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Instructor evaluation in Kenyan teachers' colleges

Zachariah Wanzare (University of Alberta, 1988)

Flavour volatiles of Assam CTC black teas manufactured from different plucking standards and orthodox teas manufactured from different altitudes of Darjeeling

Mahanta, Pradip K; Baruah, Sabitri; Owuor, Philip O; Murai, Toshinobo (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 1988-01-01)

Biochemical correlations between volatile flavour constituents (VFC) of CTC bluck teas manufactured from fine and coarse plucking of Assam tea and orthodox teas fiom three different altitudes were carried out by GC-MS. ...

Effects of Geographical Area of Production on the Composition of the Volatile Flavour Compounds in Kenyan Clonal Black CTC Teas

Owuor, Phillip O; Tsushida, Tojiro; Horita, Hiroshi; Murai, Toshinobu (Cambridge University Press, 1988-04)

The contents of the volatile flavour compounds and the flavour index of black teas vary with localities. The magnitude and order of the variations are clonally dependent, the relative performance of clones varying with ...

beta S-haplotypes and alpha-thalassemia along the coastal belt of Kenya.

Ojwang PJ, Ogada T, Gonzalez-Redondo JM Search articles by 'Gonzalez-Redondo JM' Gonzalez-Redondo JM, Kutlar A, Kutlar F, Huisman TH (East African medical journal, 1989)

In this paper, we present data on studies of beta S-haplotypes and alpha-thalassemia gene in subjects from the indigenous population of the Coast Province of Kenya Of the 7SS patients studied, four were homozygous for beta ...

Interaction of benzoquinones with mitochondria interferes with oxidative phosphorylation characteristics

Konji, VN; Olowookere, Julius O (University of Nairobi, 1990)

Studies with four benzoquinones, viz. juglone, embelin, maesaquinone and maesanin, on rat liver mitochondria oxidative phosphorylation have been carried out. Three of the benzoquinones are uncouplers in the order ...

Flavonoids from Tephrosia interrupta and T. linearis.

Were, O. ; Munavu, R. M. ; Lwande, W. ; Nyandat, E. (CABI DIRECT, 1990)

In east Africa, medicinal uses have been reported for the roots of T. interrupta (coughs and treatment of women after childbirth) and the leaves of T. linearis ([unspecified] diseases in infants). Flavonoid analyses are ...

The effects of altitude on the chemical composition of black tea

Owuor, Philip O; Obaga, Samuel O; Othieno, Caleb O (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 1990-01-01)

Changes in quality parameters of crush, tear and curl (CTC) black clonal teas due to variations in altitude within a radius of 10 km were determined. There were significant (P= 0.05) changes in all the quality parameters ...

Interaction of benzoquinones with mitochondria interferes with oxidative phosphorylation characteristics

Makawiti, Dominic W; Julius O, Olowookere; Konji, Victor N (No longer published by Elsevier, 1990-08-06)

Studies with four benzoquinones, viz. juglone, embelin, maesaquinone and maesanin, on rat liver mitochondria oxidative phosphorylation have been carried out. Three of the benzoquinones are uncouplers in the order ...

Experimental kwashiokor and obesity

Makawiti, DW; Oloowokere, JN; Konji, VN; Omwandho, CA (1991)

Obesity and kwashiorkor syndrome were experimentally simulated in sprague dawley weaning rats to investigate the changes in energy metabolism and relative organ body weight ratios during over nutrition and under ...

Changes in Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation Characteristics in Dietary Obese Rats

Olowookere, Julius; Konji, Victoria; Makawiti, Dominic; Omwandho, Charles (1991)

Isolation and chemical characterisation of pyrrolisidine alkaloids from some senecio

Were, Obuya Stevens (University of Calgary, 1991)

Characteristics of psychiatric in-patients who engage in assualtive behaviour in Mathari Hospital, Nairobi

Edwin SP Othieno-Nyaura (University if Nairobi Research archive, 1991)

Literature on assaultive behaviour by psychiatric in patients was reviewed. A total of 142 violent incidents perpetrated by 68 males and 74 female patients were studied over a period of 3 months. Of the total incidents of ...

Economic Change in Sakwa 1850-1962

Obote Magaga Gordon (Moi University, 1991)

This is a study of economic change in Sakwa. examines Sakwa's pre-colonial system analyses their encounter the capitalist production introduced theoretical concepts commercialization, with through of production colonialism. ...

In vitro interstitial (Leydig) cell response to LH and concentrations of plasma testosterone and LH in the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber, Ruppell)

Onyango, DW; GE OTIANGA, OWITI; D ODUOR, OKELO; Makawiti, Dominic W (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1991-03-01)

Summary Reproductive endocrinology of the male naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) caught in the wild was studied. In vitro treatment of isolated Leydig cells using either normal dose of LH capable of stimulating ...

Defects in resting metabolic rates and mitochondrial respiration in Kwashiorkor and dietary obese rats

Konji, Victor N; Olowookere, Julius O; Makawiti, Dominic W; Kamau, John MZ; Kiaira, Job K; Omwandho, Charles A (Springer-Verlag, 1991-07-01)

Resting metabolic rates have been measured and compared with hepatic mitochondrial respiration in Kwashiorkor and diet-induced obese weaned rats. In Kwashiorkor, resting metabolic rate was 21% lower than the value of ...

Maternal levels of alpha-fetoprotein in African women.

Khama O Rogo, GK Onyango, PJ Ojwang, C Sekkade-Kigondu (East African medical journal, 1991-08)

In a prospective and cross-sectional study, 147 serum samples from normal antenatal indigenous Kenyan women were analysed for alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) concentrations between 8 and 28 weeks gestation. There was progressive ...

Errata. Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids from Senecio hadiensis

Obuya Were, Michael Benn, Raphael Munavu (American Chemical Society, 1991-09)

17-Oxosparteine (1 mg), -isolupanine (3 mg), and N-methylcytisine (2 mg) were iden- tified by ms and tic comparisons with authentic samples (6,8). Catalytic reduction (2 mg) of 5,6-dehydrolu- panine (4 mg), oil, ms (9) ...

The rate of outcrossing in grain amaranths

S. G. Agong P. O. Ayiecho (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1991-09-01)

Studies of intra specific and inter specific out crossing rates were carried out for grain amaranths using two populations of A. hypochondriacus (populations 1008 and 1024) and two populations of A. cruentus (populations ...

Changes in the concentrations of testosterone, luteinising hormone and progesterone associated with administration of embelin

EK, Githui; Makawiti, Dominic W; JO, Midiwo (Elsevier, 1991-10-01)

The mode of action of embelin, a naturally occurring plant benzoquinone with male fertility regulating potential, was investigated. Sexually mature white New Zealand male rabbits were injected intra-muscularly with ...

Tea Aroma

Robinson, JM; Owuor, Phillip O (Chapman and Hall, London, 1992)

Tea is manufactured by a variety of processes producing a range of beverages from green, non-fermented tea through to black, fermented tea. The consumer acceptability of these beverages is largely dependent on the flavor ...

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