Publications by authors named "Akshay Shankar"

Mother to child transmission still accounts for thousands of children being affected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) yearly. These children are often detected late in their disease course, most commonly presenting as protein energy malnutrition. Here we present a unique pediatric case who presented with severe symptomatic hypocalcemia.

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Wood decomposing ascomycetes and basidiomycetes group of fungi are the most valuable microbes on the earth's ecosystem that recycles the source of carbon; therefore, they are essential for the biorefinery industries. To understand the robustness of the enzymes and their metabolic pathways in the fungal system, label-free quantification of the total proteins was performed. The fungi showed a comparable quantity of protein abundance [ (285), (206), MDU-7 (102), (242)].

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Fungi produce several bioactive metabolites, pigments, dyes, antioxidants, polysaccharides, and industrial enzymes. Fungal products are also the primary sources of functional food and nutrition, and their pharmacological products are used for healthy aging. Their molecular properties are validated through the use of recent high-throughput genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic tools and techniques.

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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can induce small-intestinal injuries through inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis. Gut has an important role in building and maintaining the barriers to avoid the luminal gut microbiota from invading the host, and cytoskeleton plays a crucial role in the maintenance of cellular barrier. The recent advances suggest a bi-directional interaction between the drugs and gut microbiota, where gut microbes can metabolize the drugs, and in response drugs can alter the composition of gut microbiota.

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Objective: Mouse infection models are frequently used to study the host-pathogen interaction studies. However, due to several constraints, there is an urgent need for a simple, rapid, easy to handle, inexpensive, and ethically acceptable in vivo model system for studying the virulence of enteropathogens. Thus, the present study was performed to develop the larvae of Helicoverpa armigera as a rapid-inexpensive in vivo model system to evaluate the effect of Yersinia enterocolitica strain 8081 on its midgut via a label-free proteomic approach.

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Unlabelled: Novel derivatives were synthesized using natural scaffold, like phenylpropanoids C-C backbone to reduce unfavorable browning of food due to tyrosinase and oxidative spoilage. Most of the compounds displayed mushroom tyrosinase inhibition better than kojic acid. Compound CE48 exhibited better anti-tyrosinase (IC-29.

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Ganoderma lucidum is an important medicinal fungus that possesses exceedingly high lignocellulose degrading ability. Evidently, Cu has decisive roles on the mycelial growth and enzyme production. To reveal the effect of Cu on G.

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Background: The turmeric (Curcuma longa) plant, a perennial herb of the ginger family, is an agronomic crop in the south and southeast tropical Asia. Turmeric an Indian yellow gold and universal spice is described in Ayurveda, an ancient treatise on longevity and quality life for the treatment of various inflammatory disorders. The oral bioavailability of curcumin is low due to poor aqueous solubility, alkaline instability and speedy elimination.

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