ANNUAL REPORT - Department of Biotechnology

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responses by downregulating IL-8 receptors through altering membrane fluidity. Journal of Cell
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8. Manna SK, Rangasamy T, Wise K, Sarkar S, Shishodia S, Biswal S and Ramesh GT (2006)
Environmental tobacco smoke activates nuclear transcription factor kappa B, activator protein-1, and
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9. Radha Rama Devi A, Naushad S M and Krishna Prasad C (2006) Evaluation of total plasma
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downsizing on the basis of region-of-difference polymorphism profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
patient isolates reveals geographic partitioning. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43:5978-5982
13. Sechi LA, Ahmed N, Felis GE, Dupre I, Cannas S, Fadda G, Bua A and Zanetti S (2006) Immunogenicity
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14. Sechi LA, Mara L, Cappai P, Frothingam R, Ortu S, Leoni A, Ahmed N and Zanetti S (2006) Immunization
with DNA vaccines encoding different mycobacterial antigens elicits a Th1 type immune response in
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15. Singhal PK, Rajendra Kumar P, Subba Rao MRK, Mahesh Kyasani and Mahalingam S. (2006) Simian
Immunodeficiency Virus Vpx is imported into the nucleus via importin alpha dependent and independent
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16. Sreenu VB, Kumar P, Nagaraju J and Nagarajaram H A (2006) Microsatellite polymorphism across the
M. tuberculosis and M. bovis genomes: Implications on genome evolution and plasticity. BMC Genomics
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis are organized in operons: evidence that PE Rv2431c is co-transcribed with
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18. Varsha (2006) DNA fingerprinting in criminal justice system: An overview. DNA and Cell Biology 25: 181-
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19. Vijaykrishnan S, Qamra R, Verma C, Sen R and Mande SC (2006) Cation-mediated interplay of loops in
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Chaperonin-10. Journal of Biomolecular and Structural Dynamics 23: 365-
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20. Arunkumar KP, Metta M and Nagaraju J (2006) Molecular phylogeny of silkmoths reveals the origin of
domesticated silkmoth, Bombyx mori from Chinese B. mandarina and paternal inheritance of Antheraea
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