Contents

IN THIS ISSUE
 

1427	In this issue

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EDITORIAL
 

1429	The mores of publishing in science
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE
 

1431	Is science in India on the decline? A rejoinder
	B. M. Gupta and K. C. Garg
1432	The menace of acronyms
	K. V. Krishnamurthy
1433	Contractual appointment of teachers – a welcome proposal of UGC, and additional suggestions to revive excellence in higher education
	Y. K. Gupta
1434	Reducible iron affects organic matter oxidation and ammonium production in wetland soils and sediments
	K. L. Sahrawat
1435	Prevention of chronic complications of diabetes mellitus – Does patient education score over treatment
	B. S. Vishwanath, M. V. Darshan and M. A. Shekar

NEWS
 

1436	Application of nuclear techniques in the prevention of degenerative diseases (obesity and non-insulin dependent diseases) in ageing
	Venkatesh Iyengar and Prakash Shetty
1437	Symposium on electrets
	Malti Goel

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RESEARCH NEWS
 

1439	Propanthial S-oxide synthase: Potential target to develop flavoursome, nonlachrymatory user-friendly onions
	Pratibha Mehta Luthra and Rajesh Luthra

1440	From the archives

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1441	Random selections

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COMMENTARY
 

1442	On the safety of nimesulide, a preferential COX-2 inhibitor
	S. K. Kulkarni

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
 

1444	Holocene vegetation and climatic changes in southeastern Madhya Pradesh
	M. S. Chauhan
1446	Evidence of fault reactivation off Pondicherry coast from marine geophysical data
	G. P. S. Murty, A. S. Subrahmanyam, K. S. R. Murthy and K. V. L. N. S. Sarma

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GENERAL ARTICLE
 

1450	Chinese initiative in the software industry – Quest to leap
	V. P. Kharbanda and Yogesh Suman

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REVIEW ARTICLE
 

1456	Magnesium deficiency and diabetes mellitus
	Chetan P. Hans, R. Sialy and Devi D. Bansal

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
 

1464	Development of an optical tweezer combined with micromanipulation for DNA and protein nanobioscience
	G. V. Soni, Feroz Meeran Hameed, T. Roopa and G. V. Shivashankar

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SPECIAL SECTION: DIABETES
 

1471	Burden of type 2 diabetes and its complications – The Indian scenario
	A. Ramachandran, C. Snehalatha and Vijay Viswanathan
1477	Genetics of Type 2 diabetes
	Torben Hansen
1483	Insulin resistance syndrome (metabolic syndrome) and Asian Indians
	Anoop Misra and Naval K. Vikram
1497	Diabetes and risk factors for coronary artery disease
	R. Deepa, K. Arvind and V. Mohan
1506	Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of diabetes retionpathy
	M. Balasubramanyam, M. Rema and C. Premanand
1515	Glycation and diabetes: The RAGE connection
	Barry I. Hudson, Marion A. Hofmann, Loredana Bucciarelli, Thoralf Wendt, Bernhard Moser, Yan Lu, Wu Qu, David M. Stern, Vivette D'Agati, Shi Du Yan, Shi Fang Yan, Peter J. Grant and Ann Marie Schmidt
1522	Glycated hemoglobin
	H. B. Chandalia and P. R. Krishnaswamy
1533	Diabetes and insulin resistance associated disorders: Disease and the therapy
	Ranjan Chakrabarti and Ramanujam Rajagopalan
1539	Advances in drug delivery of oral hypoglycemic agents
	G. Kadhe and R. E. Arasan
1544	Which insulin to use? Human or animal?
	V. Mohan
1548	Future options for insulin therapy
	David R. Owens, Geremia B. Bolli and Bernard Zinman
1556	Psychosocial and cultural issues in diabetes mellitus
	G. R. Sridhar and K. Madhu

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
 

1565	Physico-chemical characteristics of poly(3-hydroxybutyric acid) isolated from Azotobacter chroococcum MAL-201
	Soma Pal and Amal K. Paul
1568	Isolation of a novel transcription factor from rice by differential display of mRNA
	Aruna Tyagi, Natalya Klueva, Honggang Zheng and Henry T. Nguyen
1573	Richness and diversity of filamentous fungi on woody litter of mangroves along the west coast of India
	G. L. Maria and K. R. Sridhar
1580	Trapped pollen and spores from spider webs of Lucknow environs
	S. K. Bera, Anjali Trivedi and Chhaya Sharma
1585	Efficacy of Chrysosporium lobatum against larvae of malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi in the laboratory
	Suman Sundar Mohanty and Soam Prakash
1588	Possible mechanism and implications of phenolics-mediated reduction of XTT (sodium, 3'-[1-[phenylamino-carbonyl]-3,4-tetrazolium]-bis(4-methoxy-6-nitro) benzene-sulfonic acid hydrate)
	Dhiraj Vyas, Rashmita Sahoo and Sanjay Kumar

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BOOK REVIEWS
 

1593	Mathematics and its History
	reviewed byGovindan Rangarajan
1593	Ancient Indian Astronomy: Planetary Positions and Eclipses
	reviewed by J. V. Narlikar
1594	Method for Affinity-based Separations of Enzymes and Proteins
	reviewed by Musti J. Swamy
1595	Probability and Its Applications – Probability Models for DNA Sequence Evolution
	reviewed by R. Ramaswamy
1596	RSSDI Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus
	reviewed by M. Balasubramanyam and V. Mohan

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PERSONAL NEWS
 

1597	B. V. Raghavendra Rao
	G. Suryan

HISTORICAL NOTES
 

1598	The story of insulin crystallography
	M. Vijayan

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1607	Acknowledgements

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1610	Institutional members

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