Annual Index 2013 Annual Contents January 2013 (No. 1)
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Annual Index 2013 Annual Contents January 2013 (No. 1)
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology Vol. 51, September 2013, pp. 1137-1158 Annual Index 2013 Annual Contents January 2013 (No. 1) Review Article Pulmonary surfactants and their role in pathophysiology of lung disorders 5 Aparna Akella & Shripad B Deshpande Papers Plasticity and reprogramming of differentiated ocular tissue of tadpoles of the frog, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis under the influence of vitamin A 23 O P Jangir, J Pareek, Deepshikha, Sunita Gautam, Gajanand Modi, Nidhi Udsaria, Ambika Yadav, Govind Gupta, Jony Middha & Mithilesh Sharma Radioprotective effect of Haberlea rhodopensis (Friv.) leaf extract on γ-radiation-induced DNA damage, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant levels in rabbit blood 29 Svetlana Georgieva, Borislav Popov & Georgi Bonev Effects of dietary magnesium on testicular histology, steroidogenesis, spermatogenesis and oxidative stress markers in adult rats 37 Amar K Chandra, Pallav Sengupta, Haimanti Goswami & Mahitosh Sarkar Angiotensin-II down-regulates cardiac natriuretic anti-hypertrophic signaling in experimental rat hearts Venkatachalam Gopi, Elangovan Vellaichamy Arumugam peptide Parthasarathy, receptor-A Subramanian mediated Umadevi 48 & Benefits of early glycemic control by insulin on sensory neuropathy and cataract in diabetic rats 56 Mahalingam Balakumar, Natarajan Saravanan, Durai Prabhu, Bhaskaran Regin, G Bhanuprakash Reddy, Viswanathan Mohan, Mohan Rema & Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam Pharmacological evaluation of hyperin for antihyperglycemic activity and effect on lipid profile in diabetic rats Neeraj Verma, G Anil Pratap Singh Amresh, P K Sahu, Neelam Mishra, Ch V Rao 65 & . Role of ERK1/2 Kinase in the expression of iNOS by NDMA in human neutrophils Wioletta Ratajczak-Wrona, Ewa Jablonska, Marzena Garley, Jakub Jablonski & Piotr Radziwon 73 1138 INDIAN J EXP BIOL, DECEMBER 2013 Cell cycle inhibitory effects of leaf extract from Curcuma vamana M. Sabu & Mangaly on mitotically synchronous cultures of Physarum polycephalum Schw. 81 I Rajan, R Remitha, P R Jayasree & P R Manish Kumar In vitro seed germination of economically important edible bamboo Dendrocalamus membranaceus Munro 88 Jasmine Brar, Manju Anand & Anil Sood 97 Information for Authors February 2013 (No. 2) Papers Pluripotent lineage of CD133 stem cells isolated from human skin samples Avvari Bhaskara Balaji, Kaiser Jamil, Gangaraju Maruthi Ram & G Suryanarayan Raju 107 Cloning and expression analysis of multiple proteins encoding P gene of Newcastle disease virus Rajiv Kumar, Ashok K Tiwari, Uttara Chaturvedi, G Ravi Kumar, A P Sahoo, Sudesh Kumar & Sangeeta Tiwari 116 Development of a peptide based latex agglutination assay for serotype identification of foot and mouth disease virus Dilpreet Kaur, Gurpreet Kaur, Mudit Chandra, Hari M Saxena & Padam N Dwivedi 124 Glycyrrhizin ameliorates insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia and oxidative stress in fructose-induced metabolic syndrome-X in rat model Rajarshi Sil, Doel Ray & Abhay Sankar Chakraborti 129 Aqueous extract of Allium sativum L bulbs offer nephroprotection by attenuating vascular endothelial growth factor and extracellular signal-regulatedkinase-1 expression in diabetic rats Shiju