Publications by authors named "Ashim C Roy"

Cadmium, a heavy metal, disrupts cellular homeostasis and is highly toxic, with no effective treatments currently available against its toxicity. According to studies, phytochemicals provide a promising strategy for mitigating cadmium toxicity. Naringenin (NG), a potent antioxidant found primarily in citrus fruits, showed protective properties against cadmium toxicity in rats.

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Unlabelled: Cancerous cells display metabolic engineering through enhanced utilization of nutrients to support their increased requirements for proliferation, bioenergetics, biosynthesis, redox homeostasis, and cell signaling. To investigate the extent to which malignant cells rely on glycolysis and glutaminolysis, the effects of differential deprivation of nutrients such as d-glucose, l-glutamine, and pyruvate on proliferation, morphology, cell cycle, oxidative stress, mitochondrial function, autophagic vacuole formation, and migration in MDA-MB-231, HepG2, and HeLa cells were investigated in this study. Cell viability assay,  cell morphology, and ATP assay showed higher dependence of MDA-MB-231 and HepG2 cells on glucose and glutamine, respectively, for cell survival, growth, ATP production, and proliferation, while HeLa cells were equally dependent on both.

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Article Synopsis
  • ACE is an enzyme that plays a role in blood pressure regulation and might also have functions related to male fertility due to its presence in sperm.
  • The study investigated five specific genetic variations of the tACE gene in a group of Singapore Chinese men with infertility compared to fertile controls.
  • Ultimately, only one genetic variation was found in both groups, and its presence did not differ significantly, suggesting that these polymorphisms do not likely contribute to male infertility in this population.
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