Contents Indian J Med Res Volume 125

Editorial

Are we providing quality care to our patients with tuberculosis ? Madhukar Pai,S K Sharma

Chronic kidney disease: Need for a national action plan C Shyam,K V Dakshina Murty,V Sreenivas,Rapur Ram

Stop TB: A long way to go, but new twists and turns in the science Graham A W Rook

Polio eradication and the future for other programmes: Situation analysis for strategic planning in India Jacob M Puliyel,Manoj Anand Gupta,Joseph L Mathew

The CRASH-2 trial of an antifibrinolytic agent in traumatic haemorrhage: an international collaboration Ian Roberts

Are we heading in the right direction? K Satyanarayana

Mental Health Programme in the 11th Five Year Plan R Srinivasa Murthy

Diabetes in 2007 - What are the promises and challenges? M Balasubramanyam,V Mohan

Diabetes Research: Are we doing enough? K Satyanarayana

It is time to make smokefree environments work in India Rijo M John,Stanton A Glantz

Asthma control in the first decade of 21 st century S K Jindal

Viral hepatitis - is it still a challenge in the Indian subcontinent ? P Kar

Commentry

Subclinical inflammation, C-reactive protein and cardiovascular risk A H Heald

Investigating outbreaks of uncertain aetiologies Kuryan George

Genistein administration and climacteric symptoms: from plasma levels to biological activity Alessandra Bitto,Letteria Minutoli,Francesco Squadrito

Association of infection with coronary artery disease Rajesh Vijayvergiya

Elevation of tumour marker CA-125 in serum and body fluids: interpret with caution Syed Fayyaz Hussain,Philip Camilleri

Quo vadis, expanded programme on immunization? T Jacob John

Nitric oxide in health and diseases R H Das

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and tumour angiogenesis Shuvojit Moulik,Amitava Chatterjee

GB virus C / hepatitis G virus - its role in human disease redefined? Priya Abraham

How much more research is required to prevent cholera? G Balakrish Nair

Commercial anti-D reagents in Indian market and detection of partial D variants N Choudhury

Review Article

Biological and physiological aspects of action of insulin-like growth factor peptide family Jasminka Pavelicacute;,Tanja Matijevicacute;,Jelena KneZcaron;evicacute;

Understanding childhood depression Savita Malhotra,Partha Pratim Das

The therapeutic potential of human embryonic stem cells S H Cedar,J A Cooke,M R Patel,Z Luo,S L Minger

Neural mechanism of rapid eye movement sleep generation with reference to REM-OFF neurons in locus coeruleus Dinesh Pal,Birendra Nath Mallick

Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes: Indian scenario V Mohan,S Sandeep,R Deepa,B Shah,C Varghese

Childhood diabetes mellitus: Recent advances and future prospects Prapai Dejkhamron,Ram K Menon,Mark A Sperling

Ethnicity, type 2 diabetes and migrant Asian Indians Nicola Abate,Manisha Chandalia

Genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes among Asian Indians V Radha,V Mohan

New frontiers in the management of type 2 diabetes Sunder Mudaliar

Diabetic retinopathy: An Indian perspective M Rema,R Pradeepa

Psychiatric co-morbidity and diabetes G R Sridhar

Biomarkers of susceptibility to type 1 diabetes with special reference to the Indian population Narinder K Mehra,Neeraj Kumar,Gurvinder Kaur,Uma Kanga,Nikhil Tandon

The metabolic syndrome in South Asians: Continuing escalation and possible solutions Anoop Misra,Ranjita Misra,Mahen Wijesuriya,Dipanjan Banerjee

Antioxidants: Do they have a role in the treatment of insulin resistance? Joseph L Evans

GLUT4s itinerary in health and disease Alicia M McCarthy,Jeffrey S Elmendorf

The role of AMP kinase in diabetes Parimal Misra,Ranjan Chakrabarti

Skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction and diabetes Raghavakaimal Sreekumar,K Sreekumaran Nair

