Publications by authors named "Deepa Devi"
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- Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a serious illness with limited treatment options, and the FDA has recently approved resmetirom, a drug targeting the thyroid hormone receptor, for its treatment.
- In a review of four randomized controlled trials, resmetirom notably improved MRI-proton density fat fraction, reduced liver fat by 30%, and resolved NASH without fibrosis, although effects on certain liver enzymes were mixed.
- Resmetirom was linked to significant drops in various lipid levels (like triglycerides and LDL), but it also increased the likelihood of side effects such as diarrhea and nausea in patients.
Background: The optimal treatment regimen for patients with Hughes syndrome remains unclear. Therefore, the authors sought to compare the outcomes of warfarin vs. factor Xa inhibitors in patients with Hughes syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe resiliency of plastic products against microbial degradation in natural environment often creates devastating changes for humans, plants, and animals on the earth's surface. Biodegradation of plastics using indigenous bacteria may serve as a critical approach to overcome this resulting environmental stress. In the present work, a polyethylene degrading bacterium Alcaligenes faecalis strain ISJ128 (Accession No.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe accelerated population and industrial development have caused an extensive increase in the use of plastic products. Since polyethylene degrades slowly generating poisonous compounds, therefore, elimination of plastic from the environment is the prerequisite requirement today. Biodegradation of plastics seems to be a convenient and effective method to curb this problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSarcomatoid carcinoma is a rare malignant tumor that has both malignant epithelial and mesenchymal components. We describe a sarcomatoid carcinoma arising in the left renal pelvis of a 49-year-old man. The dominant component of the tumor was chondrosarcomatous, but there were also focal carcinomatous areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Previous work in this laboratory has shown significant decrease in vitamin E in erythrocytes in blood stored in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) bags plasticized with di-[2-ethyl hexyl] phthalate (DEHP), and in erythrocytes incubated in vitro with DEHP. Since vitamin E is a major antioxidant, a study was carried out to find out whether this decrease observed in vitamin E has an effect on lipid peroxidation in blood stored in DEHP-plasticized PVC blood bags.
Materials And Methods: Blood was collected in Penpol blood storage bags (which is a DEHP-plasticized PVC bag) and parameters of lipid peroxidation, i.