Excess agrochemicals input from agricultural activities and industrial effluent around Lake Zi-way catchment can pose a serious threat on the lake ecosystem. This study was undertaken to investigate the external and internal agrochemicals load, their dynamics, and impacts on Lake Ziway ecosystem...
The petroleum ether extract of the leaves of Dodonaea viscosa var. angustifoliarnafforded a diterpene 5-(2-(furan-3-yl)ethyl)-3,4,4a,5,6,7,8,8a-octahydro-8rnhydroxy-5,6,8a-trimethylnaphthalene-1-carboxylic acid (compound Dc-8B)rnwhereas the chloroform extract gave two compounds; a diterpene...
The chemical properties of fluorine, fluoride in the human environment; the fluoridernabsorption, distribution, and excretion in the human system are briefly reviewed. The beneficialrnand toxic effects of fluoride to human, plants, and animals; and several defluoridation methodsrnhave also been...
The Kebena River traverses Addis Ababa from north to south, The river starts upstreamrnfrom a scarcely populated area and goes to the south through the densely populated areas.rnThe difference in ionic compositions as one goes from upstream to down stream is then anrnindication of human impact on...
Alcoholic beverages are any fermented or distilled liquids such as wine, beer, whisky, ouzo,rngin, etc. Ouzo is one type of distilled alcoholic beverage with alcoholic content of 40 to 43 %rnflavored by anethole extracted from anise, star anise or fennel plant. In this study thernconcentration of...
Expression of testicular Interleukin-l a was anaIysed both at the lavel of biological activernpeptide and its encoding mRNA, using a sensitive bioassay, Thymocyte proliferation assay, andrnPolymerase Chain Reaction. In order to analyse the relative change in the level of IL -1 a mRNArnexpression a...
Heteronemin, a pentacyclic sesterterpene has beenrncharacterized from the chloroform extract of an unidentifiedrnsponge sample collected from Massawa, Red Sea. The structurernwas established by 1H nmr, 13C nmr, and mass spectralrninterpretation.rnAnother CZ9 compound characterized as...
In this work five N-arenesulphonyl-benzimidoyl-N’- thiourea derivatives werernsynthesized from intermediate of N-arenesulphonyl-benzimidoyl- rodanide (3) byrnreacting with different bascity of amines. Out of these derivatives compound 4,5 and 6rnwere synthesized by reacting rodanide (3) with...
New Ni(II) complex was synthesized from 4-phenoxy-2,6-dichloro-straizinernand 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine in the presence of hydratedrnmetal salt, Nicl2.6H2O in 1,4-dioxane-methanol medium. Before thernsynthesis of the complex, 4-phenoxy-2,6-dichloro-s-traizine wasrnprepared according to the...
Essential (K, Ca, Mg, Mn, Fe, Zn, Cu and Co) and non-essential (Cd and Pb) metal contents of commercially available three brands of Ethiopian black tea (Wush Wush, Gumero, and Black Lion) and their infusions were analyzed by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). In black tea leaves K was...
The concentrations of thirteen metals (K, Na, Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Mn, Pb, Co, Ni, Cd, Cu and Cr) were determined in four brands of Ethiopian wines by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry (FAAS) after digesting the wine samples with HNO3-H2O2 mixture. Among the major metals potassium (694 –...
The complexation of 1,2,5,8-tetrahydroxyanthraquinonern(quinalizarin) with some trivalent lanthanide ions: Sm(III),rnTb(III), Ce(III), and La(III) has been studiedrnspectrophotometrically and potentiometrically. The methods ofrncontinuous variation and mole ratio indicate the metal to ligandrnratio...
The hydrolysis of tripolyphosphate ( pppi ) and trimetaphosphatern(mpppi ) at 10'3 M concentration byrn[tn 2Co(OH)(0H2 )]^, (tn = trimethylenediamine), usingrnEu2 f /H+ quenching was investigated. The europium quenchingrnwas adopted since other methods interfere with phosphaternanalysis. The...
Inborn errors of amino acid metabolism are directly related to the absence of an enzymerninvolved in the metabolism of one or more amino acids, so that those amino acids increaserngreatly in plasma concentration and urinary excretion rates. Most of these inborn errors ofrnamino acid metabolism are...
The electropolymerizations of the Schiff base ligand and the Ni-Schiff base complex were carried out in aqueous H2SO4 solution. The film coated glassy carbon electrode showed an electrochemical response. The factors that affect the electroactivity of the film, such as number of cycles used for the...
In the present work direct determination of caffeine in aqueous solution of green coffee bean was performed by using FT-IR-ATR and fluorescence spectrophotometers. In all the experiments water which is environmentally friendly and easily available everywhere was used for the extraction of caffeine...
The n-hexane: ethylacetate (7:3) extract of Rumex abyssinicus afforded two knownrnanthraquinone, chrysophanol and Emodin. The root of rumex abyssinicus is traditionallyrnused for the treatment of sexually transmitted disease such as gonorrhea, Lung-TB andrnleporsy. Structural determination was...
An attempt was made to develop hexafluorotantalate(V)-selective coated graphiternelectrodes based on Malachite Green, Crystal Violet, and Ethyl Violet using fchloronaphthalene,rntri-n-bUI)'1 phosphate, and dimethylphthalate as plasticizers. Thernelectrode prepared by coating Malachite...
A gas chromatographic method was employed to monitorrnplasma levels of phenytoin and phenobarbital in 101 Ethiopianrnepileptic patients who were on chronic drug treatment andrnkinetics and plasma level-response relationship was studied.rn40% of the patients were on single drug treatment while...
In this study, the concentration levels of major (Ca and Mg), trace (Fe, Zn, Cu,rnCo, Cr, Mn, and Ni), and toxic (Cd and Pb) metals were determined in korarimarn(Aframomum corrorima) samples collected from southern and southwesternrnEthiopia. The results were compared with the metal levels in the...