ON TESTIS AND EPlDlDYMlS OF RATS - Pondicherry University ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. P. P. Mathur, Professor, School
of Life Sciences, Pondicheny University, Pondicherry for his invaluable guidance,
unceasing help, unerring supervision, critical suggestions, encouragement and the
freedom with which I could work in his laboratory throughout the course of my
research work.
I express my sincere gratitude to Dr. E. Vijayan, Professor and Head, School
of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicheny for providing me laboratory
facilities. My thanks are due to the other faculty members of my department Dr. B.
Ka~abiran, Dr. A. Ramachandra Reddy and Dr. K. Srikumar, School of Life
Sciences, Pondicherry University for their encouragement.
My sincere gratitude to Dr. Stefen Safe, Department of Veterinary Anatomy
and Public Health, A & M University, Texas, USA for the gift of TCDD without
which I could not complete my work successfully.
My sincere thanks to Dr. Dheer Singh, Scientist, National Dairy Research
Institute, Karnal and Dr. R.R. Manimaran, Department of Pharmacology and
Therapeutics. McGill University, Montreal. Canada, for their valuahlc suggcslions
and encouragements.
1 would also thank Dr. S.C. Parija, Officer in-Charge and other staff of the
Central Animal House. JIPMER, Pondicherry for providing animals.
I am highly thankful to Dr. P.P. Mathur, Officer in-Charge and Mr. M.
Sundaramohan and Ms. V. Amoudha Staff of Bioinformatics Centre, Distributed
Information Sub-centre, Pondicherry University, Pondicheny for providing me the
necessary facilities for literature search and other help.
I sincerely thanks to Ms. K.C. Chitra, Research Scholar, School of Life
Sciences, Pondicheny University for her continuous help throughout my experiments.
I also thank Ms. P. Poonkothai, Ms. R. Sujatha, Mr. M. Arul Murugan, Ms. Bindhu