Saikat Mitra, Mashia Subha Lami, Tanvir Mahtab Uddin, Rajib Das et al.
Plant-based phytochemicals are now being used to treat plenty of physiological diseases. Herbal drugs have gained popularity in recent years because of their strength, purity, and cheap cost-effectiveness. Citrus fruits contain significant amounts of flavanones, which falls to the category of polyph...
Shiful Islam, Saikat Das Sajib, Zakya Sultana Jui, Shatil Arabia et al.
Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) compose a family of multifunctional enzymes involved in the numerous aspects of regulating plant growth, development, and stress response. An in silico genome-wide analysis of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) was performed to identify eighty-five GST genes that were anno...
Sukanta Chowdhury, Salah Uddin Khan, Gary Crameri, Jonathan H. Epstein et al.
BACKGROUND: Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging disease that causes severe encephalitis and respiratory illness in humans. Pigs were identified as an intermediate host for NiV transmission in Malaysia. In Bangladesh, NiV has caused recognized human outbreaks since 2001 and three outbreak investigations...
P. R. Das, Md Tabibul Islam, Araf Mahmud, Mohammad Humayun Kabir et al.
Folk medicine is an integral part of the various traditional medicinal practices of Bangladesh. The folk medicinal practitioners, otherwise known as Kavirajes, mainly rely on medicinal plant decoctions, juices, or paste, which are administered topically or orally for treatment of various ailments. V...
Farzana Ferdous, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Sumon Kumar Das et al.
We describe mothers' perception about signs and symptoms, causes of the illness, and healthcare seeking behaviors related to pneumonia and express the major modifiable barriers to seeking timely treatment when their under-5 children had pneumonia in rural Bangladesh. Using focus group discussion, we...
Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker, Jui Das et al.
BACKGROUND: There is strong association between childhood rotavirus, diarrhoea, climate factors and malnutrition. Conversely, a significant nutritional transition (reduced under-nutrition) with a concurrent increasing trend of rotavirus infection in last decade was also observed among under 5 childr...
Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Jui Das et al.
OBJECTIVE: The present study determined trends in malnutrition among under-5 children in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. DESIGN: Surveillance. SETTING: The study was conducted in the urban Dhaka and the rural Matlab hospitals of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banglade...
Farzana Ferdous, Sumon Kumar Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Fahmida Dil Farzana et al.
OBJECTIVES: To determine and compare socio-demographic, nutritional and clinical characteristics of children under five with diarrhoea living in slums with those of children who do not live in slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: From 1993 to 2012, a total of 28 948 under fives children with diarrho...
Md. Kamrul Alam Khan, Md. Siddikur Rahman, Tanmoy Das, Muhammad Ahmed et al.
This paper presents an experimental study on Electrode Power Density (EPD), Electrode Energy Density (EED), Specific Power Density (SPD) and Specific Energy Density (SED) of 1:1 Zn/Cu Electrodes of Pathor Kuchi Leaf (PKL), Aloe Vera Leaf (AVL), Tomato and Lemon juice based Electrochemical Cells. As ...
Md. Saydar Rahman, Dwip Das Emon, Maria Afroz Toma, Asmaul Husna Nupur et al.
Probiotics are live bacteria beneficial to health when consumed adequately. Health professionals now recommend probiotics on regular diets due to their positive effects on human health. The probiotics that are usually consumed from the market through food products are mostly dairy-based. Fruit and v...
Sumon Kumar Das, Syeda Momena Afsana, Shahriar Bin Elahi, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti et al.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe the age and sex-specific prevalence of renal insufficiency, and observe its trends over a decade at an urban Bangladesh setup. METHOD: This was a cross-sectional study, in which we observed the Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) of 218,...
Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker, Sumon Kumar Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Farzana Ferdous et al.
BACKGROUND: Childhood rotavirus diarrhea is still one of the major public health challenges. The present study aimed to determine changing characteristics of rotavirus diarrhea in under-5 children at two periods of time. METHODS: We enrolled 5,357 under-5 children with rotavirus positive in two diff...
Jui Das
Background: Depression is a chronic disorder, which often remains undiagnosed. There is a gross lack of evidence-based information about depressive illnesses among adult individuals from rural Bangladesh. Objective: The present study aimed to determine the factors that are associated with depressive...
Sajeda Begam, Pabitra Chandra Das, Poly Karmoker
The study was conducted to prepare mixed fruit juice by using mango pulp, pineapple and orange juices and the quality in terms of nutritional value, keeping quality, shelf life and consumers acceptability were investigated. Chemical analysis showed that TSS, acidity were increased slightly whereas v...
S. M. Zahid Hosen, Md. Junaid, Raju Dash, Nazrul Islam et al.
OBJECTIVE: In recent decades, the overexpression of microRNA-21 (miR-21) is found to be progressively linked with many diseases such as different types of cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and inflammation. Thereby, it has become an attractive target for pharmacological and genetic modulation in vari...
Mira Rani Das, Md. Tofazzal Hossain, M. A. Baset Mia, Jahangir Ahmed et al.
Passion fruit has great prospective to fascinate fruit consumer for its taste and delicious fruit juice and improvement of the economic condition of the fruit grower in the developing countries. The self-incompatibility in the passion fruits is an imperative reason to be considered regarding fruit p...
Rickta Rani Das, Md. Atiar Rahman, Salahuddin Qader Al-Araby, Md. Shahidul Islam et al.
The purpose of this study was to look into the effects of green coconut mesocarp juice extract (CMJE) on diabetes‐related problems in streptozotocin‐ (STZ‐) induced type 2 diabetes, as well as the antioxidative functions of its natural compounds in regulating the associated genes and biochemical mar...
Monokesh K. Sen, Biplab Kumar Dash
Cissus quadrangularis L. (Vitaceae) is a common perennial climber, which is distributed throughout Bangladesh. Though almost all of its parts are used in traditional systems of medicines seeds, stem, roots and shoots are the most important parts which are used medicinally. The article reveals that w...
Wayesh Qarony, Yesmin Ara Jui, Gloria Mithi Das, Tashfiq Mohsin et al.
The optics of organic-inorganic halide perovskites materials in thin-film smooth surface p-i-n solar cell has been studied. The study was conducted for CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite material, used as a photoactive layer and sandwiched between ultrathin electron transport layer of TiO2 and hole transport lay...
Sumon Kumar Das, Erik H. Klontz, Ishrat J. Azmi, Abu Iftiaf Md Salah Ud-Din et al.
We determined the frequency of multidrug resistant (MDR) infections with Shigella spp. and Vibrio cholerae O1 at an urban (Dhaka) and rural (Matlab) hospital in Bangladesh. We also compared sociodemographic and clinical features of patients with MDR infections to those with antibiotic-susceptible in...