18 results match your criteria: "Universiti Teknologi MARA Selangor Branch[Affiliation]"

Real-world analysis of safety, tolerability, and adherence to nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (paxlovid) in primary care COVID-19 outpatients.

Sci Rep

October 2024

Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA Selangor Branch, Puncak Alam Campus, Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

This retrospective cross-sectional study aims to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and adherence of patients prescribed Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) in outpatient settings, focusing on its use in managing category 2 COVID-19 patients across three primary healthcare clinics in Selangor, Malaysia. Data were collected from the Paxlovid pharmacy registry and medical records at Klinik Kesihatan Seksyen 7, Klinik Kesihatan Seksyen 19, and Klinik Kesihatan Kelana Jaya between April 1, 2022, and November 30, 2022. This study analysed data from 415 category 2 COVID-19 patients aged ≥ 18 years.

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As an abundant marine bioresource, tunicates could be exploited in the food industry. However, limited knowledge of their chemical composition and nutritional profiles prohibited further application. In this study, two common edible tunicate species, (HR) and (HA), were subjected to comprehensive composition analysis in terms of moisture, protein, lipids, cellulose, ash, amino acids, fatty acids, non-cellulose carbohydrates and minerals.

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The interaction of green zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) with bacterial strains are still scarcely reported. This work was conducted to study the green-one-pot-synthesized ZnO NPs from the Aloe Vulgarize (AV) leaf peel extract assisted with different sonication techniques followed by the physicochemical, biological activities and molecular docking studies. The NPs structure was analyzed using FTIR, UV-vis and EDX.

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Rare but serious thrombotic incidents in relation to thrombocytopenia, termed vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), have been observed since the vaccine rollout, particularly among replication-defective adenoviral vector-based severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 vaccine recipients. Herein, we comprehensively reviewed and summarized reported studies of VITT following the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination to determine its prevalence, clinical characteristics, as well as its management. A literature search up to October 1, 2021 using PubMed and SCOPUS identified a combined total of 720 articles.

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This study explored the factors contributing to discontinuation of people who smoke (PWS) from quit smoking clinic prior to achieving 6-month abstinence. Fifteen active PWS were interviewed via telephone and face-to-face. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis.

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Practice of pharmaceutical care by community pharmacists in response to self-medication request for a cough: a simulated client study.

BMC Health Serv Res

June 2023

School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences, Taylor's University, 1, Jalan Taylors, Subang Jaya, Selangor, 47500, Malaysia.

Background: Community pharmacy practice worldwide has been shifting from product-focused to patient-oriented. However, due to the absence of separation between prescribing and dispensing in Malaysia, community pharmacists may have limited roles in the provision of pharmaceutical care to patients with chronic diseases. Therefore, the main functions of community pharmacists in Malaysia are related to self-medication requests for minor ailments and the supply of non-prescription medications.

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Multidrug-resistant (MDR) or extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Tuberculosis (TB) is a major challenge to global TB control. Therefore, accurate tracing of in-country MDR-TB transmission are crucial for the development of optimal TB management strategies. This study aimed to investigate the diversity of MTBC in Nigeria.

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(L.) Gaertn is a perennial herb belonging to the Poaceae family. As the only species of found abundantly in Malaysia, it is locally known as "rumput sambau" and has been traditionally used to treat various ailments including pain relief from vaginal bleeding, hastening the placenta delivery after childbirth, asthma, hemorrhoids, urinary infection, fever, and as a tonic for flu-related symptoms.

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Background: Fatigue is a typical consequence of cancer that can affect one's quality of life (QOL). The goal of this review is to provide comprehensive data on the impact of fatigue on QOL of cancer patients.

Methods: An electronic data search in Web of Science, SCOPUS, and PubMed for relevant papers; those written in English; those reporting quantitative data; and those including more than one hundred patients who received just chemotherapy were included.

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Juvenile hormone: Production, regulation, current application in vector control and its future applications.

Trop Biomed

September 2021

Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Selangor Branch, Sungai Buloh Campus, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.

Juvenile hormone is an exclusive hormone found in insects which involves regulating various insect physiology. A total of eight juvenile hormones have been identified in insects which include JH 0, JH I, JH II, JH III, 4-methyl JH I (Iso- JH 0), JHB III, JHSB III, and MF. Corpora allata are the glands responsible for the production and synthesis of these hormones.

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In the battle against tuberculosis (TB), plasticity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome is believed to contribute to the pathogen's virulence and drug resistance. Here, we report 10 draft genome sequences of clinical M. tuberculosis isolated in Malaysia as the basis for understanding the genome plasticity of the M.

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Svalbardines A and B ( and ) and annularin K () were isolated from cultures of sp. E1PB, an endophyte isolated from the petals of from Svalbard, Norway. Svalbardine A () is a pyrano[3,2-]chromen-4-one, a new analogue of citromycetin.

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Patients are turning into herbs for the management of diabetes, which cause increasing in the demand of plant-based alternative medicines. Ficus deltoidea or locally known as "Mas Cotek" in Malaysia is a famous herbal plant. However, many varieties of F.

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() is one of the medicinal plants that has been reported to exert comprehensive neuroprotection in vitro and in vivo. In view of this, the present study was performed to investigate the effect of ethanolic extract of , designated as raw-extract of (RECA) in reducing the acetylcholinesterase (AChE), inflammations, and oxidative stress activities via both in vitro (SH-SY5Y and RAW 264.7 cells) and in vivo (Sprague Dawley rats).

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The structure elucidation of three new alkaloids named isoformosaninol (), formosaninol (), and longiflorine (), isolated from the leaves of var. (Miq.) Ridsdale, along with their biosynthetic pathways are discussed.

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Goniolanceolatins A-H, Cytotoxic Bis-styryllactones from .

J Nat Prod

September 2019

Atta-ur-Rahman Institute for Natural Product Discovery , Universiti Teknologi MARA Selangor Branch, Puncak Alam Campus , 42300 Bandar Puncak Alam , Selangor Malaysia.

Eight new bis-styryllactones, goniolanceolatins A-H (-), possessing a rare α,β-unsaturated δ-lactone moiety with a (6)-configuration, were isolated from the CHCl extract of the stembark and roots of Miq., a plant endemic to Malaysia. Absolute structures were established through extensive 1D- and 2D-NMR data analysis, in combination with electronic dichroism (ECD) data.

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The FeCl oxidative cascade reaction of the acetamido stilbene 1 which we reported some years ago produced the first atropodiastereomeric indolostilbene hybrid 3. By contrast, recent investigation of the oxidation of the stilbene succinamide dimer 72 (FeCl/CHCl) appears, on the basis of spectroscopic evidence, to have produced the bridged macrocyclic indoline 73.

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