Publications by authors named "Bhanu Sharma"

Anthocyanins (ANS) are an appealing substitute to synthetic colorants; but their practical applicability is limited due to low color stability. Copigmentation can improve both complex's color stability as well as intensity. In this study, we examined the interaction of red cabbage ANS with copigments i.

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Background: Recent scientific evidence has challenged the traditional "rest-is-best" approach for concussion management. It is now thought that "exercise-is-medicine" for concussion, owing to dozens of studies which demonstrate that sub-maximal, graded aerobic exercise can reduce symptom burden and time to symptom resolution. However, the primary neuropathology of concussion is altered functional brain activity.

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Nitric oxide (NO) is known to be an important regulator of neurological processes in the central nervous system which acts directly on the presynaptic neuron and enhances the release of neurotransmitters like glutamate into the synaptic cleft. Calcium influx activates a cascade of biochemical reactions to influence the production of nitric oxide in the postsynaptic neuron. This has been modeled in the present work as a system of ordinary differential equations, to explore the dynamics of the interacting components and predict the dynamical behavior of the postsynaptic neuron.

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Purpose: Concussion management is shifting away from a rest-is-best approach, as data now suggest that exercise-is-medicine for this mild brain injury. Despite this, we have limited data on habitual physical activity following concussion. Therefore, our objective was to quantify accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time in children with concussion (within the first month of injury) and healthy controls.

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In the brain, both neurons and glial cells work in conjunction with each other during information processing. Stimulation of neurons can induce calcium oscillations in astrocytes which in turn can affect neuronal calcium dynamics. The 'glissandi' effect is one such phenomenon, associated with a decrease in infraslow fluctuations, in which synchronized calcium oscillations propagate as a wave in hundreds of astrocytes.

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  • The study examined how different compounds, including five phenolic acids, two flavonoids, and three amino acids, interact with anthocyanins from R. arboreum, focusing on their copigmentation effects.
  • Adding copigments resulted in significant changes in color properties, with phenolic acids causing notable shifts in color intensity and stability under various storage conditions.
  • Naringin (NA) was identified as the most effective copigment, enhancing the stability of anthocyanins and demonstrating strong interactions through molecular dynamics simulations.
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  • The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) regulates blood pressure and fluid balance, with the angiotensin type 2 receptor (AT2R) playing a key protective role during diseases.
  • Research has focused on the agonists and antagonists for AT2R, such as C21 and EMA401, and how genetic variations (SNPs) can affect their effectiveness.
  • Current studies used computational methods to analyze AT2R mutations and their impact on drug interactions, revealing that specific mutations alter protein structure and binding affinity, paving the way for improved drug development.
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  • Ovarian and breast cancers are common in Jammu and Kashmir, but studies on their genetic associations, particularly the TP63 gene variant rs10937405, are scarce in this region.
  • A study involving 150 breast cancer cases, 150 ovarian cancer cases, and 210 healthy controls was conducted to evaluate the association of this gene variant using genetic testing methods.
  • Results showed no significant risk associated with the variant for either cancer type, suggesting that further research with a larger sample size is necessary to explore other variants of the TP63 gene.
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Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is one of the key enzyme targets that have been used clinically for the management of Alzheimer's Disorder (AD). Numerous reports in the literature predict and demonstrate , and anticholinergic activity of herbal molecules, however, majority of them failed to find clinical application. To address these issues, we developed a 2D-QSAR model that could efficiently predict the AChE inhibitory activity of herbal molecules along with predicting their potential to cross the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) to exert their beneficial effects during AD.

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  • High-intensity interval training (HIIT) can enhance cognitive performance, but the levels of lactate produced during HIIT sessions vary based on specific protocol parameters.
  • The study reviewed 226 research entries involving over 2500 participants to identify which HIIT parameters resulted in peak lactate levels and how these levels correlated with cognitive performance.
  • Key findings suggest that shorter work intervals (around 5 min), longer recovery times (about five times the work interval), and a total session volume of approximately 15 min were effective for maximizing lactate, which is beneficial for brain function and exercise adaptations.
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Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of lifelong disability, but access to treatment in the chronic stages has significant barriers. Group-based, remotely delivered neurorehabilitation reduces costs, travel barriers, and infection risk; however, its feasibility for patients with ABI is not well-established.

Objectives: To investigate the feasibility of remotely group-based cognitive and mood therapies for persons with chronic ABI.

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Pediatric concussion has a rising incidence and can lead to long-term symptoms in nearly 30% of children. Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) disturbances are a common pathological feature of pediatric concussion, though no studies have explicitly examined sex-differences with respect to this outcome, precluding a sex-specific understanding of the functional neuropathology of pediatric concussion. Therefore, we performed a secondary data analysis of rs-fMRI data collected on children with concussion (n = 29) recruited from in a pediatric hospital setting, with greater than 12:1 matched control data accessed from the open-source ABIDE-II database.

