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University of Nigeria, Nsukka

EducationNsukka, Nigeria
About: University of Nigeria, Nsukka is a education organization based out in Nsukka, Nigeria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 10211 authors who have published 13685 publications receiving 138922 citations.
Topics: Population, Health care, Public health, Malaria, Igbo


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TL;DR: Differential solvent extracts of the herbs reduced carragenin-induced oedema of the rat paw, checked diarrhoea due to arachidonic acid and castor oil, and ameliorated all signs associated with adjuvant-induced polyarthritis in rats.

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TL;DR: Three specific constraints on child protection are examined in this article, namely poverty, HIV/AIDS infection, and war, which use their experience in Africa to raise issues of resilience and adaptation, dangers to child protection programs, and possible solutions.

79 citations

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TL;DR: Routine screening of patients for risk factors for CKD at each contact with the doctor will help to identify early CKD patients who may benefit from preventive measures.

79 citations

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TL;DR: The incidence of skin diseases in south‐east Nigeria during the present decade was analyzed and compared with results from other parts of Nigeria, particularly in the same zone, obtained more than 30 years ago.
Abstract: Background and objective The incidence of skin diseases in south-east Nigeria during the present decade was analyzed and compared with results from other parts of Nigeria, particularly those in the same zone, obtained more than 30 years ago. This study was carried out to update the recent clinical picture of skin diseases in our environment in view of the rapid development, urbanization and advances in the region. Patients and methods Consecutive new patients seen at the dermatology clinic of the University of Nigeria, Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria, from February 1999 to March 2001 were included in this prospective study. Only cases seen and examined by the author were included in this study to ensure uniformity of diagnosis. Results A total of 2871 patients were observed within the study period. Adults accounted for 69.7% and were aged between 18 and 73 years, while the male : female ratio was 1.3 : 1. Allergic skin diseases (24.9%) were the commonest skin disorders identified, as opposed to infestations which accounted for an extremely high result of 33.7% (for the same region between 1968 and 1971). In second place was infections/infestations (19.1%). A reversal of picture was thus observed. Within the allergic disorders; eczemas/dermatitis were found to be the most prevalent followed by follicular (13.7%) and pigmentary disorders (11.1%). Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDs have increased significantly and accounted for 5.4%. Blistering diseases (1.1%) and malignancies (0.5%) occurred less frequently, similar to results found in resent decades for the same region. Conclusion The current picture of skin diseases in south-east Nigeria has changed significantly from mere infections to allergic skin, follicular and pigmentary disorders. Cutaneous lesions secondary to STDs and HIV/AIDs have also increased. Skin lesions related to malnutrition, kwashiorkor and starvation were not observed nor were cutaneous tuberculosis, yaws or pediculosis, while blistering disorders and malignancies remained almost the same. The current picture is similar to that in other developing and Afro-Caribbean countries. Primary-care physicians and health-care providers in Nigeria/Africa need to be aware of the globally changing pattern of skin diseases in the region to enable the allocation of necessary resources (financial, material and human) to manage these skin diseases.

78 citations

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TL;DR: The results provide a rationalization for the traditional use of P. nitida for the treatment of various diseases.
Abstract: Ethanol, benzene, chloroform and aqueous (cold and hot) extracts of Picralima nitida (seed, stembark and root) were tested against five bacterial strians using the agar-well diffusion method. The ethanol extracts of the root and stembark (Er and Esb) were active against 100% of the test organisms, repectively. The benzene and chloroform extracts exhibited no activity. Of the fifteen extracts teated, 40.0% were active against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 12600, 20.0% each against Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 10145 and Escherichia coli ATCC 11775, 33.3% against Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6051 and 13.3% against Salmonella kintambo Human 1,13,23:mt: -. The MIC values for the ethanol extracts range from 6.25 to 50 mg/ml, while the MIC values for the cold water seed extract (CWs) was 50 mg/ml. The results provide a rationalization for the traditional use of P. nitida for the treatment of various diseases. African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 4 (6), pp. 522-526, 2005

78 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh118102556187
Peter J. Houghton6322814321
Alessandro Piccolo6228414332
R. W. Guillery6010613439
Ulrich Klotz5621310774
Nicholas H. Oberlies522629683
Brian Norton493229251
Adesola Ogunniyi4727211806
Obinna Onwujekwe432828960
Sanjay Batra393297179
Benjamin Uzochukwu381639318
Christian N. Madu361345378
Jude U. Ohaeri361213088
Peter A. Akah331643422
Charles E. Chidume331533639
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202360
2022129
20211,654
20201,560
20191,191
2018884