Bharathi Balakumar

Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research | JIPMER · Deaprtment of Medical Education

Diabetic neuropathy is the most common complication affecting more than 50% of patients with longstanding diabetes. Till date, there are no reports to explain the scientific basis of alternative medicine as an adjunct therapy for treating diabetic neuropathy. Hence, we studied the effect of honey and insulin treatment on hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia...

Background and Aim: The present study was conducted to assess the role of dopamine in amygdala in the body weight, blood glucose, lipid profile and lipid risk factors in albino Wistar rats. Methods: A total of 16 albino Wistar rats were taken for the study and were divided into medial amygdalar group and control group with 8 rats in each group. Ste...

Background: Jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia) has been shown to be associated with neurological abnormalities like neuropathy and cardiovascular abnormalities like systolic dysfunction. However, though jaundice is a common abnormality in children, data are inadeqet about the degree of motor impairment, autonomic dysfunction and alteration in systolic t...

The head size of adolescents and adults is larger as compared to children and thus the parameters of brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) are likely to be different in them. Such differences of BAEPs, if any, in children, adolescents and adults are not precisely mentioned in literature. Thus, the present study was carried out in different a...

Sympathetic skin response (SSR) is a reflexly elicited potential of the sweat glands, the afferent and efferent fibres of the reflex are cutaneous sensory fibres (if the SSR is elicited by electrical stimulus) and sympathetic sudomotor fibres respectively. Our earlier study indicated that latency, besides duration and amplitude, of SSR of a given n...

There is evidence that the practice of yoga improves physical and mental performance. The present investigation was undertaken to study the effect of yoga training on visual and auditory reaction times (RTs), maximum expiratory pressure (MEP), maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP), 40 mmHg test, breath holding time after expiration (BHTexp), breath ho...

The effects of undernutrition and sex difference on skeletal muscle contractile characteristics were studied in young albino rats. The skeletal muscle (gastrocnemius) of 8 week old pups with only one-third normal food intake (undernourished group = UN group; n = 18), as compared to free fed pups (control group = cont. group; n = 16), showed prolong...

The study was planned to explore the short term effects of experimental diabetes on the contractile characteristics of soleus and diaphragm. Experimental diabetes was induced in rats by streptozotocin (50 mg/kg, IP). On the 5th day, the isometric contractions were studied in soleus (in situ) and in diaphragm strip (in vitro). The soleus of the diab...

Systolic time intervals (STI) are sensitive indices of myocardial function. Passive tilting is a rapidly reversible and non-invasive method for inducing cardiovascular stress. The present work was conducted to study the effect of graded head-up tilt (HUT) on STI. 20 male medical students were subjected to 30 degrees, 60 degrees and 80 degrees HUT o...