87 results match your criteria: "Mumbai University[Affiliation]"
J Phys Chem B
January 2025
UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Kalina Campus of Mumbai University, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400098, India.
Excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) in organic photoacids is a widely studied phenomenon in which D-luciferin is of special mention, considering the fact that apart from its phenolic OH group, the nitrogen atoms at either of the two thiazole moieties could also participate in hydrogen bonding interactions with a proton-donating solvent during ESPT. As a result, several transient species could appear during the ESPT process. We hereby deploy subpicosecond time-resolved fluorescence upconversion (FLUP) and transient absorption (TA) spectroscopic techniques to understand the detailed photophysics of D-luciferin in water as well as in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and ethanol.
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January 2025
Department of Physics, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey.
We investigate the comprehensive analysis's structural, electronic, optical, and elastic properties of Cs₂NaScX₆ (X = Cl, Br) double perovskites using density functional theory (DFT) implemented by the WIEN2k code. The results show that both compounds are in cubic phases. The calculated tolerance factors show both are stable compounds.
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December 2024
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thakur College of Engineering and Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Chem Biol Drug Des
December 2024
Department of Chemistry, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan College, Chowpatty, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.
Sci Rep
November 2024
PRINCE Laboratory Research, ISITcom, Hammam Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia.
Having access to potable water is a fundamental right to well-being. Despite this, 3.4 million people die from diseases caused by water each year, and 1.
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October 2024
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Affiliated to Mumbai University, Sawantwadi, 416510, India.
In the spectrum of breast malignancies, triple-negative breast cancer is the most widely spreading subtype of breast cancer due to a low availability of therapeutic remedies. Recently, antibody-drug conjugates dramatically resolved the landscape for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer. This review mainly focuses on the chemistry, structure, mechanism of action, and role of antibody-drug conjugates in triple-negative breast cancer.
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August 2024
P D Patel Institute of Applied Sciences, CHARUSAT, Changa, 388421, Anand Gujarat, India.
Mucormycosis, a life-threatening fungal infection that primarily affects immunocompromised individuals.The protein family commonly observed in the fugus responsible for causing Mucormycosis. The attachment of spores to host cells surface, facilitated by a protein CotH, is a critical step for the invasion and progression of the disease.
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September 2024
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Affiliated to Mumbai University, Sawantwadi 416510, India.
Cureus
February 2024
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Khoula Hospital, Muscat, OMN.
Financial limitations in the hospital industry have the potential to exacerbate healthcare disparities, impede investments in cutting-edge medical treatments, as well as impair patient outcomes. The interdependent connection between a hospital economy and the general well-being of the community highlights the necessity of careful financial oversight and inventive healthcare policies. Effective collaboration among policymakers, healthcare administrators, and stakeholders is imperative in the development of sustainable economic models that give equal weight to fiscal prudence and optimal patient outcomes.
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May 2024
Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, (M.P.), India.
Hypoxia is a pathophysiological condition characterized by oxygen deficiency in tissues, which negatively affects normal biological functions. It is a typical microenvironment character of almost all solid tumours. Noncoding RNA are small functional RNA molecules that regulate gene expression at chromatin and posttranscriptional levels.
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December 2023
Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, 110062, India. Electronic address:
Targeted drug delivery has emerged as a pivotal approach within precision medicine, aiming to optimize therapeutic efficacy while minimizing systemic side effects. Leukocyte membrane coated nanoparticles (NPs) have attracted a lot of interest as an effective approach for delivering targeted drugs, capitalizing on the natural attributes of leukocytes to achieve site-specific accumulation, and heightened therapeutic outcomes. An overview of the present state of the targeted medication delivery research is given in this review.
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September 2023
Applied Genomics Section, Bio-Science Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
The extremely radiation-resistant bacterium, , is a microbe of importance, both, for studying stress tolerance mechanisms and as a chassis for industrial biotechnology. However, the molecular tools available for use in this organism continue to be limiting, with its multiploid genome presenting an additional challenge. In view of this, the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-Cas tools provide a large repertoire of applications for gene manipulation.
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November 2023
Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, 110062, India; Department of Pharmacology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India. Electronic address:
The lack of knowledge about the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of vaccines makes former biopharmaceutical optimization difficult. This was shown during the COVID-19 immunization campaign, where gradual booster doses were introduced..
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July 2023
Department of Pharmaceutics, HK College of Pharmacy, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.
Nanomaterials are emerging as an innovative and efficient instrument for the transport and cellular translocation of therapeutic compounds, namely, biopharmaceuticals. The use of nanoparticles as drug carriers in the healthcare industry, for instance, in several applications, with drug delivery being among the most significant. These nanomaterials are adaptable and have qualities that are good for delivering compounds that are biologically active.
