Vaginal yeast infections in women are usually caused by Candida albicans and, to a lesser extent, by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Studies on C. albicans have shown that it can cause sperm agglutination which can lead to lowered ...

Pollution is a major environmental health threat that is brought about by the neglect and incessant discharge of wastes in the environment. These wastes may induce DNA and chromosomal damages and nuclear abnormalities in ...

The ameliorating effect of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) leaf extract on the regenerative ability of the annelid species Eudrilus eugeniae exposed to copper sulfate was investigated. For this study, a sublethal concentration ...

Sea stars are potential indicators of both environmental and ecological conditions of their marine habitat. This study determined the effects of polluted seawater on the proliferation of primary cells and level of heat ...

In response to the increasing competition in the world market, various food preservatives have been widely used to maintain the high quality of Philippine food products. However, some of these chemicals have known toxicity ...

Prenatal alcohol exposure causes a disruption of developmental processes in embryos and results in a wide range of alcohol-induced defects known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. The main mechanism through which alcohol ...

Ten medicinal plants were investigated for their possible immunomodulatory activity using a murine model. Tetanus toxoid-induced IgG production was compared between plant extract-treated groups and the negative control ...

Ribonucleotide reductase catalytic subunit M1 (RRM1) is a key component of an enzyme critical to DNA synthesis. Its expression has been associated with lung papillary adenocarcinoma and adenosquamous pancreas carcinoma. ...

Cancer is the second leading cause of disease worldwide with lung cancer as the third cause of morbidity in the Philippines. Current anticancer treatments are costly and pose serious side effects to the patient thus, ...

Alcohol liver disease (ALD) is a major health problem referring to the collection of liver damage caused by excessive alcohol intake. It encompasses three stages of increasing aggressiveness – steatosis, steatohepatitis, ...