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An overview of interventions to improve compliance with appointment keeping for medical services
(University of Nairobi.Department of Paediatrics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1992-04)OBJECTIVE: To determine, by a quantitative meta-analysis of randomized trials, the effectiveness of strategies to improve patient compliance with screening, referral, and clinic appointments for health services that are ... -
Overview of Neglected Tropical Diseases and Conditions of the Nervous System: Past, Present and Perspectives
(2014)Neglected tropical diseases consist of a group of infectious diseases with the unifying features of being poverty-related, prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions, and absent from the public health agenda in wealthy ... -
An Overview of Obesity
(University of Nairobi, 2003) -
Overview of prostate cancer in indigenous black Africans and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora 1935-2007
(Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi., 2007-09)Objective: To carry out an overview of prostate cancer in indigenous back Africans in sub-Saharan Africa and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora. Data source: Review of all published literature on prostate cancer on ... -
An overview of quality control in the pharmaceutical industry in Kenya.
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 1992) -
An overview of quality control in the pharmaceutical industry in Kenya. 4(3): 55-57
(University of Nairobi, 1992)No abstract available -
An overview of quality control in the pharmaceutical industry in Kenya. 4(3): 55-57
(University of Nairobi, 1992)No abstract available -
Overview of service oriented architecture: definition, use in healthcare management, challenges and ethics
(2016)Objective: To provide an overview of use of service oriented architecture in Healthcare with focus on the pros and cons of its use as well as the challenges involved in its implementation. Data Sources: The subject was ... -
An overview of suicidal behaviour in Africa
(University Of Nairobi, 2011) -
An overview on management of the traumatised elderly patient.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1997-10)The elderly are predisposed to injuries due to consequences of ageing and presence of disease process commonly seen in the old people. Age-related deterioration of senses such as decrease in hearing capacity, presbyopia, ... -
Ovine and Human Placental IgG inhibit Human Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity in vitro.
(University Of NairobiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi, 2001)To determine the effect of ovine and human placental IgG on human Natural Killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity in vitro placental IgG was eluted at acidic pH and purified by ion exchange and subsequently by affinity chromatography ... -
Ovine placental eluate immunoglobulins recognise isologous and third party acid-treated trophoblast microvesicle antigens in vitro
(Department of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi, 2006)Placental microvesicles were prepared from ovine placentae and immunoglobulins eluted with 0.5 M glycine buffer pH 2.5. The ability of eluate immunoglobulins to re-associate with isologous (self) and third party acidified ... -
Oxamniquine inhibits metabolism of caffeine, hexobarbitone and antipyrine in vivo in mice
(University of Nairobi.Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, 1996-08)Inhibition of hepatic metabolism of caffeine (as assessed from expiration of (14)CO(2) resulting from N-demethylation of (14)C-labelled caffeine), hexobarbitone (as assessed from sleeping times) and antipyrine (as assessed ... -
Oxamniquine pharmacokinetics following oral administration to healthy volunteers
(University of Nairobi.School of Pharmacy, 1985) -
Oxamniquine pharmacokinetics in healthy Kenyan African volunteers
(University of Nairobi.Department of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1991-05)Oxamniquine pharmacokinetics were studied following oral administration of 750, 1000 mg or 1250 mg (equivalent to approximately 15 mg/kg) to five healthy Kenyan African volunteers. Peak plasma concentrations ranging between ... -
Oxidation of NADH by a rotenone and antimycin-sensitive pathway in the mitochondrion of procyclic Trypanosoma brucei brucei
(University of NairobiDepartment of Public Health,University of Nairobi, 1994-03)The pathway of NADH oxidation in the procyclic Trypanosoma brucei brucei was investigated in a crude mitochondrial membrane fraction and in whole cells permeabilized with digitonin. NADH:cytochrome c reductase activity was ... -
Oxidative phosphorylation characteristics of mitochondria isolated from liver of goats infected with trypanosoma Congolense
(Department of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi,, 1993)nvestigation were carried out to asses the oxidative phosphorylation characteristics of mitochondria with trypanosoma congolese the respiratory control ratio RCR of the mitochondria isolated from the infected goats was ... -
Oxyphenyclimine in Kenya Africans presenting with abdominal pain. (A preliminary communication).
(University of NairobiSchool of medicine, 1967-04) -
The oxytocin action of Adenia globosa Engl. Is synergistic with that of oxytocin, prostaglandin f2 - alpha and ergometrine
(Univesrity of Nairobicollege of health science, 1994)