T M, Rajkumar R, Rajesh N G & Pragasam Viswanathan Ameliorative effect of Luffa acutangula Roxb. on doxorubicin induced cardiac and nephrotoxicity in mice Vishal B Jadhav, Vishnu N Thakare, Anupama A Suralkar & Suresh R Naik Healing effects of Aegle marmelos (L.) Correa fruit extract on experimental colitis M K Gautam, R R Ghatule, A Singh, V Purohit, M Gangwar, Mohan Kumar & R K Goel Anti-oxidative protection against iron overload-induced liver damage in mice by Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. Leaf extract Rhitajit Sarkar, Bibhabasu Hazra & Nripendranath Mandal 139 149 157 165 ANNUAL CONTENTS Effect of newly isolated Lactobacillus ingluvieii ADK10, from chicken intestinal tract on acetaminophen induced oxidative strss in Wistar rats Arpita Mandal, Tanmay Paul, Suchismita Roy, Shreya Mandal, Shrabani Pradhan, Keshab Ch. Mondal & Dilip Kumar Nandi 1139 174 March 2013 (No. 3) Review Article Cell phone radiation exposure on brain and associated biological systems 187 Kavindra Kumar Kesari, Mohd. Haris Siddiqui, Ramovatar Meena, H N Verma & Shivendra Kumar Papers Sonic hedgehog inhibition induces mouse embryonic stem cells to differentiate toward definitive endoderm 201 Ali Ghanbari, Mozafar Khazaei, Mahmoud Hashemi-Tabar, Arezou Rabzia, Fardin Fathi & Parvin- Dokht Bayat Expression of JMJD2A in infiltrating duct carcinoma was markedly higher than fibroadenoma, and associated with expression of ARHI, p53 and ER in infiltrating duct carcinoma 208 Bei-Xu Li, Jia Li, Cheng-Liang Luo, Ming-Chang Zhang, Hui Li, Li-Liang Li, Hong-Fei Xu, Yi-Wen Shen, Ai-Min Xue & Zi-Qin Zhao Regulation of luteinizing hormone receptor in hippocampal neurons following different longlasting treatments of castrated adult rats 218 H Abtahi, M Shabani, S B Jameie, A H Zarnani, S Talebi, N Lakpour, H Heidari-Vala, H Edalatkhah, M.A Akhondi, M Amiri, A R Mahmoudi & M R Sadeghi Intravenous human umbilical cord blood improves elctrophysiological and metabolic properties in ISO induced myocardial necrosis in rats 228 Mahalaxmi Mohan, Rahul Rokade & Sanjay Kasture Effect of Naja naja Laurenti shed skin extract on estrous cycle, hormone -cytokines profiles, histopathology of ovary and uterus of Swiss albino mice 235 Sanghamitra Mukherjee, Subir Chandra Dasgupta & Antony Gomes Protective effect of eicosapentaenoic acid-docosahexaenoic acid and α–linolenic acid rich phytosterol ester on brain antioxidant status and brain lipid composition in hypercholesterolemic rats 241 Avery Sengupta & Mahua Ghosh Effects of fluoride and ethanol administration on lipid peroxidation systems in the rat brain Shailender Singh Chauhan, Sudarshan Ojha & Akhtar Mahmood 249 1140 INDIAN J EXP BIOL, DECEMBER 2013 Protective effect of lawsone on L-Arginine induced acute pancreatitis in rats 256 Sandeep Biradar & B Veeresh Biodiesel production from marine cyanobacteria cultured in plate and tubular photobioreactors B Karpanai Selvan, M Revathi, P Sobana Piriya, P Thirumalai Vasan, D Gilwax Prabhu & S John Vennison 262 Immuanual April 2013 (No. 4) Mini Review Population genetic structure of malaria vector Anopheles stephensi Liston (Diptera:Culicidae) S K Gakhar, Richa Sharma & Arvind Sharma 273 Papers Evaluation of vaccine candidate potential of ∆aroA, ∆htrA and ∆aroA∆htrA mutants of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Abortusequi in guinea pigs Bhoj Raj Singh, Mudit Chandra, Dhananjoy Hansda, Javed Alam4, Narayanan Babu, Mehtab Z Siddiqui, Ravi K