School of Laboratory Medicine & Medical Sciences

 Person

 Dr SG Naidu

 Telephone

 +27 (031) 2604617 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

 Email

 naidus15@ukzn.ac.za  

Campus

 Westville

Designation

 Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

Dr Strini Naidu is Senior Lecturer and former head of the Division of Physiology (Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine). Specialty teaching areas include Neurophysiology, Cardio-Respiratory Physiology, Endocrine Physiology, and Pathophysiology. His research interests are wide and varied, and range from investigations into the water-handling capacities of Namib Desert tenebrionids, to systolic time interval and echocardiographic assessment of cardiac function in his postgraduate cardiovascular research programmes.

Selected publications:

1. Naidu, S. G. (2008). Why does the Namib Desert tenebrionid Onymacris unguicularis fog-bask? Eur. J. Entomol. 105: 829-838.

2. Naidu, S. G. (2006). Haemolymph amino acid, sugar and glycerol levels in the Namib Desert tenebrionid Physadesmia globosa during dehydration and rehydration. Eur. J. Entomol. 103: 305-310.

3. Naidu, S. G. (2001). Water balance and osmoregulation in Stenocara gracilipes, a wax-blooming tenebrionid from the Namib Desert. J. Insect Physiol. 47: 1429-1440.

4. Naidu, S. G. (2001). Osmoregulation in Onymacris rugatipennis, a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 129: 873-885.