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Editors
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Interview with Rafal Marszalek, Chief Editor of Scientific Reports
In-house Editors
Chief Editor: Rafal Marszalek, PhD; Springer Nature, UK
Rafal's background is analytical and biological chemistry. He did his PhD and postdoctoral research in single-cell proteomics at Imperial College London, UK. He was an editor at Genome Biology before joining Scientific Reports in August 2016.
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Deputy Editor: Elizabeth Mann, PhD; Springer Nature, UK
Elizabeth has a background in pharmacology and completed her PhD in neuropharmacology at King's Col
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Onosma hispidum L. extrakt reverses hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and associated vascular dysfunction in rats
Abstract
Onosma hispidum.L (O. hispidum) belongs to the family Boregineacea. A preliminary study and its medicinal use suggested its role in the management of hyperlipidemia. The present study aimed to assess the effect of methanolic root extrakt of O. hispidum in hyperlipidemia and associated vascular dysfunction. Oral administration of O. hispidum crude extrakt (Oh. Cr) to tyloxopol and high fat diet-induced hyperlipidemic Sprague-Dawley rats for 10 and 28 days significantly reduced total triglycerides and cholesterol (p < 0.001), compared to hyperlipidemic rats. Oh. Cr 250 mg/kg orally treated rats significantly (p < 0.001) reduced both the total body vikt and atherogenic index in tylaxopol and HFD rats. In HMG-CoA assay, the inhibition of the enzyme was significant in Oh.Cr (250 mg/kg) treated group. Histopathological studies indicated that the
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Answer to Prayer
Obiora Francis Ike was born in Gusau, northern Nigeria, on 7 April 1956. His roots are in Ezeagu, eastern Nigeria and he is Igbo by heritage. His father Richard Maduabuchi Ike and his mother Lucy Mgbafor, natives of Umana Ndiagu, Ezeagu Enugu, in eastern Nigeria were then living in Gusau where his father worked in the colonial days as a manager in GB Ollivant, a British trading company and an offshoot of the UAC, United Africa Company, owned by Britain.
His birth was an answer to a prayer by his parents, extended families and well wishers for a male child, following God's blessings upon his parents with three daughters in a row. His father notes that the birth of Obiora was a remarkable case of a child in hurry to reach and touch the world, because, "on the night he was born, his mother underwent a brisk labour, and had a quick and safe delivery in the parlour of our Gusau home at e