Agrawal & Gautam Sharma Effect of Vanillin on lipid profile in a model of hyperlipidemia, a preliminary study Yogesh Belagali, Sheetal D Ullal, Ahsan Shoeb, Vani Bhagwath, Ramya K, Rakshitha Maskeri 280 288 Effect of thymoquinone on ethanol and high fat diet induced chronic pancreatitis—a dose response study in rats Periyanayagam Suguna, Arumugam Geetha, Ravikumar Aruna & Ganesan Vijaiyan Siva 292 Comparative effect of cane syrup and natural honey on abdominal viscera of growing male and female rats Abdulwahid Ajibola, Joseph P Chamunorwa & Kennedy H Erlwanger 303 Effect of chinese traditional herb Epimedium grandiflorum C.Morren and its extraction Icariin on osteoarthritis via suppressing NF-κB pathway Zhang Wenliang, Li Rongheng, Wang Shumei, Mu Fangzheng & Jia Ping 313 Statistical and evolutionary optimization for enhanced production of an anti-leukemic enzyme, L-asparaginase, in a protease-deficient Bacillus aryabhattai ITBHU02 isolated from the soil contaminated with hospital waste Yogendra Singh & S K Srivastava 322 Statistical medium optimization of an alkaline protease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa MTCC 10501, its characterization and application in leather processing Naidu Ramachandra Boopathy, Devadas Indhuja, Krishnan Srinivasan, Mani Uthirappan, Rishikesh Gupta, Kamini Numbi Ramudu & Rose Chellan 336 ANNUAL CONTENTS 1141 May 2013 (No. 5) Papers Purification of heparin binding oviduct specific proteins and its effect on in vitro embryo development in cattle 347 Aditya K Sharma, Sushil K Mohapatra, A K Mohanty & S K Das Cloning and expression of Bos indicus interleukin-4 in mammalian cells 352 Prashanth T, G R Reddy, V V S Suryanaryana & H J Dechamma Effect of epigallocatechin-3-gallate on inflammatory mediators release in LPS-induced Parkinson's disease in rats 357 Jehan S AL-amri, Magda M Hagras & Mohamed I Mujallid Antidiabetic activity of heart wood of Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. and analysis of phytoconstituents 363 Akansha Mishra, Rohit Srivastava, Swayam Prakash Srivastava, Sudeep Gautam, Akhilesh Kumar Tamrakar, Rakesh Maurya & Arvind K Srivastava Role of tricalcium phosphate implant in bridging the large osteoperiosteal gaps in rabbits 375 Satish Chandra Goel, Davinder Singh, Amit Rastogi, Vinay Kumaraswamy, Ashank Gupta & Nitin Sharma Sub-acute toxicity of cultured mycelia of Himalayan entomogenous fungus Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.) Sacc. in rats 381 Harsahay Meena, Kshetra Pal Singh, Prem Sing Negi & Zakwan Ahmed Effect of UV-C on thylakoid arrangement, pigment content and nitrogenase activity in the cyanobacterium Microchaete sp. 388 J K Sahu & M Šimek Microalgae mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their antibacterial activity against pathogenic bacteria 393 S S Sudha, Karthic Rajamanickam & J Rengaramanujam A multilayered supramolecular self-assembed structures from soybean oil by in situ polymerization and its applications 400 Varadharajan Kavitha & Arumugam Gnanamani Letter to the Editor Protective effects of subchronic caffeine administration on cisplatin induced urogenital toxicity in male mice Hamid Nasri 406 1142 INDIAN J EXP BIOL, DECEMBER 2013 June 2013 (No. 6) Papers Isolation, purification and characterization of the egg-yolk proteins from the oocytes of the Indian freshwater murrel, Channa punctatus (Bloch) 411 Om Prakash, N Sehgal, K V Rani & N Aggarwal The lld mutation in Pisum sativum used