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Resources: YouTube videos and the JELCKC website and archive
(Springer, 2018)
Additional resources to support the content in Best Practice Protocols for Physique Assessment in Sport are available at the J.E. Lindsay Carter Kinanthropometry Clinic and Archive (JELCKCA) website jelckca-bodycomp.com, ...
Safety pharmacology in and for Africa: establishment of the pre-clinical drug development platform
(Elsevier, 2018)
Southern Africa (South Africa as well as neighboring countries) has not had an infrastructure for testing the safety of new drugs or other therapeutic entities, including plant-based or herbal treatments coming from the ...
Relationship of nurses’ intrapersonal characteristics with work performance and caring behaviors: a cross‐sectional study
(Wiley, 2018)
This study aimed to describe intrapersonal characteristics (professional values, personality, empathy, and job involvement), work performance as perceived by nurses, and caring behaviors as perceived by patients, and to ...
Two-year changes in body composition, physical activity, and selected metabolic risk factors among adolescents living in the North West province of South Africa: the PAHL study
(Human Kinetics, 2018)
The purpose of this study was to determine the two-year changes in body
composition, physical activity (PA) and selected metabolic risk factors
(abdominal obesity and blood pressure) among adolescents from the North
West ...
Evaluation and optimization of synthetic routes from dihydroartemisinin to the alkylamino-artemisinins artemiside and artemisone: a test of N-glycosylation methodologies on a lipophilic peroxide
(Elsevier, 2018)
10-Alkylamino-artemisinins including artemiside and artemisone display enhanced activities against malaria. Earlier, dihydroartemisinin (DHA) TMS ether was converted by trimethylsilyl bromide into the 10-β-bromide that ...
Methylene blue analogues with marginal monoamine oxidase inhibition retain antidepressant-like activity
(ACS, 2018)
Methylene blue (MB) possesses diverse medical applications. Among these, MB presents with antidepressant-like effects in animals and has shown promise in clinical trials for the treatment of mood disorders. As an antidepressant, ...
Artemisone and artemiside are potent panreactive antimalarial agents that also synergize redox imbalance in Plasmodium falciparum transmissible gametocyte stages
(American Society for Microbiology, 2018)
The emergence of resistance toward artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has the potential to severely compromise malaria control. Therefore, the development of new artemisinins ...
The in vitro and in vivo effects of hypoxis hemerocallidea on indinavir pharmacokinetics: modulation of efflux
(Thieme, 2018)
(African potato) is a popular medicinal plant that has been used traditionally for the treatment of various disorders. Some HIV/AIDS patients use this traditional medicine together with their antiretroviral therapy. This ...
Maternal high-fat diet programs offspring emotional behavior in adulthood
(Elsevier, 2018)
Prenatal exposure to high-fat diet (HFD) might predispose offspring to develop metabolic and mental disorders later in life. Insight into the molecular and behavioral consequences of maternal HFD on offspring is sparse but ...
Immediate and long-term antidepressive-like effects of pre-pubertal escitalopram and omega-3 supplementation combination in young adult stress-sensitive rats
(Elsevier, 2018)
Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects a significant number of children and adolescents, yet treatment options for this population remain very limited. Escitalopram (ESC) is one of only two antidepressants approved as ...