Quail eggs consumption and the levels of sex hormonesin healthy students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi

Aim: The present study was design to determine the serum levels of sex hormones (estradiol, progesterone, follicle stimulating hormone, lutenizing hormone, prolactin, and testosterone) following the consumption of cooked quail eggs by apparently healthy students. Materials and Method: This is an experimental study comprising 37 volunteered students, out of which are 20 females and 17 males within the age of 18±35years respectively. They were fed with three cooked quail eggs every morning for 21 days.  3ml of fasting blood were collected before the intake of cooked quail eggs for baseline, 10th day, and 21st day respectively. Result: The serum levels of estradiol, progesterone, follicle stimulating hormone, lutenizing hormone, prolactin, and testosterone were determined using standard methods. The result showed that the serum testosterone levels increased significantly while prolactin levels decreased significantly at 10th and 21st day  compared with the baseline level (p=0.01). However, the levels of progesterone and estradiol increased significantly at 21st day only compared with their baseline (p=0.01).  The mean levels of FSH, and LH at baseline, 10th and 21st day did not differ significantly following consumption of cooked quail eggs. Conclusion: The probably suggest that regular consumption of cooked quail egg may prevent miscarriage due to low progesterone levels because of its ability to increase progesterone level after consumption. It might as well as cause improvement on male and female fertility

Quail eggs consumption and the levels of glucose, lipid profile in healthy students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi

Aim: The present study was design to determine serum glucose and lipid profile level of triglyceride, total cholesterol, high density cholesterol, low density lipoprotein, very low density lipoprotein following the consumption of cooked quail eggs by apparently healthy students. Materials and Methods: This is an experimental study comprising 37 volunteered students, out of which are 20 females and 17 males within the age of 18±35years respectively. They were fed with three cooked quail eggs every morning for 21 days.3ml of fasting blood were collected before the intake of cooked quail eggs for baseline, 10th day, and 21st day respectively. The serum levels of glucose and lipid profile were determined using standard methods. Results: The result showed that the serum total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein–cholesterol decreased significantly at 10th day and 21st day following consumption of cooked quail eggs when compared with the baseline levels (p< 0.05). While High density lipoprotein – cholesterol increased significantly at 21st day following consumption of cooked quail eggs when compared with the baseline level (p<0.05). Glucose, triglyceride and very low density lipoprotein cholesterol did not differ at 10th day and 21st day following consumption of cooked quail eggs when compared with the baseline (p> 0.05). Conclusion: The implication of this finding suggest that regular consumption of cooked quail eggs may decrease diabetic and cardiovascular risk due to its ability to significantly decrease TC, LDL-C, increase HDL-C and TG, VLDL, glucose not differed

Phytochemical Screening and Antimicrobial Extracts Activity of Caladium Bicolor

This study investigated the phytochemical composition and antimicrobial activities of ethanol and methanol leaf, stem and root extracts of Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent against some clinical pathogens. The ethanol and methanol extracts of the plant parts were prepared by adding separately 10g, 20g, 30g and 40g of the leaf, stem and root powder of C. bicolor into 100ml if ethanol and methanol respectively. All extracts of the plant parts at varying concentrations showed antifungal activity against the test fungi. Ethanol leaf extract showed between slightly (4.23+0.05–19.30+0.65) and moderately effective (25.08+0.06–31.44+0.10) inhibition on the mycelial growth of all the test fungi. Ethanol stem extract had slightly effective (2.07+0.01–16.00+0.08) inhibition on the test fungi. Ethanol root extract had slightly effective (2.05+0.06–12.60+0.15) inhibition on the test fungi. Also, methanol leaf extract showed between slightly (2.30+0.06–18.10+0.11) and moderately effective (20.28+0.01–21.02+0.04) inhibition respectively. Methanol stem extract had slightly effective (4.03+0.08–14.03+0.77) inhibition on the test fungi. Methanol root extract had slightly effective (1.00+0.06–11.40+0.09) inhibition on all the test fungi. The phytochemical analysis was done using standard techniques. Data were analysed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to test for significance. Means were separated using Duncan's Multiple Range Test (DMRT) at 5% level of probability using Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) package. This study showed that ethanol and methanol extracts of leaf, stem and root of C. bicolor were able to inhibit the pathogenic fungi hence the fungitoxic potentials of these extracts can provide an alternative to synthetic fungicides since it is less expensive, environmental friendly and easy to prepare