Md. Yousuf Ali, Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Shahad Saif Khandker, Lutfun Neesa et al.
Tomatoes are consumed worldwide as fresh vegetables because of their high contents of essential nutrients and antioxidant-rich phytochemicals. Tomatoes contain minerals, vitamins, proteins, essential amino acids (leucine, threonine, valine, histidine, lysine, arginine), monounsaturated fatty acids (...
Md Asiful Islam, Shahad Saif Khandker, Sayeda Sadia Alam, Przemysław Kotyla et al.
BACKGROUND Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease where chronic inflammation and tissue or organ damage is observed. Due to various suspected causes, inadequate levels of vitamin D (a steroid hormone with immunomodulatory effects) has been reported in patients with SLE, ...
Md Asiful Islam, Shahad Saif Khandker, Przemysław Kotyla, Rosline Hassan
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by multiple organ involvement, including the skin, joints, kidneys, lungs, central nervous system and the haematopoietic system, with a large number of complications. Despite years of study, the etiology of SLE remains unclear...
Shahad Saif Khandker, Brian Godman, Md. Irfan Jawad, Bushra Ayat Meghla et al.
COVID-19 vaccines are indispensable, with the number of cases and mortality still rising, and currently no medicines are routinely available for reducing morbidity and mortality, apart from dexamethasone, although others are being trialed and launched. To date, only a limited number of vaccines have...
Mumtarin Jannat Oishee, Tamanna Ali, Nowshin Jahan, Shahad Saif Khandker et al.
Recent severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) known as COVID-19, presents a deadly challenge to the global healthcare system of developing and developed countries, exposing the limitations of health facilities preparedness for emerging infectious disease pandemic. Opportune detection, conf...
Md Asiful Islam, Shahad Saif Khandker, Fahmida Alam, Mohammad Amjad Kamal et al.
Background Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune multifactorial disorder. Genetics is believed to play a contributory role in the pathogenesis of APS, especially in thrombosis development and pregnancy morbidity. In the last 20 years, extensive research on genetic contribution on APS indi...
Md Asiful Islam, Sayeda Sadia Alam, Shoumik Kundu, A. H. M. Safayet Ullah Prodhan et al.
Behçet's disease (BD) is a multifactorial systemic inflammatory disease of unknown aetiology characterised by several clinical manifestations including vascular involvements (i.e., both arterial and venous thrombosis). Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs)-including anticardiolipin (aCL), anti-β2-glyco...
Md Asiful Islam, Shahad Saif Khandker, Fahmida Alam, Md. Ibrahim Khalil et al.
Alzheimer's disease (AD), which largely affects the elderly, has become a global burden. Patients with AD have both short- and long-term memory impairments. The neuronal loss in AD occurs due to abnormally folded amyloid beta proteins and aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau proteins in the brain....
Mohd. Raeed Jamiruddin, Bushra Ayat Meghla, Dewan Zubaer Islam, Taslima Akter Tisha et al.
With the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic, new technologies are being implemented for more rapid, scalable, and sensitive diagnostics. The implementation of microfluidic techniques and their amalgamation with different detection techniques has led to innovative diagnostics kits to detect SARS-Co...
Nihad Adnan, Shahad Saif Khandker, Md. Ahsanul Haq, Mousumi Akter Chaity et al.
BACKGROUND: Rapid increase in COVID-19 suspected cases has rendered disease diagnosis challenging, mainly depending upon RT-qPCR. Reliable, rapid, and cost-effective diagnostic assays that complement RT-qPCR should be introduced after thoroughly evaluating their performance upon various disease phas...
Bijon Kumar Sil, Nowshin Jahan, Md. Ahsanul Haq, Mumtarin Jannat Oishee et al.
BACKGROUND: In the ongoing pandemic situation of COVID-19, serological tests can complement the molecular diagnostic methods, and can be one of the important tools of sero-surveillance and vaccine evaluation. AIM: To develop and evaluate a rapid SARS-CoV-2 specific ELISA for detection of anti-SARS-C...
Sabahat Zahra, Muhammad Khurram Saleem, Khawaja Faizan Ejaz, Amna Akbar et al.
BACKGROUND: Nephropathy is one of the most common microvascular impediments of diabetes mellitus. In this study, we aimed to estimate the prevalence of nephropathy in diabetic patients across the North American region. METHODS: Eligible studies were screened out from 3 electronic databases, for exam...
Bijon Kumar Sil, Mohd. Raeed Jamiruddin, Md. Ahsanul Haq, Mohib Ullah Khondoker et al.
BACKGROUND: Serological tests detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) are widely used in seroprevalence studies and evaluating the efficacy of the vaccination program. Some of the widely used serological testing techniques are enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assay (ELISA)...
AHM Safayet Ullah Prodhan, Dewan Zubaer Islam, Shahad Saif Khandker, Mohd. Raeed Jamiruddin et al.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, several priority diseases were not getting sufficient attention. Whilst breast cancer is a fatal disease affecting millions worldwide, identification and management of these patients did not initially attract critical attention to minimize the impact of lockdown, post-l...
Mohd. Raeed Jamiruddin, Md. Ahsanul Haq, Mohib Ullah Khondoker, Tamanna Ali et al.
BACKGROUND: Vaccination with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (AZD1222) initially started in the UK and quickly implemented around the Globe, including Bangladesh. Up to date, more than nine million doses administrated to the Bangladeshi public. METHOD: Herein, we studied the antibody respons...