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Eucalyptus globulus Oil Versus Bleach Use as Antiseptic Agents in Podoconiosis Treatment: An Interventional Study in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Bereket Alemayehu,
Terefe Gelibo,
Zewde Zema Kanche
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
Pages:
113-118
Received:
5 June 2017
Accepted:
19 June 2017
Published:
8 November 2017
Abstract: Eucalyptus globulus essential oil is widely used for medicinal purpose because of its pharmacological constituents. The present study aimed to use water emulsified E. globulus oil as an antiseptic agent in the treatment protocol of podoconiosis (non-filarial elephantiasis) and compare disease improvement upon E. globulus oil versus bleach (usual antiseptic chemical) use in the treatment protocol. An interventional study was conducted from January to March, 2012 to compare disease improvement on podoconiosis upon using water emulsified E. globulus oil versus bleach-water solution as antiseptic agents in podoconiosis treatment. Forty podoconiosis patients purposely selected and randomly allocated into intervention (E. globulus oil) group and comparison (bleach) group with matched clinical stage of podoconiosis. After the baseline data recording, home based treatment was started and follow-up had been undertaken every week for 3-month period. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 16 statistical package. The mean clinical stages of the disease among the study participants were 2.72 for the right and 2.80 for the left legs before the treatment start. Seventeen (32.5%) of patients suffered from the disease for more than 25 years. For all the outcomes measured at the end of study period, the individual treatment effects of eucalyptus oil and bleach antiseptic agents were compared and the result showed no significant difference. Hence, eucalyptus oil emulsified in water can be used as alternative antiseptic agent in podoconiosis treatment protocol.
Abstract: Eucalyptus globulus essential oil is widely used for medicinal purpose because of its pharmacological constituents. The present study aimed to use water emulsified E. globulus oil as an antiseptic agent in the treatment protocol of podoconiosis (non-filarial elephantiasis) and compare disease improvement upon E. globulus oil versus bleach (usual an...
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Implication of Back Extensor Muscles in the Appearance of Back Pain in 30 Beninese Pregnant Women
Tigri Tertulie Lamatou Nawal,
Lawani Mohamed Mansourou,
Yessoufou Lafiou,
Dumas Geneviève
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
Pages:
119-122
Received:
15 September 2017
Accepted:
8 October 2017
Published:
10 November 2017
Abstract: The pregnancy involves important modifications in the pregnant woman. These include, we have the rachidian pains which are painful demonstrations sitting on the level of the rachis. They go from a simple embarrassment to an impossibility of carrying out daily and or professional tasks. The woman is thus confronted with serious health problems. Objective. Showing the role of the extensors of the back (thoracic Spinalis and longissimus lumbar) in the appearance of the rachidian pains in the pregnant woman. Methods. It is about an experimental and analytical study. Thirteen women are included according to criteria. Parameters ENR and RMS were measured using an electromyography of surface (EMGS). For the study, women written assent, a card of data collection was used to record the measured data. The statistical analysis was processed by means of the software Graph Pad PRISM5. Results. At the end of this work, it arises that values ENR and RMS of the various muscles vary according to the state of the woman and according to the trimester of pregnancy. It also comes out from our study that the percentage of fibers recruited of these two muscles varies with the evolution of the pregnancy. Conclusion. The extensors of the back (thoracic Spinalis and longissimus lumbar) are implied, in the appearance of the rachidian pains in the pregnant woman, by an increase in the electric activity of the latter, thus involving muscular tiredness.
Abstract: The pregnancy involves important modifications in the pregnant woman. These include, we have the rachidian pains which are painful demonstrations sitting on the level of the rachis. They go from a simple embarrassment to an impossibility of carrying out daily and or professional tasks. The woman is thus confronted with serious health problems. Obje...
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Healthy Nutrition to Build a Healthy Nation
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
Pages:
123-129
Received:
8 March 2017
Accepted:
1 April 2017
Published:
28 November 2017
Abstract: ‘Health is wealth’, goes the saying. Health and nutrition are the most important contributory factors for human resource development in the country. Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity cause 1/3 of premature deaths. Nowadays nutrition related non communicable diseases have become a major threat to public health. Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM), micronutrient deficiencies such as vitamin A deficiency, Iron Deficiency Anemia, Iodine Deficiency Disorders and vitamin B-complex deficiencies are the nutrition problems frequently encountered, particularly among the rural poor and urban slum communities and among children and women. These nutritional risk factors, are considered responsible for 3.9 million deaths (35%of total deaths) and 144 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYS) (33% of total DALYS) in children below 5 years of age [1]. The scenario clearly shows there is a need for reappraisal of nutrition intervention programmes for children and pregnant women in India for which an attempt was made by us through identification of some healthy recipies and introduction of these among a set of population which are presented in this paper.
