A type of little disease in which has prominent therapeutic symptoms of bilateral spasticity, with the lower extremities more severely affected than upper extremity...

Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is a global public health challenge with 1.9 million infected people in Nigeria. World Health Organization (WHO), stated that post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV can prevent seroconversion after exposure.

The goal of this study was to use bacteriocin from a probiotic strain of Lactobacillus pentosus S6 (KU92122) to synthesize innovative strong silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)...

Lung cancer is among the most common malignant diseases and currently the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US and worldwide..

Cogan's syndrome is a rare inflammatory disorder mainly affecting ocular and audio vestibular system. The typical picture are of interstitial keratitis and sudden onset of Meniere-like attacks (nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, vertigo and hearing loss).

Background: Historically, ships have played an important role in transmitting infectious diseases around the world. The spread of cholera pandemics in the 19th century was thought to be linked to trade routes and facilitated by merchant shipping...

Background: Solid waste management in Nigeria has been a major concern to stakeholders due to inefficient collection and unsafe disposal...

Background: Colonic volvulus is an uncommon cause of bowel obstruction in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate our experience in the management of children who were confirmed to have colonic volvulus at surgery.

Uterine leiomyoma is a benign tumor that develops in the myometrium of the uterus. Estrogen is involved in the development and increase of uterine leiomyoma, and even in patients who had strong symptoms before menopause, uterine leiomyoma significantly shrinks after menopause...

The success of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures is limited by in-stent restenosis (ISR). The use of drug-eluting stents (DES) decreased the incidence of ISR; however, ISR continues to affect a percentage of patients with ischemic cardiac events...

This study was conducted to evaluate the Impact of Covid-19 on certified seeds and grain production of cowpea and sorghum varieties in Northern Nigeria.

Plant drugs play an important role in the development of single chemical entities for therapeutic purposes. The economically developed countries are evincing keen interest in the so called alternative systems, in which remedies based on herbal drugs are playing an important role.

Background:The limitations of visual angiographic assessment in coronary artery disease are well known. When intermediate lesions are submitted for functional assessment, there is a reclassification in the initial therapeutic decision in up to 33% of patients...

In an earlier review, we suggested the African savannah with its enormous herds of the ancestors of the African buffalo whas the 'driving force' in human encephalization delivering the substances essential to early hominids for their tremendous brain expansion from Homo erectus (average brain volume about 950 cm³ for the African lineage) towards modern Homo sapiens (≈ 1500 cm³ brain)...

DNA methylation occurs early in tumorigenesis and is highly pervasive across cancer types, making it suitable for early detection and intervention of cancer. Gene expression at the transcription level is reflected by epigenetic regulation of chromosome especially DNA methylation, therefore providing a distinct approach to achieve the same goal.

Background: A seroma is the most common complication after modified radical mastectomy for breast cancer. We could not find any publications about chest wall infections in patients with large seromas during radiotherapy in Pubmed.

Objective: To explore the link between hypertension and periodontitis and also to inspect the mechanistic link between local and systemic inflammation.

As COVID-19 continues to spread in countries all over the world included Libya, the impact of the disease among children, initially considered less important [1], will increasingly be more relevant. The role of children in viral transmission and its impact in epidemic expansion, as well as the extent of the diversity of clinical presentation, are still unclear...

Objective: Oscillating ultrasonic instruments were basically used to finish marginal preparation, while they produce more rough surfaces, unlike the regular surfaces produced by the rotating diamond instruments. This study aims to investigate the change of dentin roughness after etching using two different preparation tools: diamond bur and diamond ultrasonic tip.

Endovascular embolization is the treatment of choice for Carotid-Cavernous Fistulas (CCFs), but rarely catheterization of the cavernous sinus via venous or arterial pathway is not possible. The authors present one of such cases in which a straightforward route to the CCF...

Aim: This in vitro pilot study was undertaken to investigate the effects of Neodymium: Yttrium Aluminium Garnet (Nd:YAG), Erbium: Yttrium Aluminium Garnet (Er:YAG) and Helium Neon (HeNe) laser radiation on dentine surfaces in extracted human teeth.

Introduction: Nutritional status is a determining factor in the progress of diseases. There are different methods for its evaluation, but they generally require many resources. However, the laboratory nutritional risk assessment CONUT, or Control Nutritional (Nutritional Control), is a widely validated, effective alternative.

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) is a new nucleic acid amplification technique developed by Japanese scientist Notomi [1] in 2000, which is concerned by, scholars all over the world and relevant government departments.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the assessment of therapy of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients, as well as their self-care behaviors, and clarify how these are related to glycemic control...

Bronchial candidiasis are rare respiratory infections whose diagnosis is difficult and often life-threatening, the occurrence of its infections in immunocompetent is rare and it can pose a problem of differential diagnosis with other pathologies such as asthma and bronchial neoplasia...

In all ages of population in the recent decades, Malignant melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer in the whole world. Its incidence has increased worldwide and that for and earlier diagnosis programs, who reduce the morbidity and mortality of the malignant disease...

Mediastinal haemorrhage caused by rupture of a saphenous vein coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is a potentially life-threatening complication following the grafting procedure...

Following the previous paper "Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Autism via Meridian theory" 2012, we continue our work on three aspects of inflammation of organs in autistic children...

The epidemic of new coronavirus pneumonia that broke out in Wuhan in December 2019 is beyond doubt a disaster especially for cancer patients. There are limited data on the clinical characteristics of cancer patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, and treatments based on this aspect are rarely mentioned...

Immunotherapy has shown great benefit in multiple tumour types like melanoma and lung cancer. Although breast cancer was previously not considered an immunogenic disease...

A 60 year old man presented with complaints of nasal obstruction (left side), smell disorder , headache and neuralgia on the left side of his face for 2 years, ptosis and diplopia followed by reduction vision of the left side...

Objective: While mostly eradicated in developed nations, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), is still the leading cause of preventable cardiovascular disease in children...

People often choose and buy foods depending on factors such as personal preferences, price, their age, economic and socio-cultural position...

Large bowel obstruction mimicking colon cancer is a rare complication of acute or chronic pancreatitis. We present a case of a 42-year-old male patient with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis presenting with abdominal distension for two months...

Candida-associated gastric ulcer occurs not only in debilitated but healthy individuals. Though had been reported to demonstrate nothing but nonspecific endoscopic features, it occasionally exhibits a typical finding I designated a candidarium...

The aim of the review is to report on some of the factors affecting fertility in buffalo and the techniques that allow an improvement of the reproductive performance...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has evolved into a serious global emergency and led to a large number of deaths.Elderly COVID-19 patients have a higher mortality rate than those with younger age...

Pulmonary embolism associated with right heart thrombi mainly in the atrium, raise therapeutic dilemmas. Their relative rarity does not allow the development of a consensus recommendation for standardized treatment...

Objective: Darier disease (DD) is an autosomal dominant disorder due to mutation of ATP2A2 gene causing an isolated skin manifestation based on keratinocyte disconnection and apoptosis...

Background: Kleine – Levin syndrome (KLS), also called “Sleeping beauty syndrome” is a rare sleep disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of hypersomnia, hyperphagia, cognitive disturbances, and hypersexuality.

According to the present alert information theory, viruses are not microorganisms external to our body, but their genetic material is already contained in the DNA/RNA of our cells, in what we know as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs)...