Publications by authors named "Manisha Majhi"

Background: Lung cancer is the most common among all the types of cancer worldwide with 1.8 million people diagnosed every year, leading to 1.6 million deaths every year according to the American cancer society.

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Background: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a B-lineage lymphoid malignancy of self-reactive cells that are focused to produce polyreactive natural autoantibodies. Its surface protein marker CD20 plays an important role in the humoral immune response targeting which has emerged as an attractive therapeutic option for the treatment of CLL. The present study explains the interaction of the CD20 with its established inhibitors and to discover the compound having high binding affinity against the target protein receptor.

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Colorectal cancer possesses the third highest diagnostic rate and is the second leading cause of cancer death in the USA as reported by NIH. Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR), a transmembrane protein, participates in PLC gamma-1, RAS-RAF-MEK-MAPKs, phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase, Akt pathways and plays a key role in normal functioning of cell division, cell differentiation, apoptosis and migration. This protein is found to be overexpressed in more than 60% of the colorectal cancers.

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