Volume 1, Issue 2

Gitanjali B

pp. 73–74 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72346 · 2010

The World Health Organization (WHO) revises the model essential medicines list (EML) every two years. A visibly transparent and difficult process which is done by a team of experts who critically analyze the available ev…

Manikandan S

pp. 75–77 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72347 · 2010

Ranjana I. Brahmane, Vikrant V. Wanmali, Swanand S. Pathak, Kartik J. Salwe

pp. 78–81 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72348 · 2010

Objective: To study the effect of calcium channel blockers (CCBs) cinnarizine and nifedipine on maximal electroshock (MES)-induced and pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced convulsions and also their effect in combination wit…

Rajiv Mahajan, Anita Gupta, Rajinder Singh Gupta, Kapil Gupta

pp. 82–86 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72349 · 2010

Objectives: Prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) is ~25% and it is currently becoming prevalent in children also. India is estimated to have the maximum number of patients of MS in the world. As insulin resistance is an…

Parasuraman S, Raveendran R, Kesavan R

pp. 87–88 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72350 · 2010

Collection of blood from small laboratory animals is necessary for a wide range of scientific research and there are a number of efficient methods available for that. It is important that blood sample collection from exp…

Carol Kilkenny, William J. Browne, Innes C. Cuthill, Michael Emerson, Douglas G. Altman

pp. 94–95 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72351 · 2010

Kenneth F. Schulz, Douglas G. Altman, David Moher

pp. 100–101 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72352 · 2010

Mohammad Abdulkader Akbarsha, Shiranee Pereira

pp. 108–110 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72353 · 2010

Syed Ziaur Rahman, Rahat Ali Khan

pp. 111–112 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72355 · 2010

Sapna Pradhan, U. H. Shah, A. G. Mathur, S. Sharma

pp. 113–114 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72357 · 2010

This observational report prompted us to review the literature on the biological effects of aspartame. Since there were only two studies reporting the anti-inflamatory effects of aspartame, it was considered worthwhile t…

Jaykaran Jaykaran, Nilesh Chavda, Preeti Yadav, N. D. Kantharia

pp. 114–116 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72359 · 2010

Shilpa P. Jadav, Nilesh H. Patel, Tarang G. Shah, Maganlal V. Gajera, Hiren R. Trivedi, Bharat K. Shah

pp. 116–117 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72362 · 2010

Thirunavukkarasu Babu, Vijayan Sharmila

pp. 120–121 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72365 · 2010

Manikandan S

pp. 122–123 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72369 · 2010

Jatinder Singh

pp. 124–125 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72371 · 2010

Manikandan S

pp. 126–127 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.72373 · 2010

Preparing the data facilitates statistical analysis and this includes data checking, computing-derived data from the original values, statistically adjusting for outliers and data transformation. The initial three method…

Sivagnanam G

pp. 128–130 · 2010