MICROBIOLOGY PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 381. ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF MICROBES ASSOCIATED WITH SPOILAGE CANNED FOOD SO...

  » HAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Canning food has been a labor of love for generations of families. Today has become an opportunity to take control of the food you and your family consume.The key to successful canning understands the acidity and spoilage factor of the food you wish to can, as well as the acceptable canning methods to process those foods. There are two types of food, categorized as low ...Continue Reading »

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• 382. MICROBIAL EXAMINATION OF SPOILT PERSEA AMERICANA

  » HAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The Avocado fruit, Persea americana is a tropical and sub tropical fruit tree, originated in central America or adjoining regions of North or South America. It has now spread too much of the near tropical world. The avocado is limited especially by its climatic requirements, with race differences. It is also highly susceptible to drought injury. But excess soil moisture...Continue Reading »

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• 383. BACTERIOLOGICAL QUALITY OF B-B STAR MILK BRAND SOLD

  » LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 DEFINITION Milk is an opaque white maternal lactation secretion. It is the very first food from a child’s mother, and a loving link between mothers and offspring. It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborns before they are able to digest other types of food. The early lactation milk is known as colostrum, and carries the mother’s antibodies to the bab...Continue Reading »

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• 384. STUDY OF LIPID PROFILE IN STREPTOZOTOCIN (STZ) – INDUCED DIABETIC RATS UNDER ...

  » ABSTRACT The effect of leaf extract of ocimum gratissimium (scent leaf) and vernonia Amygdalina (bitter leaf) under nicotinanmide coverage was studied using albino wistar rat. Acute toxicity of the plant was carried out using (Lorkes method). LD50 was calculated to be 208 mglkg. The main work involved 49 albino wistar rats weighing 150g to 200g. The rats were put in 7 groups of 7 rats each. Rats i...Continue Reading »

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• 385. A STUDY ON MOSQUITO AS A PRIMARY MALARIA VECTOR

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Mosquitoes are vectors of Plasmodium parasite that cause malaria, nematode worms that cause filariasis for example Wuchereria bancrofti, and a large number of arbo viruses e.g yellow fever and dengue viruses including two of great impacts in the tropical ad sub tropical regions (Ifeyinwa et al, 2012). They belong to the Order:Diptera and possess short elongated and sle...Continue Reading »

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• 386. AN ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECT OF Hippocratea africana ROOT BACK EXTRACT ON ESTRADIO...

  » CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTIONMalaria is one of the most important killer diseases in Africa causing more than one million deaths every year. In Nigeria, the infection rate has been described as holoedenic with more than 75% of children ages 2 9 years infected (Saloko et al., 1994). Persistence of malaria symptoms after treatment with over the counter available antimalarial drugs have resulted in a g...Continue Reading »

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• 387. THE HISTOLOGY OF THE HEART USING ANIMAL MODELS (ADULT WISTAR RATS)

  » 3.1 SUBJECTS IN THIS STUDY 3.1.1 Model Animal – Adult Wistar rats. Sample size – Twenty (20) Wistar rats were procured from the Animal House of the Dpartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology of Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. The groupings of the rats were based on their weight. The weights range between 110 and 176 grams. The numbers of groups were four (4), with each group made u...Continue Reading »

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• 388. EVALUATION OF THE ANTIHYPERGLYCEAMIC EFFECTS OF POLAR PARTITION FRACTIONS OF HO...

  » ABSTRACT Hoslundia opposita leaf is used folklorically in the management of diabetes and a preliminary anti hyperglycaemic activity has been reported for its methanol extract. Therefore, in this study, the antihyperglyceamic activities of the partition fractions of Hoslundia opposita leaf was investigated using glucose loaded wistar rats with a view to determine the most active fraction. A 1% Twee...Continue Reading »

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• 389. DETECTION OF THE FUNGI SPECIES INVOLVED IN PARKIABIGLOBOSASPOILAGE.

  » 1.0 INTRODUCTION The seed of locust beans (Parkiabiglobosa) plant found growing in the Savannah Africa provides one of the popular seasonings in African diet. The nutritious and delicious food spice is popularly called “ogiri” in Igbo, “iru” in Yoruba and “dawadawa” in Hausa in Nigeria. It is heavily consumed in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierre Leone and Togo (Odunfa, 198...Continue Reading »

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• 390. MYCOFLORA OF STORED LOCUS BEANS (Parkia biglobosa ) PURCHASED FROM USELU MARKET

  » ABSTRACT Stored locust bean samples were purchased from Uselu market and analysed for their fungal load and physicochemical properties such as moisture content, pH value and titratable acidity. Enumeration of the total fungal species was carried out by pour plate technique using appropriate medium, potato dextrose agar (PDA) with antimicrobial agents (streptomycin), incorporated to inhibit bacteri...Continue Reading »

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• 391. PROXIMATE AND FIBER ANALYSIS OF MULTI-NUTRIENT FEED BLOCK MADE WITH PINEAPPLE ...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Proximate analysis helps in determination of the major constituents of feed and it is used to assess if a feed is within its normal compositional parameters or somehow being adulterated (Jegede A.V 2015) Goat as Small ruminants animal with four compartment stomach,(Rumen, Reticulum, Omasum and Abomasum) suffer from scarcity in feed supply and pasture quality in the hum...Continue Reading »

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• 392. USING PALYNOMORPHS (POLLENS AND SPORES) TO BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC ZONATION

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION (GENERAL STATEMENT) Palynology is the study of micro organic material such as pollen grains and other spores especially as found in geological deposits. They are important group of microfossils and in general, are important tools for the petroleum industry, finding practical uses in all stages of the exploration process. Prior to drilling, micropaleontological methods ...Continue Reading »

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