Publications by authors named "Balamurugan M"

Given that stomach cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death, there is a need to develop new drugs. Among various methods, metal-based coordination compounds are considered as an efficient strategy against this type of cancer. Similarly, the benzimidazole moiety plays a crucial role in biology; thus, various benzimidazole-based compounds have been found to be active as potential anticancer drugs and are currently used in clinical trials.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Equity-deserving groups (EDGs) face discrimination and barriers in emergency healthcare settings, which is often overlooked in patient-care research that lacks an intersectional approach.
  • A study conducted at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre analyzed data from 1,973 participants, comparing their experiences based on their identification with EDGs, revealing significant differences in perceived care and decision-making power.
  • The findings enhance understanding of EDG experiences in emergency departments and suggest that future research should focus on the interplay of various EDG memberships to improve healthcare outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • RBC transfusions are critical for premature and sick infants but can lead to serious inflammatory responses, known as SIRS, potentially causing organ dysfunction.
  • The study investigated how these transfusions trigger inflammation in anemic mouse pups, using various experimental models to analyze cytokine levels and inflammatory responses.
  • Results showed that anemic pups had heightened inflammatory cytokine levels after transfusions, influenced by endotoxins and the expression of the trem1 receptor, suggesting that targeting trem1 could reduce inflammation and SIRS in these infants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Anemia is a common and serious health problem, nearly universally diagnosed in preterm infants, and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality worldwide. Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is a lifesaving and mainstay therapy; however, it has critical adverse effects. One consequence is necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), an inflammatory bowel necrosis disease in preterm infants.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In this paper, the new subclass of a linear differential operator's associated with multivalent analytical function has been introduced. Further, the coefficient inequalities, extreme points for the extremal function, sharpness of the growth and distortion bounds, partial sums, starlikeness, and convexity of the subclass is investigated.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO) to produce fuels and chemicals has garnered significant attention. However, achieving control over the selectivity of the resulting products remains a challenging task, particularly within molecular systems. In this study, we employed a molecular silver complex immobilized on graphitized mesoporous carbon (GMC) as a catalyst for converting CO into CO, achieving an impressive selectivity of over 90% at -1.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A heart attack is intended as top prevalent among all ruinous ailments. Day by day, the number of affected people count is increasing globally. The medical field is struggling to detect heart disease in the initial step.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Muscular dystrophies other than Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are genetic diseases characterized by increasing muscle weakness, loss of ambulation, and ultimately cardiac and respiratory failure. There are currently no effective therapeutics available. Having demonstrated the efficacy of a N-163 strain of Aureobasidium Pullulans (Neu-REFIX) produced B-1, 3-1,6-Glucan in pre-clinical and clinical studies of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) earlier, we assessed the effectiveness of this novel Beta glucan in the other muscular dystrophies in the present study.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Lobeglitazone is a newer oral hypoglycemic agent that has been tested in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We aim to conduct a narrative review to find out the therapeutic benefits of lobeglitazone in patients with T2DM. We scientifically searched the electronic database of PubMed from inception until September 12, 2023, using Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) keywords.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: Leptospirosis is an endemic disease in India and uveitis is its late complication. Several Indian reports showed diversity of serovars, changing patterns and existence of new serovars. Failure to add new serovars in testing panel result in increased false-negativity in serology.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The electrochemical chlorine evolution reaction (CER) is one of the most important electrochemical reactions. Typically, iridium (Ir)- or ruthenium (Ru)-based mixed metal oxides have been used as electrocatalysts for the CER due to their high activities and durabilities. However, the scarcity of Ir and Ru has indicated the need to develop alternative earth-abundant transition-metal-based CER catalysts.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Tuning the coordination environment and geometric structures of single atom catalysts is an effective approach for regulating the reaction mechanism and maximize the catalytic efficiency of single-atom centers. Here, a template-based synthesis strategy is proposed for the synthesis of high-density NiN sites anchored on the surface of hierarchically porous nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers (Ni-HPNCFs) with different coordination environments. First-principles calculations and advanced characterization techniques demonstrate that the single Ni atom is strongly coordinated with both pyrrolic and pyridinic N dopants, and that the predominant sites are stabilized by NiN sites.