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November 2022
Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, 700050 Iasi, Romania.
The presence of laryngeal disease affects vocal fold(s) dynamics and thus causes changes in pitch, loudness, and other characteristics of the human voice. Many frameworks based on the acoustic analysis of speech signals have been created in recent years; however, they are evaluated on just one or two corpora and are not independent to voice illnesses and human bias. In this article, a unified wavelet-based paradigm for evaluating voice diseases is presented.
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October 2022
Department of Electrical Engineering, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, An Autonomous Institute, affiliated with Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.
The usage of the internet as a fast medium for spreading fake news reinforces the requirement of computational utensils in order to fight for it. Fake videos also called deep fakes that create great intimidation in society in an assortment of social and political behaviour. It can also be utilized for malevolent intentions.
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December 2022
Low Level Radiation Research Section, Radiation Biology & Health Sciences Division, Bio-Sciences Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India; Mumbai University, Fort Mumbai, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Anushakti Nagar, Trombay, Mumbai 400 094, India. Electronic address:
The high level natural radiation areas (HLNRA) of Kerala coast provide unique opportunity to study the biological effect of chronic low dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) on human population below 100 mSv. The radiation level in this area varies from < 1.0-45 mGy /year due to patchy distribution of monazite in the sand, which contains Th (8-10%), U (0.
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November 2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Cannabis is one of the most commonly used illicit drugs. It is a psychoactive drug with tetrahydrocannabinol being the main active ingredient. With increasing decriminalization and legalization of marijuana use in the USA, it is essential to study its long-term effects on cardiovascular diseases, a leading cause of death in the USA.
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May 2024
Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University, Lavale, Pune, India.
The article assists with understanding the need to change the current accessible clinical resources; as well as gauging and sorting out the devices needed to provide food the uncommon requirements of the COVID-19 patients without trading off the smooth working of the medical services office without taking a chance with the security of the medical care experts conveying it. A primary objective of this study is to provide interim guidance for planning the medical equipment for an isolation facility in a way that satisfies the needs of patients in an exact manner. Additionally, to assist healthcare facility to follow the accreditation standards and plan the modifications necessary to ensure the safety of patients and employees.
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June 2022
Department of Oriental Medicine Resources, Mokpo National University, Muan-gun, Jeonnam 58554, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
Biomimetic nanotechnology could serve as an advancement in the domain of drug delivery and diagnosis with the application of natural cell membrane or synthetically-derived membrane nanoparticles (NPs). These biomimetic NPs endow significant therapeutic and diagnostic efficacy by their unique properties, such as immune invasion and better targeting ability. Additionally, these NPs have a unique ability to retain the inherent properties of cell membrane and membrane's intrinsic functionalities, which helps them to exhibit superior therapeutic effects.
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April 2022
IT @ IoT-HH Campus, Ambo University, Ethiopia.
In the current information and technology era, business enterprises are focusing in performing the process effectively by reducing the waiting time in completing the work, reduce latency and deploy the resources effectively so as to service the patient, medical practitioners, societies, and other stakeholders in an efficient manner. Hence, several organisations are using the emerging technologies so as to obtain high performance and enhance competitive edge. The advancement in machine learning, deep learning, business analytics, etc.
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April 2022
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, SVKM's Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.
Since the early twentieth century, with the isolation of penicillin and streptomycin in the 1940s, the modern era of anti-infective drug development has gained momentum. Due to the enormous success of early drug discovery, many infectious diseases were successfully prevented and eradicated. However, this initial hope was wrongheaded, and pathogens evolved as a significant threat to human health.
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December 2021
UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai University Campus, Vidyanagari, Mumbai, 400098, India.
Sci Rep
December 2021
UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai University Campus, Vidyanagari, Mumbai, 400098, India.
Crystallins are ubiquitous, however, prevalence is seen in eye lens. Eye lens crystallins are long-lived and structural intactness is required for maintaining lens transparency and protein solubility. Mutations in crystallins often lead to cataract.
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February 2022
Department of Biophysics, University of Mumbai, Santacruz (E), Mumbai, India.
Apoptosis is a naturally occurring process during the growth and development of multicellular organisms and is increasingly active during times of cellular stress such as in response to intracellular DNA damage when removal of the host cell is paramount to prevent cancer. Unfortunately, once formed, cancer cells become impervious to apoptosis, creating a desperate need to identify an approach to induce apoptosis in these cells. An attractive option is to focus efforts on developing and locating compounds which activate apoptosis using natural compounds.
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