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and diabetes S Sundar Rajan,V Srinivasan,M Balasubramanyam,U Tatu

Isolated islets in diabetes research R Bhonde,R C Shukla,M Kanitkar,R Shukla,M Banerjee,S Datar

Telomere shortening and metabolic/vascular diseases M Balasubramanyam,A Adaikalakoteswari,S Finny Monickaraj,V Mohan

Animal models in type 2 diabetes research: An overview K Srinivasan,P Ramarao P Ramarao

Economic analysis of diabetes care Anil Kapur

Diabetes Research in India - A citation profile A Ratnakar,K Satyanarayana

Burden of disease and molecular epidemiology of group A rotavirus infections in India Sasirekha Ramani,Gagandeep Kang

 

Original Article

Role of cancer antigen-125 from pleural and ascitic fluid samples in non malignant conditions Yatiraj Kalantri,Girish Naik,S P Joshi,Ajay Jain,Satish Phatak,Rajesh Chavan,Nanda Hemvani,D S Chitnis

Health infrastructure and immunization coverage in rural India Ashlesha Datar,Arnab Mukherji,Neeraj Sood

Expression of insulin like growth factor binding protein-5 in drug induced human gingival overgrowth Tamilselvan Subramani,Anbazhagi Sakkarai,Kamatchiammal Senthilkumar,Soundararajan Periasamy,Georgie Abraham,Suresh Rao

Acceptance of HIV-1 education and voluntary counselling/testing by and seroprevalence of HIV-1 among, pregnant women in rural south India N M Samuel,P Srijayanth,S Dharmarajan,J Bethel,H Van Hook,M Jacob,V Junankar,J Chamberlin,D Collins,J S Read

Operational feasibility of rapid diagnostic kits and blister packs use for malaria control in high transmission areas of Orissa and Chhattisgarh A M Reetha,S K Sharma,P K Tyagi,Neena Valecha,B N Nagpal,A P Dash

Nested reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction for the detection of rubella virus in clinical specimens G Shyamala,J Malathi,Y S Moses,K L Therese,H N Madhavan

Plasmid distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Acinetobacter genospecies from healthy skin of a tribal population in western India Karishma R Pardesi,Supriya P Yavankar,Balu A Chopade

Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance pattern of extended spectrum beta;-lactamase producing Klebsiella spp isolated from cases of neonatal septicaemia Amita Jain,Rajesh Mondal

Association of common chronic infections with coronary artery disease in patients without any conventional risk factors Puneet Goyal,Shailaja C Kalek,Rama Chaudhry,Sandeep Chauhan,Naseem Shah

Clinical utility of serum human epidermal receptor-2/neu detectionin breast cancer patients K Thriveni,Vijayalakshmi Deshmane,P P Bapsy,Lakshmi Krishnamoorthy,Girija Ramaswamy

Oxidative stress in sepsis in children Sumina Cherian,Shiji Jameson,Chitikineni Rajarajeswari,Vemuri Helena,Lakshmi Latha,M R Anu Rekha,Takkella Nagamma,V Subba Raju,Pushpa G Kini,Anjali Rao

Promotion of cutaneous wound healing by famotidine in Wistar rats K S Rao,P A Patil,P R Malur

Rapid identification of mycobacteria by gene amplification restriction analysis technique targeting 16S - 23S ribosomal RNA internal transcribed spacer and flanking region V M Katoch,Deepti Parashar,D S Chauhan,D Singh,V D Sharma,S Ghosh

Persistently high HIV seroprevalence among adult tuberculosis patients at a tertiary care centre in Delhi P Piramanayagam,Mohammad Tahir,S K Sharma,Duncan Smith rohrberg,A Biswas,M Vajpayee

Prevalence of bacterial vaginosis among women in Delhi, India P Bhalla,Rohit Chawla,S Garg,M M Singh,U Raina,Ruchira Bhalla,Pushpa Sodhanit

