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{"title":"The environmental impacts of eletronic wastes in bayelsa state, Nigeria","authors":"Tariwari C. N Angaye","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00122","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic wastes (E-waste) are solid superfluous or ready to be discarded materials arising from electrical and/or electronic devices. It also includes obsolete and discarded electronic equipment at endof-life stage.1,2 Electronic wastes includes but not limited to cell phones, televisions, MP3 Players, and computers (Terada, 2012). In Nigeria, the rise of E-waste stream is due to the purchase of shortspanned or second-hand electronics,3 as well as the yearning of the populace to keep abreast with contemporary technologies.4 Electronic wastes have been found to contain diverse deleterious elements such as; lead, mercury, beryllium, cadmium, chromium and brominated flame retardants, to mention but a few.3 Anthropogenic activities arising from E-waste poses grave consequences on the ecosystem. In most cases the mobility of E-waste toxicants is further escalated by their insitu burning thereby releasing toxic substances to the air, soil and well as bottom sink in aquatic ecosystem. Yenagoa metropolis is a capital city of Bayelsa State and forms part of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. The region is a wetland characterized by high level of precipitation and hence prone to flooding. Consequent upon the fragility of the ecosystem, the environmental Impact of E-Waste in Yenagoa is hereby evaluated.","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49199956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of microorganisms on quality and some indices of semens of male patients with infertility in kano metropolis, Nigeria","authors":"Muhammad Ali","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00121","url":null,"abstract":"Both sexes are more or less equally involved in infertility problem.2 Men either alone or along with their female partners, contribute to 40–45% cases of infertility.3 Furthermore, infectious etiology involving bacteria, virus, fungi, and protozoa contribute to 15% of male factor infertility.4,5 Some of the microbes are acquired exogenously or endogenously and they could cause infertility in several ways: by damaging sperm motility, deterioration of spermatogenesis, altering the chemical composition of the seminal fluid by dysfunction of accessory sex glands, or by inducing autoimmune processes due to inflammation.6 Normal semen is composed of the fluids from the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the prostate gland and the mucous glands, especially the bulbourethral glands. The major bulk of the semen is seminal vesicle fluid (about 60 %), which is the last to be ejaculated and serves to wash the sperm out of the ejaculatory duct and urethra.7","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48355552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Characterization of the toxic effects of alcohol in the geriatric life style","authors":"Jesús Cuéllar Álvarez, Félix Arley Díaz Rossel, Mirelys Olmo Quiñones","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00120","url":null,"abstract":"The biggest adult in Cuba occupies more than 19%, and it is expected that for the year 2025, one of each four Cubans is mature bigger. Of this population one percent is only in institutions, 9% lives alone and the rest cohabits with family, with the result that Villa Clara is one of the most aged counties in Cuba.1 The active aging depends on a variety of influential or decisive factors that surround to the individuals, the families and the nations. These include material conditions as well as social factors that affect to the behavior types and individual feelings.2 The call third age, also well-known with the terms of age, bigger adulthood or elderly, it has been approached in the literature in an isolated way or I eat involution phase and I don’t eat an authentic stage of the human development. It is located around the sixty years, associated to the event of the labor jubilation.3 Alcoholism is a disease caused by the abusive consumption of alcoholic beverages and by the addiction that this habit creates. The figures of adolescents and young consumers increase every year.4 Prevention is an important resource within society to prevent different evils from reaching or expanding. This term is defined as actions aimed at the eradication, elimination and minimization of the impact of the disease and disability; It includes social, political, economic and therapeutic measures.5","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44272980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alpinia zerumbet an essential medicinal herb","authors":"Akhilesh Kumar, V. Bind","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00119","url":null,"abstract":"A. zerumbet is herb inhabitant to north-eastern Asian country, Union of Burma (Myanmar), region of Indo-China, China and Japan, but it’s been efficiently cultivated as an ornamental in whole region of South Asian countries and initiated to tropical and subtropic regions round the world as a medicative and food crop.1,2 In the Cuba it is known as