Chromium Toxicity in Plants: Signaling, Mitigation, and Future Perspectives.

Plants are very often confronted by different heavy metal (HM) stressors that adversely impair their growth and productivity. Among HMs, chromium (Cr) is one of the most prevalent toxic trace metals found in agricultural soils because of anthropogenic activities, lack of efficient treatment, and unregulated disposal. It has a huge detrimental impact on the physiological, biochemical, and molecular traits of crops, in addition to being carcinogenic to humans.

Indigenous knowledge around the ethics of human research from the Oceania region: A scoping literature review.

Background: Many indigenous people have died or been harmed because of inadequately monitored research. Strong regulations in Human Research Ethics (HRE) are required to address these injustices and to ensure that peoples' participation in health research is safe. Indigenous peoples advocate that research that respects indigenous principles can contribute to addressing their health inequities.

Management of Wounds with Exposed Bones or Tendons in Children by Vacuum-Assisted Closure Therapy: A Prospective Study.

 The management of complex soft tissue defects with exposed bones/tendons is always a challenging task for the surgeon and the problem becomes more pronounced when it comes to the management of these wounds in children. Though flap procedures are considered the standard for managing the complex soft tissue defects with exposed bones/tendons yet small blood vessels for anastomosis, long operative period, increased chances of perioperative thrombosis, and difficult perioperative management in children add to the difficulty in performing flap procedures in children. The vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy has emerged as a novel modality for the management of the difficult wounds with added advantages, especially in children.

Transplacental transfer of macromolecules: proving the efficiency of placental transfer of maternal measles antibodies in mother: infant pairs.

Background: Smaller substances <600 Daltons (Da) can transit human placenta while larger ones >1000 Da may not. This may not be consistent because maternal measles antibodies (MMA) are large immunoglobulin G molecules with molecular weight of 150,000 Da, could cross the placenta in mother-infant pairs.

Aim: The objective was to assess the efficiency of placental transfer of MMA in mother-infant pairs at birth.

The effects of maternal haemoglobin as an indicator of maternal nutritional status on, maternal measles antibodies of mother-infant pairs at birth.

Background: Maternal measles antibodies (MMA) are actively transferred through the placenta from mother to foetus. A relationship could exist between MMA of mother-infant pairs and maternal nutritional indicator (haemoglobin).

Objectives: This study reviewed the effects of maternal haemoglobin (Hb) on MMA of mother-infant pairs at birth.

Retrospective study of childhood burkitts lymphoma in north eastern Nigeria.

Background: Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is one of the leading childhood cancers in tropical Africa. Despite this, after extensive literature search most literature reviews on BL found were old. Therefore, it is useful to learn the trend in the epidemiology of BL in north eastern Nigeria especially now that changing ecology of the disease are being published.

Passive measles immunity in a Nigerian tertiary health care facility: the influence of human immunodeficiency virus infection on measles antibody levels in mother-infant pairs at birth.

Background: Infants are protected from measles infection by maternal measles antibodies (MMA). The level of these MMA at birth in newborn children depends on the levels in their mother and the extent of placental transfer. We investigated maternal HIV infection as a predictor of levels of MMA in mother-infant pairs in Maiduguri.

alpha1-acid glycoprotein and alpha1-antitrypsin as early markers of treatment response in patients receiving the intensive phase of tuberculosis therapy.

The identification of early markers that predict the response to anti-tuberculosis treatment would facilitate evaluation of new drugs and improve patient management. This study aimed to determine whether selected acute phase proteins and micronutrients measured at the time of diagnosis and during the first weeks of treatment could predict treatment responses during the 2-month standard intensive phase of therapy. For this purpose, alpha1-antitrypsin, alpha1-acid glycoprotein, alpha2-macroglobulin, C-reactive protein, C3, C4, zinc, copper and selenium concentrations were measured in Brazilian patients with smear-positive tuberculosis at the time of diagnosis and 1, 3, 5 and 8 weeks after initiation of therapy.

Structural heart diseases in Nigerian children.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases both in adults and children constitute a major public health problem and structural heart diseases are an important group of disorders in children worldwide. The pattern of this group of disorders however, varies between regions and countries and even within countries. Recognizing the structural cardiac conditions that prevail in a particular area is important in health planning and for improving health care services.

[A case report of primary gastric adult T cell lymphoma].

A 70-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for treatment of abdominal tumor. She had complained of left abdominal pain, body weight loss and slight fever. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed on profounding ulcerous and upheaval lesion from the upper part of gastric body to the antrum.

[Evaluation of bone marrow involvement by FDG-PET for refractory Hodgkin lymphoma treated by unrelated allogeneic bone marrow transplantation].

A 23-year-old female patient was diagnosed as having Hodgkin lymphoma (mixed cellularity type, clinical stage III B) in September 2000. She underwent ABVD chemotherapy and irradiation of a mediastinal lesion, resulting in complete remission. However, the disease reoccurred three month after the completion of initial treatment.