Life Sciences

Purpose:
The purpose of this article is to propose a model designed to achieve successful Quality and Supply Chain Integration.
Design/methodology/approach:
The research design, guided by a Qualitative philosophy, was inductive in nature. Based on extensive literature review methodology on existing body of knowledge regarding Quality management and Supply chain management, the researcher deduced four main critical points to achieve quality supply chain integration.
Findings:

The relationship between diabetes and cancer development is not clear. But the risk to develop cancer is increased if the person is diabetic. In the present study we induced type 1 and type 2 diabetes in rats by streptozotocin and high fat diet, respectively. Many cell growth and apoptosis related antigens were studied including tumour suppressor antigen; P53, anti-apoptotic protein bcl-2, pro-apoptotic protein bax, cyp1a2 and cyp2e1 and caspase 3.

The electronic resources in AHU library is formulating more than 60% of the library collections. This study aims at Identify electronic resources and services in AHU library presented to students and Specifying problems and obstacles which imitating the use of these resources. The study used the descriptive research method through describing the reality of electronic services and electronic information sources presented by AHU library.

Citric acid is widely used as a flavouring agent in a long list of preparations. It is one of the few organic acids found in limes and lemons in particularly high concentrations. It can be produced by biotechnological fermentation with the help of fungal species like Aspergillus niger. There have been various attempts to produce citric acid efficiently from inexpensive raw materials. This review is an attempt to describe the various organisms and substrates utilized for the production of citric acid over a period of past 10 years.

Nutrition is a major constraint for animal production in the Sudan due to rangeland deterioration and seasonal variations in feeds quality and quantity with serious shortages and effects on animals’ health and performance. In the dry season large amounts of different types of waste paper are available and are not properly recycled or utilized and they affect the environment. A study was conducted to determine the proximate analysis and in vitro gas production and predict the metabolizable energy in ten different types of waste paper including office paper.

The main goal of this paper is to assess the quality of sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum L) and their oils extracted from raw seeds of 13 cultivars collected in Tadla-Azilal region of Morocco. The results indicated that the physicochemical properties studied exhibited a biochemical diversity among the 13 cultivars, with significant differences (p <0.05). Compositional analysis revealed that the sesame seeds contained considerable amounts of protein (27%) and high amounts of oil (45-55%).

Lab experiment conducted to study the life cycle of spider mite, Teteranychus ludeni Zacher at mean room temperature in two different months March and May, 2009 on the leaves of cowpea (Vigna sinensis L.). The incubation period took 5.00±0.70 days in March and 4.20±0.40 in the month of May. Whereas, larval, protonymph and deutonymph period lasted for 2.00±0.54, 1.80±0.86 and 1.23±0.41 days, respectively in the month of March and 1.40±0.40, 1.60±0.74 and 1.80±0.56 days in the month of May, respectively.

Human aldo-keto reductase-7A (AKR7A3) also referred to as aflatoxin aldehyde reductases (AFAR) is NADPH dependent oxidoreductases. Previous studies have shown that AKR7A3 is capable of detoxifying liver toxin aflatoxin B1 to less toxic alcohol. This study was carried out to investigate whether AKR7A3 is involved in the detoxification of acetaminophen (APAP), a commonly used drug for the fever and pain but is capable of inducing hepatic toxicity.

Measurement of bone remodelling biomarkers combined with assessing bone mineral density (BMD) helps in identification of postmenopausal women at  increased risk of  recurrent fractures and in  monitoring therapeutic efficacy.
Objective: To assess BMD using ultrasound based regional bone densitometry and to determine the levels of serum markers of bone turnover in postmenopausal women.

The influence of carbon, nitrogen sources and tryptophan supplementation on indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) production of Bacillus subtilis TIB6 isolated from pepper rhizosphere, Tay Nguyen province of Viet Nam was investigated and obtained results showed that sucrose and yeast extract were the most favorable carbon and nitrogen sources for TIB6’s IAA production, respectively, while the presence of L-tryptophan in culture medium stimulated the formation of IAA.