Brain development is influenced by many factors including sensory stimulation. Al-Quran sound as a form of auditory stimulation may influence nervous systems related to learning and memory. We investigated the effect of Al-Quran auditory stimulation to NOR (Novel Object Recognition) memory and amount...

Burn is still an important problem in health facility worldwide. Burns management from ancients ago until now is quite varied either giving topical therapy alone or combination with systemic drug along with various clinical considerations. Research on the healing of burns with phytoextract has been done...

Until nowadays, breast cancer is still the highest malignancy in women in both the developing and developed countries. The main causes of death in breast cancer is metastasis. Patients who have experienced distant metastases have a poor prognosis. Proliferation is a biological process that is important...

The information of relationship between genetics and cancer in Indonesia, especially colon cancer, is still limited. This study aimed to determine the genetic pattern of colon cancer allele in Fatmawati Hospital, Jakarta -Indonesia. We conducted a case-control study of 40 colorectal cancer patients and...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is still worldwide health problems. Sputum is contaminated by normal flora, that make its should be decontaminated prior to culture. Bleach known as a potent disinfectant, easy to access because it is commercially available, could be the alternative solution as decontaminant...

Skill laboratory teaching and learning is a part of medical school curriculum. The learning involves many things such as knowledge as well as affective and psychomotor capability, tutor role, and faculty financial support. In developing country, there is not only financial burden to support skill laboratory...

Osteoporosis is systemic bone disease marked by decline of bone mass density (BMD) and deterioration of bone microarchitecture so that bones become brittle and break easily. With the increasing of life expectancy, number of elderly in Indonesia will increase simultaneously. Estimated 10% of Indonesian...

Iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome is caused by the administration of exogenous glucocorticoids. The use of exogenous glucocorticoids has been found as an adulterant in many traditional, alternative medicines. In this case report, we describe a patient with iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome due to chronic use...

Prolactinoma, is the most common type of pituitary adenoma. Signs and symptoms are due to either the effect of excess hormone secretion or local compression. Here we report a male patient with prolactinoma presented with high prolactin level, severe headache, diffuse arthralgias, visual field impairment,...

Body has a great immune system among others of lymphocytes population. The biggest parts are T (timus) cell, B (bone) cell and Natural Killer cell (NK). T CD8+ cell is destroying cell infected by virus and tumor cell, while NK cell is natural killer cell in mechanism of inflammatory responses. Cupping...

Tea drinks are often used daily, and good for health because they contain antioxidants. This drink is often mixed with milk, and tastes so delicious, but the levels of tea antioxidants are reduced. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of additional skim milk on tea antioxidant activity....

Dengue hemorrhagic fever is an infectious disease caused by dengue virus has become one of the most important viral disease worldwide. DHF is re-emerging arboviral disease of great public heath importance, and it has spread to all tropical countries in the world. Pattern of dengue virus are serotypes...

Polymorphism in ALAD genes is form of adaptation mechanism environment changes due to pollutants Pb (Lead) and have an impact on the health risks. Accumulation of Pb in the lowest air pollutants may be a risk to children's health. Children with height range between 100 – 140 cm (6 to 9 years old) may...

Delta-Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) is an enzyme that catalyzes the condensation of two mollecules Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) to form Monopyrrole phorpobilinogen (PBG) in the pathway for heme synthesis. ALAD gene polymorphism is important for Lead (Pb) metabolism in blood. Recent studies indicated...

Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of death from all cancer cases in Indonesia. From previous research it is known that there is a relationship between genetic polymorphism of cytochrome P450 (CYP) with the incidence of colorectal cancer. Therefore, research team of FKIK UIN Syarif Hidayatullah...

The acrylamide content in coffee is formed during roasting process. Acrylamide is a carcinogenic substance which allows the occurrence of lung tumors in mice. Acrylamide causes mutations of EGFR and KRAS proto-oncogenes that increase the risk of lung tumors. Objective: This study aimed to prove the effect...

Background. Based on health research in 2007 found that infections were the cause of death of newborn number 3 (12%). Diagnosis Early-Onset neonatal sepsis (EO) was not easy to get prove of kind of microorganism, if only based on clinical symtomps due to systemic respons. Objective. Knowing the type...

Olives has been mentioned in holly books, Quran and Bible, as medicinal and good nutritional food. People using it as a herbal medicine for centuries. However, we concern about its toxicity to some organs tissues. In this study, we observed histopathological changes on stomach, liver and kidney tissues...

Oxidative stress plays pivotal roles in heightening the pathology of diabetic nephropathy. Widely known free radical scavenger, edaravone (3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazoline-5-one), has been proven to give benefits in cardiovascular and brain diseases by attenuating oxidative stress. Additionally, whether...

Recovery process is strongly believed to be significant in improving athletes' performance during and after training. One of the recovery process is physiotherapeutic. It uses cooling vests. The existing cooling vests around are made of materials such as anti-bacterial treatment, 50% nylon jersey, 50%...

Teamwork and collaborative practice are necessary tools in handling health problems and the importance of interprofessional teamwork is becoming increasingly recognized. The process of team development is a series of multilevel, overlapping responsibilities, which are intertwined with each other, and...

The focus of pharmacy education has shifted from product oriented to patient centre care. In the case of patient oriented, Pharmacist plays an important role in assuring the efficacy of drug to patient and preventing patient from the adverse drug event. In doing this responsibility, a pharmacist should...

Woman in reproductive age have higher risk of iron deficiency anemia. However, there are other factors than iron deficiency that can cause anemia, such as genetic blood disorders or hemoglobinopathies. Hemoglobin E (HbE) is one of common blood disorders in Indonesia. HbE carriers have higher risk to...

Anemia is one of the major health problems in Indonesia. In general, the condition occurs because of iron deficiency. Another major factor that causes anemia in Indonesia is thalassemia. Usually, the thalassemia patient comes with severe anemia for treatment. Since thalassemia is a genetic disorder,...

The Cardio-Renal Syndrome (CRS) has been de-fined by Ronco et al. as a pathophysiologic disorder of the heart and kidneys whereby acute or chronic dysfunction of one organ may induce acute or chronic dysfunction of the other. A 55-year old woman was brought to the emergency room presented with acute...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease that is commonly found in Indonesia.The method to control Aedes aegypti is mostly done by using a chemical insecticide, despite its have some side effects. Recent studies have shown that larvacides from plant extracts are safe for the environment. This research's...

Enhancement of uric acid levels (hyperuricemia) can cause disturbances in the human body as feeling weary in the joints and is often accompanied by the onset of extreme pain for the sufferer. In social charity programme research conducted by Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Muhammadiyah...

Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in reproductive females remains a public health problem in Indonesia. Transferrin receptor 1 (TfR1) is one of important proteins, which are involved in regulation of the iron metabolism in the human body. Mutation of A210G TfR1 gene increases soluble TfR levels in some patients...

Liver dysfunction is one of complication in dengue infection. Manifestation could be enlargement of liver and mild to moderate increase of transaminase enzyme (SGOT & SGPT) level. Transaminase level tend to be increase along with the severity of disease. This study aim to know characteristic of transaminase...

Intermittent hypobaric hypoxia (IHH) is believed to have neuroprotective effect. IHH induces changes in gene expression and intracellular signaling pathways that lead to the emergence of intracellular adaptation through HIF-1 alpha gene activity. IHH induction decreased brain cortical tissue damage,...