Contents Indian J Med Res Volume 124

Editorial

Rising rates of caesarean section: the way ahead Asha Oumachigui

India and China: Time to catch up K Satyanarayana

Post-emergency: providing effective, sustainable, life-long care to everyone with AIDS Sergio Bautista Arredondo,Stefano M Bertozzi,Juan G ,Patricia Volkow

Capacity building for clinical trials in India Falguni Sen,Vasantha Muthuswamy

Establish herd effect to interrupt wild poliovirus transmission T Jacob John

Vaccine preservatives: what is the big deal? C John Clements

The curse of dengue U C Chaturvedi

Chikungunya fever: clinical manifestations and management Alladi Mohan

Vector biology of dengue and chikungunya viruses D T Mourya,P Yadav

Addressing the diabetes pandemic: A comprehensive approach Mary Margaret Huizinga,Russell L Rothman

Suicide and mental disorders - a maze? Lakshmi Vijayakumar

Editorial autonomy in learned journals: Lessons from the CMAJ episode K Satyanarayana

Regulating stem cell research and therapy S S Agarwal

Commentry

Computer-aided diagnosis: Radiologistsapos; ldquor;second opinionrdquor; in breast cancer diagnosis on mammography Chuan Zhou

Neuroleptospirosis: unexplored and overlooked Alexandre Leite de Souza

Participation in HIV vaccine trials: Listening to participant and community concerns Edward J Mills,Prabhat Jha

Iron deficiency in healthy blood donors exposes vulnerability of the nation to iron deficiency Kanjaksha Ghosh

Chromosomal instability in bone marrow failure syndromes V Babu Rao,Roshan B Colah

A new approach for sternotomy incision - a possibility for improved sternal wound healing Johan Sjouml;gren

Molecular cytogenetics of recurrent missed abortions Igor Lebedev

Whither autologous blood predonations? Aleksandar Mijovic

Protect the health of health care workers T Jacob John

Low level laser therapy (LLLT): A new paradigm in the management of cancer therapy-induced mucositis ? Reneacute; Jean Bensadoun

Can we look forward to genetic tests for tuberculosis susceptibility and severity? Sita Naik

A perspective on tuberculosis and exercise testing James E Hansen

Nestin immunoexpression in CNS tumours Fabio Rotondo

Awakening India to obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome Reena Mehra

Review Article

The requirements of protein and amino acid during acute and chronic infections Anura V Kurpad

Autologous transplantation in the central nervous system Philippe Taupin

Emergence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as an epidemic in India Surinder K Jindal

Smoking, educational status and health inequity in India Rajeev Gupta

Macrophage and dengue virus: Friend or foe? U C Chaturvedi,Rachna Nagar,Richa Shrivastava

Hepatoprotective herbal drug, silymarin from experimental pharmacology to clinical medicine S C Pradhan,C Girish

Applications of real-time PCR technology to mycobacterial research Deepti Parashar,D S Chauhan,V D Sharma,V M Katoch

The burden of cardiovascular disease in the Indian subcontinent Abhinav Goyal,Salim Yusuf

Adjuvant therapy in cerebral malaria Sanjib Mohanty,D K Patel,S S Pati,S K Mishra

Effect of tobacco smoking on renal function Ross G Cooper

 

Original Article

Skewed sex ratio and low aneuploidy in recurrent early missed abortion Ashutosh Halder,Ashish Fauzdar

Multiple constitutional aetiological factors in bone marrow failure syndrome (BMFS) patients from north India Neelam Varma,Subhash Varma,Ram Kumar Marwaha,Pankaj Malhotra,Deepak Bansal,Kiran Malik,Sukhdeep Kaur,Gurjeevan Garewal

Comparison of straight sternotomy and interlocking sternotomy in open heart surgery Kushal Madan,Vishwa Prakash Gupta,Rajvir Singh,Sachin Talwar,Shiv Kumar Choudhary,Balram Airan,A Sampath Kumar

Gross anatomy of the retrohepatic segment of the inferior vena cava in northwest Indians Daisy Sahni,Harjeet,Y K Chawla,Indar Jit

