Publications by authors named "Ilango G"

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  • Anatomical 3D-printed nasal casts are important for studying how drugs are delivered inside the nose and provide unique preclinical data not available from animal studies.
  • The study analyzed CT scans from 98 patients, revealing anatomical differences in the nasal cavity and identifying three distinct nasal geometry groups, leading to the creation of representative 3D models.
  • The research demonstrated that these anatomical variations significantly impact how well different medical devices deliver drugs, especially with nasal sprays and nebulizers, highlighting the need for diverse models to assess drug effectiveness in different populations.
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  • Neutrophil subsets with regulatory properties are often seen as harmful to immune responses against tumors and infections, but new findings suggest otherwise in cases of severe viral respiratory infections (VRI).
  • A significant population of neutrophils expressing programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) was identified in humans and mice with VRI, exhibiting strong regulatory functions but diminished antimicrobial capabilities.
  • Depleting these PD-L1 neutrophils or blocking their function during VRI led to worse outcomes, indicating that they play a crucial role in managing inflammation and could be potential targets for future treatments.
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is the most common cause of gastroenteritis in the world. Over the past 5 years, whole-genome analysis has led to the high-resolution characterization of clinical and foodborne responsible for typhoid fever, foodborne illness or contamination of the agro-food chain. Whole-genome analyses are simplified by the availability of high-quality, complete genomes for mapping analysis and for calculating the pairwise distance between genomes, but unfortunately some difficulties may still remain.

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  • Immunogenicity refers to how well a molecule, like therapeutic antibodies (Ab), can trigger an immune response, with aggregates being a major factor causing unwanted immune reactions.
  • This study evaluated the effects of aggregates formed during the aerosolization of Ab on immune responses, using human and mouse IgG via a nebulizer, assessing both in vitro and in vivo responses.
  • Results showed that nebulized IgG aggregates activated immune cells and led to significant immune cell depletion due to cell death, highlighting the importance of preventing IgG aggregation to reduce inflammation and toxicity during inhaled treatments.
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With the advent of next-generation whole-genome sequencing (WGS), the need for good-quality and well-characterised genomes has increased over the past years. Good-quality complete genomes are often required for assembly reference mapping or phylogenetic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis. Complete genomes or contigs from specific sources or serovars are also searched for clustering analysis or source attribution studies.

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A near-infrared fluorescent (NIRF) substrate-based probe (SBP) was conceived to monitor secreted human proteinase 3 (hPR3) activity. This probe, called pro3-SBP, is shaped by a fused peptide hairpin loop structure, which associates a hPR3 recognition domain (Val-Ala-Asp-Nva-Ala-Asp-Tyr-Gln, where Nva is norvaline) and an electrostatic zipper (consisting of complementary polyanionic (d-Glu) and polycationic (d-Arg) sequences) in close vicinity of the N- and C-terminal FRET couple (fluorescent donor, sulfoCy5.5; dark quencher, QSY21).

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This study reports the discovery of Aster-Like Nanoparticles (ALNs) in pelagic environments. ALNs are pleomorphic, with three dominant morphotypes which do not fit into any previously defined environmental entities [i.e.

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Natural product drugs play a dominant role in pharmaceutical care. Nature is an attractive source of new therapeutic candidate compounds as a tremendous chemical diversity is found in millions of species of plants, animals, marine organism and micro-organism. A antifungal activity against important opportunist micro-organism and against those involved in superficial mycosis, all from nosocomial origin.

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In this work, the vibrational characteristics of m-trifluoromethyl benzoic acid have been investigated and both the experimental and theoretical vibrational data indicate the presence of functional groups in the title molecule. The density functional theoretical (DFT) computations were performed at the B3LYP/6-31G (d, p), LSDA/6-31G (d, p), MP2/6-31G (d, p) levels to derive the optimized geometry, vibrational wavenumbers. Furthermore, the molecular orbital calculations such as natural bond orbitals (NBO), HOMO-LUMO energy gap and Mapped molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) surfaces, The Mulliken charges, the first-order hyperpolarizability were also performed with the same level of DFT.

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In the present study structural properties of p-cresol, and 2-methoxy-p-cresol have been studied by using B3LYP/cc-pvdz and B3PW91/cc-pvdz of Density Functional Theory (DFT) utilizing Becke three exchange functional and Lee Yang Paar correlation functional. The Fourier transform infrared and Fourier transform Raman spectra of title molecules were recorded (solid phase). Optimized geometry, harmonic vibrational frequencies and various thermodynamic parameters of the title compounds were calculated with B3LYP/cc-pvdz, and B3PW91/cc-pvdz basis sets.

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FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of 4-(trifloromethoxy) phenol (4TFMP) have been recorded in the regions 4000-400 cm(-1) and 3500-100 cm(-1), respectively. The total energy calculations of 4TFMP were tried for the possible conformers. The molecular structure, geometry optimization, vibrational frequencies were obtained by the DFT level of theory (B3LYP) with the standard basis sets 6-31+G(d) and 6-311++G(d,p).

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In this, a combined experimental and theoretical study on molecular structure and vibrational analysis of P-nitrobenzotrifluoride (PNBTF) is reported. The Fourier transform infrared and FT-Raman was recorded in the solid phase. The molecular geometry and vibrational frequencies of PNBTF in the ground state have been calculated by using density functional method (B3LYP) with 6-311++G(d,p) as basis set.

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TRALI is a rare but fatal complication of blood transfusion usually under diagnosed and under reported. An interesting case of hemolysis and lung injury developing in a single patient following blood transfusion during perioperative period is reported hereby. Great amount of suspicion about TRALI and supportive care such as mechanical ventilation has saved this patient.

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The solid phase FTIR and FT-Raman spectra of 1,5-dinitronaphthalene (DNN) have been recorded in the regions 4000-50 and 3500-100cm(-1), respectively. The spectra were interpreted with the aid of normal coordinate analysis following full structure optimization and force field calculation based on density functional theory using standard B3LYP/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-311+G** methods and basis set combinations and was scaled using various scale factors yielding fairly good agreement between observed and calculated frequencies. Based on the present good quality scaled quantum mechanical force field, a reliable description of the fundamentals was provided and the assignments have been proposed with the help of normal coordinate analysis.

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