Diclofenac, a traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, is commonly used for treating chronic pain and inflammation. Recently, a number of articles have highlighted the toxicities associated with diclofenac. The current study explores the molecular mechanism of diclofenac induced cardiac toxicity following oxidative stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Frequent natural disasters like floods pose a major threat to India, with significant implications for public health. Low birth weight (LBW) is a critical global health concern, contributing to neonatal mortality. However, the association between floods and LBW remains underexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKetorolac tromethamine (KT), is a widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for treating moderate to severe pain. However, the use of KT has been restricted due to its highly toxic attributes that lead to severe gastric ulceration and bleeding. The protective effects of exogenous melatonin (MT) has been reported in conditions associated with gastro-intestinal disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn efficient and fascinating protocol has been devised for the preparation of fused furan moieties involving a Rh(II) catalyzed one-pot C-H activation/concomitant tandem annulation process, employing an enolic compound and β-keto sulfoxonium ylide as the reacting conjugates. The developed technique demands only Rh(TFA) as the catalyst to proceed forward and is devoid of additional metallic or nonmetallic additives. The skeletal transformation of naphthoquinone fused furan to highly decorated naphthoquinone fused indolizines is a promising synthetic application.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHaemolysis of erythrocytes upon exposure to haemato-toxic phenylhydrazine (PHZ), makes it an experimental model of anaemia and a partial model of β-thalassaemia, where oxidative stress (OS) was identified as principal causative factor. Oleic acid (OA) was evidenced to ameliorate such stress with antioxidative potential. Erythrocytes were incubated in vitro using 1 mM PHZ, 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The continuum of care (CoC) throughout pregnancy, delivery and post-delivery has recently been highlighted as an integrated intervention programme for maternal, new-born, and child health. Existing literature suggests the importance of continuum of care (CoC) for improved maternal and child health outcomes. However due to unavailability of data at the lowest administrative levels, literature on spatial pattern of uptake of full CoC is lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent days, the hike in obesity-mediated epidemics across the globe and the prevalence of obesity-induced cardiovascular disease has become one of the chief grounds for morbidity and mortality. This epidemic-driven detrimental events in the cardiac tissues start with the altered distribution and metabolism pattern of high-density lipoprotein and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) leading to cholesterol (oxidized LDL) deposition on the arterial wall and atherosclerotic plaque generation, followed by vascular spasms and infarction. Subsequently, obesity-triggered metabolic malfunctions induce free radical generation which may further trigger pro-inflammatory signaling and nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells transcriptional factor, thus inducing interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and inducible nitric oxide synthase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: India suffers from a high burden of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases due to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene practices among human population. With age the immune system becomes complex and antibody alone does not determine susceptibility to diseases which increases the chances of waterborne disease among elderly population. Therefore the study examines the prevalence and predictors of water-borne diseases among elderly in India.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: With the increase in elderly population, the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among Indian older adults is also increasing. The present paper tries to assess how different anthropometric measures of obesity and physical activity affects cardiovascular disease risk among older adults in India.
Methods: The data from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) has been used.
BMC Health Serv Res
September 2021
Background: Despite the Indian government's Universal Immunization Program (UIP), the progress of full immunization coverage is plodding. The cost of delivering routine immunization varies widely across facilities within country and across country. However, the cost an individual bears on child immunization has not been focussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of oleic acid as a protective antioxidant has recently been recognized. The present study is aimed to explore whether oleic acid can afford protection to rat gastric tissue when challenged with adrenaline. Sixty adult healthy male albino rats were divided into 10 groups comprising of 6 animals each.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhenylhydrazine (PHZ), an intermediate in the synthesis of fine chemicals is toxic for human health and environment. Despite of having severe detrimental effects on different physiological systems, exposure of erythrocytes to PHZ cause destruction of haemoglobin and membrane proteins leading to iron release and complete haemolysis of red blood cells (RBC). Involvement of oxidative stress behind such action triggers the urge for searching a potent antioxidant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: β-Estradiol (β-E), one of the chemical forms of female gonad hormone exhibited antioxidant efficacy in biochemical system, in vitro. The aim of the study was to investigate whether any other mechanism of protection by β-E to hepatic mitochondria in presence of stressor agent i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Phytoremediation
August 2020
Arsenic contamination in agricultural soil now imposing a major threat to crop productivity and causing several hazardous health effects through percolation in food chain. Bioremediation, an efficient way of soil health restoration toward sustainability offered by some soil-borne microorganisms, has been reported. The present work deals with application of two potent arsenic-tolerant bacterial strains ( A01 and B05), obtained from natural sources in modulating overall growth and antioxidant defense against arsenic-treated rice plants.
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