Impact of BCG vaccination on tuberculin surveys to estimate the annual risk of tuberculosis infection in south India P G Gopi,R Subramani,T Nataraj,P R Narayanan

Prevalence of primary drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mashhad, Iran Mohammad H Namaei,Ali Sadeghian,Mahboobeh Naderinasab,Masood Ziaee

Protein antigen b (Pab) based PCR test in diagnosis of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis S S Negi,Ranjana Anand,S F Basir,S T Pasha,Sunil Gupta,Shashi Khare,Shiv Lal

Field performance of imidacloprid gel bait against German cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blatellidae) V K Agrawal,Rina Tilak

Emerging resistance to carbapenems in a tertiary care hospital in north India Ekta Gupta,Srujana Mohanty,Seema Sood,Benu Dhawan,Bimal K Das,Arti Kapil

Serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from ophthalmic and systemic infections and of commensal origin Upendra K Kar,Gita Satpathy,N Nayak,B K Das,S K Panda

Predictive efficacy of nalidixic acid resistance as a marker of fluoroquinolone resistance in Salmonella enterica var Typhi Pallab Ray,Jyoti Sharma,Rungmei S K Marak,R K Garg

Computer aided decision system for early detection of breast cancer H S Sheshadri,A Kandaswamy

Neuroleptospirosis - revisited: experience from a tertiary care neurological centre from south India Thomas Mathew,P Satishchandra,A Mahadevan,S Nagarathna,T C Yasha,A Chandramukhi,D K Subbakrishna,S K Shankar

A random sample survey for prevalence of major neurological disorders in Kolkata S K Das,Atanu Biswas,Trishit Roy,T K Banerjee,C S Mukherjee,D K Raut,Arijit Chaudhuri

Prevalence of anaemia in pregnant and lactating women in India K N Agarwal,D K Agarwal,A Sharma,K Sharma,K Prasad,M C Kalita,N Khetarpaul,A C Kapoor,L Vijayalekshmi,A K Govilla,S M Panda,P Kumari

Prevalence of proteinuria in rural adult population in Tamil Nadu Isthiaque Ahmed,George T John,Meshach G Kirubakaran,Chakko K Jacob,Jayaprakash Muliyil

Multidrug resistance in amoebiasis patients Devendra Bansal,Rakesh Sehgal,Yogesh Chawla,Nancy Malla,R C Mahajan

Pharyngeal carriage of group A streptococci in school children in Chennai Charmaine A C Lloyd,Swarna E Jacob,Thangam Menon

The effect of Panax ginseng on forced immobility time and immune function in mice Hye Young Shin,Hyun Ja Jeong,Hyo Jin An,Seung Heon Hong,Jae Young Um,Tae Yong Shin,Soon Joo Kwon,Seon Young Jee,Bu Il Seo,Soon Shik Shin,Deok Chun Yang,Hyung Min Kim

Reduced antioxidant potential and sensitivity to oxidation in plasma low density lipoprotein fraction in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients Imge B Erg uuml;der,Nedim Karagenccedil;,Levent Karaca

Expression of nestin - a stem cell associated intermediate filament in human CNS tumours Sandhya B Rani,Anita Mahadevan,Shobha Rani Anilkumar,T R Raju,S K Shankar

Validation of the modified Berlin questionnaire to identify patients at risk for the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome S K Sharma,C Vasudev,S Sinha,A Banga,R M Pandey,K K Handa

Frequency of major affective disorders in first-degree relatives of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus D Pravin,S Malhotra,S Chakrabarti,R J Dash

Hormonal abnormalities in azoospermic men in Kano, Northern Nigeria M A Emokpae,P O Uadia,A Z Mohammed,A Omale Itodo

HLA alleles in pre-menopausal breast cancer patients from western India L Gopalkrishnan,S Patil,S Chhaya,R Badwe,N Joshi

Intestinal enzymes during malnutrition and infection in rabbits Sufia Islam,Amal K Mitra,Ashish K Chowdhury,Nur Haque Alam

