14 results match your criteria: "Sree Narayana Guru College[Affiliation]"

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  • * Recent efforts to stop smoking haven't been put into action yet, and it’s important to see what could happen if smoking rates stay the same or improve.
  • * Researchers used models to predict health outcomes by 2050 based on different scenarios of smoking rates, showing that cutting smoking could greatly improve health and life expectancy.
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  • Researchers studied strokes from 1990 to 2021 to understand how many people get them and how they are affected around the world.
  • In 2021, strokes caused about 7.3 million deaths and were a major cause of health problems, especially in specific regions like Southeast Asia and Oceania.
  • There are differences in stroke risks based on where people live and their age, and some areas actually saw more strokes happening since 2015.
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In this research paper the antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity of phage cocktail against the coagulase negative was investigated. Three isolates obtained from clinical bovine mastitis samples were characterized and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Bacteriophages with lytic activity against isolates were isolated from dairy farm effluents.

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An advanced approach that capitalizes on the synergies between multimodal feature fusion and the dual-path network is presented in this manuscript. Our proposed methodology harnesses a combination of potent techniques, merging the benefits of nonlinear mapping and expansive perception. The foundation of our methodology lies in leveraging well-established pretrained models, namely EfficientNet-B7, ResNet-152, and a meticulously crafted custom convolutional neural network (CNN), to effectively extract salient features from the data.

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The spider wasp genus Ceropales Latreille, 1796 from India was studied, resulting in the discovery of two new species in the nominotypical subgenus: Ceropales (Ceropales) anaghae Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, sp. nov. and C.

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  • HIV/AIDS remains a significant public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa, with current efforts falling short of global targets for eradication set by UNAIDS and the SDGs.
  • The study utilized extensive data from various HIV prevalence surveys to estimate localized HIV infection rates across 43 African countries, focusing on specific age and sex groups from 2000 to 2018.
  • Findings revealed wide disparities in HIV prevalence within countries and districts, indicating that age and sex stratification provides more nuanced insights into the epidemic, which can help tailor prevention and treatment efforts more effectively.
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Bacteriocin production is influenced by various factors such as carbon and nitrogen sources as well as fermentation conditions including pH, temperature, and agitation-these factors aid in optimizing bacteriocin production and improving its inhibitory activity against pathogens for great economic significance. The study investigates the effect of growth conditions on bacteriocin production by Lactobacillus plantarum. The response surface methodology was applied to optimize and determine the interaction among the process variables in bacteriocin production by Lactobacillus plantarum and determine their optimum levels.

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fibrinolytic activity of an enzyme purified from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain KJ10 isolated from .

Saudi J Biol Sci

August 2021

Bioprocess Engineering Division, Smykon Biotech Pvt LtD, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu 629201, India.

A fibrinolytic protease secreting producing Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain KJ10 was initially screened from the fermented soybean. Maximum productivity was obtained in the culture medium after 40 h incubation, 34 °C incubation temperature at pH 8.0.

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At present, chicken business is occupying a major portion in the market and huge amount of bone wastes are dumped into the open places lead in environmental pollution. In this analysis, natural hydroxyapatite was extracted by thermal calcination process at different temperature ranges from 700 °C, 900 °C and 1100 °C and compared its spectral characteristics. The crystalline nature, functional groups and morphological characteristics of hydroxyapatite obtained from both bone samples were studied using XRD, FTIR and SEM analysis.

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Inhibitory potential of EGCG on Streptococcus mutans biofilm: A new approach to prevent Cariogenesis.

Microb Pathog

June 2020

Pondicherry Centre for Biological Science and Educational Trust, Jawahar Nagar, Pondicherry, India; Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, 25354, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:

Dental caries is a common cause for tooth loss and Streptococcus mutans is identified as the etiologic pathogen. This study evaluates the inhibitory potential of Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) on S.mutans glucansucrase enzyme and its biofilm.

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Clinically important microbial diversity and its antibiotic resistance pattern towards various drugs.

J Infect Public Health

March 2020

Laboratory of Molecular Bioremediation and Nanotechnology, Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 620024, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address:

Background: Increased use of antibiotics in poultry leads to the development of antimicrobial resistance among the commensal bacterium of broiler chickens.

Objective: In this study, we aimed at studying the effect of periodic administration of therapeutic antibiotics against the bacterial diversity in poultry litters collected from broiler chickens.

Methods: Poultry litters were collected randomly at regular intervals after administration of antibiotics (1st, 12th and 22nd day) to the chicken.

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Objectives: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of Candida in the buccal cavity of diabetic and non-diabetic individuals in and around Pondicherry, India and to analyse the antifungal susceptibility profile of the selected isolates.

Materials And Methods: A total of 400 buccal samples, 200 each from diabetic and non-diabetic healthy individuals were included in the study. Sabouraud's dextrose agar was used for isolation of Candida species.

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Objective: To evaluate the enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants of leaf extract from Alpinia purpurata.

Methods: One gram of fresh leaf of Alpinia purpurata was grinded in 2 mL of 50% ethanol and centrifuged at 10,000×g at 4°C for 10 min. The supernatant obtained was used within 4 h for various enzymatic antioxidants assays like superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione S-transferase (GST), ascorbate oxidase, peroxidase, polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and non-enzymatic antioxidants such as vitamin C, total reduced glutathione (TRG) and lipid peroxidation (LPO).

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Thirty five plants belonging to twenty families were studied for their antimicrobial activity. Among the plants tested, 43 % showed antimicrobial activity. Fifteen plants belonging to 10 families exhibited activity against gram positive bacteria and gram negative bacteria.

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