DR. MRS. ARUNA KAPIL
 
... Division of Parasitology
Central Drug Research Institute
Lucknow-226 001
 
Fax +91-0522-2223405/2223938
Educational qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D.
Date of birth January 10, 1946
Tel: 2212411-18 (Ext. 4341)
 
 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
 
DAAD Fellow, Institute for Parasitology, Giessen, June 1977-Dec. 1978 Germany
WHO Fellow, National Institute for Medical Research, Jan.1987-Oct.1987 London, U.K.
Visiting professor, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Oct. 1994 - Mar. 1995
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
 
Biochemistry (36 years); Immunology (5 years); Immunology of filariasis (17 years); Immunology and chemotherapy of leishmaniasis (14 years)
 
CURRENT AREAS OF INTEREST
Chemotherapy of Leishmaniasis
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Antihepatotoxic effects of major diterpenoid constituents of Andrographis paniculata. A. Kapil, I.B. kaul, S.K. Banerjee & B.D. Gupta. Biochem. Pharmacol. 46: 182-185, 1993.
Immunopotentiating compounds from Tinospora cordifolia. A. Kapil & S. Sharma. J. Ethnopharmacol. 58: 89-95, 1997.
Synthetic peptides as inhibitors of human complement activation. A. Kapil, B. Kundu, S.K. Khare & M. Shukla. Protein and peptide letter, 4: 405-408, 1997.
Origin, kinetics of circulation and fate in vivo of major excretory secretory products of Acanthocheilonema viteae. W. Harnett, M.J. Worms, A. Kapil, M. Graingen & R.M.E. Parkhouse. Parasitology, 99, 229-239, 1989.
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay in diagnosis of kala-azar in Bhadohi (Varanasi) India. A. Choudhry, P.Y. Guru, R.P. Saxena, A. Kapil & K.C. Saxena. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 83: 363-366, 1990.