Tissue heterogeneity of mitochondrial activity, biogenesis and mitochondrial protein gene expression in buffalo.

Background: Cellular metabolism is most invariant process, occurring in all living organisms, which involves mitochondrial proteins from both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number, protein-coding genes (mtPCGs) expression, and activity vary between various tissues to fulfill specific energy demands across the tissues.

Methods And Results: In present study, we investigated the OXPHOS complexes and citrate synthase activity in isolated mitochondria from various tissues of freshly slaughtered buffaloes (n = 3).

A Study to Assess Economic Burden and Practice of Cell Phone Disposal among Medical Students.

Context: Our country India is having 919.17 million cell phone users; currently this is the second largest number of cell phone users after China. The youth spend a good amount on talk time and purchasing cell phone handsets.

Periodontal disease and type 1 diabetes mellitus: associations with glycemic control and complications: an Indian perspective.

Aim: To evaluate the frequency of periodontal disease in a group of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and its relationship with diabetic metabolic control, duration and complications.

Materials And Methods: A comparison was made of periodontal parameters (plaque index, bleeding index, pocket depth and attachment loss) in a group of diabetic patients versus a group of non-diabetics (n=20). Statistical analysis was performed to evaluate the relationship between periodontal parameters and degree of metabolic control, the duration of the disease and the appearance of complications.

The role of APACHE-II triaging in optimum management of small bowel perforations.

Small bowel perforations with peritonitis pose a serious problem to an emergency surgeon because of the lack of any uniformity of opinion regarding the optimum surgical treatment to be performed. This may be attributed to lack of any common and reliable scoring system. A prospective study to discover the utility of APACHE-II triaging in small bowel perforations was conducted over a period of 14 months on 51 patients with small bowel perforations of various aetiologies.