as a genetic tool to discern the plant leaflet/leaf developmental process 421 Vishakha Sharma, Bhumi Nath Tripathi & Sushil Kumar Anti-depressant like activity of N-n-butyl-3-methoxyquinoxaline-2-carboxamide (6o) a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist 435 Shvetank Bhatt, Radhakrishnan Mahesh, Thangaraj Devadoss & Ankur Jindal Anxiolytic-like effect of etazolate, a type 4 phosphodiesterase inhibitor in experimental models of anxiety 444 Ankur Jindal, Radhakrishan Mahesh & Shvetank Bhatt Anxiolytic and anticonvulsant activity of methanol extract of leaves of Alternanthera brasiliana (L.) Kuntze (Amaranthaceae) in laboratory animals 450 Chandana C Barua, Shameem A Begum, Acheenta G Barua, Rumi S Borah & Mangala Lahkar Hypolipidemic effect of a novel biflavonoid from shells of Camellia oleifera (Abel.) 458 Y Ye, H T Xing & Y Guo Effect of Aegle marmelos on alloxan induced early stage diabetic nephropathy in rats 464 Rajbir Bhatti, Shikha Sharma, Jatinder Singh, Amarjit Singh & M P S Ishar In planta detection of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. commiphorae using fyuA and rpoD genes 470 Jatindra Nath Samanta & Kunal Mandal Effects of low concentrations of a polychlorinated biphenyl, Aroclor 1254 on membrane bound ion dependent ATPases in mice liver 477 Shweta Pathak & Rahul Kundu . July 2013 (No.7) Papers Anticancer activity of betulinic acid on MCF-7 tumors in nude mice 485 Archana A Damle, Yogita P Pawar & Archana A Narkar Interaction between cochleata and stipile-reduced mutations results in exstipulate hypertrophied leaves in Pisum sativum L. 492 Arvind Kumar, Vishakha Sharma & Sushil Kumar ANNUAL CONTENTS Generation of transgenic mesenchymal stem cells expressing green fluorescent protein as reporter gene using no viral vector in caprine 1143 502 Manish Kumar, Yasotha T, R K Singh, Renu Singh, Kuldeep Kumar, R Ranjan, Chetan D Meshram, B C Das & Sadhan Bag Anxiolytic-like effect of N-n-butyl-3-methoxyquinoxaline-2-carboxamide (6o) in experimental mouse models of anxiety 510 Shvetank Bhatt, Radhakrishan Mahesh, Thangaraj Devadoss & Ankur Jindal Antiaging, antistress and ROS scavenging activity of crude extract of Ocimum sanctum (L.) in Caenorhabditis elegans (Maupas, 1900) 515 Rakesh Pandey, Shipra Gupta, Virendra Shukla, Sudeep Tandon & Vibha Shukla Gene ontology based charecterization of Expresses Sequence Tags (ESTs) of Brassica rapa cv. Osome 522 Senthil Kumar Thamil Arasan, Jong-In Park, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Hee-Jeong Jung, In-Ho Lee, Yong-Gu-Cho, Yong-Pyo Lim, Kwon-Kyoo Kang & Ill-Sup Nou Biochemical markers assisted screening of Fusarium wilt resistant Musa parasisiaca (L.) cv. Puttabale micropropagated clones 531 Venkatesh, V Krishna, K Girish Kumar, K Pradeepa, S R Santosh Kumar & R Shashi Kumar Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles from Trichoderma species 543 T Prameela Devi, S Kulanthaivel, Deeba Kamil, Jyoti Lekha Borah, N Prabhakaran & N Srinivasa Foliar application of Zn at flowering stage improves plant’s performance, yield and yield attributes of black gram 548 Nalini Pandey, Bhavana Gupta & Girish Chandra Pathak Enxymatic hydrolysis of water hyacinth biomass for the production of ethanol: Optimization of driving parameters 556 Amit Ganguly, Subhabrata Das, Anamica Bhattacharya, Apurba Dey & Pradip Kumar Chatterjee 567 Information for Authors Announcement Third Euro-India International Conference on Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering (ICNT 2013) 484 August 2013 (No. 8) Review Article Actinobacteriological research in India Sonashia Velho-Pereira & Nandkumar M Kamat 573 1144 INDIAN J EXP BIOL, DECEMBER 2013 Papers Cytotoxic function of gamma delta (γ/δ) T cells against pamidronate-treated cervical cancer cells 597 Monthon Lertworapreecha, Suthiluk Patumraj, Somchai Niruthisard, Pokrath Hansasuta & Parvapan Bhattarakosol Differential microglial and astrocytic response to bacterial and viral infection in the developing hippocampus of neonatal rats 606 Nisha Patro, Kavita Singh & Ishan Patro In vitro cytotoxicity testing of new generation oxazaphosphorines against human histiocytic lymphoma cells 615 Małgorzata Opydo-Chanek, Lidia Mazur & Marta Stojak Mollusc C-reactive protein crosses species barrier and reverses hepatotoxicity of lead in rodent models 623 Sandip Mukherjee, Sarmishtha Chatterjee, Shuvasree Sarkar, Soumik Agarwal, Rakesh Kundu, Sudipta Maitra & Shelley Bhattacharya Phytomodulatory potential of lycopene from Lycopersicum esculentum against doxorubicin induced nephrotoxicity 635 Ashwani Koul, Shubrant & Prachi Gupta Co-administration of trientine and flaxseed oil on oxidative stress, serum lipids and heart structure in diabetic rats 646 Ali Rezaei & Esfandiar Heidarian Cardioprotective effect of methanolic extract of Marrubium vulgare L. on isoproterenol-induced acute myocardial infarction in rats 653 Keyvan Yousefi, Hamid Soraya, Fatemeh Fathiazad, Arash Khorrami, Sanaz Hamedeyazdan, Nasrin Maleki-Dizaji & Alireza Garjani Antihypertensive and vasorelaxant effects of ethanol extract of stem barks from Zanthoxylum rhoifolium Lam. in rats 661 Edson Santos Ferreira-Filho, Daniel Dias Rufino Arcanjo, Lucas Henrique Porfírio Moura, José Couras da Silva-Filho, Emanuel Tenório Paulino, Êurica Adélia Nogueira Ribeiro, Mariana Helena Chaves, Rita de Cássia Meneses Oliveira & Aldeídia Pereira de Oliveira Ultrastructural changes and oxidative stress markers in wild and cultivar Sesamum orientale L. following Alternaria sesami (Kawamura) Mohanty and Behera. inoculation 670 A S Lubaina & K Murugan Announcement National Conference on Environmental Impact and Organism Response (NCEIOR–2013) 572 ANNUAL CONTENTS 1145 September 2013 (No. 9) Papers Quick Golgi method: Modified for high clarity and better neuronal anatomy Nisha Patro, Kamendra Kumar & Ishan Patro Cardioprotective effect of root extract of Picrorhiza kurroa (Royle Ex Benth) against isoproterenol-induced cardiotoxicity in rats Mukesh Nandave, Shreesh Kumar Ojha, Santosh Kumari, Tapas Chandra Nag, Raj Mehra, Rajiv Narang & Dharamvir Singh Arya Anti-diabetic and antihyperlipidemic effect of allopolyherbal formulation in OGTT and STZ-induced diabetic rat model Swati Manik, Vinod Gauttam & A N Kalia Antibacterial potential of hydroalcoholic extracts of Triphala components against multidrugresistant uropathogenic bacteria – A preliminary report Anwesa Bag, Subir Kumar Bhattacharyya, Nishith Kumar Pal & Rabi Ranjan Chattopadhyay 685 694 702 709 Antiepileptic potential of Anisomeles indica (Linn.) Kuntze aerial parts in pentylenetetrazoleinduced experimental convulsions in Wistar rats Ankush Sundriyal, Krishna Reddy V Bijjem & Ajudhia N Kalia 715 Inhibitory and stimulating effect of magnesium on vanadate-induced lipid peroxidation under in vitro conditions Agnieszka Ścibior, Dorota Gołębiowska, Irmina Niedźwiecka & Agnieszka Adamczyk 721 Impact of pre-exposure