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Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics Editorial Board Prof. Ashok K Srivastava University of Montreal and Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Montreal Diabetes Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier de l' Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, H1W 4A4

Prof. J Gowrishankar Centre for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics Nampally, Hyderabad 500001

Prof. AvadheshaSurolia National Institute of Immunology ArunaAsaf Ali Marg New Delhi-110 067

Prof. Manju Bansal Molecular Biophysics Unit Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012

Prof. Basuthkar J Rao Department of Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai 400005 Prof. D N Rao Department of Biochemistry All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi-110029

Prof. Ryoya Takahashi Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Toho University Chiba 234-8510, Japan

Prof. Hari S Sharma VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Prof. S Sivakami Department of Life Sciences University of Bombay Mumbai-400 098

Prof. N S Punekar Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Mumbai 400 076 Prof. Rajesh Gokhale Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Delhi-110 007

Prof. Suresh C Tyagi Department of Physiology & Biophysics University of Louisville School of Medicine Louisville, KY 40202 Prof. Young-Choon Lee Department of Biotechnology Dong-A University Busan 604-714, Korea

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