Occurrence of TEM and SHV gene in extended spectrum beta;-lactamases (ESBLs) producing Klebsiella sp. isolated from a tertiary care hospital Prabha Lal,Arti Kapil,Bimal K Das,Seema Sood

Health related quality of life in patients with type I diabetes mellitus: generic and disease-specific measurement Huberta E Hart,William K Redekop,Henk J G Bilo,Betty Meyboom de Jong,Marc Berg

Recurrent annual outbreaks of a hepato-myo-encephalopathy syndrome in children in western Uttar Pradesh, India V M Vashishtha,N C Nayak,T Jacob John,Amod Kumar

Plasma levels of genistein following a single dose of soy extract capsule in Indian women J V Joshi,R A Vaidya,S N Pandey,S Agashe,S Chandrasekharan,S K Menon,A D B Vaidya

Effect of Gamiseunggal-Tang on immediate type allergic reaction in mice Hyun Ja Jeong,Phil Dong Moon,Jae Young Um,Jinhan Park,Kang Hyun Leem,Chang Ju Kim,Hyung Min Kim,Seung Heon Hong

House-to-house survey vs. snowball technique for capturing maternal deaths in India: A search for a cost-effective method Padam Singh,Arvind Pandey,Abha Aggarwal

Survival and detection of the faecal indicator bacterium Enterococcus faecalis in water stored in traditional vessels Puja Tandon,Sanjay Chhibber,Robert H Reed

InPouch TV TM culture for detection of Trichomonas vaginalis Seema Sood,Srujana Mohanty,Arti Kapil,Jorge Tolosa,Suneeta Mittal

Pain and resistance in patients with adhesive capsulitis during contrast material injection phase of MR arthrography Mehmet Halit Yilmaz,Fatih Kantarci,Ibrahim Adaletli,Sila Ulus,Fatih Gulsen,Harun Ozer,Ilknur Aktas,Kenan Akgun,Kaya Kanberoglu

Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from different parts of India based on IS6110 element polymorphism using RFLP analysis D S Chauhan,V D Sharma,Deepti Parashar,Aradhana Chauhan,D Singh,H B Singh,R Das,B M Aggarwal,B Malhotra,Amita Jain,Meera Sharma,V K Kataria,J K Aggarwal,Mohamad Hanif,Aruna Shahani,V M Katoch

Serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in the nasopharynx of healthy Turkish children Gonul Aslan,Gurol Emekdas,Mujgan Bayer,Mehmet Sami Serin,Necdet Kuyucu,Arzu Kanik

Changing profile of Vibrio cholerae O1, O139 in Delhi and its periphery (2003-2005) N C Sharma,P K Mandal,Rohini Dhillon,Madhu Jain

Potential of commercial anti-D reagents in the identification of partial D variants in Indian population Swati S Kulkarni,K Vasantha,Snehalata C Gupte,Dipika Mohanty,Kanjaksha Ghosh

Prices and availability of common medicines at six sites in India using a standard methodology Anita Kotwani,Margaret Ewen,Dalia Dey,Shobha Iyer,P K Lakshmi,Archana Patel,Kannamma Raman,G L Singhal,Vijay Thawani,Santanu Tripathi,Richard Laing

Copper/zinc superoxide dismutase activity in newborns and young people in Spain Aacute;ngela Casado,Rosario de la Torre,M Encarnacioacute;n Loacute;pez Fernaacute;ndez

Epidemiological profile of snake-bite cases from Andhra Pradesh using immunoanalytical approach Ganneru Brunda,R B Sashidhar

Radiological manifestations of splenic tuberculosis: A 23-patient case series from India S K Sharma,Duncan Smith Rohrberg,Mohammad Tahir,Alladi Mohan,Ashu Seith

Clinical significance of airways colonization with Ureaplasma urealyticum in premature (<34 wk) neonates Anubhav Pandey,Benu Dhawan,Vikas Gupta,Rama Chaudhry,A K Deorari

