Publications by authors named "Arka Chakraborty"

The relationship between spirituality and religiosity and their impact on mental health is intricate and underexplored. This exploratory review aims to elucidate the distinct effects of these constructs, highlighting their contributions to psychological well-being and clinical practices. By dissecting the impacts of spirituality and religiosity on mental health, the study focuses on their individual and combined roles in shaping therapeutic approaches and theoretical understandings in the field.

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  • - The authors identified errors in a specific part of their paper, particularly in Section 6.17, which discusses the antidiarrheal effect.
  • - These mistakes also affected the data presented in the related table of effects.
  • - The authors were initially unaware of these errors before reviewing the paper.
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  • Endophytic bacteria, like Achromobacter xylosoxidans isolated from Cavendish banana plant roots, live inside plant tissues without causing visible harm.
  • This bacterium promotes beneficial effects such as auxin (IAA) production, phosphate solubilization, and antifungal activity against the leaf spot disease caused by Curvularia lunata.
  • GC-MS analysis identified bioactive compounds in A. xylosoxidans culture that contribute to its antifungal properties, and field tests confirm reduced leaf spots when applying this bacterium to infected banana plants.
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Neurological disorders and psychiatric ailments often lead to cognitive disabilities and low attainment of education, pivoting misconceptions, myths, and misbeliefs. Poverty and low educational attainment are intriguingly associated with poor awareness and perception of these diseases that add to the suffering. Poverty goes parallel with a low level of education and is intricately associated with neuropsychiatric ailments, which have the potential to spread transgenerationally.

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Background: There is a dearth of studies on non-motor symptoms of Wilson's disease (WD) which is primarily because of the non-availability of a suitable scale.

Objective: To assess the suitability of the Parkinson's Disease non motor symptoms questionnaire (PD-NMS Quest) in the assessment of non-motor symptoms of WD patients.

Methods: In this case-control study, patients of WD above ≥12 years of age diagnosed by Leipzig's criteria and age and gender-matched control subjects were recruited.

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Background: Cognitive postscripts of COVID-19, codenamed as 'cognitive COVID' or 'brain fog,' characterized by multidomain cognitive impairments, are now being reckoned as the most devastating sequelae of COVID-19. However, the impact on the already demented brain has not been studied.

Objective: We aimed to assess the cognitive functioning and neuroimaging following SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with pre-existing dementia.

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The world is affected by COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Tests are necessary for everyone as the number of COVID-19 affected individual's increases. So, the authors developed a basic sequential CNN model based on deep and federated learning that focuses on user data security while simultaneously enhancing test accuracy.

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (CoVID-19), primarily thought of as a respiratory system disease is actually a multi-system disease with immunological implications. CNS involvement in COVID has been explained in recent literature mainly for stroke, encephalopathy, encephalitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and myelopathy. There are few studies characterizing clinical spectrum of COVID autoimmune encephalitis.

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  • Myelitis is a rare condition that can happen in a disease called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and the study focused on cases where MRI scans didn't show any problems.
  • Researchers looked at 22 patients over 5 years, finding that 8 had SLE-related myelitis, mostly affecting women around 30 years old.
  • Most patients showed improvement in their symptoms after treatment, with many having specific antibodies linked to SLE in their blood.
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Objectives: Moyamoya Angiopathy (MMA) is a chronic, progressive intracranial vasculopathy. Unlike Sickle-cell-disease, thalassemia-syndrome has rarely been described in association with MMA. This study was aimed to analyze the demographic, clinical, radiological features and long-term outcome (and possible factors influencing prognosis) of Moyamoya Syndrome (MMS) in the largest cohort of thalassemia-related-to-MMS.

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The genus was found to occur in a diverse range of habitats. Here, we report the genome sequence of an endophytic strain of sp., ANENR4.

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A 55-year-old male presented with apraxia of gait with exaggerated upper limb movement with relative preservation of cognition and mild spasticity of limbs. His investigations reveal posterior-predominant leukodystrophy in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and compound heterozygous mutations in mitochondrial alanyl-transfer RNA synthetase 2 () by next generation sequencing. His asymptomatic brother also has MRI changes with subtle mild pyramidal signs.

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Enterobacter sp. strain ASE was isolated from the gut of an infected domestic silkworm (Bombyx mori L.; Lepidoptera: Bombycidae).

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is an ancient plant species that is thought to provide a variety of health benefits to living organisms and contains plenty of bioactive components, making it a chemically diversified plant. has been shown to have a variety of medicinal and pharmacological properties, including anticancer, antidementia, antidiabetic, antiobesity, antilipidemic, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antilipid peroxidation, antiplatelet, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, antidepressant, antiaging, immunomodulatory, antihypertensive, and neuroprotective effects and is frequently used to treat neurological, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases, such as tardive dyskinesia. Therefore, this review described the therapeutic applications of .

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As is one of the most important condiment plants grown and consumed all over the world, various therapeutic and pharmacological effects of were reviewed. Onion () is a high dietary fiber-rich perennial herb that is placed under the family Amaryllidaceae. It contains high concentration of folic acid, vitamin B6, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and phosphorus as well as vitamins and minerals.

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We report a case of a 14-year-old non-immunised girl with a prior history of measles infection presenting with afebrile seizures progressing to epilepsia partialis continua (EPC), quadriparesis and headache. Further evaluation revealed Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity with elevated anti-measles antibody titres in Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Electroencephalography showed focal epileptiform activity and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain revealed bilateral, asymmetrical long repetition time MRI (TR) hyperintensities involving juxtacortical white matter in both parietal lobes, left temporal and also in the left basal ganglia without any contrast enhancement or Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) restriction.

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Antibiotics have been used to cure bacterial infections for more than 70 years, and these low-molecular-weight bioactive agents have also been used for a variety of other medicinal applications. In the battle against microbes, antibiotics have certainly been a blessing to human civilization by saving millions of lives. Globally, infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are on the rise.

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Soil salinity severely affects plant growth and development and imparts inevitable losses to crop productivity. Increasing the concentration of salts in the vicinity of plant roots has severe consequences at the morphological, biochemical, and molecular levels. These include loss of chlorophyll, decrease in photosynthetic rate, reduction in cell division, ROS generation, inactivation of antioxidative enzymes, alterations in phytohormone biosynthesis and signaling, and so forth.

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Anti NMDA Receptor encephalitis (ANMDARE) is an immune mediated disease of the central nervous system, caused by circulating antibodies against the NMDA receptor present on neuronal surface. It is known to cause a spectrum of disease ranging from mild behavioral and psychiatric manifestations to full blown seizures, dyskinesias and altered sensorium. It can also be paraneoplastic presentation of a hidden tumor, most commonly ovarian teratoma.

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Bromelain is an effective chemoresponsive proteolytic enzyme derived from pineapple stems. It contains several thiol endopeptidases and is extracted and purified via several methods. It is most commonly used as an anti-inflammatory agent, though scientists have also discovered its potential as an anticancer and antimicrobial agent.

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