Four previously undescribed alkaloids, aspergillinine A-D, and four known diterpene pyrones were isolated from the potato dextrose agar (PDA) culture of Aspergillus sp. HAB10R12. The chemical structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated based on a detailed analysis of their NMR and MS data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Anaemia is common during pregnancy and can lead to miscarriage, intrauterine growth retardation, premature labour and antepartum haemorrhage. Anaemia in pregnancy is defined as a haemoglobin (Hb) level of <11 g/dL.
Method: This retrospective review included 407 antenatal mothers diagnosed with anaemia at 36±1 weeks of gestation at all 10 health clinics in Alor Gajah between January and December 2018.
Traditionally, dengue is controlled by fogging, and the prime location for the control measure is at the patient's residence. However, when Malaysia was hit by the first wave of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and the government-imposed movement control order, dengue cases have decreased by more than 30% from the previous year. This implies that residential areas may not be the prime locations for dengue-infected mosquitoes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rapid development of e-commerce and the spread of the COVID-19 virus created many new jobs opportunity including food delivery riders known as P-Hailing riders. The number of food delivery riders has increased drastically, especially in Malaysia. Consequently, the number of food delivery riders involved in traffic crashes also increased.
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June 2022
Radiolabeled phosphonates have found widespread applications in nuclear medicine for the treatment of bone metastases. Even though considerable attention has been devoted to the administration of radiolabeled phosphonates to the patients, quality control (QC) studies belong to detection of them are still speculative and need to be improved. Herein, practical, efficient, and more reliable high-performance liquid chromatograpy (HPLC) methods were described for the first time.
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