Publications by authors named "Preethi L"

Article Synopsis
  • Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is a significant health issue in India, primarily caused by the Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus, particularly affecting children under 15, despite vaccination efforts.
  • A study involving 266 children in Uttar Pradesh assessed the immune response to the SA-14-14-2 JE vaccine, finding that a majority (97.74%) had no detectable anti-JEV-specific IgG antibodies after two doses.
  • Results indicated a declining trend in antibody levels over time, highlighting the need for booster doses to maintain immunity against the JE virus in vaccinated children.
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A new integration strategy of transition metal sulfide with carbon-based materials is used to boost its catalytic property and electrochemical performances in supercapacitor application. Herein, crystalline reduced graphene oxide (rGO) wrapped ternary metal sulfide nanorod composites with different rGO ratios are synthesized using hydrothermal technique and are compared for their physical, chemical, and electrochemical performances. It is found that their properties are tuned by the weight ratios of rGO.

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Atorvastatin exhibits wide interindividual variability in treatment response, limiting the drug efficacy in coronary artery disease patients. To study the effect of genetic variants involved in atorvastatin transport/metabolism and correlate their lipid-lowering efficacy. Genotyping was performed using 5'-hydrolysis probe method (n = 412), and the study evaluated the treatment response in 86 patients.

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Introduction: Obesity has been declared an epidemic that does not discriminate based on age, gender, or ethnicity and thus needs urgent containment and management. Since the third wave of COVID-19 is expected to affect children the most, these children and adolescents should be more cautious while having junk foods, during covid situations due to the compromise of Immunity in the individuals and further exacerbating the organ damage.

Methodology: A PAN India survey organized by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) among 13,274 children between the ages 9-14 years reported that 93% of the children ate packed food and 68% consumed packaged sweetened beverages more than once a week, and 53% ate these products at least once in a day.

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COVID-19 has emerged as a major cause of health crisis around the world. Psychosocial, Behavioral and metabolic changes especially weight gain, among variety of population was produced in this pandemic, through variety of mechanisms. Hyperlipidemia is one of the major issues that result in serious cardiovascular complications.

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The two important factors that affect sunlight assisted water splitting ability of TiO are its charge recombination and large band gap. We report the first demonstration of nitrogen doped triphase (anatase-rutile-brookite) TiO nanotubes as sun light active photocatalyst for water splitting with high quantum efficiency. Nitrogen doped triphase TiO nanotubes, corresponding to different nitrogen concentrations, are synthesized electrochemically.

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