Indian J Med Res 133, No. 6 June 2011, pp 573-692

CONTENTS


Editorial 

More blood, more life? Reflections on World Blood Donor Day – 2011
Albert Farrugia 

Commentary

Association of gene polymorphisms with development of cancer risk or their protective role associated with some mutant alleles
Khazi M. Nayeemuddin, Safia Rafeeq & Ashutosh K. Lodhi 

Review Articles

Endometriosis, a modern syndrome
Ivo Brosens & Giuseppe Benagiano 

Club drugs: review of the ‘rave’ with a note of concern for the Indian scenario
Kaustav Chakraborty, Rajarshi Neogi & Debasish Basu 

Original Articles

Protective association exhibited by the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1052133 in the gene human 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (hOGG1) with the risk of squamous cell carcinomas of the head & neck (SCCHN) among north Indians .
Amit Kumar Mitra, Sarvendra Vikram Singh, Vivek Kumar Garg, Mandira Sharma, Rashmi Chaturvedi & Srikanta Kumar Rath 

Pulmonary tuberculosis among health care workers at two designated DOTS Centers in urban city of Ibadan, Nigeria
A.O. Kehinde, A. Baba, R.A. Bakare, O.M. Ige, C.F. Gbadeyanka
& O.E. Adebiyi 

Molecular typing of Mycobacterium leprae strains from northern India using short tandem repeats
Mallika Lavania, Kiran Katoch, Rahul Sharma, Pragya Sharma, Ram Das, Anuj Kumar Gupta, D.S. Chauhan & V.M. Katoch 

Smoking cessation support in Iran: Availability, sources & predictors
Nafiseh Toghianifar, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Hamidreza Roohafza, Masoumeh Sadeghi, Babak Eshrati & Gholamhossein Sadri 

Evaluation of effect of isoflavone on thyroid economy & autoimmunity in oophorectomised women: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Niti Mittal,
Debasish Hota, Pinaki Dutta, Anil Bhansali, Vanita Suri, Neelam Aggarwal, R.K. Marwah & Amitava Chakrabarti 

Quality of life after electroconvulsive therapy in persons with treatment resistant schizophrenia
Rohit Garg, B.S. Chavan & Priti Arun 

Validation of bedside methods in evaluation of diabetic peripheral neuropathy
P. Jayaprakash, Anil Bhansali, Shobhit Bhansali, Pinaki Dutta, R. Anantharaman, G. Shanmugasundar & M. Ravikiran

Development of a controlled release formulation of an indigenous insect growth regulator, DPE-28, a substituted diphenylether, for controlling the breeding of Culex quinquefasciatus
M. Kalyanasundaram, Nisha Mathew, A. Elango & V. Padmanabhan
 

Seasonal prevalence & resting behaviour of Anopheles minimus Theobald & An. fluviatilis James (Diptera: Culicidae) in east-central India
S.S. Sahu, K. Gunasekaran, P. Vanamail & P. Jambulingam 

Anaemia & expression levels of CD35, CD55 & CD59 on red blood cells in Plasmodium falciparum malaria patients from India
R.C. Mahajan, K. Narain & J. Mahanta 

Malaria incidence among paramilitary personnel in an endemic area of Tripura
Sunil Dhiman, Reji Gopalakrishnan, Diganta Goswami, Bipul Rabha, Indra Baruah & Lokendra Singh 

Entomological study of chikungunya infections in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia
H. Rozilawati, A.Y. Faudzi, A.A. Siti Rahidah, A.H. Nor Azlina, A.G. Abdullah, N.M. Amal, H. Wan Mansor, H. Hani, Y. Apandi, Faezah Noor, Norziyana, W.A. Nazni, J. Zairi & H.L. Lee 

Virulence potential of Group A streptococci isolated from throat cultures of children from north India
V. Dhanda, H. Vohra & R. Kumar 

Correspondences

Emergence of tigecycline & colistin resistant Acinetobacter baumanii in patients with complicated urinary tract infections in north India
Neelam Taneja, Gagandeep Singh, Meenakshi Singh & Meera Sharma 

Economic growth & health of poor children in India
S.V. Subramanian & Malavika A. Subramanyam 

Book Reviews

Obesity and metabolism 

Pediatric neuroendocrinology 

IBD and IBS: Novel mechanisms and future practice 

New drugs and targets for asthma and COPD 

Some Forthcoming Scientific Events

Announcements

Guidelines for Contributors

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