Publications by authors named "Muhammad I Majeed"

Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. It occurs when a thrombus forms after an atherosclerotic plaque bursts, obstructing blood flow to the heart. Prompt and accurate diagnosis is crucial for improving patient survival.

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Development of rapid detection and discrimination technique for the antibiotic resistant and sensitive bacterial strains is required for this purpose, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technique is considered to have great potential. To develop a fast and sensitive detection and discrimination methodology based on SERS technique along with chemometric tools for the differentiation among fosfomycin sensitive and resistant Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains.

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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a serious medical condition generally known as heart attack, which is caused by the decreased or completely blocked blood flow to a part of the heart muscle. It is a significant cause of both mortality and morbidity throughout the world. Cardiac troponin-I (cTnI) is an important biomarker at different stages of AMI and is one of the most specific and widely used cardiac skeletal muscle proteins.

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  • Fossil fuels, while essential energy sources, release significant sulfur when burned, contributing to air pollution and prompting increasing demand for fuels with ultra-low sulfur content.
  • Microorganisms effectively remove sulfur through biodesulfurization, targeting thiophenic structures like dibenzothiophene (DBT) found in coal and oil.
  • The study used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and multivariate data analysis techniques to identify and characterize DBT desulfurizing bacteria, achieving high accuracy and sensitivity in differentiating these species for better biodesulfurization strategies.
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Bacterial resistance towards antibiotics is a significant challenge for public health, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has great potential to be a promising technique to provide detailed information about the effect of antibiotics against biofilms. SERS is employed to check the antibacterial potential of a lab synthesized drug ([bis(1,3-dipentyl-1-imidazol-2(3)-ylidene)silver(i)] bromide) against and to analyze various SERS spectral features of unexposed and exposed strains by observing biochemical changes in DNA, protein, lipid and carbohydrate contents induced by the lab synthesized imidazole derivative. Further, PCA and PLS-DA are employed to differentiate the SERS features.

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In this study, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technique, along with principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), is used as a simple, quick, and cost-effective analysis method for identifying biochemical changes occurring due to induced mutations in the fungus strain. The goal of this study is to identify the biochemical changes in the mutated fungal cells (cell mass) as compared to the control/nonmutated cells. Furthermore, multivariate data analysis tools, including PCA and PLS-DA, are used to further confirm the differentiating SERS spectral features among fungal samples.

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Large amount of sulphur is released by the combustion of fossil fuels in the form of So which affects human health and leads to acid rain. To overcome this issue, it is essential to eliminate sulphur moieties from heterocyclic organo-sulphur compounds like Dibenzothiophene (DBT) present in the petrol. In this study Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy is used to analyze the desulfurizing activity of Tsukamurella paurometabola bacterial strain.

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The ability of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to generate spectroscopic fingerprints has made it an emerging tool for biomedical applications. The objective of this study is to confirm the potential use of Raman spectroscopy for early disease diagnosis based on blood serum. In this study, a total of sixty blood serum samples, consisting of forty from diseased patients and twenty (controls) from healthy individuals, was used.

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biofilms are a major cause of gastrointestinal tract diseases, such as esophageal, stomach and intestinal diseases. Nowadays, these are the most commonly occurring diseases caused by consuming contaminated food. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of probiotics in controlling multidrug-resistant and reducing its ability to form biofilms.

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Identification of adulterants in commercial samples of methyl eugenol is necessary because it is a botanical insecticide, a tephritid male attractant lure that is used to attract and kill invasive pests such as oriental fruit flies and melon flies on crops. In this study, Raman spectroscopy was used to qualitatively and quantitatively assess commercial methyl eugenol along with adulterants. For this purpose, commercial methyl eugenol was adulterated with different concentrations of xylene.

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In the current study, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) was performed to evaluate the antibacterial activity of lab-synthesized drug (1-isopentyl-3-pentyl-1-imidazole-3-ium bromide salt) and commercial drug tinidazole against. The changes in SERS spectral features were studied for unexposed bacillus and exposed one with various dosages of drug synthesized in the lab (1-isopentyl-3-pentyl-1-imidazole-3-ium bromide salt), and SERS bands were assigned associated with the drug-induced biochemical alterations in bacteria. Multivariate data analysis tools including principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) have been utilized to analyze the antibacterial activity of the imidazole derivative (lab drug).

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  • - Raman spectroscopy is utilized to analyze body fluids like blood serum for early breast cancer diagnosis by separating low molecular weight (LMWF) proteins from high molecular weight (HMWF) proteins using 30 kDa centrifugal filters.
  • - The filtrate from blood serum samples is expected to contain crucial breast cancer biomarkers, which are then examined using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) to detect spectral characteristics linked to different stages of breast cancer.
  • - Using statistical methods like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA), the study achieved 79% accuracy, 76% specificity, and 81% sensitivity in distinguishing between cancerous and non-cancerous samples, indicating
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Drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria are a major cause of infectious diseases in the world and they have become a major threat through the reduced efficacy of developed antibiotics. This issue can be addressed by using bacteriophages, which can kill lethal bacteria and prevent them from causing infections. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a promising technique for studying the degradation of infectious bacteria by the interaction of bacteriophages to break the vicious cycle of drug-resistant bacteria and help to develop chemotherapy-independent remedial strategies.