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Chloride oxidation is a key industrial electrochemical process in chlorine-based chemical production and water treatment. Over the past few decades, dimensionally stable anodes (DSAs) consisting of RuO - and IrO -based mixed-metal oxides have been successfully commercialized in the electrochemical chloride oxidation industry. For a sustainable supply of anode materials, considerable efforts both from the scientific and industrial aspects for developing earth-abundant-metal-based electrocatalysts have been made.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: Corneal limbal stem cell (LSC) transplantation has been reported as a potential approach to treat the damaged corneal epithelium. Scaffolds such as human amniotic membrane (hAM) are commonly employed for the culture and as a carrier during transplantation. However, they carry the risk of biological contamination and donor to donor variability.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Introduction: Poor sleep quality is a major problem in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and is attributed to low melatonin levels. Melatonin supplementation is recommended; however, its effectiveness varies. β-Glucans have previously been shown to improve melatonin levels in animal studies.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A total of two lineages of var. (), L5 and L6, which are members of the complex (MTBC), are responsible for causing tuberculosis in West Africa. Regions of difference (RDs) are usually used for delineation of MTBC.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A series of non-heme μ-oxo-bridged dinuclear iron(iii) complexes of the type [Fe(μ-O)(L1-L6)Cl]Cl1-6 have been isolated and their catalytic activity towards oxidative transformation of alkanes into alcohols has been studied using -choloroperbenzoic acid (-CPBA) as an oxidant. All the complexes were characterized by CHN, electrochemical, and UV-visible spectroscopic techniques. The molecular structures of 2 and 5 have been determined successfully by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and both possesses octahedral coordination geometry and each iron atom is coordinated by four nitrogen atoms of the 4N ligand and a bridging oxygen.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Liquid biopsies have emerged as convenient alternative diagnostic methods to invasive biopsies, by evaluating disease-specific biomarkers and monitoring the disease risk noninvasively. Phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted in chromosome 10 (PTEN) is a potent tumor suppressor, and its deletion/mutations are common in gliomas.

Objective: Evaluate the feasibility of non-invasive detection of PTEN and its downstream genes in serum exosomes of glioma patients.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Cotton balls are a versatile and efficient tool commonly used in neurosurgical procedures to absorb fluids and manipulate delicate tissues. However, the use of cotton balls is accompanied by the risk of accidental retention in the brain after surgery. Retained cotton balls can lead to dangerous immune responses and potential complications, such as adhesions and textilomas.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The transportation of tissues from hospitals to clinical laboratories for cell therapy is an essential component of regenerative medicine. Previously, we used laboratory-cultured mucosal cells from buccal epithelium expanded and encapsulated using a scaffold-hybrid approach to the urethral stricture (BEES-HAUS) procedure. In this study, to improve the outcomes, we compared the thermoreversible gelation polymer (TGP) transportation procedure with conventional culture methods, and reported its advantages.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In manufacturing C-N bond-containing compounds, it is an important challenge to alternate the conventional methodologies that utilize reactive substrates, toxic reagents, and organic solvents. In this study, we developed an electrochemical method to synthesize a C-N bond-containing molecule avoiding the use of cyanides and amines by harnessing nitrate (NO ) as a nitrogen source in an aqueous electrolyte. In addition, we utilized oxalic acid as a carbon source, which can be obtained from electrochemical conversion of CO Thus, our approach can provide a route for the utilization of anthropogenic CO and nitrate wastes, which cause serious environmental problems including global warming and eutrophication.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: A pilot study reported an autologous buccal mucosal cell transplant in humans through the trans-urethral route using the buccal epithelium expanded and encapsulated in scaffold-hybrid approach to urethral stricture (BEES-HAUS), a minimally invasive approach to treat urethral stricture. Although successful outcomes were achieved in that study, for further validation, it is essential to prove that the transplanted buccal epithelium was engrafted over the urothelium through histological examination of the urethra, harvested post-transplant, which is infeasible in humans. Herein, we report the successful creation of an animal model of urethral stricture and the engraftment of epithelial cells derived from autologous buccal mucosal tissue, encapsulated in a thermo-reversible gelation polymer (TGP) scaffold, transplanted by trans-urethral route.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Fabrication of temperature-influenced nanoparticles over the superficial region of glassy carbon electrode (GCE) stimulates the electrocatalytic activity owing to their morphology, defective sites, and higher active surface area, etc. In this regard, we have fabricated annealed magnesium stannate nanoparticles (MgSnO NPs) on GCE for nanomolar level detection of hazardous flavoring and pharmaceutical compound Rutin (RT). To analyze the impact of temperature, we have compared annealed MgSnO NPs with unannealed magnesium stannate hydrate (MgSnO·3HO) particles.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF