Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Mohammad Faisal Haidere, Yo Han Hong, Sang Hee Park et al.
Ginseng has been used as a traditional herb in Asian countries for thousands of years. It contains a large number of active ingredients including steroidal saponins, protopanaxadiols, and protopanaxatriols, collectively known as ginsenosides. In the last few decades, the antioxidative and anticancer...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Mohammad Faisal Haidere, Md Nurunnabi, Sadi Shahriar et al.
Nanobiotechnology has grown rapidly and become an integral part of modern disease diagnosis and treatment. Biosynthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are a class of eco-friendly, cost-effective and biocompatible agents that have attracted attention for their possible biomedical and bioengineering a...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Anne‐Maree Parrish, Sojib Bin Zaman, Mohammad Saud Alotaibi et al.
BACKGROUND: Smartphones play a critical role in increasing human-machine interactions, with many advantages. However, the growing popularity of smartphone use has led to smartphone overuse and addiction. This review aims to systematically investigate the impact of smartphone addiction on health outc...
Mohammad Saud Alotaibi, Mim Fox, Robyn Coman, Zubair Ahmed Ratan et al.
Smartphone use can lead to smartphone addiction, which is a growing concern worldwide. However, there are limited studies about smartphone addiction and its impacts on university students in Saudi Arabia. This study aims to fill this gap. This is a quantitative study conducted among undergraduate st...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Soo-Hyun Youn, Yi-Seong Kwak, Chang-Kyun Han et al.
Traditional medicinal practices have used natural products such as adaptogens to treat inflammatory, autoimmune, neurodegenerative, bacterial, and viral diseases since the early days of civilization. Panax ginseng Myer is a common herb used in East Asian countries for millennia, especially in Korea,...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Fazla Rabbi Mashrur, Anisha Parsub Chhoan, Sadi Shahriar et al.
Since the early 1990s, nanotechnology has led to new horizons in nanomedicine, which encompasses all spheres of science including chemistry, material science, biology, and biotechnology. Emerging viral infections are creating severe hazards to public health worldwide, recently, COVID-19 has caused m...
Mohammad Faisal Haidere, Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Senjuti Nowroz, Sojib Bin Zaman et al.
COVID-19 has caused extensive human casualties with significant economic impacts around the globe, and has imposed new challenges on health systems worldwide. Over the past decade, SARS, Ebola, and Zika also led to significant concerns among the scientific community. Interestingly, the SARS and Zika...
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Riaz Uddin, Subasish Das, Syed Imran Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has made substantial progress in improving socioeconomic and health indicators over the past 50 years, but data on national disease burden are scarce. We used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 to estimate the burden of disease...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Sojib Bin Zaman, Varshil Mehta, Mohammad Faisal Haidere et al.
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a macromolecule recognition technique, which is considered as a new advent in the field of cytology. Initially, it was developed as a physical mapping tool to delineate genes within chromosomes. The accuracy and versatility of FISH were subsequently capit...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Anne‐Maree Parrish, Mohammad Saud Alotaibi, Hassan Hosseinzadeh
Smartphones have made our lives easier and have become indispensable for everyday life; however, their uncontrolled and excessive use can trigger "smartphone addiction" (SA). SA is a rising public health issue, particularly among young people around the world. There is a dearth of empirical research...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Young–Jin Son, Mohammad Faisal Haidere, Bhuiyan Mohammad Mahtab Uddin et al.
Bacteria and archaea possess adaptive immunity against foreign genetic materials through clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) systems. The discovery of this intriguing bacterial system heralded a revolutionary change in the field of medical science. The CRISPR and CRISPR...
Sushmita Roy, Mejbah Uddin Ahmed, Bhuiyan Mohammad Mahtab Uddin, Zubair Ahmed Ratan et al.
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Introduction</ns4:bold> : Infections due to antibiotic resistant bacteria have increased alarmingly in both developed and developing countries. Unrestrained and rapidly spreading bacterial growth has turned the management of wound infections into a serious challenge. This study aim...
Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Deok Jeong, Nak Yoon Sung, Youn Young Shim et al.
Although flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) has long been used as Ayurvedic medicine, its anti-inflammatory role is still unclear. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory role of a linusorb mixture (LOMIX) recovered from flaxseed oil. Effects of LOMIX on inflammation and its mechanism of...
Nak Yoon Sung, Deok Jeong, Youn Young Shim, Zubair Ahmed Ratan et al.
Linusorbs (LOs) are natural peptides found in flaxseed oil that exert various biological activities. Of LOs, LOB3 ([1-9-NαC]-linusorb B3) was reported to have antioxidative and anti-inflammatory activities; however, its anti-cancer activity has been poorly understood. Therefore, this study investiga...
Mohammad Saud Alotaibi, Mim Fox, Robyn Coman, Zubair Ahmed Ratan et al.
Smartphone overuse and addiction is a growing concern worldwide. However, there are limited studies about smartphone addiction and its impacts on university students in Saudi Arabia. This qualitative study aimed to elicit students' and university staff's perspectives and experiences about smartphone...