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The Initiation of a Kikuyu Medicine Man
(1980)
* The field research for this paper was part of a broader project on urban and rural traditional medicine conducted in Kenya in ,1977-1978, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. We ...
Frequency of Alveolar Osteitis (dry socket) at Kenyatta National Hospital dental outpatient clinic -
(1989-10)
The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency of alveolar osteitis at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), most affected age group and the reasons for underlying extractions. Out of 8,393 extractions 273 (3.3%) ...
Subcapsular orchidectomy in the management of prostatic carcinoma in Nigerians.
(1989-06)
Thirty patients with advanced prostatic carcinoma were treated by subcapsular orchidectomy at the urology unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Post orchidectomy plasma testosterone levels measured at 3 and 6 ...
Treating chancroid with enoxacin
(1988)
Increasing resistance of Haemophilus ducreyi to antimicrobials necessitates further trials of new antimicrobial agents for treating chancroid. Enoxacin has excellent in vitro activity against H ducreyi, and a randomised ...
Severe self-mutilation among Kenyan psychotics
(1986)
Four case reports are presented of psychotic patients seen in clinical practice in Nairobi over a period of one year, who inflicted serious bodily harm to themselves during that period. Possible psychopathological basis ...
Mn2+ prevents the Ca2+-induced inhibition of ATP synthesis in brain mitochondria
(University of Nairobi, 1983-04)
Uptake of Ca2+ by rat brain mitochondria causes an inhibition of respiratory stimulation by ADP, and the inhibition is relieved upon Na+-induced release of Ca2+ from the mitochondria, in accordance with earlier reports. ...
Biliary tract dilatation without jaundice demonstrated by ultrasound.
(1985-03)
Upper abdominal ultrasonic examination demonstrated dilated bile ducts in eight patients with no history of jaundice and a normal serum bilirubin. All were proven subsequently to have extrahepatic biliary obstruction. It ...
Usefulness of indirect haemagglutination (IHA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the diagnosis of human hydatidosis.
(1989)
This communication reports on the usefulness of the IHA test and the ELISA in the diagnosis of human hydatid disease. The study was conducted on 40 surgically confirmed cases of hydatid disease, 40 normal individuals, and ...
Treatment of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Kenya.
(1989-08)
In a study of 269 sleeping sickness patients treated with Mel-B, 14 (5.2%) died during treatment. With total dosages of at least 30 ml (1.08 g), 1.4% relapsed and another 6.4% died, mostly of unknown causes, within three ...
Thin-layer chromatographic study of the metabolites of erythromycins in the wistar rat
(1988)
The metabolites of erythromycin A, anhydroerythromycin A, N-demethylerythromycin A and erythromycin B in the Wistar rat were studied by thin-layer chromatography. In some experiments germ-free rats, rats with a cannulated ...