of tail suspension on behavioural parameters like locomotion, exploration, and anxiety in mice Pravin Popatrao Kale, Veeranjaneyulu Addepalli & Shalaka Ramesh Ghadawale 732 Somatic embryo-like structures of strawberry regenerated in vitro on media supplemented with 2,4-D and BAP Genesia F Omar, Fouad H Mohamed, Klaus-Thomas Haensch, Sawsan H Sarg & Mohamed M Morsey Antioxidant response and Lea genes expression under salt stress and combined salt plus water stress in two wheat cultivars contrasting in drought tolerance Priyanka Bhagi, Vikramjit Kaur Zhawar& Anil Kumar Gupta Effect of cadaverine on Brassica juncea (L.) under multiple stress Pushpa C Tomar, Nita Lakra & Shyam Narayan Mishra Identification of natural compounds which inhibit biofilm formation in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae H Magesh, Arun Kumar, Ayesha Alam, Priyam, Uma Sekar, Venil N Sumantran & Rama Vaidyanathan 739 746 758 764 1146 INDIAN J EXP BIOL, DECEMBER 2013 Announcements International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biomarker Research–Prospects & Challenges (ICBR-2013); 4th International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2013): Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis 684 October 2013 (No. 10) Review Article Enzymes in clinical medicine: An overview 777 Thiagarajan Hemalatha, Thiagamoorthy UmaMaheswari, Gunasekaran Krithiga, Palavesam Sankaranarayanan & Rengarajulu Puvanakrishnan Papers Effects of fibronectin and type IV collagen on osteosarcoma cell apoptosis 789 Zerrin İncesu, İbrahim Hatipoğlu, Hülya Sivas, Emel Ergene & Gülşen Akalın Çiftci Topically applied standardized aqueous extract of Curcuma longa Linn. suppresses endotoxininduced uveal inflammation in rats 797 Renu Agarwal, S K Gupta, Puneet Agarwal & Sushma Srivastava Hemostatic, antibacterial biopolymers from Acacia arabica (Lam.) Willd. and Moringa oleifera (Lam.) as potential wound dressing materials 804 Monica Bhatnagar, Laxmi Parwani, Vinay Sharma, Jhuma Ganguli & Ashish Bhatnagar Anti-diabetic activity and safety assessment of Ayurvedic medicine, Jasada bhasma (zinc ash) in rats 811 Rinku D Umrani, DurgashankarS Agrawal1 &Kishore M Paknikar Effect of (+)-catechin hydrate on oxidative stress induced by high sucrose and high fat diet in male Wistar rats 823 Pranav Mehra, Meenakshi Garg, Ashwani Koul & Devi Dayal Bansal Central nervous system stimulant actions of Alpinia galanga (L.) rhizome: A preliminary study 828 Sayan Saha & Sugato Banerjee Diuretic potential of aqueous extract of roots of Solanum xanthocarpum Schrad & Wendl, a preliminary study 833 Dipti Ranka, Manoj Aswar, Urmila Aswar & Subhash Bodhankar Phosphate solubilizing ability of Emericella nidulans strain V1 isolated from vermicompost Satya Sunder Bhattacharya, Soma Barman, Ranjan Ghosh, Raj Kumar Duary, Linee Goswami & Narayan C Mandal . 840 ANNUAL CONTENTS Assessment of somatic embryogenesis potency in Indian soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cultivars 1147 849 Thankaraj Salammal Mariashibu, Kondeti Subramanyam, Muthukrishnan Arun, Jeevaraj Theboral, Manoharan Rajesh, Sampath Kasthuri Rengan, Rajan Chakravarthy, Markandan Manickavasagam & Andy Ganapathi Design of a microbial fuel cell and its transition to microbial electrolytic cell for hydrogen production by electrohydrogenesis 860 Pratima Gupta, Piyush Parkhey, Komal Joshi & Anjali Mahilkar November 2013 (No. 11) Special Issue on Industrial Biotechnology Preface 