Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Exposure to cyclophosphamide has been associated with overproduction of free radicals and generation of oxidative stress in male reproductive system, resulting in impaired spermatogenesis, fertility and progeny outcome. Hence, many efforts have been dev

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care -- IIUM Summary: Introduction: Augmented renal clearance (ARC) is a phenomenon where there is elevated renal clearance and defined by creatinine clearance > 130ml/min/1.73m2. ARC results in changes of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic of antimicrob

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology -- IIUM Summary: Sperm DNA fragmentation has been shown to be associated with unexplained infertility, failure of assisted reproduction and recurrent miscarriages. Smoking has the potential to be associated with high sperm DNA fragmentation. However, the association

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Surgery -- IIUM Summary: Objective: To determine the correlation between visual prostate symptom score that is filled up without assistance and uroflowmetry (Qmax) among BPH patients undergoing treatment in Urology Clinic in a tertiary centre in Malaysia. Methodology: Ours is a cross section

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Eurycoma longifolia is a traditional plant that has long been used for enhancement of male reproductive functions by enhancement of male testosterone levels thus improving the spermatogenesis process. However, effects of E. longifolia on the female repro

Subject(s): Indoor air pollution -- Health aspects -- Malaysia -- Pahang | Indoor air pollution -- Malaysia -- Pahang | School children -- Health risk assessment -- Malaysia -- Pahang | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Science -- IIUM Summary: The inadequacy of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) inside the classrooms especially in tropical countri

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Science -- IIUM Summary: Rapid development along the Kuantan River was long perceived as the river serves many communities in terms of domestic, commercial, recreation, fisheries and agricultural purposes. Trace metals are well-documented with the toxicity and bioaccumulative characteristics w

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology -- IIUM Summary: Carbamazepine (CBZ) is used to treat epilepsy and is an anti-convulsant requiring the drug to reach the brain to exert their pharmacological response. The presence of blood-brain barrier (BBB) poses a great challenge for any drugs to reach the recept

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology -- IIUM Summary: A complex and diverse range of microorganism communities live within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of living organisms. Amongst the bacterial communities in the GI tract, lactic acid bacteria (LAB) is generally regarded as safe, and probiotic due to their inhe

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biomedical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Breast cancer is a major health challenges in worldwide including Malaysia. It is the commonest malignancy among women. Although there are several of cancer treatments; however, these current treatments have consequences to the cancer patient such as recur