CD4/CD8 lymphocyte counts in healthy, HIV-positive individuals and AIDS patients Krishna Ray,S M Gupta,Manju Bala,Sumathi Muralidhar,Joginder Kumar

Kindling and mossy fibre sprouting in the rat hippocampus following hot water induced hyperthermic seizures Gautam R Ullal,P Satishchandra,D Kalladka,K Rajashekar,K Archana,A Mahadevan,S K Shankar

Recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) preconditioning on nuclear factor-kappa B (NF -kB) activation and proinflammatory cytokines induced by myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion Xiaoming Liu,Jinchun Shen,Yi Jin,Manlin Duan,Jianguo Xu

Development of an immunodetection test for a botulinum - like neurotoxin produced by Clostridium sp. RKD Aparna Dixit,S I Alam,R K Dhaked,Lokendra Singh

Effect of low level helium-neon (He-Ne) laser therapy in the prevention and treatment of radiation induced mucositis in head and neck cancer patients G Arun Maiya,M S Sagar,Donald Fernandes

Interferon gamma (IFNGamma;) and interleukin-4 (IL-4) gene variants and cytokine levels in pulmonary tuberculosis M Vidyarani,P Selvaraj,S Prabhu Anand,M S Jawahar,A R Adhilakshmi,P R Narayanan

Effect of antituberculosis treatment on cardiopulmonary responses to exercise in miliary tuberculosis S K Sharma,Gautam Ahluwalia

Neuroprotection of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons by melatonin in hemiparkinsonium rat S Singh,R Ahmed,R K Sagar,B Krishana

Cytokine generation in stored platelet concentrate: Comparison of two methods of preparation Rajendra Chaudhary,Amita Aggarwal,Dheeraj Khetan,Rajeshwar Dayal

Prevalence and significance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) seropositivity in blood donors Beenu Thakral,Neelam Marwaha,Y K Chawla,Karan Saluja,Arpita Sharma,R R Sharma,R W Minz,S K Agnihotri

Sensitivity of Ziehl-Neelsen method for centrifuged deposit smears of sputum samples transported in cetyl-pyridinium chloride N Selvakumar,M Gomathi Sekar,Vanaja Kumar,D Vijaya Bhaskar Rao,Fathima Rahman,P R Narayanan

Evaluation of a chromogenic medium for rapid detection of extended spectrum beta;-lactamase producing Salmonella spp. Sesin Kocagouml;z,,Fatma Budak,Deniz Guuml;r

Vitex negundo Linn (VN) leaf extract as an adjuvant therapy to standard anti-inflammatory drugs Vishal R Tandon,R K Gupta

Feasibility of pre-operative autologous blood donation in Indian patients with elective orthopaedic surgery Karan Saluja,Neelam Marwaha,Beenu Thakral,Vijay Goni,R R Sharma,G D Puri

Injection practices in the formal and informal healthcare sectors in rural north India Michelle Kermode,Vanlal Muani

Correlation between methotrexate efficacy and toxicity with C677T polymorphism of the methylenetetrahydrofolate gene in rheumatoid arthritis patients on folate supplementation Parshant Aggarwal,Sita Naik,K P Mishra,Amita Aggarwal,Ramnath Misra

Insulin resistance and secretion in subjects with normal fasting plasma glucose Chang Hsun Hsieh,Yi Jen Hung,Chung Ze Wu,Shang Sen Lee,Chien Hsing Lee,Cheng Yu Chen,Jur Chuan Li,Shi Wen Kuo,Ko Lin Kuo,Dee Pei

Effect of environmental iodine deficiency (EID) on foetal growth in Nigeria S C Das,A Z Mohammed,S A1 Hassan,A A Otokwula,U P Isichei

Assessment of mammographic density changes on plain film mammograms in postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy Sebnem Orguc,Cihan Goktan,Gulgun Yilmaz Ovali,Oznur Karaer,Semra Oruc

Immune status of health care personnel and post vaccination analysis of immunity against rubella in an eye hospital Thanapal Amala Rajasundari,Keerthy Chandrasekar,Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi,Veerappan Muthukkaruppan

