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Studies on African Medicinal Plants: Alkaloidal Constituents of Uvaria acuminata and Uvaria lucida
(1997)
African medicinal plants Uvaria acuminata and Uvaria lucida were examined for their alkaloidal constituents. Three alkaloids, (-)-anolobine, (-)-anonaine, and (+)-reticuline were isolated from U. acuminata, and four ...
Immunization of rabbits with faecal extract of Pediculus humanus, the human body louse: effects on louse development and reproduction
(1997)
Immunization of rabbits with a faecal extract of the human body louse (Pediculus humanus) induced a high titre of specific IgG. The mean weight of blood taken by females fed on the immunized rabbits was significantly lower ...
Brain aging in a sample of normal Egyptians cognition, education, addiction and smoking.
(1997-05)
The impact of duration of education, cannabis addiction and smoking on cognition and brain aging is studied in 211 normal Egyptian volunteers with mean age 46.4+/-3.6 years (range: 20-76 years). Subjects were classified ...
Pliocene and Pleistocene sites in southern Narok District, southKenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1997)
Survey in southwest Kenya above the western margin of the Gregory Rift Valley since 1994 has led to the discovery of LSA, MSA, Acheulean and possible Oldowan occurrences, as well as fossil-bearing sites representative of ...
Higher resistance to Plasmodium falciparum infection in patients with homozygous sickle cell disease in western Kenya.
(1997)
Sickle haemoglobin (HbS) is considered to be protective against malaria. Malaria is fatal in homozygous sickle cell (HbSS) disease. In a cross-sectional survey by alkaline. Hb-electrophoresis of 766 residents of Western ...
Correlates of contraceptive failure among clients attending an antenatal clinical in Nairobi.
(1997)
This paper presents a study analysing 100 cases of contraceptive failure and an equal number of controls in Nairobi. The study population included all the patients who attended the antenatal clinic at Kenyatta National ...
Haematological changes in human immunodeficiency virus infection. Part I: Review article
(University of Nairobi, 1997)
This review attempts to put together the changes in the blood and bone marrow observed in those who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These are contribution of many published and unpublished data and ...
Reading the Kenyan Swahili Prose Works: A 'Terra Incognita'in Swahili Literature'
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1997)
Apolipoprotein e polymorphism in elderly East Africans
(1997)
Current advances have shown the apolipoprotein E (APOE)-£4 allele to be highly associated with late-onset familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Western populations. The association of A POE allele frequencies ...
Ripening of Kenyan Mangoes of the Ngowe variety during Storage at Ambient Temperatures in different Packages
(1997)
Firm mature green Kenyan mangoes of the Ngowe variety were stored at ambient temperatures (22.2 ± 1.3 OC) in perforated fibreboard cartons, and in sealed non perforated polyethylene bags (gauge 150) with and without potassium ...