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Colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of death worldwide, and it is the second most common cancer in women and the third most common cancer in men. Accumulating evidence suggests that genetic and epigenetic factors play a key role in the development of colorectal cancer. Cancer Stem Cells (CSC) play an important role in the suppression or development of cancer in various conditions.

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Here, we present a visual representation of standard procedures to collect population-level data on personal exposures to household air pollution (HAP) from two different study sites in a resource-constrained setting of Tamil Nadu, India. Particulate matter PM2.5 (particles smaller than 2.

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Pharmacological evaluation of embelin - chitosan nanoparticles as an antidiabetic agent.

Indian J Pharmacol

May 2022

Sr. Principal Scientist, Head & Professor - AcSIR, Microbiology Division, Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Embelin has been reported to possess variety of pharmacological activities such as androgenic antagonists, antiangiogenic, antibacterial, anticancer, anticonvulsant, antidiabetic, antidepressant, antihelmintic, antifertility, antihyperlipidemic, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antimitotic, antiobesity and antioxidant properties. The current research work aimed to study the hypoglycemic effect of embelin-chitosan nanoparticles (ECNPs) diabetic rats provoked by streptozotocin (STZ). Embelin nanoparticles (ENPs) were created by combining chitosan, a natural biopolymer, and glutaric acid, a new cross-linker.

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Purpose: There is a lack of consensus regarding need for Venous Thrombo Embolism (VTE) prophylaxis following arthroscopic knee surgery and open soft tissue knee reconstruction. Clear cut guidelines like ones for trauma surgery and arthroplasty do not exist and the published literature is limited to case reports with a few society guidelines. Given this lack of consensus, we conducted a modified Delphi questionnaire of international experts to provide recommendations on this topic.

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Introduction: Andrographis echioides is a prevalently used medicinal herb in South Asian countries. Scientific researches with the extracts of A. echioides revealed its antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, ulceroprotective, and hepatoprotective properties.

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Free vaccination against COVID-19 commenced in India on January 16, 2021, and the government is urging all of its citizens to be immunized, in what is expected to be the largest vaccination program in the world. Out of the eight COVID-19 vaccines that are currently under various stages of clinical trials in India, four were developed in the country. India's drug regulator has approved restricted emergency use of Covishield (the name employed in India for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine) and Covaxin, the home-grown vaccine produced by Bharat Biotech.

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Background: The Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial aims to assess health benefits of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cookfuel and stove intervention among women and children across four low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We measured exposure contrasts for women, achievable under alternative conditions of biomass or LPG cookfuel use, at potential HAPIN field sites in India, to aid in site selection for the main trial.

Methods: We recruited participants from potential field sites within Villupuram and Nagapattinam districts in Tamil Nadu, India, that were identified during a feasibility assessment.

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Background: Identification of novel drugs by bio-prospecting natural products like various parts of the plants, or other extracts and drug discovery requires differential fractionation with various organic solvents followed by their concentration through evaporation under nitrogen gas, which is a standard practice.

Purpose: Determination of contribution of vehicle control of organic solvents (chloroform, ethanol, ethyl acetate and n-hexane) processed in the similar manner in the modulation of acetylcholine(ACh) neurotransmission in , Aldicarb induced paralysis assay.

Methods: The organic solvents concentrated as described in background was used to identify their contribution in ACh modulation through ACh esterase inhibitor, Aldicarb, treatment of , which leads to time dependent paralysis of the worms.

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