Publications by authors named "Smita Pawar"

Lung Cancer remains a significant health concern, necessitating the exploration of novel therapeutic avenues due to the limited efficacy and adverse effects of current treatments. In this study, we utilized a thorough and methodology to develop prospective drugs for the treatment of lung cancer. The active components of were identified through the utilization of a variety of pharmacological instruments, such as Gene Ontology, GeneCards, DrugBank, the Chinese Traditional Drug Database, and GeneMANIA.

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Cervical malignancy (CC) is the 2nd most prevalent malignancy among females, leading to cancer mortality. Primary detection of CC tumors results in an improved prognosis. CC is a malignant gynecological tumor, with few treatment options.

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  • Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among women, and traditional treatments are costly and have significant side effects, prompting the search for new options.
  • The study identifies Betulin (BE), a triterpenoid, as a promising anti-cancer agent targeting key epigenetic proteins associated with cervical cancer through a series of advanced bioinformatics techniques.
  • Preliminary findings suggest BE has better binding scores and favorable pharmacokinetic properties compared to standard drugs, indicating its potential effectiveness for further research, especially in live models.
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Background: The development of antimicrobial agents is crucial for several reasons, primarily to combat infectious diseases and to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. The need for the contin-ued development of antimicrobial drugs persists despite the presence of many existing drugs for several reasons viz; emerging new pathogens and diseases, reistance to existing drug and propogation of multi-drug resistance to existing drugs.

Objective: The objective of the study was to synthesize and evaluate the antimicrobial potential of newly synthesized benzothiazole derivatives.

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In the face of recent advances in Cervical cancer (CC) treatment, therapeutic and surgical procedures for CC management are still inadequate. In the current study for the first time Andrographolide (Andro) has been explored for its multitarget therapeutic efficacy on NF-kB, COX-2, and PI3K/AKT expressions together in CC. The expression levels of NF-kB, COX-2, PI3K and PTEN in the CC patient samples, both at mRNA and protein levels have shown significant association with poor survival and increased tumor aggressiveness.

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Background: The objective of the study was to design and synthesize a series of N-(6-substituted-1,3-benzothiazole- 2-yl)-2-{[6-(3-substitutedphenyl)-5-cyano-2-sulfanylpyrimidine-4-yl)]amino}acetamide derivatives BPD (1-15) that contains key pharmacophores required for anticonvulsant action.

Methods: The titled compounds (BPD 1-15) were synthesized by reacting 2-substituted-N-(6-chlorobenzo[d]thiazol2-yl)acetamide with 4-amino-6-(4-substituted phenyl)-2-mercapto pyrimidine 5-carbonitrile in the presence of potassium carbonate and dry acetone. The synthesized compounds BPD (1-15) were assessed in vivo by the maximum electric shock (MES) test and the subcutaneous pentylenetetrazol (scPTZ) test in mice.

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Messenger RNA (mRNA) has gained marvelous attention for managing and preventing various conditions like cancer, Alzheimer's, infectious diseases, etc. Due to the quick development and success of the COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines, mRNA has recently grown in prominence. A lot of products are in clinical trials and some are already FDA-approved.

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Background: A splice variant in gene is demonstrated to protect against nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and mitigate the effect of Patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing 3 (-I148M). It is being explored as a putative drug target and in polygenic risk scores. Based on whole exome sequencing (WES) in our cohort of biopsy proven NAFLD and limited data on the variant in our ethnicity, we sought to explore its role.

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Background/purpose: Genome-wide association studies have reported the association of common variants with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in genes, namely, PNPLA3/TM6SF2/MBOAT7/HSD17B13, across ethnicities. However, the approach does not identify rarer variants with a higher effect size. We therefore sequenced the complete exonic regions of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and controls to compare rare and common variants with a role in the pathogenesis.

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Objectives: The current study goal was to create a precise, sensitive, and validated reverse phase-high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for assessing the direct-acting antiviral daclatasvir (DCV) as well as to evaluate the stability of DCV in both drug and tablet formulations. The current investigation was to display stability indicating methods under different stress conditions, including hydrolysis (acidic, basic, and neutral), oxidation, and photolysis.

Materials And Methods: All experiments were performed on HPLC Agilent 1100 with a stainless steel Hypersil C column having a particle size of 5 μm and a dimension of 4.

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Cervical cancer is one of the main causes of cancer death in women globally, and its epidemiology is similar to that of a low-infectious venereal illness. Many sexual partners and early age at first intercourse have been demonstrated to have a significant influence on risk. TGF-β1 is a multifunctional cytokine that is required for cervical carcinoma metastasis, tumor development, progression, and invasion.

