Prof. M. W. Pavlova

Legends of Indian Orthopedics: Prof. M. Natarajan

He joined Armed Forces Medical Service during the Second World War and then underwent training in orthopedics in the United Kingdom where he completed FRCS and MCh (Orth) in Liverpool with ease. On return, he became an orthopedic surgeon in Stanley Medical College and Hospital and a visiting surgeon in Government Tuberculosis Sanatorium for few years. His contributions for the Medical Education...

Abnormalities of M egakaryocytes in W / W ” M ice

M ICE OF THE W/WV genotype have hereditary macrycytic anemia,’ and they have defective hematopoietic stem cells that do not proliferate and differentiate normally after transplantation.2’3 The anemia can be corrected by transplantation of functional stem cells into W/WV mice, and splenic tissue from W/W mice supports colony formation by transplanted hematopoietic stem cells in irradiated hosts....

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Deep dissections of the veins of the bovine head: unpublished work by Prof. J. M. W. Le Roux (1926-1991).

Since his retirement in 1986 as Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Onderstepoort, Jan le Roux was picking up the threads of his doctoral studies on the veins of the bovine head. He injected 28 heads with latex and before he and his wife, Sjaan, left Pretoria to settle in Montagu, he regularly worked in the department of Anatomy. For him dissecting was an art, as illustrated by the fin...

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his study was carried out to determine the importance of type 2 Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in 2004 on 40 diabetic and 40 healthy postmenopausal women attending the endocrine clinics in Zanjan. These two groups were matched in terms of age, length of their menopausal period and body mass index. Seru...