Hypoglycaemic activity of Commelina africana and Ageratum conyzoides in relation to their mineral composition.

Background: Many plants with antidiabetic properties probably act in part through their content of fibre, vitamins, bioactive or mineral content

Objectives: This study investigated the mineral, proximate, phytochemical compositions and hypoglycaemic effect of Commelina africana and Ageratum conyzoides extracts in diabetic rats, and the likely relationship between this property and the mineral, proximate and phytochemical compositions of the plants.

Methods: The plants were subjected to mineral, proximate composition and phytochemical analysis. Attempt was made to see (if any) the relationship between the hypoglycaemic effect and the mineral, proximate compositions and phytochemistry of the plants.

Effects of Nigerian Piliostigma thonningii Species Leaf Extract on Lipid Profile in Wistar Rats.

Cardiovascular complications and associated conditions remain a major cause of death, globally. Piliostigma thonningii has been used for different and several medicinal purposes. On this background, the effect of aqueous leaf extract of the plant on the lipid profile of physiologically normal rats was examined.

Aluminium-induced liver and testicular damage: effects of Piliostigma thonningii methanolic leaf extract.

Background: Aluminium is believed to be non toxic and easily eliminated from the body, a belief which encourages its use in daily life. However, several studies have reported its hepatotoxicity and testicular derangement in animals and humans.

Objective: The protective potential of Piliostigma thonningii (250 mg/kg of body weight) methanolic leaf extract on aluminium-induced hepatotoxic and testicular damage in Wister rats was studied.

Record Linkage system in a complex relational database - MINPHIS example.

In the health sector, record linkage is of paramount importance as clinical data can be distributed across different data repositories leading to duplication. Record Linkage is the process of tracking duplicate records that actually refers to the same entity. This paper proposes a fast and efficient method for duplicates detection within the healthcare domain.

Aqueous leaf extract of Ocimum gratissimum potentiates activities of plasma and hepatic antioxidant enzymes in rats.

Background: Ocimum gratissimum is a vegetable plant of wide nutritional and medicinal aŕpplications in Nigeria and in some other parts of the world.

Objective: The effect of oral administration of aqueous leaf extract of O. gratissimum on the activities of plasma and hepatic anti-oxidant enzymes in rats was investigated.