Browsing Department of Medical Biochemistry by Title

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    • The effect of α-thalassemia on the level of hybrid hemoglobin variants in heterozygotes 

      KD Lanclos, Abdullah Kutlar, Ferdane Kutlar, PJ Ojwang, AL Reese, THJ Huisman (Taylor & Francis, 1986-01-01)
      The influence of a relative deficiency in α chain production on the amount of Hemoglobins Kenya, P-Nilotic, and Lepore was determined. The level of these hybrid hemoglobins in heterozygotes was correlated to various states ...

    • Effects Of Catha edulis’ Leaf Extract on Blood Chemistry and Kidney Tissues in Small East African Male Goats from Rift Valley Province of Kenya 

      DM Mwaniki, KJ Lagat, W Oyieko, M Ndiema, LK Chemwolo, MJ Nyariki, WO Opiyo, MG Ng'wena (East African Medical Journal, 2014)
      Objectives: To determine the serum electrolytes levels in animals treated with Catha edulis leaf extract. Design: Experimental study Setting: Department of Biological Sciences at the Chepkoilel University College, ...

    • Effects of graded doses of the pesticide heptachlor on body weight, mating success, oestrous cycle, gestation length and litter size in laboratory rats 

      Oduma, JA; Wango, EO; Makawiti, Dominic W; Jensen, N Einer; D, Oduor-Okelo D (Pergamon, 1995-05-01)
      Adult female Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with 5 or 20 mg/kg body weight heptachlor solution every other day for up to 18 days. They were weighed every day and the stage of oestrus determined by vaginal smears. ...

    • Effects of prescribed physical therapy exercises on blood glucose, metabolic and HbA1c profiles in pre-diabetes at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya 

      H.M. Muroki N Magak M.G. Owiti K Onyango (East African Medical Journal, 2018)
      Objectives: To investigate the metabolic parameters of pre-diabetes and to provide evidence of prescribed physical therapy exercises that can be quantified and reproduced. Design: A controlled experimental study Setting: ...

    • Elly O. Munde, Winnie A. Okeyo, Samwel B. Anyona, Evans 

      Okumu, Wilson; Vulule, John; Ouma, Collins; Raballah, Stephen Konah; Ogonda, Lilian (2012)
      An understanding of the immunogenetic basis of naturally acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum infection would aid in the designing of a rationally based malaria vaccine. Variants within the Fc gamma receptors (Fc ...

    • Employment Cost Index, Historical Listing–Volume V: Continuous Occupational and Industry Series: September 1975-December 2017. Table 4: employment cost index for total … 

      Emelia J Benjamin, Paul Muntner, Alvaro Alonso, Marcio S Bittencourt, Clifton W Callaway, April P Carson, Alanna M Chamberlain, Alexander R Chang, Susan Cheng, Sandeep R Das, Francesca N Delling, Luc Djousse, Mitchell SV Elkind, Jane F Ferguson, Myriam Fornage, Lori Chaffin Jordan, Sadiya S Khan, Brett M Kissela, Kristen L Knutson, Tak W Kwan, Daniel T Lackland, Tené T Lewis, Judith H Lichtman, Chris T Longenecker, Matthew Shane Loop, Pamela L Lutsey, Seth S Martin, Kunihiro Matsushita, Andrew E Moran, Michael E Mussolino, Martin O’Flaherty, Ambarish Pandey, Amanda M Perak, Wayne D Rosamond, Gregory A Roth, Uchechukwu KA Sampson, Gary M Satou, Emily B Schroeder, Svati H Shah, Nicole L Spartano, Andrew Stokes, David L Tirschwell, Connie W Tsao, Mintu P Turakhia, Lisa B VanWagner, John T Wilkins, Sally S Wong, Salim S Virani, American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee, American Heart Association, US Census Bureau population estimates: historical data: 2000s, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, World Health Organization, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, RN Anderson, HM Rosenberg, World Health Organization, DM Lloyd-Jones, Y Hong, D Labarthe, D Mozaffarian, LJ Appel, L Van Horn, K Greenlund, S Daniels, G Nichol, GF Tomaselli, DK Arnett, GC Fonarow, PM Ho, MS Lauer, FA Masoudi, RM Robertson, V Roger, LH Schwamm, P Sorlie, CW Yancy, WD Rosamond, American Heart Association Strategic Planning Task Force and Statistics Committee, American Heart Association, JS Rumsfeld, KP Alexander, DC Goff Jr, MM Graham, PM Ho, FA Masoudi, DK Moser, VL Roger, MS Slaughter, KG Smolderen, JA Spertus, MD Sullivan, D Treat-Jacobson, JJ Zerwic, American Heart Association Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Stroke Council, CM Shay, HS Gooding, R Murillo, R Foraker, Y Chang, X Guo, Y Chen, L Guo, Z Li, S Yu, H Yang, G Sun, Y Sun, T Laitinen, TT Laitinen, K Pahkala, CG Magnussen, M Oikonen, JS Viikari, MA Sabin, SR Daniels, OJ Heinonen, L Taittonen, O Hartiala, V Mikkilä, N Hutri-Kähönen, T Laitinen, M Kähönen, OT Raitakari, M Juonala, A Younus, EC Aneni, ES Spatz, CU Osondu, L Roberson, O Ogunmoroti, R Malik, SS Ali, M Aziz, T Feldman, SS Virani, W Maziak, AS Agatston, E Veledar, K Nasir, L Zhou, L Zhao, Y Wu, Y Wu, X Gao, Y Li, J Mai, Z Nie, Y Ou (RTI International, 2019-05-05)
      Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies, brings together in a single document the most up-to-date statistics related to heart ...

    • Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa 

      Charles Rotimi, Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014-04-20)
      Our understanding of genome biology, genomics, and disease, and even human history, has advanced tremendously with the completion of the Human Genome Project. Technological advances coupled with significant cost reductions ...

    • Epidemiological patterns and antimicrobial resistance of bacterial diarrhea among children in Nairobi City, Kenya 

      Mark Kilongosi Webale, Christine Wanjala, Bernard Guyah, Nathan Shaviya, Godwil O Munyekenye, Peter Lokamar Nyanga, Immaculate Nyaseba Marwa, Sammy Kagoiyo, Laura Nyawira Wangai, Sella K Webale, Kenny Kamau, Nicholas Kitungulu (Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, 2020)
      Aim: Determine the prevalence of enteric bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance among diarrheic children in Nairobi City, Kenya. Background: Regardless of enteric bacterial pathogens being a major cause ...

    • Epstein‐Barr virus in Hodgkin's disease: frequency of a 30‐bp deletion in the latent membrane protein (LMP‐1) oncogene in South African patients 

      M Fadiel Essop, Mark Engel, Pauline Close, Colin Sinclair‐Smith, Gorm Pallesen (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-08-20)
      In recent years, substantial evidence has accumulated implicating Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the pathogenesis of Hodgkin’s disease (HD) and some non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (Pallesen et al., 1993; Weiss et al., 1989). It has ...

    • Epstein‐Barr virus in Hodgkin's disease: frequency of a 30‐bp deletion in the latent membrane protein (LMP‐1) oncogene in South African patients 

      M Fadiel Essop, Mark Engel, Pauline Close, Colin Sinclair‐Smith, Gorm Pallesen (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-08-20)
      In recent years, substantial evidence has accumulated implicating Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the pathogenesis of Hodgkin’s disease (HD) and some non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (Pallesen et al., 1993; Weiss et al., 1989). It has ...

    • Estimating Annual Fluctuations in Malaria Transmission Intensity and in the Use of Malaria Control Interventions in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries 

      RTS, S Epidemiology EPI-MAL-005 Study Group, Elisha Adeniji, Kwaku Poku Asante, Owusu Boahen, Guillaume Compaoré, Boubacar Coulibaly, Seyram Kaali, Youssouf Kabore, Mathieu Lamy, John Lusingu, Anangisye Malabeja, Petra Mens, Mattéa Orsini, Lucas Otieno, Walter Otieno, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Janet Oyieko, Jean-Yves Pirçon, Nicolas Praet, François Roman, Ali Sie, Valentine Sing’oei, Sodiomon B Sirima, Khadime Sylla, Roger Tine, Alfred B Tiono, Mathilda Tivura, Effua Usuf, Stéphanie Wéry (The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020)
      RTS,S/AS01E malaria vaccine safety, effectiveness, and impact will be assessed in pre- and post-vaccine introduction studies, comparing the occurrence of malaria cases and adverse events in vaccinated versus unvaccinate ...

    • Evaluation of ALOS, ASTER and SRTM DEM data for Anopheles habitats modeling: An example from Western Kenya East Africa 

      Jephtha C Nmor, Sunahara Toshihiko, Goto Kensuke, Futami Kyoko, Gabriel Dida, George Sonye, Ulrike Fillinger, Minakawa Noboru (2012)

    • EVALUATION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRAINING OUTCOMES IN WESTERN KENYA 

      S. K.Njeru, S.O. Adoka, Dan Onguru's (EPH - International Journal of Medical and Health Science, 2019)
      Study Objective: To analyze the learner – lecturer / instructor interaction process within the context of theory learned during training put into clinical / medical practice. This was in order to generate limitation in ...

    • Evaluation of the Parasight platform for malaria diagnosis 

      Unknown author (American Society for Microbiology Journals, 2017-03-01)
      The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 500 million malaria tests are performed annually. While microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are the main diagnostic approaches, no single method is inexpensive, ...

