Life Sciences

Cervical cancer is the most common cause of death among women in developing countries despite the fact that cervical cancer is preventable. Cervical cancer ranks as the 1st most frequent cancer among women in India and the 1st most frequent cancer among women between 21 and 44 years of age. About 7.9% of women in the general population are estimated to harbor cervical HPV infection at a given time and 82.5% of invasive cervical cancers are attributed to HPVs.

Vitamin D Deficiency is highly prevalent in Saudi Arabia. Previous studies suggested that vitamin D might be an important factor for the prevalence of periodontitis, caries, and tooth loss. The propose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between vitamin D Deficiency and prevalence of caries on Riyadh region among adults, also the effect of several dietary and lifestyle habits was also evaluated. The study was a cross-sectional involving clinic examination and questionnaires.

Background:- Sports drinks are becoming increasingly popular as well as being encouraged with regular exercise. pH of these drinks are less than normal pH and found to be acidic. These acidic beverages are thought to increase potential for dental erosion. Casein Phosphopeptide - Amorphous Calcium Phosphate CPP-ACP complex helps to release Calcium, Phosphate ions to form apatite crystals. In acidic conditions, these calcium, phosphate ions are released from crystal complex and facilitate to reduce the extent of demineralization. This concept forms the basis for the study.

Pollen morphology of 7 species belonging to 5 genera of the tribes Euclideae, Hesperideae, Mathioleae, Arabideae and Lepidieae from Brassicaceae family were investigated using light and scanning electron microscope. The study showed that the pollen grains are a stenopalynous have tricolporate to tetracolporate in Anchonium elichrysifolium. The ornamentation is reticulate and the shape is spheroidal in equatorial view and oblate to spheroidal in polar view. The study reported also little differences in quantitative characters between all species studied.

A special type of Red sandy dunal soil [Theri-soil] of Tamil Nadu is called Theri-soilsTheri-soils. (Theri-soil) are located in Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu. The Merits of Theri lands are deep sand zone, good permeability and quality ground water. The Demerits of Their lands are un suitable for agriculture, the surface of the soil is not plane, higher level of soil erosion, sand dunes, from the top to the bottom only sand, low nutrients and minerals and Low water holding capacity.

Aim of the study: Is to assess the effectiveness of Swedish massage on improvement of mood disorders among women with breast Cancer. Background: Breast cancer and its treatment are associated with several complications, the most common being pain and psychological distress, which includes concerns about the illness and declining health, disturbances in concentration, loss of appetite, depression, anxiety and anger. Massage is one of the most common and suited non-medical interventions in cancer patients.

Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a zoonosis affecting both human and non-human primates (NHP).The virus causing the outbreak has been characterized as Zaire Ebolavirus (EBOV). EBOV belongs to the genus Ebolavirus which together with the genus Marburgvirus forms the family of Filoviridae. Managing Ebola patients in the African setting was a major challenge since there was no effective antiviral drug and no specific vaccine available. Only supportive care could be administered, to sustain cardiac and renal functions with prudent use of perfusion.

The study evaluated the effects of substituting inorganic selenium with organic selenium on broiler chicken’s growth performance. We used 972 male Ross broiler chickens that were randomly distributed in 36 pens with 27 birds each. The birds were fed an ad libitum (at one’s pleasure) corn-soybean diet from one to 43 days of age. The treatments consisted of two main groups, the whole or fractional inorganic sodium selenium (IS) treatments and the organic selenium (OS) produced by Sel-Plex®.

The present study deals with an efficient in vitro propagation of an endangered medicinally important Tylophora indica (Burm f.) Merill well known in traditional medicine for the treatment of asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough and dysentery. Micropropagation of T.indica was carried out using various combinations and concentrations of growth hormones among which best result was observed with Adenine sulphate (2.0mg/l) in combination with BAP(1.0mg/l).A callus free multiple shoot formation was observed with the above combination.

A rapid, simple, selective and sensitive LC-MS/MS method was developed for the determination of Amlodipine Besylate and Hydrochlorothiazide in human plasma using Amlodipine D4 and HCTZ 15N213C D2 as internal standard (IS). The method was developed with turbid ion spray (TIS) in the positive ion and multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. The mobile phase was Water: Methanol (05:95) with 1 ml Ammonia Solution. Chromatographic separation was achieved on CHIRALCEL OZ-3R, 4.6 x 150 mm, column with a flow rate of 1.0ml/min.