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  • A key limitation of traditional behavioral epidemiological models is their assumption that human behavior remains unchanged, while in reality, behavior is highly fluid during events like a pandemic.
  • To address this, the authors propose a new framework that integrates how our brains adapt (neuronal plasticity) with a standard disease spread model, allowing for a more realistic representation of how human behavior responds to fear and awareness efforts during a pandemic.
  • Their findings suggest that there’s an ideal duration for public awareness broadcasts to effectively reduce the impact of the pandemic, emphasizing that certain brain activity factors are significant in influencing how people react and adapt to these health crises.
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Longitudinal neuroimaging studies aid our understanding of recovery mechanisms in moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI); however, there is a dearth of longitudinal functional connectivity research. Our aim was to characterize longitudinal functional connectivity patterns in two clinically important brain networks, the frontoparietal network (FPN) and the default mode network (DMN), in moderate-to-severe TBI. This inception cohort study of prospectively collected longitudinal data used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to characterize functional connectivity patterns in the FPN and DMN.

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The enzyme Phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) plays a regulatory role in the cAMP/protein kinase A (PKA) signaling pathway by means of hydrolyzing cAMP and cGMP. PDE10A emerges as a relevant pharmacological drug target for neurological conditions such as psychosis, schizophrenia, Parkinson's, Huntington's disease, and other memory-related disorders. In the current study, we subjected a set of 1,2,3-triazoles to be explored as PDE10A inhibitors using diverse computational approaches, including molecular docking, classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, Molecular Mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (MM-PBSA) calculations, steered MD, and umbrella sampling simulations.

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Our objective was to explore the association between resting-state functional connectivity and accelerometer-measured physical activity in pediatric concussion. Fourteen children with concussion (aged 14.54 ± 2.

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Unlabelled: The aim of the present study was to test the binding affinity of methylxanthines (caffeine/theine, methylxanthine, theobromine, theophylline and xanthine) to three potential target proteins namely Spike protein (6LZG), main protease (6LU7) and nucleocapsid protein N-terminal RNA binding domain (6M3M) of SARS-CoV-2. Proteins and ligand were generated using AutoDock 1.5.

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  • The study examines the genetic variant rs10937405 and its association with leukemia specifically in the North Indian population of Jammu and Kashmir, which has not been previously explored.
  • The research involved 588 individuals (188 with leukemia and 400 controls), and used a TaqMan assay to analyze the genetic variant.
  • Results showed a significant association between rs10937405 and leukemia, indicating it may serve as a risk factor, potentially aiding in the development of diagnostic markers for leukemia in this population.
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Background: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) has shown to confer cognitive benefits in healthy adults, via a mechanism purportedly driven by the exercise metabolite lactate. However, our understanding of the exercise parameters (e.g.

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Objective: Malaria is an ancient disease that still causes more than 200 million of cases 7 with high mortality globally. Identification of new drug targets and development of novel antimalarial drugs with unique mode of action encounter the drug resistance and reduce the mortality by parasites. Actin protein is one of the key proteins in playing multifarious important roles including transport, cell motility, cell division, and shape determination.

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  • * Previous research has identified a connection between certain genetic variations (SNPs) in the ARID5B gene and increased CRC risk, yet the status of this association in north Indian populations remains unclear.
  • * This study found that the SNP variant rs10740055 in the ARID5B gene significantly increases CRC risk, with a reported odds ratio of 3.35, suggesting that individuals carrying the A allele are at a higher risk; larger studies are recommended for further confirmation.
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The Angiotensin II type 2 Receptor (AT2R) is one of the critical components of the renin- angiotensin system (RAS), which performs diverse functions like inhibiting cell differentiation, cell proliferation, vasodilatation, reduces oxidative stress and inflammation. AT2R is relatively less studied in comparison to other components of RAS despite its uniqueness (sex-linked) and diverse functions. The AT2R is differentially expressed in different tissues, and its gene polymorphisms are associated with several diseases.

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  • * The study found significant associations between five specific SNPs and CRC, with odds ratios indicating increased risk for these genetic variants among cases compared to controls.
  • * This research is the first of its kind in the J&K population to connect these genetic variants to colorectal cancer, suggesting further studies in diverse populations could enhance understanding of genetic risks in CRC.
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Unlabelled: COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, has been declared as a global pandemic. Traditional medicinal plants have long history to treat viral infections. Our in silico approach suggested that unique phytocompounds such as emodin, thymol and carvacrol, and artemisinin could physically bind SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins (6VXX and 6VYB), SARS-CoV-2 B.

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