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Browsing Research Articles (Paraclinical Sciences) by Title
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Saaiman Engelbrecht, Esta L.; Naidoo, Vinny; Botha, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus)
(Elsevier, 2024-05)
African spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake), envenomation is an important cause of snakebite
morbidity and mortality in Namibia. The snake is endemic to central and northern Namibia as well as ...
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Njoya, Emmanuel Mfotie; Maza, Hermine L.D.; Swain, Shasank S.; Chukwuma, Chika. I.; Mkounga, Pierre; Nguekeu, Yves M.M.; Mashele, Samson S.; Makhafola, Tshepiso Jan; McGaw, Lyndy Joy
(MDPI, 2023-02)
Please read abstract in article.
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Abdalla, Muna Ali; McGaw, Lyndy Joy
(MDPI Publishing, 2018-08-20)
Peptides are important biomolecules which facilitate the understanding of complex
biological processes, which in turn could be serendipitous biological targets for future drugs. They are
classified as a unique therapeutic ...
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Moyo, Phanankosi; Mugumbate, Grace; Eloff, Jacobus Nicolaas; Louw, Abraham Izak; Maharaj, Vinesh J.; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie
(MDPI Publishing, 2020-09-17)
The ability to block human-to-mosquito and mosquito-to-human transmission of Plasmodium parasites is fundamental to accomplish the ambitious goal of malaria elimination. The WHO currently recommends only primaquine as a ...
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Bester, Elizabeth G.; Kitshoff, Adriaan Mynhardt; Botha, W.J.; Van Wilpe, Erna; Du Plessis, Lizette; Williams, J.H. (June Heather)
(Medpharm Publications, 2022)
Nemaline myopathy - a clinically and genetically complex heterogenous group of disorders - is described uncommonly in humans and rarely in animals, and is characterised by progressive muscle weakness. The diagnosis is ...
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Junker, Kerstin; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik; Govender, Danny; Mutafchiev, Yasen
(Springer, 2019-06)
Sixteen Nile crocodiles were collected in the Kruger National Park, South Africa and vicinity during 2010 and 2011. A total of 11 nematode species representing six families were recovered. Heterocheilids were the dominant ...
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Veary, C.M.; Manoto, S.N. (Solly Ntoagae)
(South African Veterinary Association, 2008-06)
A study to detect human taeniasis and cysticercosis was conducted in 4 village communities served by the Bethanie clinic in the NorthWest Province, based on reports of people being diagnosed there with epileptiform episodes. ...
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Tordiffe, A.S.W. (Adrian Stephen Wolferstan)
(Medpharm Publications, 2022)
No abstract available.
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Mitchell, Emily P.; Prozesky, Leon; Lawrence, John A.
(Public Library of Science, 2018-03-07)
The sustainability of captive cheetah populations is limited by high mortality due to chronic
renal disease. This necropsy study, conducted on 243 captive cheetahs from one institution,
investigated the relationships ...
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Siebert, Stefan J.; Retief, Elizabeth; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam)
(MMissouri Botanical Garden Press, 2013-10-18)
Pavetta glaucophylla Retief, S. J. Siebert
& A. E. van Wyk, a new species of the Rubiaceae
(Ixoroideae) from South Africa, is described and
illustrated. A member of Pavetta L. subg. Pavetta, it
has a restricted range ...
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Zheng, Xiaoting; O’Connor, Jingmai K.; Huchzermeyer, Fritz W.; Wang, Xiaoli; Wang, Yan; Zhang, Xiaomei; Zhou, Zhonghe
(Public Library of Science, 2014-04-14)
A crop adapted for an herbivorous diet of seeds has previously been documented in the Early Cretaceous birds Sapeornis
and Hongshanornis. Here we report on several specimens of Yanornis that preserve a crop containing ...
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Cenci-Goga, Beniamino T.; Iulietto, Maria Francesca; Sechi, Paola; Borgogni, Elena; Karama, Musafiri; Grispoldi, Luca
(MDPI, 2020-12-21)
The term ‘packaging’ refers to the technological intervention aimed at the protection of food
from a variety of factors, which provokes the product detriment. Packaging is considered as one of
the most interesting ...
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Odunayo Ibraheem; Myburgh, Jan G.; Bosman, Anna-Mari; Featherston, Jonathan; Sibeko-Matjila, Kgomotso Penelope; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Chamunorwa, Joseph Panashe
(Public Library of Science, 2019-11)
BACKGROUND:
Concerted efforts to identify the pathogenesis and mechanism(s) involved in pansteatitis, (a
generalized inflammation of the adipose tissue), that was attributed to the recent crocodile
die off in the ...
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Botha, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus); Steenkamp, P.A.; Olivier, A.J.; Bekker, Lizette C.
(South African Veterinary Association, 2011-04)
Putative Nicotiana glauca (wild tobacco) poisoning was diagnosed in a flock of ostriches near Oudtshoorn, South Africa. Post mortem examinations (n = 7) were performed on ostriches (Struthio camelus) that had died. Suspicious ...
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Isa, Adamu Imam; Dzoyem, Jean Paul; Adebayo, Salmon A.; Suleiman, M.M.; Eloff, Jacobus Nicolaas
(Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, 2016)
BACKGROUND : The study was aimed at determining the anti-inflammatory activity of fractions and extracts obtained from Strychnos
spinosa leaves on a mediator of inflammation nitric oxide (NO).
MATERIALS AND METHODS : ...
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Iwalewa, Ezekiel Olugbenga; Naidoo, Vinny; Bagla, Victor Patrick; Eloff, Jacobus Nicolaas
(Academic Journals, 2009-01)
Preliminary pharmacological screening of the aqueous extract from the leaves, stem and root of
Harungana madagascariensis Lam. ex Poiret (Guttiferae) are reported to have effect on some
cardiovascular diseases like ...
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Bashaw, Meredith J.; Sicks, Florian; Palme, Rupert; Schwarzenberger, Franz; Tordiffe, Adrian Stephen Wolferstan; Ganswindt, Andre
(BioMed Central, 2016-10-18)
BACKGROUND : Numbers of giraffes are declining rapidly in their native habitat. As giraffe research and conservation
efforts increase, the demand for more complete measures of the impact of conservation interventions and ...
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Ganswindt, Stefanie Birgit; Myburgh, Jan G.; Cameron, Elissa Z.; Ganswindt, Andre
(Elsevier, 2014-11)
The occurrence of stress-inducing factors in captive crocodilians is a concern, since chronic stress can negatively
affect animal health and reproduction, and hence production. Monitoring stress in wild crocodiles could ...
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Galligan, Toby H.; Green, Rhys E.; Wolter, Kerri; Taggart, Mark A.; Duncan, N.M. (Neil); Mallord, John W.; Alderson, Dawn; Li, Yuan; Naidoo, Vinny
(Elsevier, 2022-02)
Throughout South Asia, cattle are regularly treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and their carcasses are left for scavengers to consume. Residues of the NSAID diclofenac in cattle carcasses caused ...
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Angeh, Jeremiah E.; Huang, Xueshi; Swan, Gerry E.; Mollman, Ute; Sattler, Isabel; Eloff, Jacobus Nicolaas
(ARKAT, 2007)
Please refer to abstract in article