• Apoptotic effects of lithium chloride on renal cells and potential alteration of renal antigens involved in systemic lupus erythematosus. 

  Lucas, Kirsten Clare (2008)

  Lithium, a prophylactic drug for the treatment of bipolar disorder, is used with caution due to many toxicity implications. In particular, lithium dosage and renal toxicity has to be constantly monitored in these ...
• Glut4 translocation augmentation effects of medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of type II diabetes mellitus 

  Beseni, Brian Kudakwashe (2017)

  Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder characterised by perpetual hyperglycaemia. Various oral pharmacological theraputic management strategies currently exist but are too expensive and having a host of ...
• Phytochemical analysis of Momordica cardiospermoides crude acetone and methanol leaf extracts and their effects on MDA-MB-231 cell migration and invasiveness 

  Kgakishe, Mante Dolly (2021)

  Drug discovery from medicinal plants continues to play an important role in the development of anticancer agents, this is because medicinal plants are reservoirs of bioactive compounds that exert a plethora of pharmacological ...
• Bidens pilosa extract and sub-fractions induce adipogenesis and exert glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes 

  Tolo, M. M. (2020)

  Diabetes mellitus has become a global epidemic, particularly type 2 diabetes. Obesity is one of the causes of type 2 diabetes mellitus due to its link with induced insulin resistance. There is no cure for diabetes ...
• Determination of the molecular mechanism(s) involved in the pro-apoptotic activity of momordica balsamina acetone extract in lung A549 cancer cells 

  Mudalahothe, Maedza (2019)

  Plant-derived products have been used for years in the treatment of various ailments with low or no side effects. Thus, screening of medicinal plants for potential anticancer activity, in vitro, could help identify ...
• Evaluation of anticancer activity of momordica balsamina extracts and potential interactions with a conventional anticancer drug in colon cancer 

  Malemela, Kholofelo Mmanoko (2021)

  Cancer remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with an estimated 9.9 million deaths in 2020. Cancer treatment regimens such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy have over the years fallen short ...
• Cytoprotective effects of lithium on endothelial integrity and immune profiles induced by rift valley fever virus on huvec and raw 264.7 cells 

  Makola, Raymond Tshepiso (2021)

  Introduction: Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is an arthropod-born RNA zoonotic virus causing Rift Valley fever (RVF) disease. RVFV is prevalent across sub-Saharan Africa and the Arabian Peninsula with no existing effective ...
• Differential expressions of apoptotic genes in lung (A549) cancer cells established by treatment with senna italica extracts 

  Moloantoa, Malose Ivan (2021)

  Lung cancer is the most diagnosed cancer with an estimated 3 million deaths expected by 2035. Bioactive phytochemicals present in plants are preferred as anticancer therapeutic agents, due to their ability to differentiate ...
• Integrative analysis of the epigenetic modification in a breast cancer cell line treated with a bioactive extract of bidens pilosa 

  Chokoe, Pirwana Kholofelo (2021)

  Breast cancer is the leading cause of female deaths in the world. Varying types of therapy options are available, yet these conventional treatments for the malignancy are known to have numerous side effects. Similar to ...
• Momordica balsamina crude acetone leaf extract impedes the human HT-29 colon cancer cell invasiveness, migration and adhesion by inhibiting ros-mediated TNF-a/NF-kB/MMP-2/-9 signalling pathway 

  Serala, Karabo (2020)

  Metastatic cancer remains incurable and accounts for 90% of cancer-related deaths (He et al., 2019). Therefore, there’s an urgent need to find anti-metastatic drugs with novel therapeutic targets (Zhang et al., 2018). ...
• Determining the anti-cancer properties of zinc and novel quinoxaline derivatives on lung cancer cells 

  Sibiya, Mixo Aunny (2020)

  Despite major advancements in the development of various chemotherapuetic agents, treatment for lung cancer remains costly, ineffective, toxic to neighbouring normal noncancerous cells and still hampered by high level of ...
• Determining the anti-cancer properties of Zinc and Novel quinoxaline derivatives on lung cancer cells 

  Sibiya, Mixo Aunny (2020)

  Despite major advancements in the development of various chemotherapuetic agents, treatment for lung cancer remains costly, ineffective, toxic to neighbouring normal noncancerous cells and still hampered by high level of ...
• Screening of the crude acetone extracts of toona ciliata, seriphium plumosum and schkuhria pinnata for their potential anticancer activities against hela cervical cancer cells 

  Ndlovu, Mxolisi Justice (2019)

  Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in females, and the seventh of all cancer types in both genders, with an estimated 500,000 new cases each year. As with liver cancer, a large majority (around 85%) of the ...
• Investing the role of arsenic trioxide on the expression of survivin splice variants and their specific microRNA during cell cycle progression and apoptosis in breast cancer MCF-7 cell line 

  Kagiso, Laka (2019)

  Survivin is the smallest and a well-studied member of the inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) family, which is involved in the regulation of cell division, inhibition of both caspasedependent and -independent apoptosis ...
• Investigation of the role of arsenic trioxide on the expression of RBBP6 splice variants and their specific micrornas (MIRS) during cell cycle progression and apoptosis of breast cancer cells 

  Makgoo, Lilian (2019)

  Retinoblastoma binding protein 6 (RBBP6) is the protein encoded by the Retinoblastoma Binding Protein 6 (RBBP6) gene that is located in chromosome 16p12.2. There is a growing list of newly discovered RBBP6 hypothetical ...
• Arytaina mopane's association with colophospermum mopane 

  Oppong, Charles Kwame (University of Limpopo, 2006)

  This dissertation reports on the results of field (Letsitele area) and laboratory investigations on the biology of Arytaina mopane, its ecological role as well as its physiological influences on the host plant Colophospermum ...
• Optimization of oil production by lipomyces tetrasporus isolated from soil in the Northern Province 

  Sibeko, Kgomotso Penelope (University of Limpopo, 1999)
• Growth enhancement and toxic effects of lithium on HL-60 promyelocytic leukaemia cells the involvement of insulin 

  Teffo, Leah Snow (University of Limpopo, 2001)

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• Estimating nitrogen status of crops using non-destructive remote sensing techniques 

  Botha, Elizabeth Johanna (University of Limpopo, 2001)

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• In vitro evaluation of anticancer effect on momordica balsamina linn. leaf extract in human MCF-7 cancer cells 

  Boshielo, Itumeleng Tania (2017)

  Cancer is a broad group of various diseases characterised by unregulated cell proliferation which leads to the formation of tumours (Vickers, 2004). Some tumours remain confined to their site of origin while some gain the ...

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