Impact of Daily Consumption of Iron Fortified Ready-to-Eat Cereal and Pumpkin Seed Kernels (Cucurbita pepo L.) on Serum Iron in Adult Women

Background: The objective of this study was to consider the effectiveness of consumption of iron fortified ready-to-eat cereal and pumpkin seed kernels as two sources of dietary iron on status of iron nutrition and response of hematological characteristics of women at reproductive ages.Methods: Eight healthy female, single or non pregnant subjects,

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Geomorphic time series reveals the constructive and destructive history of Havre caldera volcano, Kermadec arc

Monitoring active seafloor processes requires repeated, comparable surveys to enable change detection.The change detection of the deep ocean floor, however, is rare due to a paucity of repeat data at an appropriate resolution.In this study, we use an exceptional suite of bathymetric surveys across a spatiotemporal range at the submarine Havre volca

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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in aborted goats in Kerala

Toxoplasmosis, is a cosmopolitan zoonotic parasitic infection prevalent throughout the world affecting all warm blooded animals and man.A total of 72 serum samples from goats belonging to the organised,unorganised and small holder farms that had aborted recently or had a history of abortion were collected from the central districts of Kerala viz.,

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Predictors of hepatitis B cure using gene therapy to deliver DNA cleavage enzymes: a mathematical modeling approach.

Most chronic viral infections are managed with small molecule therapies that inhibit replication but are not curative because non-replicating viral forms can persist despite decades of suppressive treatment.There are therefore numerous strategies in development to eradicate all non-replicating viruses from the body.We are currently engineering DNA

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