M. Shahadat Hossain, Faisal Sobhan, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, S.M. Sharifuzzaman et al.
Microplastics were determined in pink Bombay-duck (Harpadon nehereus), white Bombay-duck (H. translucens) and gold-stripe sardine (Sardinella gibbosa) collected from the Northern Bay of Bengal at Bangladesh. Gastrointestinal tracts of fishes (n = 25 per species) were examined for microplastics follo...
Md. Shahidul Islam, Jennifer A. Saito, Emdadul Mannan Emdad, Borhan Ahmed et al.
Abstract Jute ( Corchorus sp.) is one of the most important sources of natural fibre, covering ∼80% of global bast fibre production 1 . Only Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis are commercially cultivated, though there are more than 100 Corchorus species 2 in the Malvaceae family. Here we d...
Sharif A. Mukul, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Niaz Ahmed Khan
People in the developing world derive a significant part of their livelihoods from various forest products, particularly non-timber forest products (NTFPs). This article attempts to explore the contribution of NTFPs in sustaining forest-based rural livelihood in and around a protected area (PA) of B...
Badrul Haque, Kazi Mohibur Rahman, Azharul Hoque, ATM Hasibul Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: To determine the differences of precipitating and relieving factors between migraine and tension type headache. METHODS: This is a cross sectional study. We retrospectively reviewed the records of 250 migraine patients and 250 patients diagnosed as tension type headache from the speciali...
Mohammad Shorif Uddin, Sahena Ferdosh, Md. Jahurul Haque Akanda, Kashif Ghafoor et al.
This review summarizes the information on the health-promoting effects of phytosterols and the techniques for their extraction. The extraction and analysis processes of phytosterols are complex and have not been fully established. Phytosterols have significant roles in the areas of foods, nutrition,...
Romel Ahmed, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Sharif A. Mukul et al.
Sakifa Aktar, Md. Martuza Ahamad, Md. Rashed-Al-Mahfuz, AKM Azad et al.
BACKGROUND: Accurate prediction of the disease severity of patients with COVID-19 would greatly improve care delivery and resource allocation and thereby reduce mortality risks, especially in less developed countries. Many patient-related factors, such as pre-existing comorbidities, affect disease s...
Abu Shadat Mohammod Noman, Mohammed Uddin, Ali Asgar Chowdhury, Mohammad Nayeem et al.
Serum from one hundred and ten breast cancer patients and thirty healthy female volunteers, were prospectively collected and evaluated for serum levels of Shh and IL-6 using human Shh and IL-6 specific enzyme-linked immunoassays. All patients were regularly monitored for event free survival (EFS) an...
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...
M. Shahadat Hossain, S.M. Sharifuzzaman, Mohammad Nur Nobi, M. Shah Nawaz Chowdhury et al.
Seaweeds are primary producers and among the important marine ecosystem engineers capable of modifying their surrounding abiotic and biotic environments. The southern coast of Bangladesh has an excellent prospect for seaweeds farming due to favorable environmental conditions and natural availability...
Sharif A. Mukul, John Herbohn, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Mohammad Belal Uddin
Enforcement of the law is the most widely practiced strategy to prevent illegal logging in tropical developing countries, though the efficacy of such practice has often been questioned. We examined the effectiveness of forest law enforcement and different forms of economic incentives to curb the act...
Sharif A. Mukul, Mohammad Belal Uddin, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Jefferson Fox
Protected areas (PAs) represent a key global strategy in biodiversity conservation. In tropical developing countries, the management of PAs is a great challenge as many contain resources on which local communities rely. Collection and trading of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is a well-establish...
Md. Mazadul Islam, S. Naznin, Afroz Naznin, Md. Nasir Uddin et al.
To make potato production more sustainable for smallholder farmers, product diversification through processing is critical. On the other hand, the processing sector mandated some stringent standards in order to maintain product quality, hence potato quality evaluations are required for chip processi...
Md. Kaisar Rahman, Shariful Islam, Jinnat Ferdous, Md. Helal Uddin et al.
AIM: The study was aimed to determine the reference values of most commonly used hematological and biochemical parameters of indigenous sheep, reared under semi-intensive backyard farms in Dhaka and Chittagong district, Bangladesh. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ) from June to December 2016 from Dhaka and C...
Mohammad Sharif Uddin, M.E. Äzim, Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab, M.C.J. Verdegem
This study investigated the effects of substrates and supplemental feeding on growth and production of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in a polyculture system. On actual farms, four treatments were evaluated in triplicate: substrate plus feed (herein ...