Ki‐Hyun Kim, Ehsanul Kabir, Shamin Ara Jahan
Pesticides are used widely to control weeds and insect infestation in agricultural fields and various pests and disease carriers (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks, rats, and mice) in houses, offices, malls, and streets. As the modes of action for pesticides are not species-specific, concerns have been raised...
Syed Ishtiaq Anjum, Amjad Ullah, Khalid Ali Khan, Mohammad Attaullah et al.
Propolis is a natural substance collected by honey bees from various plants such as, poplar, palm, pine, conifer secretions, gums, resins, mucilage and leaf buds. It is collected and brought very painstakingly by honey bees to be used for sealing cracks and crevices occurring in their hives. Origina...
Ummay Mahfuza Shapla, Md. Solayman, Nadia Alam, Md. Ibrahim Khalil et al.
An organic compound known as 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is formed from reducing sugars in honey and various processed foods in acidic environments when they are heated through the Maillard reaction. In addition to processing, storage conditions affect the formation HMF, and HMF has become a suita...
David J. Williams, Mohd Abul Faiz, Bernadette Abela-Ridder, Stuart Ainsworth et al.
In one of his final essays, statesman and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said, ‘Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of’ [1]. Mr. Annan firmly believed that victims of snakebite envenoming should be recognised and afforded greater efforts at improve...
Md. Solayman, Md Asiful Islam, Sudip Paul, Yousuf Ali et al.
Honey is a popular natural food product with a very complex composition mainly consisting of both organic and inorganic constituents. The composition of honey is strongly influenced by both natural and anthropogenic factors, which vary based on its botanical and geographical origins. Although minera...
Ali Raza, Sidra Charagh, Zainab Zahid, Muhammad Salman Mubarik et al.
Abiotic stresses are the primary sources of crop losses globally. The identification of key mechanisms deployed and established by plants in response to abiotic stresses is necessary for the maintenance of their growth and persistence. Recent discoveries have revealed that phytohormones or plant gro...
George Opit, T. W. Phillips, Michael J. Aikins, Md. Mahbub Hasan
Phosphine gas, or hydrogen phosphide (PH3), is the most common insecticide applied to durable stored products worldwide and is routinely used in the United States for treatment of bulk-stored cereal grains and other durable stored products. Research from the late 1980s revealed low frequencies of re...
Md. Zahangir Hosain, S. M. Lutful Kabir, MM Kamal
Antimicrobial is an indispensable part of veterinary medicine used for the treatment and control of diseases as well as a growth promoter in livestock production. Frequent use of antimicrobials in veterinary practices may lead to the residue in animal originated products and creates some potential p...
Michael Eddleston, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury
Despite being a major clinical and public health problem across the developing world, responsible for at least 5 million deaths over the last three decades, the clinical care of patients with organophosphorus (OP) insecticide poisoning has little improved over the last six decades. We are still usin...
Debang Liu, Bernard Greenberg
Journal Article Immature Stages of Some Flies of Forensic Importance Get access Debang Liu, Debang Liu 1Visiting Scholar, Department of Parasitology, Jinzhou Medical College, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Berna...
Ayanthi Karunarathne, David Gunnell, Flemming Konradsen, Michael Eddleston
Introduction: The agricultural Green Revolution in the 1950s and 60s is thought to have averted many deaths from famine. However, it also introduced highly hazardous pesticides such as parathion and endrin into poor rural communities that were totally unequipped to store or use them safely. Pesticid...
H.M. Salim, Khan Shahidul Huque, K.M. Kamaruddin, Anwarul Haque Beg
A growing global concern of antibiotic use in poultry diets due to its potential adverse effects on birds and human health, food safety and the environment has led to a complete ban or restricted use in some countries, and, at the same time, expanding options for the use of alternative feed additive...
Mousumi Akter, Liangxin Fan, Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, Violette Geissen et al.
Proper pesticide use is crucial to farmers' health and environmental protection. However, the factors affecting a farmer's behaviour with regards to pesticide use remain largely unknown in Bangladesh, particularly for vegetable farmers. Hence, we investigated the use of pesticides by vegetable growe...
Mohammed Moniruzzaman, Yung-An Chua, Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao, Mohammad Nurul Islam Hawlader et al.
The aim of the present study was to characterize the phenolic acids, flavonoids, and antioxidant properties of monofloral honey collected from five different districts in Bangladesh. A new high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a UV detector method was developed for the identifi...
Kizar Ahmed Sumon, Afifat Khanam Ritika, E.T.H.M. Peeters, Harunur Rashid et al.
The neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid is used in Bangladesh for a variety of crop protection purposes. Imidacloprid may contaminate aquatic ecosystems via spray drift, surface runoff and ground water leaching. The present study aimed at assessing the fate and effects of imidacloprid on structur...