Cigarette smoking has been implicated as a significant risk factor for the establishment and progression of several diseases. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of smoking in serum as well as in neutrophil oxidative damage and antioxidant status. Subjects were randomly chosen from male university students (22-25 years) in a rural community in the District of Midnapore, West Ben...

1 Department of Mathematics, Nandalal Ghosh B.T. College, Panpur, P.O.-Narayanpur, District –North 24 4 Parganas, Pin code-743126, West Bengal, India. *E-mail: [email protected] 5 2 Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, P.O.-Botanic 6 Garden, Howrah-711103, West Bengal, India. E-mail: [email protected] (S. D.), 7 salam50in...

Twelve districts of the state of West Bengal, India are affected by arsenic (As) and millions of individuals are consuming As-contaminated groundwater. The probable adverse effects of As on pregnancy outcome (stillbirth and miscarriage) are yet to be properly studied. The present investigation is an attempt to understand the effects of As exposure on the pregnancy outcome in Bengali women expos...

Introduction: The carcinoma of gallbladder is the most common malignancy biliary tract. incidence this varies geographically. Incidental diagnosed during histopathological examination after cholecystectomy due to other reasons. Histopathological all specimens are very essential rule out these incidental carcinomas. Aim: To study estimate frequency in patients undergoing routine and also evaluat...

The purpose of the present study was to estimate the dominant handgrip strength and its correlations with selected anthropometric and physiological characteristics in inter-college volleyball players. Three anthropometric characteristics, two body composition parameters, two physical and two physiological characteristics were measured on randomly selected 40 inter-college volleyball players (40...

METHOD: In the present study 18 Indian district level soccer players age between 18-25 years were conveniently selected from Birbhum district of West Bengal as subjects. To measure aerobic fitness, two different indirect methods of measuring VO2max were employed; these were Queens College test and 12 minutes Run-Walk test (Cooper Test). The data were analyzed by applying independent t-test to d...

In this research, the occurrences of antimicrobial activity of some ferns were studied. The present paper dealt with the antimicrobial activities of some ethno-medicinally important ferns which were very common in West Mednapore District, as well as South West Bengal, against gram-positive and gramnegative bacterial pathogens. The plants were extracted with different solvents (70% ethanol, meth...

struck by the frequency with which this disease is associated with tubercle of the lungs. The first reference 1 can find to this subject is in the Annual Administration Report on the Jails of Bengal for the year 1893. " The connection between tubercle of the lungs and dysentery has been brought forward in a note by Surgeon Captain W. J. Buchanan (of the Midnapore Central Jail) whose observation...

An overview and a key to the species of Aphelocheirus of India are given. Aphelocheirus (Aphelocheirus) thirumalaii sp. nov. from Gorumara National Park of Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, is described. With this new species, eight other species of benthic water bugs (Aphelocheiridae) are reported from India. A distribution map of all known Indian species is also provided.