a noxious weed.3 In other country like South Africa consider as invasive weed by the “The Global Invasive Species Programme”.4 Herbs have a variety of uses inducing culinary, medicinal, and in some cases spiritual usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. Herbs are an integral part of human life. Before we learned to hunt animals primitive man had depended on plants for both food and medicine. Medicines from plants were used to cure but simultaneously magic spells were intoned as the plant material was applied. There was the usual method of healing in most part of the world. The original name of Alpinia zerumbet was Zerumbet speciosum given by the J.C. Wendland in year of 1798. The species of genus Alpinia has inhibited throughout the south and Southeast Asian geographical region, up to Japan from Asian nation like India, southward to Papua, the Solomon Islands, Australia, Fiji, and Samoa countries. The herb of those plants like several different genus Alpinia, A. zerumbet is also cultivated by the human as a decorative in several different tropicaland semitropical countries. It conjointly commercially made within the US and Europe and earn money. A case of Alpinia nutans which one has been introduced to European nation before 1793.5","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46136234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validation of analytical method for the quantitative determination of preservative acids allowed in Eco label cosmetic products","authors":"S. D. Vaugelade, Celine Taill, C. Thomas, S. Pirnay","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00117","url":null,"abstract":"Preservation of a natural cosmetic product should logical be ensured by a natural way. Because of the difficulty of defined properly the efficiency of natural preservatives (absence of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), absence of toxicological data) some synthetic preservatives are authorized by labels for their occurrence in nature, their low toxicity and their limited irritant or allergenic reactions. The main synthetic preservatives allowed in natural products are: benzyl alcohol, benzoic acid and its salts, dehydroacetic acid and its salts, salicylic acid and its salts, sorbic acid and its salts (Table 1). These compounds are allowed in finished cosmetic products by the European Commission, in Annex V of the cosmetics Regulation No. 1223/2009 with maximum permitted concentrations between 0.5% and 2.5% (Table 2). In this context, EXPERTOX laboratory has developed and validated an LC-UV analytical method for the determination and quantification of four acid preservatives in cosmetic products as part of a quality control and in compliance with the Regulation No. 1223/2009. Benzyl alcohol quantification assay by GC-MS was already validated by the laboratory to determinate allergens in cosmetic product.6 The compliance within the authorized concentrations in the final product is intended to ensure good preservation and stability of cosmetics, and there ensure consumer safety.","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42626807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determination of adulterants in suspected liquor samples using chemical tests","authors":"P. Rameshkumar, Ey, M. S. Sankhla, Rajeev Kumar","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00118","url":null,"abstract":"Describes a simple, fast method of proving identity or brand on the basis of anion composition. This will enable the testing of suspicions that arise during food control. Spirits are reduced to bottling strength with water from rectified distillates. The ionic content of the water and brand-specific water additives used give rise to differences in the ionic composition of the product. The simple, cost-saving, and reliable method of ion chromatography, which is already approved in water analysis, can therefore be used for the determination of anions in spirits. The Selected decreases the organoleptic features of the raw resources. Flavouring may be added to give the product special organoleptic characteristics, such as a mellow taste.1 According to Karnataka Excise Rules (1997), the ethanol content of whisky, rum and gin (IMFL) are mandated at 42.8% volume by volume (75° proof) and of country liquor or arrack at 33.3% volume by volume (65° proof) at 15/15°C. The Karnataka Excise Act specifies that for the manufacture of IMFL and arrack, the basic material is Rectified spirit [manufactured by distillation of molasses] of not less than 166° proof. Such spirit has to be reduced to strengths of 75° proof or 65° proof depending on whether IMFL or arrack is the final product.2 The authenticity of cognacs, whiskies, rums and similar strong alcoholic beverages can be verified by determining the concentrations of ethanol and the following congeners in the product: methanol, higher alcohols and ethyl acetate. These values are then compared with a database of reference samples. Data from quantitative measurement can be processed statistically using principal component analysis (PCA) based on clustering techniques. PCA is a useful method when the data contain large numbers of variables. PCA yields a small body of new variables that incorporate most of the information in the