Md. Shahidul Islam, Md. Samiul Haque, Mohammad Moinul Islam, Emdadul Mannan Emdad et al.
BACKGROUND: Macrophomina phaseolina is one of the most destructive necrotrophic fungal pathogens that infect more than 500 plant species throughout the world. It can grow rapidly in infected plants and subsequently produces a large amount of sclerotia that plugs the vessels, resulting in wilting of ...
Mosiur Rahman, Salek Ahmed Sajib, Md. Sifat Rahi, Sharaban Tahura et al.
Abstract This study investigates the effect and mechanisms of low pressure dielectric barrier discharge (LPDBD) produced with Ar/O 2 and Ar/Air technique causing biological stimulation leading to improved germination and growth in wheat. Both plasma treatments caused rougher and chapped seed surface...
Ridwan Islam Sifat, Maisaa Mehzabin Ruponty, Md. Kawser Rahim Shuvo, Mehjabin Chowdhury et al.
The pandemic has affected every walk of life, and mental health is no exception. Bangladesh has been operating under a resource crisis, and this crisis has incurred and is incurring a governance priority dilemma. Unending vacations of the educational institutions are taxing our students' mental sere...
Md. Shihabul Islam, Md. Sifat Rahi, Chowdhury Arif Jahangir, Md. Habibur Rahman et al.
Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth. The current treatment options of cancer are radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and surgery, where all of them have unpleasant side effects. Due to their adverse side effects, it is challenging to develop new drug for ...
Md. Akhtar‐E‐Ekram, Indrani Sarker, Md. Sifat Rahi, Md Atikur Rahman et al.
Excessive use of pesticides in agricultural fields is a matter of great concern for living beings as well as the environment across the world, in particular, the third world countries. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find out an effective way to degrade these hazardous chemicals from the soil ...
Md. Nazmul Islam Sarkar, Anwarul Islam Sifat, Nazmul Rahim, Sakib Reza
As a tropical country Bangladesh receives a substantial amount of solar insolation suitable for PV application. Being an agricultural economy, the irrigation need is increasing day by day. Use of diesel run pumping system is neither cost effective nor environment friendly. Even though 47.8% of the t...
Md. Tanvir Hossen, Chanchal Kumar Kundu, BM Riaz Rahman Pranto, Md. Sifat Rahi et al.
Nanocellulose, especially originating from a natural source, has already shown immense potential to be considered in various fields, namely packaging, papermaking, composites, biomedical engineering, flame retardant, and thermal insulating materials, etc. due to its environmental friendliness and no...
Israt Jerin, Md. Sifat Rahi, Tanjia Sultan, Md. Shihabul Islam et al.
Bioremediation through biodegradation is applied for cleaning up several environmental pollutions including petroleum oil spill containing petrol, diesel, mobil, kerosene, lubricating, etc. which have devastated several endangered terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, the current research w...
Md. Sifat Rahi, Md. Shihabul Islam, Israt Jerin, Chowdhury Arif Jahangir et al.
A safer natural alternative to treat neoplastic cells by inducing apoptosis is a prime requisite. Therefore, the current study was to evaluate the antiproliferative activity of Morus laevigata, a wild-type Mulberry species. Antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of aqueous extracts of M. laevigata leaf ...
Md. Shihabul Islam, Chowdhury Arif Jahangir, Md. Sifat Rahi, Md. Mahmudul Hasan et al.
Cancer is the second death causing disease all over the world and until today 100 different types of cancer have been identified whose treatment methods consist of serious side effects on human body. To reduce the frequency of adverse effects of cancer treatment, nowadays plant derived natural compo...
Asim Moin Saad, Md. Sifat Rahi, Md. Manirul Islam, Gulam Rabbani
• Diet Engine is a real-time nutrition aid using machine learning for food analysis. • It detects whole foods, evaluates nutrition, and provides instant calorie feedback. • Achieves 86 % accuracy with a 295-layer CNN model and YOLO v8 for food detection. • Includes a chatbot and mobile app for perso...
Tasmina Ferdous Susmi, Md. Moshiur Rahman Khan, Atikur Rahman, Shafi Mahmud et al.
The investigation of traditional medicinal plants is gaining prime importance day by day due to having a wide range of bioactive phytochemicals. The presence of diverse bioactive compounds makes medicinal plants more demandable for curing several diseases, such as inflammatory diseases, diabetes, an...
Ronok Zahan, Md. Sifat Rahi, Md. Chanmiya Sheikh, Ryuta Miyatake et al.
Nickel is a fundamental element for healthy life for human and higher animals. For biological importance, its complexation with bioactive ligand is worth to be studied with the aim to understand its function. Using mouse peritoneal cancer model, MTT colorimetric assay and anticancer activity analysi...
Md. Shihabul Islam, Md. Sifat Rahi, Chowdhury Arif Jahangir, Israt Jerin et al.
Apoptosis plays a pivotal role in the exclusion of abnormal cells without any ruin of surrounding healthy cells. Generally, it occurs through an orderly and autonomously process which is controlled by proper function of various genes. Therefore, the current experiments detect the expression level/pa...
Jannatul Ferdous Nova, Susmita Zaman Smrity, Md. Mahadi Hasan, Md. Tariquzzaman et al.
CFU at 10 seconds), and wash away free radicals from skin (420.64 ± 3.62 μg/mL).
Ronok Zahan, Sinthyia Ahmed, Tahmida Sharmin, Mohammad A. Halim et al.
A novel bis[benzyl‐ N′ ‐hydrazinecarbodithioato‐ κ 2 N′ , S ]nickel(II) complex was synthesized and characterized by means of various physical, chemical, and spectroscopic techniques. The X‐ray single crystal diffraction analysis indicated two independent close comparable bis‐chelated square planar ...
Md. Mijanur Rahman, Asma Talukder, Md. Sifat Rahi, Plabon Kumar Das et al.
Bacterial lysate proteins (BLPs) serve as potential immunostimulants, recognized by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) on immune cells, eliciting a robust immune response. In this study, THP‐1 macrophages were treated with varying doses of BLPs derived from Streptococcus pyogenes (SP), Streptococc...
Md. Moshiur Rahman Khan, Tasmina Ferdous Susmi, Masum Miah, Md Abu Reza et al.
The phytochemical constituents, antioxidant, cytotoxicity and anti-cancer activities of Leucas indica bark extract in methanol were evaluated. Brine shrimp lethality assay was used to assess the cytotoxicity while antioxidant capability was determined by DPPH and H2O2 free radical scavenging assay. ...
Md. Shihabul Islam, Md. Sifat Rahi, Chowdhury Arif Jahangir, Md. Mahmudul Hasan et al.
A series of programmed cell death that plays a vital role in the exclusion of abnormal cells without any ruin into the surrounding neighboring cells is called Apoptosis. Generally, it occurs in multi-cellular organisms through an orderly and autonomously processes that is controlled by proper functi...
Mahadi Hasan, Md. Tariquzzaman, Md. Rashedul Islam, Tasmina Ferdous Susmi et al.
Pouzolzia zeylanica (PZ) is a widely distributed medicinal herb throughout Bangladesh, especially in tribal regions. The present study focused on evaluating the bioactivity like antioxidant, cytotoxicity, anti-hemolytic activity through in-vitro assessment and predicted potential antiviral compounds...