The use of body parts in the estimation of stature is a vital tool in forensic anthropology. This research was carried out to determine the height of adult population of Oguta inhabitants using the femur length. The femur length of 200 adults (male 123, female 77) aged 22 and 70 was taken using a non stretchable tape to measure the distance between the greater trochanter as palpated and lateral condyle of the femur. Height was taken from the subject by a calibrated meter rule. The mean of femur length and height was 41.18cm ± 0.03 and 164.47cm ± 0.65 respectively for the sample population in the male, the female length and height was 41.79cm ± 0.16 and 167.50cm ± 0.78 respectively, while in the female population the femur length was 40.82cm ± 0.26 and the height in 161.90cm ± 0.95. The pair of variables was found to be significant in each case at the level of p> 0.05. The value of the correlation factor is 0.9866. In this study the femur/length ratio for the sample population is 25. The mean femur/height ratio for male is 25.11 and that of female is 25.25. These values vary from reports from other parts of the world. This variation could be from the nutritional difference, occupation and the geographical location. The regression coefficient for the sample population is 0.9867. In the male population the value of r is 0.9927 while in the female population it is 0.9126. The values of r in this study showed that there is high correlation between the femur length and height of an individual. This study revealed that the height of an individual is four times the femur length of the individual, since the femur length is proportional to the height, therefore the taller the individual the longer femur length, while the shorter the individual the shorter the femur length.

The kidneys process the blood supplied to it via filtration, reabsorption, secretion and excretion leading to the formation of urine. It is constantly exposed to different drugs and products of metabolism which could be toxic and destructive to renal structures. This study investigated the protective effective of camel milk on carbon tetrachloride induced renotoxicity in wistar rat.Twenty adult wistar rats weighing between 150g and 200g were used in the study to determine the protective effective of camel milk on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced renotoxicity in rats. The rats were divided into 5 groups (A, B, C, D and E) of 4 animals each and were fed with rat feed and water for 30days. Control groups (A and B) were injected intraperitoneally (i/p) with 1ml/kgbw of paraffin oil on the 1st and 2nd days, and in addition group B was fed with camel milk for the remaining days. Groups C and D were injected i/p with CCl4 (1ml/kgbw) for 2 consecutive days and group D fed with camel milk for the remaining period. Group E were fed with camel milk and were injected i/p with CCl4 on the last two daysResults showed a 5.76% decrease in mean body weight of group C significant at p<0.05% while A and B; D and E showed increase in mean body weight of 7.69%, 12.60%, 4.40% and 9.21% respectively. The weight and relative weight of kidneys of Group C was significantly higher (p<0.05) compared with group A and other groups. The sera levels of creatine and urea were significantly raised (p< 0.05) in group C while control and other experimental groups were within normal range. Histologically, there were moderate inflammation, congestion of the glomerulus and tubular necrosis in group C. The renal structures of control, groups B and E appear normal while group D show minimal inflammation.This shows that camel milk protects and ameliorates renal architecture and could serve as a nutritional supplement in renal diseases.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.