Publications by authors named "Chakresh K Jain"

Introduction: Colorectal cancer is a complex condition influenced by genetic mutations and environmental factors. Due to its intricate nature, the diagnosis and treatment of this condition require a comprehensive approach that considers individual circumstances. The study aimed to identify genes linked with colorectal cancer and their therapeutic agents from natural bioactive compounds.

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Leishmaniasis, a debilitating disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania and transmitted by the bite of a female sandfly, continues to present significant challenges despite ongoing research and collaboration in vaccine development. The intricate interaction between the parasite's life cycle stages and the host's immunological response, namely the promastigote and amastigote forms, adds complexity to vaccine design. The quest for a potent vaccine against Leishmaniasis demands a comprehensive understanding of the immune mechanisms that confer long-lasting protection, which necessitates extensive research efforts.

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  • * Early detection of CRC is crucial and several screening methods are available, including endoscopy and various non-invasive tests, but they come with challenges like cost and invasiveness.
  • * Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) show promise for improving early detection and personalized treatment options for CRC, alongside the examination of their current limitations and future challenges.
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In recent years, there has been increasing global concern about the rising prevalence and rapid progression of psychosomatic disorders (PD). This surge can be attributed to irregular biological conditions and the increasingly stressful lifestyles that individuals lead, ultimately resulting in functional impairments of vital organs. PD arises from intricate interactions involving the central nervous, endocrine, and immune systems.

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Background: Colorectal cancer is estimated to become the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Since most of the available therapies affect vital organs such as heart and liver, herbal remedies as a substitute therapy have been reported in several evidence-based studies.

Objective: Medicinal plants exhibit a diverse range of bioactive elements known for their medicinal properties, such as anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antioxidant, and antimicrobial effects.

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Legumes comprise one of the world's largest, most diverse, and economically important plant families, known for their nutritional and medicinal benefits. Legumes are susceptible to a wide range of diseases, similar to other agricultural crops. Diseases have a considerable impact on the production of legume crop species, resulting in large yield losses worldwide.

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One of the major disturbing pathways within cancer is "The Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) pathway", and it has recently been demonstrated to be the most crucial in therapies and diagnostics. KRAS pathway includes numerous genes. This multi-component signaling system promotes cell growth, division, survival, and death by transferring signals from outside the cell to its interior.

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Epigenomics is the branch of biology concerned with the phenotype modifications that do not induce any change in the cell DNA sequence. Epigenetic modifications apply changes to the properties of DNA, which ultimately prevents such DNA actions from being executed. These alterations arise in the cancer cells, which is the only cause of cancer.

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One of the most dynamic approaches in biotechnology is reverse vaccinology, which plays a huge role in today's developing vaccines. It has the capability of exploring and identifying the most potent vaccine candidate in a limited period of time. The first successful novel approach of reverse vaccinology was observed in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B, which has revolutionised the whole field of computational biology.

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Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic multidrugresistant, aerobic, glucose non-fermentative, and oxidative-negative coccobacilli bacteria. This life-threatening nosocomial infection is associated with immunocompromised patients.

Objective: This review aims to investigate the multiple drug resistance mechanisms and new emerging diagnostics & treatments for Acinetobacter baumannii.

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The dynamic spectrum of microRNA (miRNA) has grown significantly over the years with its identification and exploration in cancer therapeutics and is currently identified as an important resource for innovative strategies due to its functional behavior for gene regulation and modulation of complex biological networks. The progression of cancer is the consequence of uncontrolled, nonsynchronous procedural faults in the biological system. Diversified and variable cellular response of cancerous cells has always raised challenges in effective cancer therapy.

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The Notch signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved pathway usually present in multicellular organisms, which plays a pivotal role in cell fate determination and proliferation. Due to this property, it is known to be highly oncogenic, especially in the dysregulated version of the Notch pathway, where apoptosis is inhibited and abnormal cell growth is supported. Notch receptors and ligand proteins play an essential role in cancers, such as myeloid leukemia, T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia, and organ-specific, i.

