Journal of Biosciences

June 2011 (Volume 36 Number 2)


     Cover:  Exquisite flower of Passiflora calcarata Mast.,
Passifloraceae, 
showing the style bearing the stigma and the
filament bearing the anthers (See article on pg. 229)


Clipboard
Brain-muscle interface: The next-generation BMI
Radhika Rajan and Neeraj Jain
201--203
 
Commentary

Public germplasm collections and revolutions in biotechnology
Frank M Dugan, Aric Wiest and Kevin McCluskey

205--209
 
Series

What history tells us XXIV. The attempt of Nikolai Koltzoff to link genetics, embryology and physical chemistry
Michel Morange


211--214
Brief communications

Towards hemerythrin-based blood substitutes: Comparative performance to heamoglobin on human leukocytes and umbilical vein endothelial cells
Eva Fischer-Fodor, Augustin Mot, Florina Deac, Mariann Arkosi and Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu


215--221

Isolation and expression analysis of LEA genes in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Lei Su, Chuan-Zhi Zhao, Yu-Ping Bi, Shu-Bo Wan, Han Xia and Xing-Jun Wang
Supplementary Material


223--228

Stylish lengths: Mate choice in flowers
BT Ramesha, MD Yetish, G Ravikanth, KN Ganeshaiah, Jaboury Ghazoul and R Uma Shaanker


229--234
 
Articles

Effects of gamma ray-induced free radicals on the metal content and amino acid composition of human metallothionein-1
Lieven Goossens


235--241

Effect of surgical stress on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from healthy sections of colon and rectum of patients with colorectal cancer
Lucia Potenza, Cinzia Calcabrini, Roberta De Bellis, Umberto Mancini, Emanuela Polidori, Sabrina Zeppa, Rossana Alloni, Luigi Cucchiarini and Marina DachÃ


243--251
 

Water-mediated ionic interactions in protein structures
R Sabarinathan, K Aishwarya, R Sarani, M Kirti Vaishnavi and K Sekar
Supplementary Material


253--263

Pleiotropic consequences of misexpression of the developmentally active and stress-inducible non-coding hsrω gene in Drosophila
Moushami Mallik and Subhash C Lakhotia


265--280

Splicing aberrations caused by constitutional RB1 gene mutations in retinoblastoma
Vidya Latha Parsam, Mohammed Javed Ali, Santosh G Honavar, Geeta K Vemuganti and Chitra Kannabiran


281--287

Genome-wide screening reveals the emergence and divergence of RTK homologues in basal Metazoan Hydra magnipapillata
PC Reddy, Salil S Bidaye and Surendra Ghaskadbi
Supplementary Material


289--296

Growth inhibitory, apoptotic and anti-inflammatory activities displayed by a novel modified triterpenoid, cyano enone of methyl boswellates
Palaniyandi Ravanan, Sanjay K Singh, GSR Subba Rao and Paturu Kondaiah


297--307

Modulation of synaptic potentials and cell excitability by dendritic KIR and KAs channels in nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons
Jessy John and Rohit Manchanda


309--328

Mutagenesis in the ORF AV2 affects viral replication in Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus
A Rouhibakhsh, QMI Haq and VG Malathi


329--340

Inhibitory activity of the peptides derived from buffalo prolactin on angiogenesis
Jaeok Lee, Syamantak Majumder, Suvro Chatterjee and Kambadur Muralidhar
Supplementary Material



341--354

Fibrinogenolytic toxin from Indian monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) venom
C Chandra Sekhar and Dibakar Chakrabarty


355--361

Detrimental effect of expression of Bt endotoxin Cry1Ac on in vitro regeneration, in vivo growth and development of tobacco  and cotton transgenics
Preeti Rawat, Amarjeet Kumar Singh, Krishna Ray, Bhupendra Chaudhary, Sanjeev Kumar, Taru Gautam, Shaveta Kanoria, Gurpreet Kaur, Paritosh Kumar,
Deepak Pental and Pradeep Kumar Burma
Supplementary Material


363--376

Mini-review

Marmorkrebs: Natural crayfish clone as emerging model for various biological disciplines
Gunter Vogt

377--382

Review

Metabolic and molecular action of Trigonella foenum-graecum (fenugreek) and trace metals in experimental diabetic tissues
Najma Zaheer Baquer, Pardeep Kumar, Asia Taha, RK Kale, SM Cowsik and P McLean

383--396

 

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