Elitism among albino rats: Genius and overachievement

Antitumour Activity of Poochendurappattai in Albino Rats in Albino Rats

The water extract of poochendurappattai was screened for antitumour activity at the doss of 5mg, 10mg, 20mg and 50 mg/kg body weight in rats against methylcholanthrene induced fibrosarcoma. There was 63% regression in the tumour weight at the doses of 10mg and 20 mg/kg body weight. This antitumour activity may be due to compounds like royaleanones since royaleanones are known to possess antican...

Elitism and egalitarianism

As a collective group, scientists would probably vote slightly left of the centre, be more liberal in their political and social views and would be genuinely concerned about inequalities in society. Scientists rarely use the word ‘elite’ without some apologetic justification, yet we constantly speak about selection through excellence—and hence exclusion of a nonelite—without any blushes. Althou...

Elitism and stochastic dominance

Élitisme et Dominance Stochastique Résumé La dominance stochastique est traditionnellement associée à la mesure du risque et de l'inégalité et repose sur la concavité de la fonction d'utilité. Nous prétendons que l'approche en terme de dominance stochastique a des implications qui vont au-delà de la mesure du risque et de l'inégalité pour peu que l'on procède à certains ajustements. Nous appliq...

Stress Responses in Albino Rats

Since antiquity, people have observed a complex relationship between alcohol and stress. Apart from stress response dampening effect, long-term ethanol is known to produce remarkable morphological and neurochemical abnormalities in the central nervous system. The present study compared the effect of isolation stress and chronic ethanol administration in modulating various physiological and bioc...

Transcendental Elitism