Address for Correspondence: Dr. Ashfaq Ul Hassan, MBBS MD, Lecturer SKIMS Medical College Bemina Srinagar, Kashmir, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1 MBBS MD, Lecturer, SKIMS Medical College Bemina Srinagar, Kashmir, India. 2 MBBS, Medical Consultant, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir India. 3 Prof...

On account of their ecological, economical and cultural significance, grasslands are an important mark and a unique heritage in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the details of distribution of vast reserves of soil organic carbon (SOC) in these ecosystems are not well known because most of the previous investigations on these ecosystems have been devoted towards highlighting their importance as repos...

Authors' Affiliations: 1 Department of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology 8 Tufts University School of Medicine; Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts 9 University; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of 10 Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; , 6 Department of Biochemistry, University 11 of Kashmir, Kashmir, India; 7 Dep...

Esophageal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. It is a multifactorial disease, and no single agent has been identified so far as the sole cause of the cancer. Many factors like smoking, the consumption of alcohol, fungal-contaminated, spicy and various nitrosamine-containing food stuffs and hot beverages, nutritional deficiency of some vitamins like β-carotene, vitamin A, C and ...

Over a three year period (1 July 1986 to 30 June 1989) all newly diagnosed and histologically proved cases of oesophageal and gastric cancer were recorded prospectively. Some 1515 cases of oesophageal cancer (1050 men and 465 women) and 966 cases of gastric cancer (789 men and 177 women) were registered. Seven patients had simultaneous oesophageal and gastric cancer. Age standardised incidence ...

148 Correspondence (‹letiflim): Gh Nabi Dar, M.D. Department of Orthopaedics, Gove r n m e n t Medical College Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Tel: +09 1 0 1 9 4 2424660 Fax ( F a k s ): +09 1 0 1 9 4 243730 e-m a i l ( e -p o s t a) : d r g n d a r @ y a h o o . c o . i n Department of Orthopaedics, Government Medical College Srinagar, University of Kashmir, Kashmir, India. Kaflmir Üniversitesi, Sri...

On December 8, 1989, members of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front kidnapped Dr. Rubiya Sayeed, the daughter of the Indian Minister of Home Affairs, as she left a government hospital in Srinagar. The kidnappers refused to release her until several incarcerated members of their outlawed group were released. Following hasty negotiations over the next several days, the government in New Delhi ...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. ASHFAQ UL HASSAN MBBS MS Lecturer Anatomy SKIMS MEDICAL COLLEGE, Kashmir, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1 Lecturer Anatomy SKIMS Medical College, Kashmir, India. 2 Dental Surgeon, SKIMS Soura, India 3 Prof and Head Al Qassim University Saudi Arabia. 4 Physician Directorate Health Kashmir, India I...

background : toxocariasis is a zoonotic disease caused by the ascarid of dogs and cats, the main representative of which is a toxocara canis . distribution of the disease is world wide and is more prevalent in children. the present study was carried out in children of kashmir valley, to determine the toxocariasis seropositivity. methods : for the present seroepidemiological study, blood samples...

A survey of plant parasitic nematodes associated with Zea mays in Kashmir valley was conducted from June 2006 to November 2006 which yielded a number of Tylenchids. Among them, the species Tylenchorhynchus zeae Sethi and G. Swarp, 1968, Pratylenchus sativus kaul, 1985, Aphelenchoides srinagrensisKaul, 1985 are reported herein, with dimensions. The parasites are being recorded for the first time...