The author is thankful to Dr. E. Subudhi, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India and Dr. Dinesh Goyal, Shiv Astha Clinic, Haryana, India for kindly providing the samples. Ethical approval was not required. Financial support. This research was partly supported by SERB, Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India. Potential conflicts of interest. The author reports ...

Indubiose A 4 has been kindly provided by l’Industrie Biologique Francaise, gentamicin by the laboratoires Unilabo, streptomycin by the laboratoires Roger Bellon. Poly-uridilic Acid and tRNA were from Calbiochem and 3 H-labelled phenylalanine from the Centre d’Energie Nucl&ire de Saclay. The strains used are an E. Coli K 12, CP 78, Thy (-), Leu (-), His (-), Thr (-), Arg (-), SM R and an E. Col...

F3 and F4. Both of these were active in reducing the R.Q. in vitro (Table 1) but only one (F4) possessed growth-promoting activity. Since some pituitary preparations with intermedin activity (Colip, 1938; Folley, 1955) have been found to possess also an R.Q.-lowering action, Dr H. B. F. Dixon kindly tested some of our preparations for melanocyte-stimulating activity in frogs and found no relati...

In the final version of our article entitled, "Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review" the authors inadvertently failed to acknowledge the role of International Union of Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). IUSSP colleagues kindly reviewed early drafts of the manuscript presented at an IUSSP workshop in Bangkok August 2012 and ...

The yellow protein crystallized by Kunitz and McDonald (7) from yeast has been examined for some of its properties. The crystalline preparations employed were kindly placed at my disposal by these authors. The yellow color of the preparation appears to be largely due to a flavin prosthetic group, though another yellowish prosthetic group also appears to be present. No enzymatic function for thi...

Dear Sir,?We shall feel much obliged by your kindly announcing the following contributions to the Sir Pardey Lukis Memorial Fund. Through the medium of your esteemed journal, we be? to appeal to the numerous friends (in and outside the medical profession) and pupils of the late Sir Pardey Lukis to help us financially in raising a Memorial in the Medical College, Calcutta, worthy of his name. Al...

ON account of the paper shortage it was not found possible to print summaries of discussions on papers read during the 1943-44 Session. These are printed in the present supplement, the pagination of which continues from that of the Journal for the 97th Session (1943-44) and thus it constitutes a part of Vol. XVII. Matter printed is based, as is customary, on resumes kindly furnished by members ...

1. I cordially greet all of you who took part in the International Congress: "Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas". I wish to extend a special greeting to Bishop Elio Sgreccia, Vice-President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and to Prof. Gian Luigi Gigli, President of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and selfl...

Acknowledgement: This historical and future perspectives account of the American College of Veterinary Medicine is based on documents and correspondence in the archives of the College, personal communications with the author, information kindly provided by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Board of Medical Specialties, the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and comme...

Sik,?My thanks are due to Lieutenant Stott and Major Rogers for their criticisms of my paper published in the " Gazette " for August last. Since its publication, Lieutenant-Colonel Birt, K. A.M.C., has very kindly sent me reprints of his recent articles in the Journal of the R. A. M. C. on " Phlebotomus Fever in Malta and Crete" and " Sandfly Fever in India." His clinical description of the fev...