February 2019

Production and characterization of derived composite biosorbents from animal bone

Composite biosorbents were produced from animal bone by carbonization, activation of animal bone char with phosphoric acid and zinc (II) chloride independently, and the obtained activated carbons were separately impregnated on chitosan. The chitosan was produced from chitin, which was extracted from shrimp shell through deminerization, deproteinization and deacetylation processes. Comprehensive characterization studies...

Author(s): Olafadehan O. A., Abhulimen K. E., Adeleke A. I., Njoku C. V. and Amoo K. O.  

February 2019

Toxicity studies of African Palmyrah palm (Borassus Aethiopum) shoots

The study examined the effect of feeding albino rats with 25, 50, and 75% Palmyrah Palm (Borassus aethiopum) shoots with respect to their body weight, liver and kidney function indices. Standard methods of biochemical analyses were employed using albino rats as the experimental animals. No mortality was observed in the LD50 test throughout the period of 48 h.  Rats fed with 25 and 50% B. aethiopum shoots showed a...

Author(s): Muhammad Sirajo, K. J. Umar and S. W. Hassan