Abstract: ‘Health is wealth’, goes the saying. Health and nutrition are the most important contributory factors for human resource development in the country. Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity cause 1/3 of premature deaths. Nowadays nutrition related non communicable diseases have become a major threat to public health. Protein Energy Malnutrition (PE...
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The Body-Image Concept Analysis of Youth and Adolescent
Fikir Alebachew,
Melaku Ashagrie
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
Pages:
130-134
Received:
16 October 2016
Accepted:
12 December 2016
Published:
28 November 2017
Abstract: Body image is a complex entity, formed from both an Individual’s mental representation of the integrity and competence of their own physical self, as well as their awareness of how others perceive them- the social interpretation of their physical self. This paper examined the concepts of body image and its relationship with Body image-dissatisfaction, physical self-concept and self-esteem. For Adolescents and Young Adults body image and its relation with the concept of physical self-image are very important because body image determines their relationship with their friends, their social activities, and their self-esteem. They are very hot and sensitive for everything. Also, they are productive groups than other groups. It has negative impact on their life. So, this concept analysis is very important to avoid the negative impact of it.
Abstract: Body image is a complex entity, formed from both an Individual’s mental representation of the integrity and competence of their own physical self, as well as their awareness of how others perceive them- the social interpretation of their physical self. This paper examined the concepts of body image and its relationship with Body image-dissatisfacti...
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DV-iSucLys: Decision Voting to Improve Protein Lysine Succinylation Site Identification from Sequence Data
Md. Khaled Ben Islam,
Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal,
Julia Rahman,
Md. Al Mehedi Hassan
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
Pages:
135-143
Received:
8 September 2017
Accepted:
8 October 2017
Published:
30 November 2017
Abstract: Protein Post Translation Modification identification is one of the important steps in conducting disease-associated mutation studies. Though multiple chemical alterations happen in a protein after translation, the addition of succinyl group to lysine residue plays a vital role in regulating cellular metabolism and thus disease. Use of a classification algorithm on some features, driven either from protein structural, physicochemical or even biochemical information becomes a common approach that can yield a satisfactory result up to a certain level. Although, researchers already developed many computational methods to identify whether a lysine residue modified with succinyl group after translation, most of them focused on the improvement either on a single decision using a single method or feature enrichment or even development of a benchmark dataset. Therefore, there still exists scope for further improvement to characterise lysine residues of a protein sequence by considering multiple predictors at a time. In this study, an ensemble based approach called DV-iSucLys has been designed to characterise the lysine residue by adapting three well known and conceptually different classifiers and ensembling their decisions. Also, a benchmark succinylation dataset was extracted from existing benchmark datasets and recently updated succinylation data from UniProt consortium to investigate the performance of the proposed approach as well as contribute to further research. Analysing rigorous cross-validation results show that DV-iSucLys can characterise succinyl lysine residue better than the existing predictors.
Abstract: Protein Post Translation Modification identification is one of the important steps in conducting disease-associated mutation studies. Though multiple chemical alterations happen in a protein after translation, the addition of succinyl group to lysine residue plays a vital role in regulating cellular metabolism and thus disease. Use of a classificat...
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An Investigation of The Trivedi Effect®-Energy of Consciousness Healing Treatment to Modulate the Immunomodulatory Effect of Herbomineral Formulation in Male Sprague Dawley Rats
Mahendra Kumar Trivedi,
Alice Branton,
Dahryn Trivedi,
Gopal Nayak,
Aileen Carol Lee,
Aksana Hancharuk,
Carola Marina Sand,
Debra Jane Schnitzer,
Rudina Thanasi,
Eileen Mary Meaghe,
Faith Ann Pyka,
Gary Richard Gerber,
Johanna Catharina Stromsnas,
Judith Marian Shapiro,
Laura Nelson Streicher,
Lorraine Marie Hachfeld,
Matthew Charles Hornung,
Patricia M. Rowe,
Sally Jean Henderson,
Sheila Maureen Benson,
Shirley Theresa Holmlund,
Stephen P. Salters,
Mayank Gangwar,
Snehasis Jana
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
Pages:
144-153
Received:
22 October 2017
Accepted:
3 November 2017
Published:
11 December 2017
