Raushanara Akter, Afrina Afrose, Md. Rashidur Rahman, Rakhi Chowdhury et al.
Natural products have long been used as drugs to treat a wide array of human diseases. The lead compounds discovered from natural sources are used as novel templates for developing more potent and safer drugs. Natural products produce biological activity by binding with biological macromolecules, si...
Md. Rashidur Rahman, Md. Amjad Hossain, Md. Mozibullah, Fateh Al Mujib et al.
The recent pandemic of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread globally and infected millions of people. The quick and specific detection of the nucleic acid of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains a challenge within healthcare providers. Currently, quantitati...
Raushanara Akter, Afrina Afrose, Shahana Sharmin, Rifat Rezwan et al.
Childhood obesity accounts for several psychosocial and clinical consequences. Psychosocial consequences include lower self-esteem, social isolation, poor academic achievement, peer problems, and depression, whereas clinical consequences are cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, ca...
Raushanara Akter, Md. Rashidur Rahman, Zainab Ahmed, Afrina Afrose
studies with natural immunomodulators demonstrated reduction of a wide range of proinflammatory cytokines. Natural immunomodulators that were found effective, safe, and well tolerated in small-scale clinical trials are warranted to undergo large-scale trials to be used as drugs to treat COVID-19 inf...
Md. Rashidur Rahman, Toma Rani Majumder, Md. Aminul Islam Apu, Alok Kumar Paul et al.
Diagnostic approaches capable of ultrasensitive pathogen detection from low-volume clinical samples, running without any sophisticated instrument and laboratory setup, are easily field-deployable, inexpensive, and rapid, and are considered ideal for monitoring disease progression and surveillance. H...
Md. Rashidur Rahman, Raushanara Akter, Sharmind Neelotpol, Iffat Islam Mayesha et al.
Recently, some researchers claimed neuropathological changes lead to Alzheimer's-like brains after severe infection of SARS-CoV-2. Several mechanisms have been postulated on how SARS-CoV-2 neurological damage leads to Alzheimer's disease (AD) development. Neurobiochemical changes during infection ma...
Mohammad A. M. Momin, Mizanur Rahaman Khan, Johir Rayhan, Afrina Afrose et al.
The present study was carried out to investigate possible antibacterial and antidiarrhoeal activities of ethanol extract of Feronia limonia leaves. Phytochemical analysis of the crude extract was performed to detect presence of different kinds of phytoconstituents. The antibacterial activity was inv...
Md. Rashidur Rahman, Md. Amjad Hossain, Md. Mozibullah, Afrina Afrose
A novel coronavirus, namely SARS-CoV-2, has emerged rapidly and overspread worldwide, causing a pandemic disease, COVID-19. Until now, no pharmaceutical interventions specific to the COVID-19 infection has been proven effective. In these circumstances, non-pharmaceutical interventions, for example, ...
Raushanara Akter, Md. Siddiqul Islam, Abu Syed Md. Mosaddek, Waheed Akhtar et al.
Breast cancer (BrCa) is a leading cause of mortality among Bangladeshi women. Deficiency of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms have been linked to cancer susceptibility, but evidence from South Asia is scarce. We conducted a case-control study of 400 BrCa patien...
Raushanara Akter, Sharmind Neelotpol, Afrina Afrose, Shahana Sharmin et al.
Abstract Background: Childhood obesity and vitamin D deficiency (VDD) are recent health concerns associated with several clinical, psychosocial, and genetic manifestations like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, depression, and cancer. This study aimed to investigate the association between lifestyl...