Development of Hif1a Pharmacogenomic Mutation Models to Study Individual Variations in Drug Action for Tumor Hypoxia: An in Silico Approach.

Objective: Tumor hypoxia, a predominant feature of solid tumor produces drug resistance that significantly impacts a patient's clinical outcomes. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (HIF1α) is the major mutation involved in establishing the microenvironment. As a consequence of its involvement in pathways that enable rapid tumor growth, it creates resistance to chemotherapeutic treatments.

Computational modeling of environmentally responsive hydrogels (ERH) for drug delivery system.

The present work aims at computational analysis of environmentally responsive hydrogels with enormous prospective in the formulation aspect of drug delivery systems. The drug delivery potential of hydrogels to the targets is owing to the specific stimuli responsive nature of the hydrogels. The environmental factors looked upon in the study are changes in pH, alteration of temperature and glucose concentration rise originated in the body as a result of various disease conditions.

The ApoE gene of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

The ApoE gene responsible for the Alzheimer's disease has been examined to identify functional consequences of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Eighty-eight SNPs have been identified in the ApoE gene in which 31 are found to be nonsynonymous, 8 of them are coding synonymous, 33 are found to be in intron, and 3 are in untranslated region. The SNPs found in the untranslated region consisted of two SNPs from 5' and one SNP from the 3'.