869 Review Articles Production, purification, characterization and over-expression of xylanases from actinomycetes 875 Leya Thomas, Abhilash Joseph, Muthu Arumugam & Ashok Pandey Molecular regulation of cholesterol metabolism: HDL-based intervention through drugs and diet 885 Amit Kumar Rai, Patrizia Debetto & Federica Dabbeni Sala Relevance of physical properties in the stability of plant-based food products 895 Elena Venir & Enrico Maltini Mini Review Survival strategies of Bacillus spores in food 905 Mara Lucia Stecchini, Manuela Del Torre & Pierluigi Polese Papers Potentialities of newly isolated Bacillus subtilis and Lactobacillus sp for curd preparation and a comparative study of their physico-chemical parameters with other marketed curds 910 Atanu Adak, Saswati Parua (Mondal), Chiranjit Maity, Kuntal Ghosh, Suman K Halder, Pradeep K Das Mohapatra & Keshab C Mondal In vitro propagation of a rare medicinal fern of Western Ghats–Diplazium esculentum (Reytz.) 919 Archana G Nair, S Pradeesh, G S Nikhila, G Sangeetha, I Mini & T S Swapna Exploitation of fermented shrimp-shells hydrolysate as functional food: Assessment of antioxidant, hypocholesterolemic and prebiotic activities Suman Kumar Halder, Atanu Adak, Chiranjit Maity, Arijit Jana, Arpan Das, Tanmay Paul, Kuntal Ghosh, Pradeep Kumar Das Mohapatra, Bikas Ranjan Pati & Keshab Chandra Mondal 924 1148 INDIAN J EXP BIOL, DECEMBER 2013 Statistical media and process optimization for biotransformation of rice bran to vanillin using Pediococcus acidilactici, 935 Baljinder Kaur & Debkumar Chakraborty Mathematical model-based optimization of physico-enzymatic hydrolysis of Pinus roxburghii needles for the production of reducing sugars 944 Siddharth Vats, Devendra Prasad Maurya, Ayushi Jain, Varija Mall & Sangeeta Negi Low cost single-step purification of endoglucanase from Aspergillus fumigatus ABK-9 954 Arpan Das, Tanmay Paul, Suman K Halder, Arijit Jana, Kuntal Ghosh, Chiranjit Maity, Pradeep K Das Mohapatra, Bikas R Pati & Keshab C Mondal Analysis of alteration of gut microbial population under the exposure of graded hyperbaric pressures: Application of metagenomic approach 960 Chiranjit Maity, Atanu Adak, Suman Kumar Halder, Arijit Jana, Kuntal Ghosh, Pradeep Kumar Das Mohapatra, Bikas Ranjan Pati & Keshab Chandra Mondal Biosynthesis of colloidal gold nanoparticles by Streptomyces sp. NK52 and its anti-lipid peroxidation activity 969 Divya Prakash, Vishal Mahale, Ashok Bankar, Neelu Nawani, Smita Zinjarde & Balasaheb Kapadnis Biosynthesis and characterization of mercury sulphide nanoparticles produced by Bacillus cereus MRS-1 973 S Sathyavathi, A Manjula, J Rajendhran J & P Gunasekaran Optimization of lipid enriched biomass production from oleaginous fungus using response surface methodology 979 S P Jeevan Kumar & Rintu Banerjee Characterization and antimicrobial activity of lectins from Penicillium sp. 984 RS Singh, P Jain & HP Kaur Optimization of enzymatic saccharification of microwave pre-treated sugarcane tops through response surface methodology for biofuel 992 Devendra Prasad Maurya, Siddharth Vats , Sudheer Rai & Sangeeta Negi A comparative study on cell disruption methods for release of aspartase from E. coli K-12 997 RS Singh Isolation of a lead tolerant novel bacterial species, Achromobacter Sp. TL-3: Assessment of bioflocculant activity 1004 Neha Batta, Sanjukta Subudhi, Banwari Lal & Arundhuti Devi Evaluation of polymeric adsorbent resins for efficient