Publications by authors named "D H Deshpande"

As advancements in digital health lead to the generation of increasingly diverse and voluminous pharmaceutical data, it is increasingly critical that we teach trainee pharmaceutical scientists how to leverage this data to lead future innovations in health care and pharmaceutical research. To address this need, the University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is incorporating data science and bioinformatics into the graduate and undergraduate curricula through introductory courses tailored for students without prior programming experience.

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Ovarian cancer patients with BRCA1 mutation have more susceptibility for secondary breast cancer. In females with BRCA1 mutation, the risk of developing breast carcinoma is 65% and of ovarian cancer is 39%, before 70 years of age. This is a case report of a 74 year old, post-menopausal woman diagnosed with metastatic retroperitoneal lymph node, high-grade papillary adenocarcinoma primary ovary stage IIIA in April 2004 at the age of 48 years.

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Background: The rising prevalence of colorectal cancer (CRC) may be attributed to various nutritional and behavioural factors, making both factors as important topics for discussion to the layman and the oncology community.

Objective: To explore additional dietary risk factors, other than those already known, according to the Ayurvedic perspective in CRC patients.

Methods: Detail dietary data was collected from 420 patients of CRC and 116 healthy volunteers registered at our institute with the help of a food frequency questionnaire.

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Article Synopsis
  • Tracking and monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants has become complex due to reduced clinical testing, prompting a study of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in Pune, India, to enhance variant surveillance.
  • Over 1,100 wastewater samples were analyzed, revealing "silent waves" of high viral load that occurred before clinical cases, indicating possible hidden transmission and allowing early detection of variants like XBB up to 253 days before they appeared in clinical data.
  • The study demonstrated that WBE captures a wider variety of circulating variants, providing valuable insights for public health officials to better manage and respond to potential future COVID-19 waves amidst decreasing clinical testing.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the most prevalent lung disease, and macrophages play a central role in the inflammatory response in COPD. We here report a comprehensive characterization of circulating short non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) in plasma from patients with COPD. While circulating sncRNAs are increasingly recognized for their regulatory roles and biomarker potential in various diseases, the conventional RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) method cannot fully capture these circulating sncRNAs due to their heterogeneous terminal structures.

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