Publications by authors named "Rajalakshmi P"

Background And Objective: Cerebral aneurysms occur as balloon-like outpouchings in an artery, which commonly develop at the weak curved regions and bifurcations. When aneurysms are detected, understanding the risk of rupture is of immense clinical value for better patient management. Towards this, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) studies can improve our understanding of the mechanics behind aneurysm initiation, progression, and rupture.

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  • A new one-pot method was developed for creating chiral -protected amino acid substituted 1,2,4-oxadiazoles using hydroxyl amidine and a specific anhydride, promoting sustainability.
  • This simple process does not require catalysts, making it a more efficient way to synthesize these amino acids.
  • The newly synthesized compounds were tested for antibacterial activity, with one compound (4al) showing notable effectiveness against certain harmful bacteria at a minimal inhibitory concentration of 0.19 μg/mL.
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Neurologic melioidosis warrants attention in view of its rarity and lethal consequences. We performed a retrospective review of culture confirmed neurologic melioidosis reported between 2017 and 2023. Thirteen patients were identified with median age 43 years and all but three were males.

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Metallopharmaceuticals possess unique medicinal properties and have been used since ancient times. In spite of the inclusion of several metals and minerals, there is an increased interest in metallo-drugs for clinical and research purposes because of their immense therapeutic efficiency and non-toxic claim, as they are processed in addition to specific poly herbals. is one of the traditional metallopharmaceuticals used in Siddha medicine to treat various respiratory diseases and other ailments, including antidote therapy for poisonous bites.

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Chemo-photothermal therapy is one of the emerging therapies for treating triple-negative breast cancer. In this study, we have used ionotropic gelation method to fabricate chitosan and IR806 dye-based polyelectrolyte complex (CIR-PEx) nanoparticles. These nano-complexes were in size range of 125 ± 20 nm.

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The present study was carried out to determine the characteristics, distribution, and abundance of plastic debris in 25 sediment samples collected from the Poompuhar beach, southeast coast of India. The result reveals that the mean plastic debris abundance was 42 ± 27 particles/m dry weight (dw) (1 SD, n = 25) with higher concentrations in the river mouth. The dominant shapes in the study area were fragment (70.

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FLAMES is a new clinico-radiological sub entity of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody associated disease (MOGAD). FLAMES is characterized by fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging showing hyperintense cortical lesions, in MOG associated Encephalitis with Seizures. MOGAD usually presents with optic neuritis, myelitis or acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and such rare focal cortical encephalitis like presentation can be mistaken as due to viral aetiology.

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Acne is one of the common dermatological skin inflammatory conditions. The current therapeutic modalities for the treatment of acne include the administration of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory agents. The rising instance of antibiotic resistance in acne strains has led to the exploration of alternative therapeutic modalities.

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Aims: The study focused on the expression and role of a recent potential cancer therapeutic target protein, MutT Homolog1 (MTH1). MTH1 gets activated in an increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) environment and removes the oxidized nucleotides from the cell. The study aimed to check the role of MTH1 in DNA damage and apoptosis, migration and angiogenesis and also to examine its regulation in glioma.

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Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in women, worldwide. The average survival rate of patients suffering from advanced breast cancer is about 27% for five years. Photothermal therapy employing biodegradable nanoparticle are extensively researched for enhanced anticancer therapy in breast cancer treatment.

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Background: Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) provides all nutritional needs intravenously. Although lifesaving, enthusiasm is significantly tempered due to side effects of liver and gut injury, as well as lack of mechanistic understanding into drivers of TPN injury. We hypothesized that the state of luminal nutritional deprivation with TPN drives alterations in gut-systemic signaling, contributing to injury, and tested this hypothesis using our ambulatory TPN model.

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Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems allow the person in communicating with the external world using Electroencephalography (EEG). Motor Imagery (MI) based BCI systems play a vital role in interacting with the external environment. In this paper, we propose a novel robust feature extraction and classification framework for four class MI classification to improve the classification accuracy.

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Present work carried out with the objectives to isolate active component of and also to evaluate its free radical scavenging activity and preventing capacity against heavy metal toxicity. Solvents of different polarity were used to prepare crude extracts of seeds and screened for antioxidant activity. Among the crude extracts, methanolic extract was found to exhibit higher antioxidant activity (81.

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Molecular and clinical research based on isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations is much sought after in glioma research since a decade of its discovery in 2008. IDH enzyme normally catalyzes isocitrate to α-keto-glutarate (α-KG), but once the gene is mutated it produces an 'oncometabolite', 2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG). 2-HG is proposed to inhibit α-KG-dependent dioxygenases and also blocks cellular differentiation.

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In this letter, we propose two novel methods for four-class motor imagery (MI) classification using electroencephalography (EEG). Also, we developed a real-time health 4.0 (H4.

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  • Photothermal therapy (PTT) utilizes gold-coated liposome nanoparticles (Au Lipos NPs) to absorb Near Infra-Red (NIR) light, creating localized heat for skin cancer treatment.
  • In this study, curcumin was incorporated into Au Lipos NPs to be released upon NIR irradiation, transitioning from nanocrystals to microcrystals, which sustain release of the drug for over 10 days.
  • Results showed that combining Au Lipos Cur NPs with PTT significantly improved effectiveness against cancer cells in vitro and reduced tumor volume in in vivo experiments, demonstrating enhanced therapeutic benefits.
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A naphthoquinone-imine based fluorescent probe (R) has been synthesized and characterized by NMR and mass spectral techniques. The receptor shows high selectivity towards cyanide in water in the presence of other competitive anions with an instantaneous colour change from non-emissive to green under UV light. The turn-on fluorescence is due to deprotonation of three hydroxyl groups by cyanide ions as evidenced from H NMR titration experiment.

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Ultrasound signal processing involves diversified requirements in terms of processing, power, hardware etc. Ultrasound signal processing is continuously evolving area, and hence researchers who need to evaluate the novel algorithms in real time need to have the complete hardware setup. Commercially available ultrasound scanners are based on Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and hence it does not have any provision to test the novel algorithms.

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Background And Aim: Nutritional therapy is an integral part of care in all phases of liver transplantation (LTx). However, there are several factors that make it a challenge to manage malnutrition in these patients including, but not limited to, loss of appetite, dietary restrictions and dietary habits. Dietary habits are guided by personal choice, social, cultural and regional background with diversity ranging from veganism to vegetarianism with the latter predominant in Indian population.

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Telesonography involves transmission of ultrasound video from remote areas to the doctors for getting diagnosis. Due to the lack of trained sonographers in remote areas, the ultrasound videos scanned by these untrained persons do not contain the proper information that is required by a physician. As compared to standard methods for video transmission, mHealth driven systems need to be developed for transmitting valid medical videos.

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