Asifa Ashrafy, Afroza Akter Liza, Nazrul Islam, Md Morsaline Billah et al.
Microplastics (MPs) are a continuous and subtle environmental problem; they have already been identified as a significant issue in aquatic habitats as well as in human health. Although MP contamination is pervasive throughout land, sea, and air, these habitats are often thought of as separate entiti...
Firdausi Qadri, Thomas F. Wierzba, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: A single-dose regimen of the current killed oral cholera vaccines that have been prequalified by the World Health Organization would make them more attractive for use against endemic and epidemic cholera. We conducted an efficacy trial of a single dose of the killed oral cholera vaccine ...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Background Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the f...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Julia Lynch, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: A single-dose regimen of inactivated whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is attractive because it reduces logistical challenges for vaccination and could enable more people to be vaccinated. Previously, we reported the efficacy of a single dose of an OCV vaccine during the 6 months fol...
Abdullah Al Mamun, Yanqing Wu, Fatema Nasrin, Afroza Akter et al.
Pyroptosis is mainly considered as a new pro-inflammatory mediated-programmed cell death. In addition, pyroptosis is described by gasdermin-induced pore formation on the membrane, cell swelling and rapid lysis, and several pro-inflammatory mediators interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and interleukin-18 (IL-18) ...
Ferdusee Akter, Ripa Muhury, Afroza Sultana, Ujjwal Kumar Deb
Drying fruits and vegetables is a procedure of food preservation with simultaneous heat, mass, and momentum transfer, which increases the shelf life of the food product. The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the researches on mathematical modeling for drying of fruits and vegetables w...
Afroza Akter, M. I. Zuberi
Identification, inventory and impact assessment of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in different land use types in five districts of Bangladesh was made. In this extensive survey of more than 100 transects, a total of 21 most abundant species of herbaceous weeds have been recorded. From these, seven inv...
Abdullah Al Mamun, Ilma Monalisa, Khadiza Tul Kubra, Afroza Akter et al.
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a leading cause of morbidity and disability in the world. Over the past few decades, the exact molecular mechanisms describing secondary, persistent injuries, as well as primary and transient injuries, have attracted massive attention to the clinicians and researchers. Re...
Abdullah Al Mamun, Anjuman Ara Mimi, Muhammad Zaeem, Yanqing Wu et al.
Pyroptosis has recently been established as a term of programmed-inflammatory cell death. Pyroptosis is mainly divided into two molecular signaling pathways, including caspase-1-dependent canonical and caspase-4/5/11-dependent non-canonical inflammasome pathways. Extensive investigations have report...
Senjuti Saha, Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, Afroza Akter Tanni, Sharmistha Goswami et al.
### Summary box Bangladesh, a country of 166 million people, continues to be severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The first three cases of COVID-19 in Bangladesh were detected on 8 March 2020 among a group of travellers. Since then, the country has experienced two waves—in June 2020 and Apri...
Abdullah Al Mamun, Afroza Akter, Sukria Hossain, Tamanna Sarker et al.
Inflammasomes have become an important natural sensor of host immunity, and can protect various organs against pathogenic infections, metabolic syndromes, cellular stress and cancer metastasis. Inflammasomes are intracellular multi-protein complexes found in both parenchymal and non-parenchymal cell...
Senjuti Saha, Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, Yogesh Hooda, Afroza Akter Tanni et al.
After several decades of debate, it is now widely acknowledged that apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death, is central to homoeostasis and normal development and physiology in all multicellular organisms, including humans. The dysregulation of apoptosis can lead to the destruction of normal ...
Md Jakiul Islam, Afroza Akter Lisa, Ahsanur Reza, Md. Shaheed Reza et al.
Background: Contamination with residues of banned carcinogenic antibiotic drugs like nitrofuran metabolites and chloramphenicol (CAP) in frozen shrimp products has become a major concern of food safety for exporting countries. In the present study an approach was taken to identify the sources of su...
Md Jakiul Islam, Md. Abu Sayeed, Shakil Akhtar, Md. Sakhawat Hossain et al.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct consumer profile analysis for chicken, beef, mutton, fish and egg to better adapt the marketing mix for each type of food in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This paper investigates the mean consumption frequency of chicken, beef, mutton, fish a...
Afroza Akter, Tasnuva Ahmed, Imam Tauheed, Marjahan Akhtar et al.
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 ranges from asymptomatic to severe disease and can cause fatal and devastating outcome in many cases. In this study, we have compared the clinical, biochemical and immunological parameters across the different disease spectrum of COVID-19 in Bangladeshi pati...