Phage typing, biotyping and antimicrobial resistance profile of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi from Kolkata Bhaswati Sen,Shanta Dutta,Dipika Sur,Byomkesh Manna,A K Deb,S K Bhattacharya,S K Niyogi

Activation of inducible nitric oxide synthase by Kagamjuaguiem in peritoneal macrophages in mice Hyo Jin An,Jae Young Um,Ho Jeong Na,Sejin Jeong,Hyung Min Kim,Seung Heon Hong

Relation of serum vascular endothelial growth factor as an angiogenesis biomarker with nitric oxide and urokinase-type plasminogen activator in breast cancer patients Dildar Konukoglu,Mehtap Sultan Turhan,Varol Celik,Hande Turna

Occurrence and nucleotide sequence analysis of hepatitis G virus in patients with acute viral hepatitis and fulminant hepatitis Deepak Kumar,R K Gupta,Ranjna Anand,S T Pasha,Arvind Rai,B C Das,P Kar

Cassia occidentalis poisoning as the probable cause of hepatomyoencephalopathy in children in western Uttar Pradesh V M Vashishtha,Amod Kumar,T Jacob John,N C Nayak

Urine levels of rifampicin and isoniazid in asymptomatic HIV-positive individuals Geetha Ramachandran,A K Hemanth Kumar,K Sarala,C Padmapriyadarsini,S Anitha,C B Tharani,V Kumaraswami,Soumya Swaminathan

Ultrastructural analysis of slime positive and slime negative Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates in infectious keratitis N Nayak,T C Nag,G Satpathy,S B Ray

Occurrence, significance and molecular epidemiology of cholera outbreaks in West Bengal Dipika Sur,Shanta Dutta,B L Sarkar,B Manna,M K Bhattacharya,K K Datta,A Saha,B Dutta,G P Pazhani,A Ray Choudhuri,S K Bhattacharya

Paraoxonase (PON1) activity in north west Indian Punjabis with coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus Surjit Singh,S Venketesh,J S Verma,Minni Verma,C O Lellamma,R C Goel

Correspondence

Dermatitis and conjunctivitis in workers on an ostrich farm following thrips infestation Ross Gordon Cooper

Steps to control the burden of cardiovascular disease in the Indian Subcontinent Mahantayya V Math,P Balasubramaniam

Worsening sex ratio in India - some evidence from Mumbai Sreevidya Subramoney,Prakash C Gupta

A focal outbreak of dengue fever in a rural area of Tamil Nadu P Philip Samuel,V Thenmozhi,B K Tyagi

Exercise testing in miliary tuberculosis - some facts S K Sharma,Gautam Ahluwalia

Beta cell protection and metabolic syndrome S Sivasankaran,K R Thankappan

Upsetting the balance Sherman C Stein,Casey Halpern,Patrik M Reilly

Red cell adhesion in cerebral malaria Dipika Mohanty

BCG, tuberculin surveys and annual rate of tuberculosis infection in south India T Jacob John

Concern on prevalence of anaemia in pregnant and lactating women in India Kamla Gupta,Fred Arnold,Sunita Kishor,Sulabha Parasuraman

Urgent need of experimental model for Indian childhood cirrhosis S Sriramachari

Renal function in male rats concurrently exposed to nicotine and ethanol Ross Gordon Cooper

HemoCue haemoglobin systems - a clarification Karin Dahllouml;f

Imipenem-resistance among multi-drug resistant clinical strains in urinary infections from Kolkata Suranjana Arora (Ray),Sanchita Saha,Manjusri Bal

Do we actually need separate institution for strategic planning in public health in developing countries? Chandrakant Lahariya

Polio eradication programme in India C Sathyamala

Antimicrobial resistance pattern of extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Klebsiella spp. Oral Oncul

Book Review

Cancer control, knowledge into action: WHO guide for effective programmes planning

Addressing poverty in TB control: Options for

Guidelines for the treatment of malaria

Evaluation of certain food additives

Handbook for good clinical research practice (GCP): Guidance for implementation

  
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