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  • Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among women, especially in developing countries, and the role of the protein osteopontin (OPN) in its progression is being investigated.
  • The study analyzed three microarray datasets to identify differentially expressed genes and performed enrichment and interaction network analyses to better understand the tumor microenvironment.
  • Results indicated that OPN is significantly upregulated in cervical cancer, and the drug Entrectinib shows promise as a potential inhibitor to help combat the disease.
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Gastric cancer is the world's second leading cause of cancer-related fatalities, with the epidemiology changing over the previous several decades. FOXOs are the O subfamily of the forkhead box (FOX) transcription factor family, which consists of four members: FOXO1, FOXO3, FOXO4, and FOXO6. FOXO6 mRNA and protein levels are increased in gastric cancer tissues.

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The DEAD-box helicase family member DDX3 is involved in many diseases, such as viral infection, inflammation, and cancer. Many studies in the last decade have revealed the role of DDX3 in tumorigenesis and metastasis. DDX3 has both tumour suppressor and oncogenic effect, in the present study we have evaluated the expression levels of DDX3 in cervical squamous cell carcinoma at mRNA level via real-time PCR and protein level via Immunohistochemistry.

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Several studies have reported up-regulation of both cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and DEAD-box RNA helicase3 (DDX3) and have validated their oncogenic role in many cancers. Inhibition of COX-2 and DDX3 offers a potential pharmacological strategy for prevention of cancer progression. The COX-2 isoform is expressed in response to pro-inflammatory stimuli in premalignant lesions, including cervical tissues.

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Drug design is one of the critical aspects of the drug development process. The present review focused on different heterocyclic molecules having anticonvulsant activity with structural diversity and common pharmacophoric features. For the first time (1995), Dimmock and his team introduced specific arrangements of three important pharmacophores for anticonvulsant activity.

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Cervical cancer (CC) is the most prevalent malignant gynecological tumor with limited treatments. The present study describes the role of SPP1 in cancer progression, SPP1 emerged as one of the most overexpressed genes identified through clariom D transcriptome microarray. This investigation aims towards identifying a potential gene with significant prognostic value for detection and early diagnosis of cervical cancer.

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Green synthesis of nanoparticles is regarded as a safe and non-toxic process over conventional synthesis. Owing to the medicinal value of biologically derived biomolecules and utilizing them in synergy with nanoscience to offer more accurate therapeutic options to various diseases is an emerging field. One such study we present here with highlights of the synthesis and efficacy of biogenic silver nanoparticles produced from the extract of (accession number: ) as an antimicrobial, anti-cancerous and anti-angiogenic agent.

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Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide and remains the main reason of mortality among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Nitric oxide is involved in several physiological functions inclusive of inflammatory and immune responses. However, the function of NO in tumor biology is debatable.

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Cervical cancer is one of the most malignant reproductive diseases seen in women worldwide. The identification of dysregulated genes in clinical samples of cervical cancer may pave the way for development of better prognostic markers and therapeutic targets. To identify the dysregulated genes (DEGs), we have retrospectively collected 10 biopsies, seven from cervical cancer patients and three from normal subjects who underwent a hysterectomy.

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This work is aimed at investigating the expression levels of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in cervical cancer and identifying a potential iNOS inhibitor. The data mining studies performed advocated iNOS to be a promising biomarker for cancer prognosis, as it is highly overexpressed in several malignant cancers. The elevated iNOS was found to be associated with poor survival and increased tumor aggressiveness in cervical cancer.

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Polished rice is one of the commonly consumed staple foods across the world. However, it contains limited nutrients especially iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn). To identify promising recombinant inbred lines (RILs) for grain Zn and single plant yield, 190 RILs developed from PR116 and Ranbir Basmati were evaluated in two environments (E1 and E2).

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Heterocyclic compounds and their derivatives gained more attention due to their valuable biological and pharmacological properties. Benzothiazole is a heterocyclic structure containing a bicyclic ring system with a large panel of applications. The benzothiazole is present in many new products undergoing research hoping that it possesses various biological activities.

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Editor's Note: this Article has been retracted; the Retraction Note is available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76500-9.

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In this work, we present an ecofriendly, non-hazardous, green synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) by leaf extract of (). Total phenolic content, total flavonoid and total protein contents of were determined. Further, synthesized ZnO NPs was characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-vis), X-ray diffractometer (XRD), Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) Spectra, transmission electron microscope (TEM), and Dynamic light scattering (DLS) analysis.

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