Ayu Masyita, Reka Mustika Sari, Ayun Dwi Astuti, Budiman Yasir et al.
Essential oils (EOs) are volatile and concentrated liquids extracted from different parts of plants. Bioactive compounds found in EOs, especially terpenes and terpenoids possess a wide range of biological activities including anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiallergi...
Firdausi Qadri, Ann–Mari Svennerholm, Shah M. Faruque, R. Bradley Sack
ETEC is an underrecognized but extremely important cause of diarrhea in the developing world where there is inadequate clean water and poor sanitation. It is the most frequent bacterial cause of diarrhea in children and adults living in these areas and also the most common cause of traveler's diarrh...
Muhammad Torequl Islam
Reactive species play an important role in physiological functions. Overproduction of reactive species, notably reactive oxygen (ROS) and nitrogen (RNS) species along with the failure of balance by the body's antioxidant enzyme systems results in destruction of cellular structures, lipids, proteins,...
Mingzheng Ge, Chunyan Cao, Jianying Huang, Shuhui Li et al.
State-of-the-art development of fabrication methods and surface engineering strategies of 1D TiO<sub>2</sub>nanostructures is reviewed, and an overview given of their potential applications including pollutant degradation/CO<sub>2</sub>photoreduction photocatalysts, water splitting, solar cells, lit...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan, Kamrun Nahar, Sharif Hossain et al.
Among the plant nutrients, potassium (K) is one of the vital elements required for plant growth and physiology. Potassium is not only a constituent of the plant structure but it also has a regulatory function in several biochemical processes related to protein synthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, and...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Taufika Islam Anee, Masayuki Fujita
Glutathione (GSH; γ-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine) is a small intracellular thiol molecule which is considered as a strong non-enzymatic antioxidant. Glutathione regulates multiple metabolic functions; for example, it protects membranes by maintaining the reduced state of both α-tocopherol and zeaxanth...
Ricardo Betancur‐R, Richard E. Broughton, E. O. Wiley, Kent E. Carpenter et al.
The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned fishes, traditionally referred to as percomorphs, whose uncertain relationships have plagued ichthyologist...
Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Soumen Bhattacharjee, Armin Saed‐Moucheshi, Pingping Qian et al.
Plants are constantly challenged by various abiotic stresses that negatively affect growth and productivity worldwide. During the course of their evolution, plants have developed sophisticated mechanisms to recognize external signals allowing them to respond appropriately to environmental conditions...
Paul N. Williams, Adam H. Price, Andrea Raab, Sk Arafat Hossain et al.
Ingestion of drinking water is not the only elevated source of arsenic to the diet in the Bengal Delta. Even at background levels, the arsenic in rice contributes considerably to arsenic ingestion in subsistence rice diets. We set out to survey As speciation in different rice varieties from differen...
Md. Mominur Rahman, Md. Saidur Rahaman, Md. Rezaul Islam, Firoza Rahman et al.
Inflammation is a natural protective mechanism that occurs when the body's tissue homeostatic mechanisms are disrupted by biotic, physical, or chemical agents. The immune response generates pro-inflammatory mediators, but excessive output, such as chronic inflammation, contributes to many persistent...
Md Ashraful Alam, Nusrat Subhan, Mahbubur Rahman, Shaikh Jamal Uddin et al.
Flavonoids are important natural compounds with diverse biologic activities. Citrus flavonoids constitute an important series of flavonoids. Naringin and its aglycone naringenin belong to this series of flavonoids and were found to display strong anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. Several...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Md. Rakib Hossain Raihan, Abdul Awal Chowdhury Masud, Khussboo Rahman et al.
The generation of oxygen radicals and their derivatives, known as reactive oxygen species, (ROS) is a part of the signaling process in higher plants at lower concentrations, but at higher concentrations, those ROS cause oxidative stress. Salinity-induced osmotic stress and ionic stress trigger the o...
Münir Öztürk, Bengü Türkyılmaz Ünal, Pedro García‐Caparrós, Anum Khursheed et al.
Drought stress, which causes a decline in quality and quantity of crop yields, has become more accentuated these days due to climatic change. Serious measures need to be taken to increase the tolerance of crop plants to acute drought conditions likely to occur due to global warming. Drought stress c...
Ibrahim A Khalil, Christopher Troeger, Brigette F. Blacker, Puja C Rao et al.
BACKGROUND: Shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are bacterial pathogens that are frequently associated with diarrhoeal disease, and are a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors study 2016 (GBD 2016) is a syst...
Uttam Kumar Ghosh, Md. Nahidul Islam, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui, Xiaohuang Cao et al.
Abiotic stresses have a detrimental impact on plant growth and productivity and are a major threat to sustainable crop production in rapidly changing environments. Proline, an important amino acid, plays an important role in maintaining the metabolism and growth of plants under abiotic stress condit...