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is gram positive bacteria and leading cause of a wide variety of diseases. It is a common cause of hospitalized and community-acquired infections. Development of increasing antibiotic-resistance by methicillin-resistant S.

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In the present study, Raman spectroscopy (RS) along with density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been performed for the successful characterization and confirmation of the formation of three different selenium-based N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes from their respective salts. For this purpose, mean RS features and DFT calculations of different ligands and their respective selenium NHC complexes are compared. The identified characteristic RS and DFT features, of each of these ligands and their selenium complexes, show that the polarizability of benzimidazolium rings increases after complex formation with selenium.

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Raman spectroscopy has been used to characterize and quantify the solid dosage forms of the commercially available drug febuxostat. For this purpose, different formulations consisting of the febuxostat (API) and excipients with different concentrations of the API are prepared and analyzed by Raman spectroscopy to identify different spectral features related to the febuxostat API and excipients. Multivariate data analysis tools such as principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares regression (PLSR) analysis are used for qualitative and quantitative analyses.

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Staphylococcus epidermidis is considered major cause of nosocomial infections. Its pathogenicity is mainly due to the ability to form biofilms on different surfaces, particularly indwelling medical devices. This bacterium consists of different strains consisting of non, medium and strong biofilm forming ones.

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Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and excipients are main drug constituents that ought to be identified qualitatively and quantitatively. Raman spectroscopy is aimed to be an efficient technique for pharmaceutical analysis in solid dosage forms. This technique can successfully be used in terms of qualitative and quantitative analysis of pharmaceutical drugs, their APIs, and excipients.

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In the present research work, a selenium N-heterocyclic carbene (Se-NHC) complex/adduct was synthesized and characterized by using different analytical methods including FT-IR, HNMR, and CNMR. The antifungal activity of the Se-NHC complex against () fungus was investigated with disc diffusion assay. Moreover, the biochemical changes occurring in this fungus due to exposure of different concentrations of the in-house synthesized compound are characterized by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and are illustrated in the form of SERS spectral peaks.

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  • Insulin stored above FDA recommended temperatures can degrade and lead to poor glycemic control in diabetics, potentially causing serious conditions like type-2 diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.
  • The study aims to use Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to analyze insulin protein degradation over time when stored at room temperature.
  • Researchers found that SERS effectively detected structural changes in insulin even after just 2 hours at room temperature, confirmed by multivariate analytical techniques like PCA.
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Background: Bacterial resistance against antibiotics remains a challenge and Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) may provide critical information concerning this.

Objectives: In the current study, surface enhances Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been used to determine the biochemical changes induced during the antibacterial activity of the in house synthesized imidazole derivative (1-benzyl-3-(sec‑butyl)-1H-imidazole-3-ium bromide) in comparison to commercially available drugs (fasygien) against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.

Methods: For this purpose, the antibacterial activity of this compound was assessed on Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli.

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  • The study uses surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to analyze serum samples from patients with Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV) to improve disease diagnosis.
  • By centrifugally filtering the serum samples, researchers aimed to focus on smaller biomarkers, as larger proteins could interfere with the SERS spectrum, while statistical methods like principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) further validated their findings.
  • Results indicated that specific biomarkers were identified in HBV and HCV samples, differentiating them from healthy controls, which suggests SERS could be a valuable tool for diagnosing these viral infections.
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Background: Sinusitis is defined as inflammation of the paranasal sinus mucous membrane lining caused by bacteria which usually invade the sinus by upper respiratory tract viral infections (UTI).

Objectives: In the present study, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been applied to differentiate and characterize supernatant samples, in triplicate, of three different types of bacteria which are considered leading cause of sinusitis disease.

Methods: For this purpose, supernatant samples of three different strains of bacteria namely Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterococcus faecalis.

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Background: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is a very promising and fast technique for studying drugs and for detecting chemical nature of a molecule and DNA interaction. In the current study, SERS is employed to check the interaction of different concentrations of n-propyl imidazole derivative ligand with salmon sperm DNA using silver nanoparticles as SERS substrates.

Objectives: Multivariate data analysis technique like principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) are employed for the detailed analysis of the SERS spectral features associated with the mode of action of the imidazole derivative ligand with DNA.

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Background: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is explored to design a rapid screening method for the characterization and diagnosis of typhoid fever by employing filtrate fractions of blood serum samples obtained by centrifugal filtration with 50 KDa filters.

Objectives: The purpose of this study, to separate the filtrate portions of blood serum samples in this way contain proteins smaller than 50 kDa and removal of bigger size protein which allows to acquire the SERS spectral features of smaller proteins more effectively which are probably associated with typhoid disease. Disease caused by Salmonella typhi diagnose more effectively by using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and multivariate data analysis tools.

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