Editorial

Commission on Social Determinants in Health: A piece meal move? 
K.R. Nayar & Sonali Sahni Kapoor

Commentaries

The need for longitudinal measurements at altitude 
A.V. Kurpad

Placental pathology in thrombophilia: establishing clinico-pathological correlations 
Neelam Marwaha

Review Article

Role of reactive oxygen species in the pathogenesis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in male infertility 
S. Venkatesh, M. Deecaraman, R. Kumar, M.B. Shamsi & R. Dada

Original Articles

Body composition & cardiovascular functions in healthy males acclimatized to desert & high altitude
Amitabh, V.K. Singh, Praveen Vats, S. Kishnani, S.N. Pramanik, S.N. Singh Shashi Bala Singh & P.K. Banerjee

Placental histomorphology in unexplained foetal loss with thrombophilia 
S. Vora, S. Shetty, M. Khare & K. Ghosh

Influence of squalene feeding on plasma leptin, testosterone & blood pressure in rats 
Yuxi Liu, Xianhuan Xu, Dingren Bi, Xiliang Wang, Xixiong Zhang, Hanchuan Dai Shunyou Chen & Weimin Zhang

Effects of hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) on the growth & adhesion in tongue squamous cell carcinoma cells 
Ying Song, Wenxia Wang, Xun Qu & Shanzhen Sun

Asymmetrical release of interleukin-6 by cultured cerebral cortical astrocytes treated with lipopolysaccharide 
Juan Zhang, Yuanli Gao, Yanqin Shen & Kangsheng Li

Organic anion transporter protein (OATP1B1) encoded by SLCO1B1 gene polymorphism (388A>G) & susceptibility in gallstone disease 
Charulata Jindal, Sandeep Kumar, Gourdas Choudhari, Himanshu Goel & Balraj Mittal

DNA sequencing by Microseq kit targeting 16S rRNA gene for species level identification of mycobacteria 
K. Lily Therese, John Bartell, P. Deepa, S. Mangaiyarkarasi, Diedra Ward Joseph Dajcs, H.N. Madhavan & David Stroman

Application of 16S rDNA based seminested PCR for diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis 
P. Chakrabarti, B.K. Das & Arti Kapil

Biochemical analysis of protein stability in human brain collected at different post-mortem intervals
Ramesh Chandana, R.B. Mythri, Anita Mahadevan, S.K. Shankar & M.M. Srinivas Bharath

Correspondences

Equitable healthcare & access to affordable medicines in India 
M.D. Janodia, D. Sreedhar, V.S. Ligade, S. Pandey & N. Udupa

Reviving frogs in India’s freshwater environment to control mosquito-borne diseases 
G. Agoramoorthy

Malaria - Change in therapeutic policy 
P.K. Kar, R.M. Bhatt, Anup Anvikar & V. K. Dua

WHO study suggests low incidence of Hib in india is due to natural immunity 
Neeraj Gupta & Jacob Puliyel

Authors’ response 
S. Minz, V. Balraj, M.K. Lalitha, N. Murali, T. Cherian, G. Manoharan, S. Kadirvan A. Joseph & M.C. Steinhoff

Antipsychotic drugs & their side effects 
Rajesh Jacob

Authors’ response 
S. Singh & S.K. Mattoo

Book Review 

WHO Expert Committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations

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