original variables, facilitating the perception of complicated matrices. Such a work-up is presented by with various brands of whiskies being classified into groups by chemical analysis and PCA. Developed a complex, multi-method analysis for brand identification using statistical processing on the basis of chemical composition, ultraviolet absorption, and pH.3 According to Bureau of Indian Standards (1986), the ethanol content of whisky, rum and gin (IMFL) are mandated at 42.8% volume by volume (75° proof) and of country liquor or arrack at 33.3% volume by volume (65° proof) at 15/15°C. The Bureau of Indian Standards specifies that for the manufacture of IMFL and arrack, the basic material is Rectified spirit (manufactured by distillation of molasses) of not less than166 proof. The ingestion of drinks with the nonqualified raw materials containing high levels of adulterants can cause serious health difficulties like metabolic problems, blindness, permanent neurological damage or even death.4 Suggested about traditionally colorless, extract-free spirits (e.g. vodka and white rum) are identi","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42133207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physicochemical and microbial assessment of some creeklets associated with urban runoff in yenagoa metropolis","authors":"E. Seiyaboh, Tariwari C. N Angaye","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00116","url":null,"abstract":"Water is an essential resource to biodiversity largely because all organism depend on water for survival and sustenance. As documented in literature, the quality of river water plays a vital role to the relative public health and sustenance of any given community or ecosystem.1 For instance, anthropogenic activities have the tendency to release toxic organic and inorganic leachates from waste stream which are transported by urban runoff to contaminate water bodies.2,3 Persistent inflow of waste stream from urban runoffs have largely affected the ambient water quality of aligning water bodies. It has been observed that in some communities of most developing countries surface water still serve as a means for waste disposal, especially in riverine communities.3 Persistent anthropogenic activities over a period of time may influence the contamination rate.","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44937122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prevention of drug abuse and misuse","authors":"F. Khan","doi":"10.15406/mojt.2018.04.00115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/mojt.2018.04.00115","url":null,"abstract":"The presence of psychotic symptoms is widespread in psychiatric disorders. Delusions and hallucinations, which are among the main symptoms of psychosis, belong to the schizophrenic spectrum. In the bipolar disorder, manic or depressive episodes, as well as mixed states, are frequently marked by psychotic symptoms. Moreover, psychosis may set in after substance abuse, often intervening with the effect of making the clinical picture indistinguishable from that of a primary psychosis. Psychosis induced by substances of abuse is most commonly developed by cannabinoids, stimulants, hallucinogens, alcohol and polyabuse.1","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48157793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anti-teratogenic potential and curtailing toxicity of valproic acid","authors":"Akhilesh Kumar, V. Bind","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00114","url":null,"abstract":"VPA has become one of the most widely prescribed antiepileptic drugs worldwide in the management of long-term epilepsy, as well as controlling several neurological disorders including tonic-clonic seizures, idiopathic generalized seizures, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, and childhood absence seizures and migraines.1,2 Valproic acid, VPA (2-n-propylpentanoic acid, C8H15NaO2, MW-166.19) a branched short-chain fatty acid derived from naturally occurring valeric acid was first synthesized in 1882.3 It is known teratogenic agent for women of childbearing age and classified as a Type Dcategory indicating that human fetal risk has been documented but the use of the drug may still be warranted.4","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45337564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chemical composition of rocket, thyme and parsley essential oils and their effect on some fungi and aflatoxin production","authors":"Ghada Al Saqqa, A. Alian, F. Ismail, S. Ramzy","doi":"10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/MOJT.2018.04.00112","url":null,"abstract":"Aflatoxins are produced by many species of Aspergillus, a fungus, most notably Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus.3 The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, 1993)4 has classified aflatoxin B1 as a group 1 carcinogen. Essential oils have a good source of biologically active compounds.5 In the last years essential oils from the different plants were used in the prevention of fungal growth and mycotoxins production in cereals.6,7","PeriodicalId":92106,"journal":{"name":"MOJ toxicology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47454520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}