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The Spiritual Prodigy, The Reluctant Guru, And The Saint: Mirabai And Collaborative Leadership At Hari Krishna Mandir, Nancy M. Martin Apr 2024

The Spiritual Prodigy, The Reluctant Guru, And The Saint: Mirabai And Collaborative Leadership At Hari Krishna Mandir, Nancy M. Martin

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This article explores the life and influence of Indira Devi Niloy (1920–1997) who in 1949 began to encounter the sixteenth-century saint–poet Mirabai during her meditative trance states. She would recount songs, stories, and teachings that the saint gave to her as well as scenes from Mirabai’s life that she witnessed as an observer and at other times experienced directly as a participant. Their ongoing relationship would have a tremendous influence on Indira Devi as well as her guru Dilip Kumar Roy (1897–1980) and the increasingly international community that grew up around them. Their interactions and Indira Devi’s reports in turn …


Title-Molecular Diagnostics Of Dystrophinopathies In Sri Lanka Towards Phenotype Predictions: An Insight From A South Asian Resource Limited Setting, Nalaka Wijekoon, Lakmal Gonawala, Pyara Ratnayake, Roshan Liyanage, Dhammika Amaratunga, Yetrib Hathout, Harry W. M. Steinbusch, Ashwin Dalal, Eric P. Hoffman, K. Ranil D. De Silva Jan 2024

Title-Molecular Diagnostics Of Dystrophinopathies In Sri Lanka Towards Phenotype Predictions: An Insight From A South Asian Resource Limited Setting, Nalaka Wijekoon, Lakmal Gonawala, Pyara Ratnayake, Roshan Liyanage, Dhammika Amaratunga, Yetrib Hathout, Harry W. M. Steinbusch, Ashwin Dalal, Eric P. Hoffman, K. Ranil D. De Silva

Pharmacy Faculty Scholarship

Background: The phenotype of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) patients is determined by the type of DMD gene variation, its location, effect on reading frame, and its size. The primary objective of this investigation was to determine the frequency and distribution of DMD gene variants (deletions/duplications) in Sri Lanka through the utilization of a combined approach involving multiplex polymerase chain reaction (mPCR) followed by Multiplex Ligation Dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) and compare to the international literature. The current consensus is that MLPA is a labor efficient yet expensive technique for identifying deletions and duplications in the …