detoxification of liquor generated during acid pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass Soolamkandath Variem Sandhya, Kumar Kiran, Mathiyazhakan Kuttiraja, Varghese Elizabeth Preeti, Raveendran Sindhu, Sankar Vani, Sukumaran Rajeev Kumar, Ashok Pandey & Parameswaran Binod 1012 ANNUAL CONTENTS Treatment of waste gas containing low concentration of dimethyl sulphide in a high performance biotrickling filter 1149 1018 Balendu Shekher Giri, Asha Juwarkar, S N Mudliar & R A Pandey Proteolytic enzyme mediated antagonistic potential of Pseudomonas aeruginosa against Macrophomina phaseolina 1024 Devaraj Illakkiam, Nishanth Lipton Anuj, Paramasivan Ponraj, Manoharan Shankar, Jeyaprakash Rajendhran & Paramasamy Gunasekaran Candida albicans biofilm inhibition by synergistic action of terpenes and fluconazole 1032 Suma C Pemmaraju, Parul A Pruthi, R. Prasad & Vikas Pruthi Liquid based formulations of bacteriophages for the management of waterborne bacterial pathogens in water microcosms 1038 Sangeeta Ahiwale, Sujata Tagunde, Sushama Khopkar, Mrudula Karni, Milind Gajbhiye & Balasaheb Kapadnis December 2013 (No. 12) Papers Polymeric nanoparticle formulation of Octapeptide (NP-OP): In vitro release and in vivo effect in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus Linn. 1055 T D Nandedkar, P Sagvekar, B Thakur, R Navlakhe, S Chitnis, S D Mahale, S D’Souza, K D Patel & PR Vavia Isolation, characterization and antigenic cross-reactivities of the major hemorrhagin from Cryptelytrops purpureomaculatus venom 1063 Shin Yee Fung & Nget Hong Tan Housing under the pyramid reduces susceptibility of hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons to prenatal stress in the developing rat offspring 1070 Krishna Dilip Murthy, Mitchel Constance George, Perumal Ramasamy & Zainal Arifin Mustapha Specific absorption rate variation in a brain phantom due to exposure by a 3G mobile phone: Problems in dosimetry 1079 J Behari & Jay Prakash Nirala Neurobiological effect of 7-nitroindazole, a neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, in experimental paradigm of Alzheimer’s disease 1086 Shubham Misra, Anurag Kuhad & Kanwaljit Chopra Learning and memory promoting effects of crude garlic extract Dhrubajyoti Mukherjee & Sugato Banerjee 1094 1150 INDIAN J EXP BIOL, DECEMBER 2013 Anti-diabetic effect of a combination of andrographolide-enriched extract of Andrographis paniculata (Burm f.) Nees and asiaticoside-enriched extract of Centella asiatica L. in high fructose-fat fed rats 1101 Agung Endro Nugroho, Novena Yety Lindawati, Kyky Herlyanti, Lina Widyastuti & Suwidjiyo Pramono Protective effect of secondary plant metabolites from Ipomoea aquatica Forsk. against carbofuran induced damages 1109 Sanjukta Datta, Mahuya Sinha, Dipesh Das, Santinath Ghosh & Pubali Dhar A novel combination of plant growth regulators for in vitro regeneration of complete plantlets of guar [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.] 1120 S Verma, K S Gill, V Pruthi, K S Dhugga & G S Randhawa Deployment of gene specific marker in development of kunitz trypsin inhibitor free soybean genotypes 1125 Vineet Kumar, Anita Rani & Reena Rawal Molecular cloning and mRNA expression profile of Sucrose Transporter Gene BnSUT1C from Brassica napus L. 1130 FuPeng Li, Lin Yan, Jianxiong Lai, ChaoZhi Ma, Mayank Gautam & TingDong Fu Annual Index Annual Contents 1137 Annual Keyword Index 1151 Annual Author Index 1155 List of Experts 1159