Epidemiology of HBV in Pregnant Women, South West Nigeria.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains a leading cause of chronic hepatitis, maternal complications, and neonatal deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. Pregnant women serve as a major reservoir for the persistence and ongoing transmission of hepatitis B virus and HIV in a generalized heterosexual epidemic. The aim of this study is to assess the epidemiology of Hepatitis B infection among pregnant women in South West-Nigeria.

Epidemiology of HIV and Tuberculosis in pregnant women, South West Nigeria.

Background: Pregnant women remain the most vulnerable high-risk population to the devastating impact of the on-going human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) generalized epidemic and co-infection with Tuberculosis in Nigeria. By the end of 2017, the country ranked the second highest in adult HIV-infected individuals and the highest population of orphans due to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed the epidemiology of HIV among pregnant women across ten facilities in south-west Nigeria.

Prostaglandin synthesis and fatty acid composition of phospholipids and triglycerides in skeletal muscle of chicks fed combinations of flaxseed oil and animal tallow.

Chicks were fed isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets containing 6% (w/w) added fat consisting of various proportions of animal tallow and flaxseed oil (FSO). No differences among treatments were seen in growth rate, muscular deposition of protein and lipids nor in the muscle phospholipid (PL) and triglyceride (TG) contents. Prostaglandin (PG)E2 synthesis in isolated skeletal muscle was depressed significantly by feeding FSO or by treatment with naproxen (6-methoxy-alpha-methyl-2-napthaleneacetic acid), an inhibitor of PG synthesis.

Influence of dietary flaxseed oil on the performance, muscle protein deposition, and fatty acid composition of broiler chicks.

Experiments were conducted to assess the effect of feeding flaxseed oil on the performance, muscle protein deposition, and fatty acid composition of broiler chicks. Four levels of dietary flaxseed oil were fed in combination with animal tallow to give a total of 6% added fat in the diets. The diets were isonitrogenous and isocaloric.

Effects of two feeding systems, two protein levels, and different dietary energy sources and levels on performance of squabbing pigeons.

Two experiments were conducted to study the effects on the performance of squabbing pigeons of two feeding systems based on two protein levels, two fat sources, and varying fat and energy levels. The first experiment was carried out with birds housed in pens and fed pelleted feeds of different CP levels (16 and 22%), with or without whole yellow corn. In the second experiment, birds were housed in pair cages.