Abstract: Herbomineral formulations are used world-wide for various therapeutic purposes. More than 80% of the world population relies on natural herbal and mineral remedies as medicines for their health care. A new proprietary herbomineral formulation was created, consisting of the herbal root extract ashwagandha and minerals (zinc, magnesium, and selenium). The aim of the study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory potential of the Trivedi Effect®- Energy of Consciousness Healing Treatment (Biofield Energy Healing Treatment) on the herbomineral formulation in male Sprague Dawley rats. The test formulation was divided into two parts. One part was denoted as the control without any Biofield Energy Treatment, while the other part was defined as the Biofield Energy Treated sample, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely from eighteen renowned Biofield Energy Healers. The immunomodulatory effect of the Biofield Energy Treated and the untreated test formulations were studied to determine any alterations in the animal humoral immune response, paw volume, hematological study, serum biochemistry parameters, animal weight parameters, feed intake and histopathology analysis. Humoral immune response data of the reference standard (levamisole) showed a significant increase in secondary antibody titre value (p≤0.05), while the Biofield Treated test formulation group (G3) exhibited a significant increase in the secondary antibody titre by 115.34% compared with the disease control group (G2). A delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction showed that the paw volume was significantly decreased by 114.28% in the Biofield Energy Treated test formulation group (G3) with respect to the G2 group. The platelets count was increased by 61.55% in the Biofield Treated test formulation group (G3) compared to the G2 group. Moreover, the administration of the Biofield Treated herbomineral formulation (G3) group exhibited a decrease in the level of creatinine (9.62%), and uric acid (14.40%), while the level of potassium ion concentration was incresaed by 77.43% compared to the G2 group. Further, the change in body weight, feed consumption, organ to body weight ratio data, and histopathology examination did not suggest any statistical difference, which depicts that the Biofield Energy Treated test formulation was found to be safe. Overall, The Trivedi Effect®- Energy of Consciousness Healing Treatment (Biofield Energy Healing Treatment) significantly modulates the immunological parameters of the herbomineral formulation compared with the untreated test formulation. These data suggest that the Biofield Treated test formulation can be used for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases along with stress management and anti-aging by improving overall health.
Abstract: Herbomineral formulations are used world-wide for various therapeutic purposes. More than 80% of the world population relies on natural herbal and mineral remedies as medicines for their health care. A new proprietary herbomineral formulation was created, consisting of the herbal root extract ashwagandha and minerals (zinc, magnesium, and selenium)...
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Evaluation of Immunomodulatory Properties After Oral Administration of Biofield Energy Treated Test Formulation in Sprague Dawley Rats: Influence of the Trivedi Effect®
Mahendra Kumar Trivedi,
Alice Branton,
Dahryn Trivedi,
Gopal Nayak,
Barry Dean Wellborn,
Deborah Lea Smith,
Dezi Ann Koster,
Elizabeth Patric,
Jagdish Singh,
Kathleen Starr Vagt,
Krista Joanne Callas,
Sambhu Charan Mondal,
Snehasis Jana
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2017
Pages:
154-162
Received:
30 October 2017
Accepted:
11 November 2017
Published:
11 December 2017
Abstract: A new proprietary herbomineral formulation was formulated, consisting of an essential ingredients viz. an herbal root extract ashwagandha and minerals (zinc, magnesium, and selenium). The aim of this study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory potential of Energy of Consciousness Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) Treatment on the herbomineral formulation in male Sprague Dawley rats. The test formulation was divided into two parts. One part was denoted as the control without any Biofield Energy Treatment, while the other part was defined as the Biofield Energy Treated sample, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely from seven renowned Biofield Energy Healers. Additionally, one group of animals was also received Biofield Energy Treatment per se (day -15) by Biofield Energy Healers under similar conditions. The immunological parameters viz. humoral immune analysis, paw volume, hematological study, biochemistry, body weight, feed and water intake, and histopathology analysis were performed in this experiment. The humoral immune response data showed the secondary antibody titre was significantly increased by 112.50% and 87.50% in the Biofield Energy Treated test formulation group (G4) and untreated test formulation group (G5) compared to the disease control group (G2). The results of delayed type hypersensitivity showed significant increased the paw volume by 111.76%, 51.45%, 100%, and 64.80% in the G4, G5, Biofield Energy Treatment group per se at day -15 (G6) and Biofield Energy Treated test formulation at day -15 (G7) groups, respectively compared to the G2 group. The platelet count was significantly increased by 37.72%, 8.69%, 16.30% and 33.11% in the G4, G5, G6, and G7 groups, respectively compared to the G2 group. The level of blood urea nitrogen was significantly decreased by 14.01% in the G4 group compared to the disease control. Moreover, the concentration of uric acid was significantly reduced by 28.97% in the G7 group compared to the G2 group. Animal weight parameters suggested that there were no treatment-related changes in any group. Organ to body weight ratio, feed and water intake data described that the Biofield Energy Treated test formulation was found to be safe without any side-effect during the course of the experiment. Overall, results suggested that the Biofield Energy Treated herbomineral formulation and Biofield Energy Treatment per se can be used for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, stress management and prevention, and anti-aging by improving overall health.
Abstract: A new proprietary herbomineral formulation was formulated, consisting of an essential ingredients viz. an herbal root extract ashwagandha and minerals (zinc, magnesium, and selenium). The aim of this study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory potential of Energy of Consciousness Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) Treatment on the herbomineral formulatio...
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