Publications by authors named "Pillai J"

The production of fine particles by green technology like supercritical carbon dioxide requires the assessment of substantial solubility data at high pressures. This study represents the first determination of the solubility of methyldopa in carbon dioxide at pressures and temperatures ranging from 12 to 30 MPa and from 313.2 to 343.

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The research targeting the prevention of complications through natural constituents, instigated by the cancer has recently drawn much more attention over the globe. The research in this direction also revealed that the use of natural constituents would considered a promising strategy for diminishing the aforementioned disease and its consequences. Because of the easy availability and safe nature, the recent years, natural resources as strong anticancer agents.

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  • Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) is gaining traction in clinical settings for brain mapping, but faces challenges with standardization, reliability, and interpretation of results across different medical centers.
  • Key issues include variability in cognitive network representation and the effects of neurovascular uncoupling, which affect the accuracy of language lateralization and overall connectivity detection.
  • Despite these challenges, rs-fMRI is viewed as a valuable complement to task-based fMRI (tb-fMRI) in clinical presurgical contexts and is expected to grow in use as solutions to its limitations are developed.
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Background: Rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease (rpAD) is a clinical subtype distinguished by its rapid cognitive decline and shorter disease duration. rpAD, like typical AD (tAD), is characterized by underlying neuropathology of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. There is early evidence that the composition of amyloid plaques could vary between the rpAD and tAD.

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Introduction: The Kayakalp guidelines for public healthcare facilities under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) focus on improving sanitation, cleanliness, and infection control at public hospitals in India. This study was conducted in a 960-bed tertiary-level teaching hospital in eastern India. Housekeeping has been a challenge in public institutions, with factors like overcrowding and resource constraints.

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  • Semantic dementia (SD) patients, particularly those with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) and semantic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (sbvFTD), exhibit challenges in identifying faces due to atrophy in the anterior temporal lobe (ATL).
  • The study involved 74 SD patients and 36 healthy controls, who underwent various face recognition and semantic processing tests, alongside structural MRI scans to assess neural correlates.
  • Findings indicated that while both patient groups struggled with semantic face tasks, they performed similarly on perceptual face tests, suggesting that perceptual deficits may not arise until later stages of the disease with more extensive ATL atrophy.
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Given the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in its ability to understand and generate human-like texts, these technologies inspired efforts to explore their capabilities in natural language processing tasks, especially those in healthcare contexts. The performance of these tools have been evaluated thoroughly across medicine in diverse tasks, including standardized medical examinations, medical-decision making, and many others. In this journal, Anaya et al.

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Background: Pathways for intravenously administered gadolinium-based-contrast-agents (GBCAs) entering cerebrospinal-fluid (CSF) circulation in the human brain are not well-understood. The blood-CSF-barrier (BCSFB) in choroid-plexus (CP) has long been hypothesized to be a main entry-point for intravenous-GBCAs into CSF. Most existing studies on this topic were performed in animals and human patients with various diseases.

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  • * Researchers used automated speech analysis on audio-recorded picture descriptions from 40 FTD patients and 22 healthy controls to identify linguistic features that could help distinguish between the two types of atrophy associated with each variant.
  • * The analysis revealed key speech features that could differentiate between FTD patients and healthy controls as well as between the two variants of FTD, suggesting potential for a non-invasive diagnostic tool that correlates with specific brain areas involved in language and
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Iron Dextran is a widely used iron oxide compound to treat iron-deficiency anemia patients in the clinic. Similar to other iron oxide compounds such as Ferumoxytol, it can also be used off-label as an intravascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent due to its strong iron-induced T2 and T2* shortening effects. In this study, we seek to evaluate the feasibility of using Iron Dextran enhanced multi-echo susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) MRI at 7T to image arterial and venous blood vessels in the human brain.

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Unlabelled: Background Signage is important in any public place. It involves information about nomenclature, wayfinding, service timing, emergency preparedness, and regulatory compliance. It plays an important role in helping the patient reach their desired destination with minimum difficulty, thereby enhancing the patient experience.

