Official organ of the Association of Physiologist and Pharmacologists of India


 

 

Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

VOLUME    55    –    Number  1   –  January - March 2011

 
CONTENTS
 

 Guest Editorial -  Two Hundred Years of the Curious Birth of a Doctor

James Barry Aka Margaret Ann Bulkley... 1

                 

               

                        

 

Original Articles

Calotropis Procera Root Extracts Block VEGF-induced Angiogenesis: Quantitative Analysis 

  Rajani Mathur, Suresh Kumar Gupta, Sandeep Rajinder Mathur, Thirumurthy Velpandian ...5

 


Evaluation of Antiinflammatory and Analgesic Activities of Alcoholic Extract of Kaempferia galanga in Rats

      Amberkar Mohanbabu Vittalrao, Tara Shanbhag, Meena Kumari K., K. L. Bairy and Smita Shenoy ... 13

 

 

Autonomic Status and Pain Profile in Patients of Chronic Low Back Pain and Following Electro Acupuncture Therapy: A Randomized Control Trial

     Nilima Shankar, Manisha Thakur (Late), Om Prakash Tandon, Ashok Kumar Saxena, Shobha Arora and Neena Bhattacharya... 25

 

 

Correlation of Anthropometric Parameters with QTc Interval in Malnourished Children

   Divya Srivastava, Rajesh Misra, Ashish Prakash, Prachi Gautam and Shyamali Dutta...37

 

 

 

A Comparative Study of Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials in Preterm and Full-term Infants

   M. S. Roopakala, G. Dayananda, P. Manjula, Anish S. Konde, P. T. Acharya, R. Srinivasa and K. S. Nirmala ... 44

 

 

Effect of Iron Deficiency Anemia on Audiovisual Reaction Time in Adolescent Girls

 Namrata Kahlon, Asha Gandhi, Sunita Mondal and Shashi Narayan...53


Pulmonary Functions in Plastic Factory Workers : A Preliminary Study

   Farah Khaliq, Pawan Singh, Prakash Chandra, Keshav Gupta And Neelam Vaney ...60

 

 

 

Short Communications 

 

Variability in Serum Electrolytes in Different Grades of Depression

  Anand Kumar Singh, Punam Verma, Sushma Gupta and Jalaj Saxena ...67

 

 

Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidant Vitamin Status in Colorectal Cancer Patients

  Sonali S. Bhagat, Rahul A. Ghone, Adinath N. Suryakar and Prakash S. Hundekar...72

 

 

Comparison of Different Methods to Estimate BMR in Adoloscent Student Population

  Suchitra R. Patil and Jyoti Bharadwaj ...77

 

Study of Lung Functions in Smokers and Non-Smokers in Rural India

  Rubeena Bano, Nadeem Ahmad, Mahagaonkar A. M. and R. G. Latti ...84

 

 

Immediate Effect of Nostril Breathing on Memory Performance

  Ghanshyam Singh Thakur, D. D. Kulkarni and Gaurav Pant ...89

 

 

Letters to the Editor

 

Decrease in Cardiovascular Parasympathetic Function Tests A Decade Earlier in Females

 Asha A. Dharwadkar, Anand R. Dharwadkar, Shrilaxmi Bagali and Gouhar Banu Shaikh...94

 

 

News and Announcement

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