CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF OLEORESIN FROM FRESH AND DRIED PEPPER ( Capsicum frutescens and Capsicum annuum) in Nigeria  

2021-09-01
Pepper (Capsicum spp.) oleoresin, a food additive is known for its antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. Nigeria is the largest pepper producer in Africa. However, due to lack of production of ...

CHARACTERIZATION OF TRACE ELEMENTS AND PORPHYRINS IN SOME NIGERIAN COALS USING SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES  

2005-08-22
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer was used to analyze the metal content of Nigerian coals as well as New Castle coal which served as the reference. Calcium, sodíum, iron, and manganese occuned ...

CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LAGOS LAGOON SEDIMENTS  

2007-12-26
The Lagos lagoon is prone to contamination and pollution arising from industrial wastes, wastewater from domestic sources, illegal refuse dump and disposal of untreated domestic sewage. A study was therefore ...

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE LEAVES AND STEM ESSENTIAL OILS OF Plectranthus aegyptiacus (Forsk) GROWN IN NIGERIA  

2017-12-22
Essential oils obtained from plants have various therapeutic potentials, therefore there is need to investigate their chemical constituents and biological activities to justify their ethnomedicinal use. In this study, the ...

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITIES OF LEAF AND FLOWER ESSENTIAL OILS OF NIGERIAN GROWN Lippia multiflora  

Pulverised leaves and flowers (500g each) of Lippia multiflora were separately hydrodistilled for 3 hours using Clevenger apparatus to extract essential oils. The constituents of the essential oils were separated, ...

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF ESSENTIAL OILS FROM RHIZOME OF TWO VARIETIES OF Cyperus articulatus (L) GROWN IN NIGERIA  

2010-04-02
This thesis is on the Chemical constituents and biological activities of essential oils from rhizome of two varieties of cyperus articulatus (L) grown in Nigeria.

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF ESSENTIAL OILS FROM RHIZOME OF TWO VARIETIES OF Cyperus articulatus (L) GROWN IN NIGERIA  

2010-04-03
Essential oils of red and black varieties of Nigeria grown Cyperus articulatus shared the same composition pattern in terms of the class of terpenoids with each other and other Cyperus ...

CHEMOPREVENTIVE AND TUMOUR SUPPRESSIVE ACTIVITIES OF Pleurotus pulmonarius AND P. ostreatus METABOLITESON SOLID TUMOURS AND HAEMATOPOIETIC MALIGNANCIES.  

2011-10-25
The menace of cancer has been a major public health problem in Nigeria, USA and many other parts of the world. As threat to human life by neoplastic diseases continues ...

CHROMATOGRAPHIC, SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC AND ANTIMICROBIAL ANALYSES OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS IN Tridax procumhens Linn.  

2021-01-25
The increasing human population and high cost of synthetic drugs have made it difficult for modern health facilities to meet health demands all over the world. The prevalence and resistance ...

CLASSIFICATION-BASED RIDGE PARAMETER ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES FOR SOLVING MULTICOLLINEARITY PROBLEM  

2017-12-02
Multicollinearity is a problem resulting from dependence of explanatory variables in linear regression model. When the problem exists, the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimator produces unsatisfactory and inefficient estimates of ...