BIOCHEMISTRY PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 101. INVESTIGATION OF THE PANCREATIC EFFECT OF BUCCHOLZIA CORICACEA FORMULATED DIET I...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Herbal medicine is the oldest form of health care known to mankind. The use of medicinal plant in the treatment of diseases has been in practice since ancient time in different parts of the world especially in Africa. Plants have always been the most vital source of drugs mainly because most plants are autotrophs, and are able to synthesize a large ...Continue Reading »

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• 102. OXIDATIVE AND BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETER ASSESSMENT FOR ALLOXAN INDUCED DIABETIC RATS...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY The use of Ocimum gratissimum leaf extract to treat Alloxan induced diabetic rat and its oxidative and biochemical parameter assessments. In Nigeria, especially in the southern part there is a consumption of plants extracts people consume. They also consume a lot of vegetable in their native diet and some of these plants are believed to cure some alimen...Continue Reading »

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• 103. REDUCTION OF YOGURT FROM SOYMILK AND COW MILK USING PINEAPPLE (ANANASCOMOSUS) AS...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Interest in functional foods has recently increased among consumers due to a greater consciousness of health and nutrition; as well as the need to cure diseases and also the increasing scientific evidence of their effectiveness. Fermented products are a significant part of many indigenous diets. Yoghurt is a Turkish name for a fermented milk product. It is originated b...Continue Reading »

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• 104. THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE FROM FISH

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 1.1.1 FISH: SOURCE OF FOOD FOR MAN. Food is one of the basic needs of man (Morey, 1940; Pierce, 2010). Since agriculture produces the food that provides the calories and micronutrients essential for a healthy and productive life, it is interlinked in many important ways to human nutrition and health (Michael, 2011). These nutrients include carbohydrates, prote...Continue Reading »

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• 105. EFFECT OF MOMORDICA CHARANTIA LEAF FRACTIONS ON SERUM ELECTROLYTES AND RENAL FUN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of study Diabetes affects one hundred and thirty five million people in one year worldwide (King et.al., 1999) and this figure is projected to rise to three hundred million in 2025 ((King et. al.,1998). It is obvious that diabetes, a chronic non communicable disease, continues to have a tremendous impact on society in terms of the quality of life and strainin...Continue Reading »

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• 106. PARTIAL PURIFICATION AND PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF PEROXIDASE FROM TELFAIR...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of StudyPeroxidase (POD) is a heme protein, which is a member of oxidoreductases [E.C.1.11.1.7] and catalyses the oxidation of a wide variety of organic and inorganic substrates using hydrogen peroxide as the electron acceptor (Banci, 1997; Yemenicioğlu et al., 1998). Peroxidase, a biotechnologically important enzyme is a ubiquitous enzyme which belongs to t...Continue Reading »

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• 107. EXTRACTION, PARTIAL PURIFICATION AND PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF PERIOXIDASE...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Peroxidase, an antioxidative enzyme, is widely distributed in microbes, plants, and animal tissues and represents a heme containing enzymes family (Huystee and Cairns 1982). This oxidoreductase catalyzes a reaction in which hydrogen peroxide acts as the acceptor and another compound acts as the donor of hydrogen atoms (Rodrigo et al. 1996). ...Continue Reading »

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• 108. BIOSORPTIVE POTENTIALS OF UNMODIFIES, CHEMICALLY MODIFIED AND CARBONIZED SAWDUST...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 The industrial revolution in the past five decades have been remarkable due to an thropogenic activities resulting from increasing population, industrialization and urbanization leading to environmental pollution (Adejo efal, 2014). A greater percentage of the pollutants that food its way into the environment are the heavy metals whose sources could be natural or anthr...Continue Reading »

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• 109. IN-VITRO BREEDING AND LARVAL REARING OF AFRICAN CATFISH HETEROBRANCHUS LONGIFILI...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 Background of StudyThe African catfish generally has been an economically important fish species that contributes significantly to annual fish productions in many countries of the world, most especially in Africa and many parts of Asia (Lawanson et al., 2013). Over the decades, aquaculture, which describes artificial cultivation of fish species most especially the lar...Continue Reading »

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• 110. IN-VITRO HYBRIDIZATION OF AFRICAN CATFISH HETEROBRANCHUS LONGIFILIS X CLARIAS GA...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.0. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYAquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector; this is in contrast to other food producing sectors (FAO, 2009). This is a sector that is most likely to benefit from the application of appropriate reproduction biotechnologies to increase food production.According to CGIAR (2006) aquaculture contributes to the increase in supplies of crus...Continue Reading »

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• 111. TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2 TLR 2 LEVEL SHOWING GENDER-INDEPENDENT EFFECTS IN MALARIA P...

