BACKGROUND Manipur and Nagaland, in the north-east of India, are classified as high prevalence states for HIV, and intravenous drug use is an important route of transmission. Most injecting drug users (IDUs) are men, an estimated 40% are married, and death rates have been high in the last five years, consequently the number of widows of IDUs has increased. Many of these widows and their childre...

A study was conducted to establish the normal electrocardiogram in four different genetic strains of mithun (Bos frontalis). Electrocardiography, cardiac electrical axis, heart rate, rectal temperature and respiration rate were recorded in a total of 32 adult male mithun of four strains (n = 8 each). It was found that the respiration and heart rates were higher (P < .05) in Manipur than other t...

The paper deals with plants used as a traditional system of medicine by the Poumai tribe Manipur, India. is one among major tribes mostly resides in Senapati District, Manipur. Agriculture main source livelihood and also sector for employment although it highly unorganized unskilled. An ethno-medicinal investigation was conducted to understand knowledge medicinal being local healers tribe, Some...

The relationship between plants and human beings has been known since time immemorial. Nowadays, there is scientific study of the that exists people plants. This includes used as food, phytochemicals, pharmacology, clothing, currency, ritual, medicine, dye, construction, etc. Manipur was a small princely state in North-East India, having history about 2000 years. As under Indo-Burma Biodiversit...

UNLABELLED The rich wealth of Citrus genetic resources makes India to enjoy a remarkable position in the "Citrus belt of the world". We have developed CIBMAN, a unique database on Citrus biodiversity of Manipur which comprises 33 accessions collected through extensive survey for more than three years. CIBMAN provides integrated access to Citrus species through sophisticated web interface which ...

It is essential to know the rate of compression of clay for design purposes. Determination of the value of coefficient of consolidation cv which gives the rate at which compression of soil layer takes place can be done by conducting routine one-dimensional consolidation tests. Since this test is time consuming, it is desirable to predict the value of cv by correlating with some simple index pro...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to find out the various personality factors among HIV/AIDS patients of injecting drug users. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted during the period of July 2001 to August 2004 at Manipur State, India in which 60 samples of both male and female in the age range of 21 to 35 years were taken through the helps from R.I.M.S Hospital, Imphal, J.N. Hos...

1 Associate Professor, 2 Post-graduate trainees, 3 Professor Department of Surgery, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, Manipur, India Email: [email protected] Corresponding Author Dr Lalsangzuala Tochhawng PG Student, Department of Surgery, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, Manipur, INDIA Abstract Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant tumour of endothelial origin with a...

A total of 95 clinically diagnosed cases of dermatophytosis over a period of two years attending the department of Dermatology, RIMS, Hospital, Imphal, Manipur were studied mycologically in the Department of Microbiology, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, Manipur . Out of the total cases, by direct microscopy in KOH wet mount examination showed 39(41.05%) cases were positiv...