Changing trends in sexually transmitted infections at a Regional STD Centre in north India Krishna Ray,Manju Bala,S M Gupta,Niti Khunger,Poonam Puri,S Muralidhar,Joginder Kumar

Immunoreactive outer membrane proteins of Leptospira interrogans serovar Canicola strain Hond Utrecht IV R Amutha,P Chaudhuri,Amar P Garg,P S Cheema,S K Srivastava

Rapid detection of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis in diarrhoeal faecal samples Nidhi Sharma,Rama Chaudhry

A pilot study on willingness to participate in future preventive HIV vaccine trials Mohanarani Suhadev,Adeline M Nyamathi,Soumya Swaminathan,P Venkatesan,M Raja Sakthivel,R Shenbagavalli,Anitha Suresh,John L Fahey

Evaluation of iron stores in blood donors by serum ferritin Romilla Mittal,Neelam Marwaha,Sabita Basu,Harsh Mohan,A Ravi Kumar

Impact of iron deficiency anaemia on T lymphocytes and their subsets in children Shalini Mullick,Usha Rusia,Meera Sikka,M A Faridi

Cultivation of human corneal limbal stem cells in Mebiol gelreg; - A thermo-reversible gelation polymer B Sudha,H N Madhavan,G Sitalakshmi,J Malathi,S Krishnakumar,Y Mori,H Yoshioka,S Abraham

Measurement of 24 h energy expenditure in male tuberculosis patients T Raj,G D Souza,M Elia,A V Kurpad

Association between subclinical inflammation and fasting insulin in urban young adult north Indian males N K Vikram,,Anoop Misra,R M Pandey,Manjari Dwivedi,Kalpana Luthra,Vibha Dhingra,K K Talwar

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene intron4 VNTR polymorphism in patients with coronary artery disease in Iran Saeedeh Salimi,Mohsen Firoozrai,Issa Nourmohammadi,Mohammad Shabani,Ahmad Mohebbi

Role of anti cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies in erosive disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis S Shankar,R Grover,R Handa

Hypolactasia and lactose intolerance among three ethnic groups in Malaysia M Z Asmawi,L Seppo,H Vapaatalo,R Korpela

Prevention of opportunistic infections in HIV infection by pentoxiphylline A Wanchu,A Bhatnagar,P Bambery,S Singh,S Varma

The role of allopurinol in experimental acute necrotizing pancreatitis A Turan Isik,M Refik Mas,Levent Yamanel,Sezai Aydin,Bilgin Comert,Cemal Akay,Gokhan Erdem,Nuket Mas

Correspondence

Seroprevalence of Japanese encephalitis virus infection in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh A Roy,R Tandon,S K Agarwal,G Banerjee

Synergistic effect of alcohol and fructose administration on blood urate and biochemical indices of insulin resistance in albino rabbits I Onyesom

Seroepidemiology of a focal outbreak of dengue in Tamil Nadu R Paramasivan,V Thenmozhi,L Kabilan,S C Tewari,N Arunachalam,K J Dhananjeyan,B K Tyagi

Antibiogram, phage typing and biotyping of Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A from Rourkela, Orissa Usha Das,S S Bhattacharya

Skewed sex ratio in India Ashutosh Halder

Fluoroquinolone resistance among Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A in Pondicherry B N Harish,G A Menezes,K Sarangapani,S C Parija

Antimicrobial resistance profile of Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing metallo-beta;-lactamases Vandana A Agarwal,Shruti A Dongre,Rajaram M Powar

Large outbreak of hepatitis A in Kerala T Jacob John

Concern on vector control in kala-azar N Sivagnaname

Visceral leishmaniasis Kaushal Kumar

Nocardia pyopneumothorax in an immunocompetent patient Ekta Gupta,Benu Dhawan,M M Thabah,Bimal K Das,Seema Sood,Arti Kapil

Book Review

From population control to reproductive health: Malthusian arithmetic

Atlas: Epilepsy care in the world 2005

AIDS epidemic update: December 2005

Mental disorders in children and adolescents: Needs and strategies for intervention

Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights.

Concise International Chemical Assessment Document (CICAD) 63, Manganese and its Compounds: Environmental Aspects

  
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