Abstract: Today medicinal plants with their respective standardized extracts‚ provide infinite opportunities for new drug leads because of the unrivaled availability of chemical diversity. Due to an increasing demand for chemical diversity in screening programs‚ seeking therapeutic drugs from biologically active plants. The propose of green and sustainable extraction methods of natural products is currently a hot research topic in the multidisciplinary area of applied chemistry. The focus of this
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Pesricides • Physical: glass‚ metal‚ nail polish • Biological o Seafood toxins o Plant toxins o Fungal toxins o Pathogens o Bacteria o Parasites o Viruses Pathogens: Microorganisms that cause illnesses (virus‚ bacteria‚ parasites and fungi) Pathogens need the following things to grow (FAT TOM): 1. Food: meat‚ poultry‚ dairy products and eggs 2. Acidity: pathogens grow best in food with little or no acid (pH between
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Punjab Univ. J. Zool.‚ Vol. 22 (1-2)‚ pp. 01-06‚ 2007 HELMINTH PARASITES OF SOME FRESHWATER FISHES MUHAMMAD SHAFIQ AHMED‚ TAHIR IQBAL‚ AMJAD MAHMOOD‚ MUHAMMAD GULZARIN AND MUHAMMAD ABID Department of Zoology‚ University of the Punjab‚ Quaid-e-Azam Campus‚ Lahore-54590 (MSA‚ MA); Department of Zoology‚ University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir‚ Muzaffarabad (TI‚ AM‚ MG)‚ Pakistan. Abstract: Forty-three freshwater fishes (Heteropneustus fossilis 11‚ Mystus vittatus 16 and Channa striatus 16) were collected
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What Is Protozoa? Protozoa are one of the three main classes of parasites that cause diseases in humans. They are single-celled organism‚ and can only be seen under a microscope. When they invade a human they are able to multiply easily‚ which causes them to be at a great advantage and puts humans at a disadvantage. This helps them survive in the human body and causes a serious infection even with the arrival of a single protozoon. Infections caused by protozoa are contagious. Those protozoa
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Philippines poverty and pervasive malnutrition are not limited to families of deprived seasonal workers. Undernourishment is endemic and increasing throughout most of this archipelago of some 7100 islands‚ and is compounded by the prevalence of intestinal parasites and gastrointestinal diseases which health workers estimate deprive youngsters of at least 5-10% of the nutritional value in food they do consume. This problem is particularly prevalent in rural villages and city slums where many people eat
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Evening Primrose Oil Evening Primrose Oil contains a high concentration of fatty acid called GLA this fatty acid is largely responsible for the remarkable healing properties. Evening Primrose Oil is the preferred treatment by gynaecologists to treat their ailments of women. Scientific name: Oenothera biennis Usage of Evening primrose Evening primrose oil is used as treatment for premenstrual syndrome (PMS)‚ mastalgia‚ and endometriosis
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were of European origin; and Native Americans exhibited little immunity because they had no previous exposure to those diseases. While they did experience other forms of illnesses like malnutrition‚ anemia‚ respiratory infections‚ and parasitic intestinal infections prior to the Europeans; this was brand new to them and it caused greater mortality than would have occurred‚ if these diseases been common to the Americas. Collin Calloway goes on in detail‚ the documented evidence of how drastic
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caused by the parasite trypanosome brucei. Human African Trypanosomiasis is what the disease is more commonly referred to‚ and is found in a confined part of the vast continent Africa. More specifically the sub-Sahara region. Human African Trypanosomiasis is one of the most neglected tropical infections that is re-emerging as a public health issue in most parts of rural Africa. It is caused by a protozoan called trypanosome brucei‚ which is a sub species of the trypanosome parasite. The vector-borne
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By definition‚ a parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host’s expense. This relationship will always negatively impact the host and benefit the parasite‚ but the host is vital for the parasite to stay alive. An example of a parasitic relationship is when a tick latches onto a cat. This form of parasitism is external and the tick sucks on the cat‚ fostering due to the grace of the cat’s oblivion‚ and because of this exchange
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Druckfreigabe/approval for printing Without corrections/ ohne Korrekturen After corrections/ nach Ausfçhrung der Korrekturen ` j89 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 ` Date/Datum: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Signature/Zeichen: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Nonantibiotics – An Alternative for Microbial Resistance: Scope and
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