129 results match your criteria: "Kogi State University[Affiliation]"
Heliyon
July 2022
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.
Int J Dyn Control
June 2022
Mathematical Sciences Department, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria.
The study of COVID-19 pandemic which paralyzed global economy of countries is a crucial research area for effective future planning against other epidemics. Unfortunately, we now have variants of the disease resulting to what is now known as waves of the pandemic. Several mathematical models have been developed to study this disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIBRO Neurosci Rep
June 2022
Physiology Department, University of Ghana, Ghana.
Mood disorders can be considered among the most common and debilitating mental disorders. Major depression, as an example of mood disorders, is known to severely reduce the quality of life as well as psychosocial functioning of those affected. Its impact on the burden of disease worldwide has been enormous, with the World Health Organisation projecting depression to be the leading cause of mental illness by 2030.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMol Divers
April 2023
Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan.
A two-step reaction method was used to synthesize a series of rhodanine-based Schiff bases (2-33) that were characterized using spectroscopic techniques. All compounds were assessed for α-amylase inhibitory and radical scavenging (DPPH and ABTS) activities. In comparison to the standard acarbose (IC = 9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Pediatr Cardiol
March 2022
Department of Human Kinetics Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Background: Hypertension (HTN) is a major health problem affecting different populations including adolescents worldwide, and it is strongly associated with obesity.
Objectives: This study examined the predictive capacity of anthropometric proxies of body fat and determined the threshold values that would identify HTN among Nigerian adolescents.
Setting And Design: A cross-sectional study with a total of 2228 in-school adolescents aged 12-16 years.
J Immunoassay Immunochem
September 2022
Department of Human Kinetic and Public Health Education, Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba, Nigeria.
Hepatitis B and enteric fever remain infectious diseases of major health concern and the etiologic agents share overlapping regions of high endemicity worldwide. This study determined the seroprevalence of hepatitis B and enteric fever among febrile patients in Ejule metropolis, North-central Nigeria. In a cross-sectional study, blood samples obtained from 200 consenting patients were screened for hepatitis B and enteric fever with standard diagnostics ABON hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and Widal agglutination tests, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of atmospheric parameters and aerosols in the transmission of COVID-19 within tropical Africa, especially during the harmattan season, has been under-investigated in published papers. The harmattan season within the West African region is associated with significant dust incursion from the Bodele depression and biomass burning. In this study, the correlation between atmospheric parameters (temperature and humidity) and aerosols with COVID-19 cases and fatalities within seven locations in tropical Nigeria during the harmattan period was investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Manage
May 2022
Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221005, India. Electronic address:
With the ever-increasing global population and industrialization, it has become a call of the hour to start taking care of the environment to balance the ecosystem. For this, effective monitoring and assessment are required, which involves collecting and measuring environmental details, temporal and spatial readings of environmental data, and parameters. However, assessment of the environment is very tedious as it includes monitoring target analytes, identifying their sources, and reporting, which invariably implies that detailed environmental monitoring would be an intricate and expensive process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterdiscip Perspect Infect Dis
January 2022
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
The first 140 days of pregnancy are critical as regards rubella virus infection because of the likelihood of a poor pregnancy outcome. This study was undertaken to investigate the likelihood of exposure to poor pregnancy outcomes due to seroprevalence of rubella among selected pregnant women attending Mile Four Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The seroprevalence of rubella immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies was investigated among pregnant women.
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March 2022
Department of Economics, Kogi State University, Nigeria.
Exploring daily panel dataset spanning January 5, 2015 to January 28, 2021, we examine the reaction prowess of African stock markets to the different phases of the COVID-19 outbreak namely, pre-COVID period; epidemic period; and pandemic period. We show that irrespective of the different phases of the COVID-19 outbreak, South Africa ranked first as the country with the highest incidence of COVID-19 in Africa both in terms of number of confirmed cases and deaths. However, while Morocco and Tunisia ranked second and third in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases, it was Egypt that ranked second in terms of the number COVID-19 deaths.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Pediatr
December 2021
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a recent epidemic disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome virus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In pregnancy, SARS-Cov-2 infection creates additional alarm due to concerns regarding the potential for transmission from the mother to the baby during both the antenatal and postpartum times. In general, breastfeeding is seldom disallowed because of infection of the mother.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRes Pharm Sci
February 2022
Department of Applied Microbiology and Brewing, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, P.M.B 5025 Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.
Background And Purpose: The preponderance of microbial infections remains a global challenge. In the present study, synthesis of novel cysteine-based antimicrobial agents and their biological evaluation is reported.
Experimental Approach: The reaction of -toluenesulphonyl chloride with cysteine afforded 2-{[(4-methylphenyl)sulphonyl]amino}-3-sulphanylpropanoic acid which was acetylated based on Lumiere-Barbier method using acetic anhydride.
