Official organ of the Association of Physiologist and Pharmacologists of India


 

 

Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

VOLUME     52    –    Number  1    –  January- March 2008

 
CONTENTS
 

Obituary -  Arthur Kornberg ( 1918- 2007) 

... 1

                  

                   Joshua Ledenberg ( 1925- 2008) 

... 3

                            

Editorial -  Is 'Hypothesis ' Hypertelic in Science? 

... 7

 

 

Review Article -  Nitric Oxide- Medicated Pathogenesis during Nicotine and Alcohol Consumption

 R. G. Cooper  and T. Magwere ... 11

 

Original Articles

Effect of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) on Expression of Vascular   Endothelial Growth Factor A (VEGF-A) in Human Mid Secretory Endometrial Cells in Three -Dimensional Primary Culture 

 

Satyaki Sengupta, Jayasree Sengupta , Suneeta Mittal , Sunesh Kumar and Debabrata Ghosh ...19


Study on the Diagnostic Accuracy of Left Atrial Enlargement by Resting Electrocardiography and its Echocardiographic Correlation

 Archana Mishra ,Chandrakanta Mishra, Rama Raman Mohanty and Mrutyunjay Behera... 31

 

 

Relationship Between Plasma Leptin and Plasma Insulin Levels in Type-2 Diabetic Patients before and after Treatment with Glibenclamide and Glimepiride 

 S. K. Bhattacharya , M. Madan , P. Mahajan , K. R. Paudel , G.P. Rauniar, B.P. Das and R.K. Roy ...43

 

 
Assessment of Differential Doses of Buprenorphine for Long Term Pharmacotherapy among Opiate Dependent Subjects 

Shantanu De , Raka Jain , Rajat Ray, Anju Dhawan and Sunny T. Varghese ... 53

 

Circadian Rhythm of Peak Expiratory Flow Rate in Healthy North Indian Men  

 M. Goyal , A. Goel , P. Kumar , M. Bajpai, N. S. Verma , S. Kant and S. Tiwari ...64

 


Effect of ' 61- Points Relaxtion Technique'  on Stress Parameters in Premenstrual Syndrome

  Jyoti Dvivedi , Sanjay Dvivedi , K. K. Mahajan, Sunita Mittal and Anil Singhal  ...69

 

 

Oculohypotensive Effects of Foeniculum Vulgare in Experimental Models of Glaucoma 

 Renu Agarwal, Suresh Kumar Gupta, Shyam Sunder Agarwal, Sushma Srivastava and Rohit Saxena...77

 

 

Arsenic Induced Toxicity on Testicular Tissue of Mice 

 Sanghamitra Sarkar, Hazra J. , Upadhyay S. N. , Singh R. K.  and Amal Roy Chowdhury ...84

 

 

Modulation of Pain Perception by Ramipril and Losartan in Human Volunteers  

Juhi Kalra, Aditi Chaturvedi, Sudhanshu Kalra, Harish Chaturvedi , and  D. C . Dhasmana  ...91

 
 

 Letter to the Editor  


Chloroquine Should be Used with Care in Mental health Disorders 

 R. G. Cooper  ...97

Chloroquine's Patho - Toxicological Effect on the Retina - A Nitric Oxide and CAMP Medicated Mechanism

R. G. Cooper   ...99

 

 

News and Announcements     

 

...101

                 

 

 

 
 
For more queries contact : Executive editor, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, N.Delhi - 29.