Original Communications Dose Response of Jejunal Sucrase and Maltase Activities to Isocaloric High and Low Carbohydrate Diets in Man. N. S. ROSENSWEIG AND R. H. HERMAN 1373 Nutritional Macrocytic Anemia of Infancy and Childhood. A. K. SARAYA, P. N. SINGLA, K. RAMACHANDRAN AND 0. P. GHAI 1378 Effect of Pyridoxine Supplementation on Glutamic-Pyruvic Transaminase and In Vitro Stimulation in Erythr...

Kumar, V., Ghai, 0. P., and Chase, H. P. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 801. Intestinal dipeptide hydrolase activities in undernourished children. Intestinal dipeptide hydrolase enzymes cleave dipeptides into amino acids. In 8 undernourished children with diarrhoea, mean intestinal mucosal glyclyl-proline hydrolase activity was reduced 40%, valyl-proline hydrolase activity 38%, a...

We read with great interest a recent study by Ghai et al (1) wherein they followed 56 out of 69 randomized patients for 12 months following parasagittal interlaminar (PIL) injection with local anesthetics (LA) alone or LA with steroid (LS). We agree with author’s choice of technique to achieve adequate and consistent ventral epidural spread of injectate. Parasagittal interlaminar epidural stero...

Numerous recent reports have outlined the clinical profile of childhood peptic ulcer (Alexander, 1951; Fallstrom and Reinand, 1961; Gadiyar, Taneja, and Ghai, 1963; Girdany, 1953; Michener, Kennedy, and Du Shane, 1960; Muggia and Spiro, 1959; Ramirez Ramos, Kirsner, and Palmer, 1960). Investigation of its pathogenesis, however, has not received much attention. There is general agreement that pe...

Com a finalidade às discussões que buscam convergências entre os estudos de deficiência e gênero, este artigo trata-se análise com abordagem interdisciplinar do desenvolvimento social. Foi utilizado como técnica pesquisa revisão literatura científica (SCOTT, 1995; GHAI, 2002; PEREIRA, 2007; PINTO, 2010; DAVIS, 2016; BUTLER, 2018; OLIVEIRA, 2013) o procedimento dissertativo. Tendo-se por objetiv...

Children constitute about 40% of India’s population. Infants and children suffer from frequent but usually non-serious illnesses. Most of these are self-limiting (Straand et al., 1998) and are often treated not only inappropriately, but also resorting to polypharmacy (Ghai and Paul, 1988). Prescribers and the consumers are flooded with a vast array of pharmaceutical preparations with innumerabl...

In his first Editorial, Prof. OP Ghai who took over as Editor in January 1973 noted with satisfaction that ‘The Journal ranks as one of the foremost ... in India with high academic standards and regular publication. The journal is now financially viable in this period of rising costs and diminishing revenues. Credit for this achievement, to a large measure, is due to the confidence reposed by t...