Front Public Health
December 2021
Infection Medicine, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between mental health with the level of education, relationship status, and awareness on mental health among low-income earners in Western Uganda. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out among 253 participants. Anxiety, anger, and depression were assessed using a modified generalized anxiety disorder (GAD-7), Spielberger's State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2, and Beck Depression Inventory item tools, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Public Health
January 2022
Department of Microbiology, Kogi State University, Anyigba, P.M.B.1008, Kogi State, Nigeria.
Background: The overlap of malaria and Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infections present a major threat to public health throughout endemic countries of tropical and sub-Saharan Africa. There is a paucity of data on the prevalence and associated factors of malaria and HBV infections among pregnant women in Ejule, a semiurban area of Nigeria. Therefore, the current study was designed to assess the seroprevalence of malaria and HBV among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Ejule Metropolis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAfr Health Sci
June 2021
Tshwane University of Technology, Department of Pharmaceutical Science.
Background: and are commonly implicated in urinary tract infections accounting for majority of the antimicrobial resistance encountered in hospitals.
Objectives: To determine the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) producing and among patients in Anyigba, Nigeria.
Methods: This hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted using urine samples from 200 patients of Grimmard Catholic hospital and Maria Goretti hospital.
Sports Med
April 2022
Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Doha, Qatar.
Objective: Our objective was to explore the training-related knowledge, beliefs, and practices of athletes and the influence of lockdowns in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Methods: Athletes (n = 12,526, comprising 13% world class, 21% international, 36% national, 24% state, and 6% recreational) completed an online survey that was available from 17 May to 5 July 2020 and explored their training behaviors (training knowledge, beliefs/attitudes, and practices), including specific questions on their training intensity, frequency, and session duration before and during lockdown (March-June 2020).
Results: Overall, 85% of athletes wanted to "maintain training," and 79% disagreed with the statement that it is "okay to not train during lockdown," with a greater prevalence for both in higher-level athletes.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med
October 2021
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22511, Albeheira, Egypt.
Biomed Pharmacother
November 2021
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22511, AlBeheira, Egypt. Electronic address:
Environ Monit Assess
August 2021
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Andalas University, Padang, Indonesia.
Floodplains represent a huge but poorly understood and hence underutilised agricultural resource in the tropics. Insight into the pedogenesis of the soils could guide their exploitation. This study assessed the physicochemical and mineralogical properties of floodplain soils and explored the interrelationships among these properties for informed inferences on contemporary pedogenic processes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Immunoassay Immunochem
January 2022
Department of Microbiology, Kogi State University, Kogi State, Nigeria.
Hepatitis B and syphilis remained a global disease with a worrisome prevalence in Nigeria. This study was to determine their prevalence and factors associated with HBV and syphilis infection in febrile patients in Ejule metropolis, Nigeria. In a cross-sectional study, sera obtained from the patients were screened for HBsAg (HBV) and syphilis using commercial immunoassay kits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAfr J Infect Dis
December 2020
Department of Mathematics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Background: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has brought the human population, especially the West African race, great losses in so many areas such as economic productivity and human life. During the 2014 Ebola Virus outbreak, the disease devastated and threatened the whole world. EVD symptoms (fever, diarrhea, vomiting, etc) may appear anywhere between two to twenty-one days after infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Tradit Complement Med
March 2021
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Health Sciences, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria.
The leaf of has been used traditionally for the management of pain and inflammatory diseases. The methanol leaf extract of (NLE) was evaluated for possible anti-nociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities in rats and mice (at the doses of 250, 500 and 1,000 mg/kg) to investigate the existence of scientific basis for the folkloric use of the plant. The standard drugs used were piroxicam (10 mg/kg) and morphine (10 mg/kg).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSAGE Open Med
January 2021
Department of Health and Physical Education, Faculty of Education, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria.
Introduction: Tuberculosis is a public health problem in Nigeria. One of the most effective ways of controlling tuberculosis is the directly observed treatment short-course. However, some factors influence tuberculosis patients' treatment nonadherence via directly observed treatment short-course.
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February 2021
Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria.
Background: Lassa fever (LF) is a zoonotic infectious disease of public concern in Nigeria. The infection dynamics of the disease is not well elucidated in Nigeria. This study was carried out to describe the pattern of infection, case fatality rate and spread of lassa virus (LASV) from 2017 to 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Food Biochem
February 2021
Department of Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Natural products-based antioxidants have been well reported for their therapeutic benefits in the treatment and management of neurodegenerative diseases. The neuroprotective effect of ursolic acid (UA) against oxidative injury was investigated in isolated rat brain. Induction of oxidative injury in isolated rat brains with 0.
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