Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Disease burden from the Malaysian elderly population is increasing as demographics shifts towards longer life expectancy. It is increasingly evident that immunosenescence is the central process in many age-related illnesses. Latent human cytomegalovirus

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology -- IIUM Summary: The preparation containing methyl salicylate in an ointment dosage form, is available from various manufacturers throughout the world for the treatment of muscular pain. The limitations of the active ingredients had restricted the use of the ointment

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biomedical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Local treatment of osteomyelitis using gentamicin-loaded PMMA beads has several challenges such as (i) requires invasive surgery to remove the beads from the implant site, (ii) can become the site of adherence for biofilm producing bacteria and (iii) has r

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology -- IIUM Summary: Hyperpigmentation is a skin disorder that causes the skin to darken in small patches of certain area or it may cover a large area of the body. This condition happens due to excessive production of melanin triggered by excessive sun exposure, hormonal

Subject(s): Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan | Septicemia -- Malaysia | Intensive care units -- Malaysia | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Despite advances in medicine and improved access to healthcare, sepsis remains to be a leading cause of death in the intensive care unit (ICU), including in Malay

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology -- IIUM Summary: Once daily epilepsy carbamazepine (CBZ) medication oral jelly for pediatrics was prepared and evaluated. The available marketed CBZ pediatric dosage form is CBZ suspension only which is not sustained release medication. Therefore, developing new CBZ

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The upregulation of kappa opioid receptor (KOR) may results in dysphoria which could contribute to relapse towards various drugs of abuse. This research work is conducted to further investigate the involvement of KOR system in mediating relapse related

Subject(s): Bone-grafting | Bones -- Tumors Treatment | Bone substitutes | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Orthopaedics,Traumatology & Rehabilitation -- IIUM Summary: Objective: This study was designed to evaluate the radiological outcome and recurrence of patient with benign cystic bone lesion treated operatively with synthetic bo

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology -- IIUM Summary: Harmful algal bloom (HAB) is a phenomenon that can cause harm to human health such as food poisoning and loss in aquaculture industries. However, in Malaysia, research on mitigation of HAB is very limited. This study aims to determine the potential of ornamental

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology -- IIUM Summary: The modified Viennese manual perineal protection (VMPP) is a modified method based on an experimental study on a computerized biomechanical model of the perineum by Jansova and colleagues. It determines the exact placement of fingers on the perineum