Publications by authors named "Wajahat Mir"

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  • Munz, an indigenous medicinal plant from India, was studied for its potential anti-breast cancer effects and interactions with specific cancer drug targets, which had not been previously explored.
  • The research involved extracting phytocompounds from Munz using various organic solvents, identifying them with advanced techniques, and analyzing their properties and potential drug-like characteristics.
  • Through comprehensive analysis, the study identified 464 potential target genes and revealed that 8-Hydroxycoumarin is a key compound influencing the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, highlighting its significance in breast cancer treatment.
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The current scientific community is facing a daunting challenge to unravel reliable natural compounds with realistic potential to treat neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). The reported compounds/drugs mostly synthetic deemed the reliability and therapeutic potential largely due to their complexity and off-target issues. The natural products from nutraceutical compounds emerge as viable preventive therapeutics to fill the huge gap in treating neurological disorders.

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Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don (Liliaceae), a valuable and critically endangered medicinal herb of northwest India, including Jammu and Kashmir, grows in temperate to alpine regions of the Himalaya. It is known as the traditional herb for cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and metabolic disorders.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: The burden of antimicrobial resistance demands a continued search for new antimicrobial drugs. The synthetic drugs used clinically have serious side effects. Natural products or compounds derived from natural sources show diversity in structure and play an essential role in drug discovery and development.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Microorganisms are developing resistance to synthetic drugs. As a result, the search for novel antimicrobial compounds has become an urgent need. Medicinal plants are commonly used as traditional medicine and Delphinium is one of the prominent genus used in the treatment of several diseases.

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Tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the deadliest disease across the globe caused by (). invades host macrophages and other immune cells, modifies their lysosome trafficking proteins, prevents phagolysosomes formation, and inhibits the TNF receptor-dependent apoptosis in macrophages and monocytes. Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a prominent infective disease and a major reason of mortality/ morbidity globally. Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes a long-lasting latent infection in a significant proportion of human population. The increasing burden of tuberculosis is mainly caused due to multi drug-resistance.

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