From Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin
Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, Edo State University, Uzairue, Prof. Matthew Olaniyan, has appealed to the Federal Government to allocate more funds for immunological research for the production of plasma-derived immunoglobulins and vaccines.
Olaniyan, who is a professor of Chemical Pathology and Immunology made the call while delivering the Edo State University’s fifth lecture series entitled: “Exposition of systemic response to foreign agents for preventive health care: A source of potent information for human longevity” under the chairmanship of Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, vice chancellor of the university.
Olaniyan also suggested the establishment of regional reference laboratories and one primary healthcare medical laboratory in each of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria.
He said in the cost of his research interests, he was able to expose systemic response to foreign agents for preventive healthcare as a source of potent information for human being to live up to 120 years and above.
“I discovered health promoting immunological and non-immunological responses such as anti-hypertensive, weight reduction, hypolipidemia/hypocholesterolemia response, anti-diabetic response, antimicrobial response, reversal of toxicity, detection of microbial antigen and antibody for early diagnosis.” He said blood donation seemed to be beneficial to the health of donors in many ways as there was evidence to suggest that blood donation lowers blood viscosity and alters lipid profile which is an acceptable parameter for measuring the risk of coronary heart disease.
He said breast cancer was the most common cancer in women being one of the leading causes of death among the female gender adding that emerging evidence suggests the role of lipid in the development of breast cancer has become a great concern for the modern man and medical curiosity to further investigate alteration in lipid profile and hormonesensitive lipases genes among breast cancer patients in Nigeria.