  » CHAPTER ONE1.1 INTRODUCTIONMalaria is a major cause of illness and death especially among children under 5 years and pregnant women. It is estimated that more than one million children living in Africa especially in remote areas with poor access to health services die annually from direct and indirect effects of malaria. Fatally affected children often die within less than 72hrs after developing t...Continue Reading »

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• 112. THE ROLE OF RAWOLFIA OMITORIA ROOT BARK EXTRACT ON THE SEX HORMONES OF WISTAR RA...

  » CHAPTER ONE1.1 Background of the StudyPlants have long been a source of nutrition and therapy to man (Solomons, 2000; Schippmann, 2002; Denny and Buttriss, 2007; Salim et al., 2008; Rao et al., 2011). Good health and reduced risk of developing chronic diseases have long been associated with the consumption of plant derived foods. The presence of vitamins, antioxidants and bioactive compounds in pl...Continue Reading »

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• 113. SURVEY OF PHYSIOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF WASTE WATER: A CASE STUDY ...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 General BackgroundHospital wastewaters contain antibiotics, X ray contrast agents, heavy metals, disinfectants, pharmaceuticals and substances with genotoxic and cytotoxic activity and enteric pathogens. As muchas 50 to 90 percent of an administered drug may be excreted by the body in a biologically active form, these drugs are known to be resistant to most biological wa...Continue Reading »

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• 114. EFFECT OF CONCOMITANT ADMINISTRATION OF ARTEMETHER-LUMEFANTRINE, HIPPOCRATEA AFR...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background of the study Medicinal plants have been identified and used throughout human history (Tapsell et al., 2006). Plants have the ability to synthesize a wide variety of chemical compounds that are used to perform biological functions. The chemical compounds in plants mediate their effects on the human body through processes identical to those already well unders...Continue Reading »

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• 115. TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2 TLR2 LEVELS SHOW AGE-RELATED EFFECTS IN HEALTHY ADULTS

  » CHAPTER 11.1 INTRODUCTIONToll like receptors (TLRs) are transmembrane proteins. They form a part of the Toll/interleukin 1 (TIR) super family that includes the interleukin 1 receptors (IL 1Rs) because of the shared homology of their cytoplasmic domains. However, the extracellular domain of IL 1Rs consist of an immunoglobulin G (IgG) domain while TLR extracellular domains are made up of tandem repe...Continue Reading »

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• 116. YIELD PERFORMANCE OF FLUTED PUMPKIN CULTIVATED WITH NPK FERTILIZER 15 15 15 POUL...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Fluted pumpkin (Telfaira Occidentalis Hook F) is a creeping vegetative shrub that has large lobe leaves and a long twisting tendrils (Horsfall and Spiff, 2005). In Africa, fluted pumpkin remains popular in rural areas where it is often considered to be more nutritive than exotic vegetables (Horsfall and Spliff, 2005). Fluted pumpkin is one of th...Continue Reading »

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• 117. PRODUCTION, PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF IMMOBILIZED ALPHA-AMYLASE FROM ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of Study Amylase is a digestive enzyme classified as a saccharidase (an enzyme that cleaved poly saccharides). It is mainly a constituent of pancreatic juice and saliva, needed for the breakdown of long chain carbohydrate (such as starch) into smaller units like disaccharides and trisaccharides. Alpha amylase is the major form of amylase found in humans and othe...Continue Reading »

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• 118. HISTOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE HEPATOPROTECTIVE EFFECT OF Citrus limon ON CARBON...

  » Abstract Hepatotoxicity is defined as a chemical driven liver damage. Carbon tetrachloride is used as a hepatotoxic agent in animal research work to study the hepato curative agent in plants and other compounds. The present work was aimed to study the hepatoprotective effect of citrus limon on carbon tetrachloride induced hepatotoxicity. Toxicological studies and experimental extract treatment stu...Continue Reading »

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• 119. EXTRACTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF WHITE MUCUNA PRURIENS VAR. UTILIS SEED OIL

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 PREAMBLE 1.1 INTRODUCTION In our world today, the geometric increase of the population has raised alarming concerns on the food security to sustain the teeming population (Sridhar, 2007). The worse hit is developing countries in Africa, especially Nigeria that still lacks the capacity to manage food production tasks arising from the current global warming and other environmental ch...Continue Reading »

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• 120. DERMATOGLYPHIC APPRAISAL OF STUDENTS IN THE FACULTY OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCE

  » ABSTRACT The study was conducted at the faculty of Basic of Medical Sciences, Remo Campus to evaluate the dermatoglyphic appraisal of male students. Fingerprints of 50 male students within the age range of 19 to 24 years were used for this study. All healthy individuals with no history of any genetic disorders were included in the study. Ink method as described by Cummins and Midlo, which requires...Continue Reading »

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