    • Evaluation of the relationship between clinical outcome of early neonatal sepsis and HIV exposure in Homabay County Referral Hospital, Western Kenya 

      JM Naulikha, SO Adoka, C Obonyo (East African Medical Journal, 2018)

    • Examining the safety of menstrual cups among rural primary school girls in western Kenya: observational studies nested in a randomised controlled feasibility study 

      Jane Juma, Elizabeth Nyothach, Kayla F Laserson, Clifford Oduor, Lilian Arita, Caroline Ouma, Kelvin Oruko, Jackton Omoto, Linda Mason, Kelly T Alexander, Barry Fields, Clayton Onyango, Penelope A Phillips-Howard (British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2017-04-01)
      Objective Examine the safety of menstrual cups against sanitary pads and usual practice in Kenyan schoolgirls. Design Observational studies nested in a cluster randomised controlled feasibility study. Setting 30 primary ...

    • 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 ...

    • Explaining the slowdown in medical spending growth among the elderly, 1999-2012. 

      Salim S Virani, Alvaro Alonso, Emelia J Benjamin, Marcio S Bittencourt, Clifton W Callaway, April P Carson, Alanna M Chamberlain, Alexander R Chang, Susan Cheng, Francesca N Delling, Luc Djousse, Mitchell SV Elkind, Jane F Ferguson, Myriam Fornage, Sadiya S Khan, Brett M Kissela, Kristen L Knutson, Tak W Kwan, Daniel T Lackland, Tené T Lewis, Judith H Lichtman, Chris T Longenecker, Matthew Shane Loop, Pamela L Lutsey, Seth S Martin, Kunihiro Matsushita, Andrew E Moran, Michael E Mussolino, Amanda Marma Perak, Wayne D Rosamond, Gregory A Roth, Uchechukwu KA Sampson, Gary M Satou, Emily B Schroeder, Svati H Shah, Christina M Shay, Nicole L Spartano, Andrew Stokes, David L Tirschwell, Lisa B VanWagner, Connie W Tsao, American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee, American Heart Association, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, US Census Bureau population estimates: historical data: 2000s, US Census Populations With Bridged Race Categories, National Center for Health Statistics, World Health Organization, National Center for Health Statistics, RN Anderson, HM Rosenberg, DM Lloyd-Jones, Y Hong, D Labarthe, D Mozaffarian, LJ Appel, L Van Horn, K Greenlund, S Daniels, G Nichol, GF Tomaselli, American Heart Association Strategic Planning Task Force and Statistics Committee, American Heart Association, JS Rumsfeld, KP Alexander, DC Goff Jr, MM Graham, PM Ho, FA Masoudi, DK Moser, VL Roger, MS Slaughter, KG Smolderen, American Heart Association Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Stroke Council, CM Shay, HS Gooding, R Murillo, R Foraker, Y Chang, X Guo, Y Chen, L Guo, Z Li, S Yu, H Yang, G Sun, Y Sun, T Laitinen, TT Laitinen, K Pahkala, CG Magnussen, M Oikonen, JS Viikari, MA Sabin, SR Daniels, OJ Heinonen, L Taittonen, O Hartiala, A Younus, EC Aneni, ES Spatz, CU Osondu, L Roberson, O Ogunmoroti, R Malik, SS Ali, M Aziz, T Feldman, L Zhou, L Zhao, Y Wu, Y Wu, X Gao, Y Li, J Mai, Z Nie, Y Ou, M Guo, HM González, W Tarraf, CJ Rodríguez, LC Gallo, RL Sacco, GA Talavera, G Heiss, JR Kizer, R Hernandez, S Davis, A Spahillari, S Talegawkar, A Correa, JJ Carr, JG Terry, J Lima, JE Freedman, S Das, R Kociol, S de Ferranti, AR Folsom, H Yatsuya, JA Nettleton, PL Lutsey, M Cushman, WD Rosamond, ARIC Study Investigators, CJ Murray, C Atkinson, K Bhalla, G Birbeck (RTI International, 202-03-03)
      The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, annually reports on the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular risk factors, including core ...

    • Expression profiling of Trypanosoma congolense genes during development in the tsetse fly vector Glossina morsitans morsitans 

      Erick O Awuoche, Brian L Weiss, Paul O Mireji, Aurélien Vigneron, Benson Nyambega, Grace Murilla, Serap Aksoy (BioMed Central, 2018-12)
      The tsetse transmitted parasitic flagellate Trypanosoma congolense causes animal African trypanosomosis (AAT) across sub-Saharan Africa. AAT negatively impacts agricultural, economic, nutritional and subsequently, health ...

    • External quality control performance in clinical chemistry: experience in Kenya. 

      MJ Mbiti, PJ Ojwang, DA Orinda (East African medical journal, 1993)
      Analysis of eleven biochemical laboratory tests was done during an International External Quality Assessment Scheme (IEQAS) in which the clinical chemistry laboratory at Kenyatta National Hospital participated. Technicon ...