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  • The intestinal barrier acts as a crucial defense against harmful substances, and issues like "leaky gut" can lead to various diseases.
  • Two novel Lactobacillus reuteri strains (PTA-126787 and PTA-126788) isolated from chickens show promise in maintaining intestinal integrity, demonstrating safety and efficacy in reducing alcohol-induced leaky gut in rats and mice.
  • The strains are phylogenetically similar to human L. reuteri, and one strain displays a unique orange pigmentation linked to a potential mechanism for activating the AhR transcription factor involved in gut and immune regulation.
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  • * The paper aims to help radiologists by discussing MRI protocols, workflows, and reporting practices for monitoring amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA).
  • * Key topics include FDA guidelines for ARIA evaluation, standard MRI sequences, patient imaging scenarios, the radiologist's role in treatment, and results from a 2023 survey on dementia imaging practices.
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Introduction: Given the prevalence and staggering cost of neurological disorders, there is dire need for effective early detection and intervention tools. Emerging evidence suggests that multidisciplinary lifestyle interventions (MLI) may mitigate the risk and progression of neurological disorders. The objectives of this protocol are (1) to test the impact of MLI on the progression of neurological disorders and (2) to identify multi-omic biomarkers for early stages of neurological disease and the impact of MLIs on these biomarkers.

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  • Semantic dementia (SD) patients, including those with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) and semantic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (sbvFTD), struggle with identifying faces and known individuals due to right anterior temporal lobe (ATL) atrophy, but the presence of perceptual deficits in face recognition is still uncertain.
  • A study involving 74 SD patients and 36 cognitively healthy controls used a series of face processing tests and MRI scans to investigate the relationship between face recognition performance and brain structure.
  • Results showed that both svPPA and sbvFTD patients had significant impairments in semantic face processing tasks, but they performed well on perceptual face recognition tests, indicating that perceptual abilities
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  • - Mycobacterium marinum is a type of non-tuberculous mycobacterium commonly found in non-chlorinated water and is recognized as a pathogen for fish; in humans, it can cause skin infections and sometimes more serious conditions.
  • - The text discusses four cases of cutaneous infections caused by M. marinum that were analyzed in a specialized medical center.
  • - It emphasizes the importance of accurate diagnosis, the need for healthcare providers to maintain a high level of suspicion when encountering these infections, and reviews the treatment options available.
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Context:  The generation of biomedical waste (BMW) in hospitals presents a significant hazard to both healthcare workers (HCWs) and the environment. The management of BMW is a challenge regarding inappropriate behavior among HCWs, leading to improper segregation of the BMW, which deserves attention. The indiscriminate BMW management issue in India has attracted the attention of the highest judicial bodies.

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With the introduction of the novel coronavirus in late 2019, the healthcare system of every country in the world experienced many challenges. In India, every healthcare organization has prepared itself to fight against these global challenges. This study aims to describe the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we dealt with the pandemic successfully.

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  • Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) significantly impact cognitive decline in older adults, leading to a study on cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) and cognitive function across three sites with 263 participants.
  • The study used MRI to assess CVR through a carbon dioxide inhalation method and evaluated cognition using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and executive function metrics.
  • Results showed a positive correlation between CVR and both global cognitive scores and executive functioning, confirming CVR as a potential biomarker for VCID across multiple independent sites.
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Magnesium-based multicomponent alloys with different compositions, namely MgAlZnCuMn (Mg60 alloy), MgAlZnCuMn (Mg70 alloy), and MgAlCuMnZn (Mg 80) alloys, were prepared using the disintegrated melt deposition technique. The DMD technique is a distinctive method that merges the benefits from gravity die casting and spray forming. This approach facilitates high solidification rates, process yields, and reduced metal wastage, resulting in materials with a fine microstructure and minimal porosity.

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Meningiomas, the most common primary intracranial neoplasms, account for more than one-third of primary CNS tumors. While traditionally viewed as benign, meningiomas can be associated with considerable morbidity, and specific meningioma subgroups display more aggressive behavior with higher recurrence rates. The risk stratification for recurrence has been primarily associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) histopathologic grade and extent of resection.

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Background: Hospitals are complex places with a large number of employees, patients, furniture, equipment, etc. Healthcare workers (HCWs), patients, or the general public are vulnerable to injuries and illness due to unseen hazards at the workplace. This study aims to identify the hazards and assess the risks at a hospital to ensure safety for HCWs, patients, and the public and generate awareness about the same.

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In addition to Alzheimer's disease (AD), the hippocampus is now known to be affected in variants of frontotemporal degeneration (FTD). In semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), characterized by language impairments, hippocampal atrophy is greater in the left hemisphere. Nonverbal impairments (e.

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Background And Purpose: A substantial fraction of those who had Alzheimer's Disease (AD) pathology on autopsy did not have dementia in life. While biomarkers for AD pathology are well-developed, biomarkers specific to cognitive domains affected by early AD are lagging. Diffusion MRI (dMRI) of the fornix is a candidate biomarker for early AD-related cognitive changes but is susceptible to bias due to partial volume averaging (PVA) with cerebrospinal fluid.

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