Pakistan Journal of Physiology

CONTENTS

Original Articles

Effects of prenatal exposure to different salt concentrations on the third month's weight and blood pressure in Wistar rat                                                                                                                                       1

Heydarpour Fereidoun, Rostami Ahmad, Heydarpour Pourya

Effects of aqueous extract of water cress on glucose and lipid plasma in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats                                                                                                                                                                      6

Nadar Shahrokhi, Muhammad Khaksari Hadad, Zakieh Keshavarzi, Muhammad Shabani

Role of oral pantoprazole as pre operative preanaesthetic premedication for the prophylaxis of acid aspiration in elective adult surgery                                                                                                                11

Altaf Hussain, Abdul Hamid Hasan Al-Saeed, Syed Shahid Habib, Mansoor Aqil, Sayeed Nawaz, Adeel-ur-Rahman

Attitude of 1^st mbbs medical students about two different visual aids in physiology lectures               16

Chaudhary R, Dullo P, Gupta U

C-Reactive (CRP) protein in transfusion dependent thalassaemic patients                                              20

Rukhsana Jokhio, Yaqoub Khan, Latafat Ali Chughtai, Zaib-un-Nisa Mughal

'P' Mitrale and left atrial enlargement: comparison with echocardiography                                           24

Waqas Hameed, Muhammad Shamaun Razi, Shafqat Ali, Muhammad Mazhar Hussain, Muhammad Aslam, Sohail Aziz

Effect of low blood lead levels on anaemia indicators and creatinine clearance rate of workers occupationally exposed to lead                                                                                                                       31

Fahamida Memon, Vasandani AGM, Seehar GM, Bhanger MI

Influence of maternal factors on hematological parameters of healthy newborns of Karachi                34

Danish Hasan Qaiser, Mohammad Perwaiz Sandila, Tahseen Kazmi, Syed Tousif Ahmed

Evaluation of the door-to-needle time in patients undergoing fibrinolytic therapy after acute myocardial infarction                                                                                                                                      38

Waqas Jehangir, Muhammad Salman Daood, Muhammad Khan, Nadeem Hayat Mallick

REVIEW ARTICLE

Role of CTLA-4 in xenotranplantation                                                                                                         40

Faris Q Alenzi, Mohammed W Al-Rabia, Badi Q Alenazi, Abdulla M Mubaraki, Mahmoud Lotfy, Mohamed Labib Salem, Haris M Siddiqui, Jamal M Arif, Shamweel Ahmad, Ali A Al-Jabri, Richard K Wyse

Short review of reproductive physiology of melatonin                                                                                46

Dullo P, Chaudhary R

Guidelines for Authors                                                                                                        Inside Back Cover

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