P K Tiwari,                               Ph.D. 
                               
                              Professor  
                           
                         
                                  
         
                                                    
                                                    
                            Banaras Hindu University 
                           
                                                                                                        
                            Varanasi                                
                           
                                                    
                            Uttar Pradesh                                 
                           						  
                                                            
                           
                                                    
                            E-mail: pk_tiwari@hotmail.com 
                           
                                                    
                               
                           
                          
                            URL:   http://www.jiwaji.edu/pdf/faculty-portfolio/PKTiwari.pdf  
                           
                          
                          						  
                              
                           
						  
	                                                       
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				Tiwari, P. K., Bhutada, A., Agarwal, R., Basu, S., Raman, R. and Kumar, A.  UGT1A1 gene variants and clinical risk factors modulate hyperbilirubinemia risk in newborns. Journal of Perinatology : Official Journal of the California Perinatal Association.  2013.  [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Vijayan, V., Tiwari, P. K. and Meshram, G. P.  Inhibitory effects of neem seed oil and its extract on various direct acting and activation-dependant mutagens-induced bacterial mutagenesis. Pharmaceutical Biology.  2013.  51, 1525-1530. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Mishra, G., Kumar, N., Kaur, G., Jain, S., Tiwari, P. K. and Mehra, N. K.  Distribution of HLA-A, B and DRB1 alleles in Sahariya tribe of North Central India: An association with pulmonary tuberculosis. Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases.  2013.  [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sukla, K. K., Tiwari, P. K., Kumar, A. and Raman, R.  Low birthweight (LBW) and neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (NNH) in an Indian cohort: association of homocysteine, its metabolic pathway genes and micronutrients as risk factors. PloS One.  2013.  8, e71587. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Tiwari, P. K., Sethi, A., Basu, S., Raman, R. and Kumar, A.  Heme oxygenase-1 gene variants and hyperbilirubinemia risk in North Indian newborns. European Journal of Pediatrics.  2013.  172, 1627-1632. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sharma, S., Singh, T. D., Poojary, S. S., Rohilla, M. S., Singh, A., Lowalekar, K. B. and Tiwari, P. K.  Analysis of autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 in an extended family of central India. Indian Journal of Human Genetics.  2012.  18, 299-304. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Singh, T. D., Barbhuiya, M. A., Poojary, S., Shrivastav, B. R. and Tiwari, P. K.  The liver function test enzymes and glucose level are positively correlated in gallbladder cancer: a cancer registry data analysis from north central India. Indian Journal of Cancer.  2012.  49, 125-136. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Mishra, G., Poojary, S. S., Raj, P. and Tiwari, P. K.  Genetic polymorphisms of CCL2, CCL5, CCR2 and CCR5 genes in Sahariya tribe of North Central India: an association study with pulmonary tuberculosis. Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases.  2012.  12, 1120-1127. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Singh, T. D., Barbhuiya, M. A., Gupta, S., Shrivastav, B. R., Jalaj, V., Agarwal, N. and Tiwari, P. K.  Quantitative Assessment of Expression of Lactate Dehydrogenase and its Isoforms 3 and 4 may Serve as Useful Indicators of Progression of Gallbladder Cancer: A Pilot Study. Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry : IJCB.  2011.  26, 146-153. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Kumar, K., Venkatesh, S., Sharma, P. R., Tiwari, P. K. and Dada, R.  DAZL 260A > G and MTHFR 677C > T variants in sperm DNA of infertile Indian men. Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics.  2011.  48, 422-426. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Raj, P., Prakash, R., Mishra, G., Singh, T. D., Poojary, S., Mehra, N. K. and Tiwari, P. K.  Prevalence of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in different ethnic groups in India: evaluation of public health. Public Health.  2012.  126, 295-299. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Barbhuiya, M. A., Sahasrabuddhe, N. A., Pinto, S. M., Muthusamy, B., Singh, T. D., Nanjappa, V., Keerthikumar, S., Delanghe, B., Harsha, H. C., Chaerkady, R., Jalaj, V., Gupta, S., Shrivastav, B. R., Tiwari, P. K. and Pandey, A.  Comprehensive proteomic analysis of human bile. Proteomics.  2011.  11, 4443-4453. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sharma, P. R., Singh, S., Jena, M., Mishra, G., Prakash, R., Das, P. K., Bamezai, R. N. and Tiwari, P. K.  Coding and non-coding polymorphisms in VDR gene and susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in tribes, castes and Muslims of Central India. Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases.  2011.  11, 1456-1461. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Janardhan, R. and Tiwari, P. K.  Genomic structure and sequence analysis of Lucilia cuprina HSP90 gene. Cellular and Molecular Biology.  2011.  57, 112-121. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Rohilla, M. S., Reddy, P. V., Sharma, S. and Tiwari, P. K.  In vitro induction of the ubiquitous 60 and 70KD heat shock proteins by pesticides monocrotophos and endosulphan in Musca domestica: potential biomarkers of toxicity. Cellular and Molecular Biology.  2011.  57, 100-111. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Vinod, V., Tiwari, P. K. and Meshram, G. P.  Evaluation of mutagenic and antimutagenic activities of neem (Azadirachta indica) seed oil in the in vitro Ames Salmonella/microsome assay and in vivo mouse bone marrow micronucleus test. Journal of Ethnopharmacology.  2011.  134, 931-937. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sharma, P., Jain, S., Bamezai, R. and Tiwari, P.  Increased prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in male adults of sahariya tribe of India: a revised survey. Indian Journal of Community Medicine : Official Publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine.  2010.  35, 267-271. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sharma, P. R., Jain, S., Bamezai, R. N. and Tiwari, P. K.  Utility of serum LDH isoforms in the assessment of mycobacterium tuberculosis induced pathology in TB patients of Sahariya tribe. Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry : IJCB.  2010.  25, 57-63. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sharma, S., Rai, E., Sharma, P., Jena, M., Singh, S., Darvishi, K., Bhat, A. K., Bhanwer, A. J., Tiwari, P. K. and Bamezai, R. N.  The Indian origin of paternal haplogroup R1a1* substantiates the autochthonous origin of Brahmins and the caste system. Journal of Human Genetics.  2009.  54, 47-55. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Rohilla, M. S. and Tiwari, P. K.  Restriction fragment length polymorphism of mitochondrial DNA and phylogenetic relationships among five species of Indian freshwater turtles. Journal of Applied Genetics.  2008.  49, 167-182. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sharma, S., Rohilla, M. S., Reddy, P. V. and Tiwari, P. K.  In vitro induction of 60-kDa and 70-kDa heat shock proteins by endosulphan and monocrotophos in sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.  2008.  55, 57-69. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sharma, P. R., Jain, S. and Tiwari, P. K.  Elevated level of serum LDH2 and LDH3 in sputum three positive TB patients of Sahariya tribe: a preliminary study. Clinical Biochemistry.  2007.  40, 1414-1419. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Joshi, A. and Tiwari, P. K.  Chromosomal responses of blowfly Lucilia cuprina to heat and heavy metal stress. Genetica.  2000.  109, 211-218. [PubMed]  
		 
	 
  
                           
                         
                                                
 
                      
                          
                            
                               
                             
                            
                                
                             
                            
                              
                                  
                                     
                                   
                                  
                                                                            
                                        
                                                                                    
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                                                    Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India                                                                        
 
                                           
                                                                                  
                                       
                                       
                                   
                              
 
                             
                          
                        
                            
                               
                             
                            
                                                                
                                  
                                    
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                                      Hepatobiliary system 
 
                                     
									                                    
                                      
                                          Gall bladder