Background: Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in India and one of the main causes of lymphadenopathy. However, anti-tubercular treatment cannot be given only on clinical suspicion. Cytomorphology with acid fast staining proves to be a valuable tool in diagnosing these cases. Aim: To assess the role of FNAC in diagnosing tuberculous lymphadenitis and also to study the role of repeat ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND CuO-TiO2 nanosheets (NSs), a kind of nanomaterials is one of the most attracting class of transition doped semiconductor materials due to its interesting and important optical, electrical, and structural properties and has many technical applications, such as in metal ions detection, photocatalysis, Chemi-sensors, bio-sensors, solar cells and so on. In this paper the sy...

Background: FNAC of the thyroid gland is now a well established first line diagnostic test for the evaluation of diffuse as well as nodular lesions of thyroid. The main purpose of FNAC is confirming benign lesions and thereby reducing unnecessary surgery. Objectives: this study was aimed at evaluating experience of FNAC and correlating the findings with tissue biopsy – in the diagnosis of thyro...

BACKGROUND The characteristic cytologic features of the common salivary gland lesions have been well-delineated in literature. However, there also exist cytologic pitfalls and overlapping features that make an accurate diagnosis difficult in few cases. The present study was designed to compare the cytologic findings of salivary gland lesions with the histologic diagnoses, in order to assess the...

The present investigation was undertaken to examine the genetic divergence in 50 mungbean germplasm lines for 13 characters using Mahalanobis D statistics. The genotypes grouped into eight clusters. Cluster VII had maximum intra-cluster distance while inter-cluster distance was highest between clusters V and VII. Cluster means indicated that none of the clusters was superior for all the charact...

Introduction: It is well-recognized that cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage are capable of fusion to form multinucleated giant cells (MGCs). The presence of multinucleated giant cells on FNAC smears of breast lumps have been described only sporadically in the literature. As this is a common specimen in Cytopathology, knowledge of frequency of this variation can be valuable to cytopatholog...

The observation by Youmans et al. (1947) that para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) antagonizes the action of para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) has been confirmed repeatedly. Since the role of PABA has come to assume such a central position in explaining the mechanism and site of action of the sulfonamides, the question now arises, Do PAS and the sulfonamides inhibit the same metabolic process? The develo...

Background & objective: Introduction: First detection of any solid tumour as metastatic deposits in bone marrow directs clinicians to start searching for the primary tumour. Detection of bone marrow metastasis determines the stage of the malignancy, prognosis, mode of treatment, chemotherapeutic response and follow-up in case of relapse. The aim of the current...

Background: β-Hematin (Hemozoin) was synthised inside human erythrocyte by malaria parasite. The parasite avoids the toxic effects by polymerizing heme molecules into insoluble crystalline β-Hematin. C. botrys and A. annua used for the treatment of diseases like malaria, hepatitis, cancers, and inflammations. Objective: Determine of antimalarial and anti-protozoa effects of A. anuuae and C. bo...

Ephedra intermedia is a dioecious plant of the Ephedraceae family whose male and female plants are quite similar in shape, but their biochemical differences are not known. The subject was the TLC and GC-MS study of fatty acids, phenols, essential oils, and alkaloids in male and female shoots of E. intermedia. Male and female shoots were collected from Markazi province in Iran, in spring. Alcoho...