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Relationship between anthropometric measures and early electrocardiographic changes in obese rats.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
BACKGROUND:
The degree of cardiovascular function impairment parallels the degree of obesity and obese subjects have abnormal changes on the electrocardiogram (ECG). Early ECG changes in obesity have not been previously ...
Hepatitis-b antigen in colony mosquitoes
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were fed on or inoculated with blood or serum positive for hepatitis-B antigen (HBAg) or allowed to feed on the arm of an HBAg carrier. Pools of mosquitoes were tested by radioimmunoassay at intervals ...
Effects of the antidepressant drugs clomipramine and mianserin on tryptophan hydroxylase activity in the rat brain, measured at two points in the light/dark cycle
(1994)
Tryptophan hydroxylase activity has been measured in synaptosomal preparations from rat brain. A significant circadian variation in enzyme activity was apparent in corpus striatum, (p < 0.00 I), brainstem and cortex (p < ...
Psychiatric morbidity among HIV -infected children and adolescents in a resource-poor Kenyan urban community
(Routledge, 2012)
The course of HIV/AIDS in children has been transformed from an acute to a chronic one with the advent of
Anti-Retroviral Therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of psychiatric
morbidity ...
Occurrence of injuries of the Maxillofacial Skeleton seen at a Teaching and National Referral Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2000)
Objective: To describe the occurrence and aetiologic pattern of maxillofacial bone fractures.
Design: A descriptive retrospective study.
Setting: Kenyatta National Teaching and Referral Hospital, Nairobi.
Subjects: ...
Wandering spleen: case report
(2010)
Wandering spleens are rare clinical entities found more commonly in women aged 20-40 years. We report one such case found in a 24-year-old nulliparous woman who presented with low abdominal pains of sudden onset and ...
Dimensional changes of resin/ionomer restoratives in aqueous and neutral media
(Elsevier Science Ltd, 2000)
OBJECTIVES:
The aim was to study dimensional time-dependence of resin/ionomer formulations from 5 min
age to one month and to separate out the intrinsic setting shrinkage and hygroscopic expansion
effects, by using ...
Acute lymphocytic leukaemia complicating the course of hodgkin's disease-a case report of a kenyan african and review of the literature
(1979-10)
This is a case report of a 12-year-old male who developed acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL) 8 years after a diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease (HD) had been made. During the 8 years, intensive radiotherapy and a single dose ...
Volatile Components of Heteromorpha trifoliata (Wendl.) Eckl. & Zey.
(1994)
The essential oil isolated by hydrodistillation from Heteromorpha trifoliata (Wendl.) Eckl. & Zey. was analysed by GC and GC-MS. Sixty compounds constituting about 96% of the oil were identified. The major constituents ...