Indian J Med Res 134, November 2011, pp 579-738

Contents

 

Editorial 

Diabetes prevention: A call to action 
Tom Yates, Melanie J. Davies, Peter E. H. Schwarz & Kamlesh Khunti

Commercial serological tests for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis in India: Time for introspection 
Sarman Singh & V.M. Katoch

Commentaries

The hunt for genetic risk among Mysore, south India patent ductus arteriosus patients
  David M. Iovannisci

The challenge of building rural health services 
Imrana Qadeer

Relationship between metabolic syndrome & obstructive sleep apnoea in a hospital-based urban population 
Patrícia Caetano Mota

Review Articles

Sickle cell disease in Middle East Arab countries 
Mohsen A.F. El-Hazmi, Ali M. Al-Hazmi & Arjumand S. Warsy

Hand hygiene: Back to the basics of infection control 
Purva Mathur

Original Articles

Mutations of TFAP2B in congenital heart disease patients in Mysore, south India
Lingaiah Kusuma, Sosalagere M. Dinesh, Mysore R. Savitha, B. Krishnamurthy, Doddaiah Narayanappa & Nallur B. Ramachandra

‘First we go to the small doctor’: First contact for curative health care sought by rural communities in Andhra Pradesh & Orissa, India 
Meenakshi Gautham, Erika Binnendijk, Ruth Koren & David. M. Dror

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in a north Indian hospital-based population with obstructive sleep apnoea 
Swastik Agrawal, Surendra K. Sharma, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas & Ramakrishnan Lakshmy

Study of sense of coherence health promoting behaviour in north Indian students
Senjam Suraj & Amarjeet Singh

Pulmonary function studies in young healthy Malaysians of Kelantan, Malaysia 
Amit Bandyopadhyay

A pilot study on the effect of telmisartan & ramipril on 24 h blood pressure profile & dipping pattern in type 1 diabetes patients with nephropathy 
R. Anantharaman, Anil Bhansali, Sanjay K. Bhadada, Harbir S. Kohli, Rama Walia, G. Shanmugasundar & P. Jayaprakash

Assessing the adhesion of putative indigenous probiotic lactobacilli to human colonic epithelial cells 
Raj Kumar Duary, Yudhishthir Singh Rajput, Virender Kumar Batish & Sunita Grover

Prolonged expression of MHC class I - peptide expression in bone marrow derived retrovirus transfected matured dendritic cells by continuous centrifugation in the presence of IL-4 
L.M. Hettihewa

Characterization of low molecular weight antimicrobial peptide from human female reproductive tract 
Sarita Sharma, Sunil Sethi, Rajendra Prasad, Palash Samanta, Arvind Rajwanshi, Sarla Malhotra & Meera Sharma

Non invasive real-time monitoring of bacterial infection & therapeutic effect of anti-microbials in five mouse models
Tarani Kanta Barman, Madhvi Rao, Ashish Bhati, Krishna Kishore, Gunjan Shukla, Manoj Kumar, Tarun Mathur, Manisha Pandya & Dilip J. Upadhyay

Mycobacterium indicus pranii as stand-alone or adjunct immunotherapeutic in treatment of experimental animal tuberculosis 
Jaya Faujdar, Pushpa Gupta, Mohan Natrajan, Ram Das, D.S. Chauhan, V.M. Katoch & U.D. Gupta

Vancomycin resistance among methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from intensive care units of tertiary care hospitals in Hyderabad 
Venubabu Thati, Channappa T. Shivannavar & Subhaschandra M. Gaddad

Antiparasitic activity of plumericin & isoplumericin isolated from Plumeria bicolor against Leishmania donovani 
Umakant Sharma, Dharmendra Singh, Parveen Kumar, M.P. Dobhal & Sarman Singh

Preventive action of curcumin in experimental acute pancreatitis in mouse 
Wen-Guang Yu, Gang Xu, Gui-Jie Ren, Xia Xu, Hui-Qing Yuan, Xiao-Li Qi & Ke-Li Tian

Framework for estimating tumour parameters using thermal imaging 
V. Umadevi, S.V. Raghavan & Sandeep Jaipurkar 

Correspondence

Long-term follow up of clients from a community-based opioid substitution therapy programme in Manipur
Michelle Kermode, Gregory Armstrong & Surmick Waribam

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