacities of 50 medicinal plants associated with treatment of rheumatic diseases were systemically evaluated using the ferric-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) assays, and their total phenolic contents were measured by the Folin-Ciocalteu method. Their antioxidant activities ...

The aim of this study is to optimize extraction parameters of phenolic compounds from one variety of Algerian table grapes. The effect of different solvents: distilled water, acetone (20, 40, 60 and 80%), methanol (20, 40, 60 and 80%) and ethanol (20, 40, 60 and 80%), temperature (25, 40, 50, 60 and 70°C), time (30, 60, 90 and 120 min) and four successive extractions were tested. It was found t...

AlSat-1, the First Algerian National Satellite, and the first of five microsatellites in the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), was launched on the 28 November 2002 from Plesetsk. AlSat-1 was joined by SSTL built Microsatellites for Nigeria, the United Kingdom and Turkey with the second DMC launch on the 23 September 2003 and the fifth microsatellite for China was launched into the same o...

The aim of this study, was to characterize the extended-spectrum-β-lactamases (ESBLs) producing clinical strains of Escherichia coli isolated between January 2009 and June 2012 from Algerian hospitals and to determine the prevalence of 16S rRNA methylase among them. Sixty-seven ESBL-producers were detected among the 239 isolates included: 52 CTX-M-15-producers, 5 CTX-M-3-producers, 5 CTX-M-1-pr...