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The journal is an international, rigorously peer-reviewed forum for the rapid dissemination of scientific advances in biochemistry, molecular biology, and related life-science fields.</div> <div style="margin-top: 11px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF0F8; border: 1px solid #D4E0F0; color: #1b3b63; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Peer Reviewed</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF5EE; border: 1px solid #CFE6D8; color: #0c4a3d; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Biochemistry &amp; Molecular Biology</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Life Sciences</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- CITATION ANALYSIS AND VISIBILITY --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding: 13px 13px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 16px; background: #FFFDF7;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Citation Analysis and Visibility</div> <div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; align-items: center; text-align: left;"><a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJBMBR/scopus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scopus</a> <a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #F4F1EA; border: 1px solid #E2D7C7; color: #3f4a55; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?search_mode=content&amp;and_facet_source_title=jour.1492469" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dimensions</a> <a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=B7oODOsAAAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Scholar</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e; font-weight: 800;">Editor-in-Chief:</strong> <strong>Prof. Isaac John Umaru, Ph.D.</strong> — <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57904659500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scopus</a>, <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac-Umaru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ResearchGate</a>, <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FoqEVrsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Scholar</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 6px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e; font-weight: 800;">Publisher:</strong> <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Darul Yasin Al Sys Foundation</a> in cooperation with <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.fuwukari.edu.ng/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal University Wukari, Nigeria</a>.</div> </div> <!-- ABOUT --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #F3F3DC; color: #3b5068; font-size: 16.2px; line-height: 1.86; text-align: justify;"><strong>African Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research (AJBMBR)</strong> is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the advancement of knowledge in biochemistry, molecular biology, and related life-science disciplines. The journal provides a scholarly medium for the rapid communication of original research, analytical advances, and scientifically grounded applications relevant to biological processes, health, environment, and biotechnology.</div> <!-- AIMS + SCOPE --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; align-items: stretch;"><!-- AIMS --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Aims</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;"><em>African Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research</em> aims to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research that advances biochemical and molecular understanding of living systems while supporting interdisciplinary developments across the life sciences.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Biochemical Advancement:</strong> disseminate rigorous studies in fundamental and applied biochemistry, including molecular mechanisms, metabolism, enzymes, membranes, and biomolecular interactions.<br> • <strong>Molecular and Cellular Inquiry:</strong> encourage research in molecular biology, genetic and cellular regulation, pathogen biology, and biologically relevant analytical methods.<br> • <strong>Life-Science Integration:</strong> promote interdisciplinary work linking biochemistry and molecular biology with biotechnology, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology, pathology, and health science.<br> • <strong>Scientific Relevance and Application:</strong> support research that contributes to biomedical, environmental, agricultural, nutritional, and translational scientific problems.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Submissions should clearly state the research problem, describe methods transparently, present defensible evidence, and articulate a well-defined contribution to biochemistry, molecular biology, or related life-science scholarship.</div> </div> <!-- SCOPE --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Scope</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;">AJBMBR welcomes original research papers and related scholarly contributions in biochemistry, molecular biology, and associated life-science fields, especially studies with strong methodological grounding and clear scientific relevance.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Core Biochemistry:</strong> macromolecular biochemistry, enzymology, membrane biochemistry, nutritional biochemistry, reproductive and developmental biochemistry, and biochemical regulation of cellular processes.<br> • <strong>Molecular and Biomedical Sciences:</strong> molecular biology, medical and clinical biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, microbiology, parasitology, malariology, and related disease-oriented biosciences.<br> • <strong>Biotechnology and Bioinformatics:</strong> biotechnology, computational biology, bioinformatics, molecular data analysis, and applied laboratory innovation.<br> • <strong>Health and Natural Product Sciences:</strong> phytomedicine, food science, health science, toxicology, and biophysics relevant to biomolecular or physiological understanding.<br> • <strong>Environmental and Applied Biosciences:</strong> environmental biochemistry and other biochemical applications connected to biological systems, sustainability, and applied life-science research.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Priority is given to original research articles that make a substantial contribution to biochemical and molecular biological knowledge, demonstrate methodological rigor, and offer meaningful implications for life-science research and application.</div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- ========================= END AJBMBR HOMEPAGE ========================= --> Darul Yasin Al Sys en-US African Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research 1595-7926 <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="//i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a></strong> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJBMBR/article/view/11641 <p>Dengue is a rapidly expanding global health problem for which no specific antiviral therapy is currently available, leaving disease management largely supportive and symptomatic. Severe thrombocytopenia is a major clinical concern in dengue infection, while prophylactic platelet transfusion can be costly and may not always be readily accessible. <em>Carica papaya</em> leaf juice (CPLJ) has been used off-label in the management of dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever and has been reported to increase platelet counts in thrombocytopenic children and adults with minimal adverse effects. This review synthesizes evidence on the antiviral activity and therapeutic potential of CPLJ and <em>C. papaya</em> leaf extracts in the treatment and recovery of dengue-infected patients. It examines recent findings from <em>in vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> studies, documented clinical trials, traditional applications, and research on the phytochemicals, amino acids, and other bioactive constituents of <em>C. papaya</em> leaves. The reviewed evidence indicates that CPLJ and its extracts may inhibit dengue virus activity, increase platelet counts, and support recovery among patients with dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever. These findings suggest that <em>C. papaya</em> leaves represent a promising natural source of bioactive compounds for developing supportive or antiviral interventions against dengue virus infection. Nevertheless, further rigorous pharmacological and clinical investigations are required to establish standardized formulations, therapeutic dosages, mechanisms of action, safety profiles, and clinical efficacy.</p> Dluya Samuel Thagriki ##submission.copyrightStatement## 2026-08-03 2026-08-03 3 3 248 275 10.58578/ajbmbr.v3i3.11641