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For decades, tuberculosis (TB), a potentially serious infectious lung disease, continues to be a leading cause of worldwide death. Proven to be conveniently efficient and cost-effective, chest X-ray (CXR) has become the preliminary medical imaging tool for detecting TB. Arguably, the quality of TB diagnosis will improve vastly with automated CXRs for TB detection and the localization of suspected areas, which may manifest TB.

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Objectives: To examine the neuroprotective property of triterpenoid glycoside saponins of Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst. bacoside A and its components against H O -induced oxidative stress on neuronal (N2a) cells.

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Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst. is a well documented nootropic plant, extensive known for alleviating symptoms of neurological disorder, along with other symptomatic relief.

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The lack of complete treatments and appearance of multiple drug-resistance strains of Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are causing an increased risk of lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Bcc infection is a big risk to human health and demands an urgent need to identify new therapeutics against these bacteria. Network biology has emerged as one of the prospective hope in identifying novel drug targets and hits.

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Brucella melitensis is a pathogenic Gram-negative bacterium which is known for causing zoonotic diseases (Brucellosis). The organism is highly contagious and has been reported to be used as bioterrorism agent against humans. Several antibiotics and vaccines have been developed but these antibiotics have exhibited the sign of antibiotic resistance or ineffective at lower concentrations, which imposes an urgent need to identify the novel drugs/drug targets against this organism.

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The degradation of intracellular proteins is targeted by ubiquitin via non-lysosomal proteolytic pathway in the cell system. These ubiquitin molecules have been found to be conserved from yeast to humans. Ubiquitin proteasome machinery utilises ATP and other mechanisms for degrading proteins of cytosol as well as nucleus.

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This is the first reported study of a riverbank filtration (RBF) scheme to be assessed following the Australian Guidelines for Managed Aquifer Recharge. A comprehensive staged approach to assess the risks from 12 hazards to human health and the environment has been undertaken. Highest risks from untreated ground and Ganga River water were identified with pathogens, turbidity, iron, manganese, total dissolved solids and total hardness.

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  • Coxiella burnetii is the bacterium that causes Q fever, which exists in two forms: acute and chronic.
  • Acute Q fever presents symptoms like pneumonia and hepatitis, while chronic Q fever can have a mortality rate that rises from 5% to 25% if not treated.
  • The review discusses current treatments, including medication and vaccination, and highlights ongoing research into new therapies, diagnostics, and preventative strategies related to Q fever.
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Anthrax is one of the deadly infectious disease as documented in the CDC website. In spite of the availability of appropriate antimicrobial agents, the mortality related with the anthrax remains high. The pathogenicity of B.

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  • Tuberculosis affects over a third of the global population and is a difficult disease to treat due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis evading the immune response and colonizing oxygen-rich respiratory areas.
  • Recent advancements in diagnostics, such as Interferon Gamma Release Assays and Nucleic Acid Amplification tests, have improved the detection of TB, while drugs like Rifampicin and Isoniazid show promising results in treatment.
  • Ongoing research aims to better understand TB's complex pathogenesis and drug resistance to develop more effective treatments and diagnostic methods based on recent innovations and patents.
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  • The study highlights the significance of microbial degradation of hydrocarbons for environmental balance and focuses on the protein engineering of alkane monooxygenase (ladA), essential for degrading alkanes.
  • It shows that engineered ladA in Burkholderia thailandensis MSMB121 has improved substrate binding energy compared to the wild-type, indicating enhanced efficiency in alkane degradation.
  • Advanced modeling techniques and molecular dynamics simulations support the hypothesis that modified ladA can better facilitate alkane degradation, paving the way for future lab experiments to validate these findings.
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The genetic alterations and aberrant miRNA expression profiles have been identified as important events behind the emergence of cancer. This knowledge triggers the use of miRNA therapeutics as an anticancer strategy. Basically, MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 22-nucleotide long, endogenous non-protein-coding RNA molecules which function as important regulatory molecules that regulate gene and protein expression through the RNA interference (RNAi) machinery.

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Pseudomonas species is known to cause multiple nosocomial infections in patients and results in high morbidity and mortality rates (10%). The greatest obstacle in treating patients infected with the Pseudomonas species is the widespread emergence of antibiotic resistance. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop new compounds which can be effective against Pseudomonas species and possibly remain tolerant to drug resistance.

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