Md. Amdadul Huq, Md. Ashrafudoulla, Mizanur Rahman, Sri Renukadevi Balusamy et al.
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using biological resources is the most facile, economical, rapid, and environmentally friendly method that mitigates the drawbacks of chemical and physical methods. Various biological resources such as plants and their different parts, bacteria, fungi,...
M. Nazmul Hoque, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar, M. Shaminur Rahman, Shahina Akter et al.
The microbiota of the nasopharyngeal tract (NT) play a role in host immunity against respiratory infectious diseases. However, scant information is available on interactions of SARS-CoV-2 with the nasopharyngeal microbiome. This study characterizes the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human nasoph...
Md. Amdadul Huq, Md. Ashrafudoulla, Md. Anowar Khasru Parvez, Sri Renukadevi Balusamy et al.
Biosynthesized metal nanoparticles, especially silver and gold nanoparticles, and their conjugates with biopolymers have immense potential in various fields of science due to their enormous applications, including biomedical applications. Polymeric nanoparticles are particles of small sizes from 1 n...
Md. Amdadul Huq, Md. Aminul Islam Apu, Md. Ashrafudoulla, Mizanur Rahman et al.
In recent years, biosynthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) have gained tremendous attention because of their safe and non-toxic nature and distinctive biomedical applications. A diverse range of microbes (bacteria, fungi and yeast) and various parts (leaf, root, fruit, flower, peel, stem, etc...
Umar Farooq, Shahina Akter, Ahmad Kaleem Qureshi, Hayaa M. Alhuthali et al.
In this study, we report one-pot, single step synthesis of silver nanoparticles stabilized by using arbutin. The concentration of reducing agent (NaBH4) used in the preparation was kept at double, and arbutin was used as a stabilizing agent. The confirmation of prepared silver nanoparticles was done...
Shahina Akter, Sheikh Shamimul Alam
The karyotypes of 3 varieties in Cicer arietinum L. viz. BS-6, BS-7 and BS-8 were compared after differential staining with orcein, CMA and DAPI. The total chromatin length of BS-6 and BS-8 were 66.20 μm and 61.30 μm whereas 86.00 μm had in BS-7. The centromeric formulae of BS-6 was 12m+4sm, that of...
Muhammad Shahab, Chandni Hayat, Ramin Sikandar, Guojun Zheng et al.
BACKGROUND: Burkholderia pseudomallei is an infectious agent causing severe disease melioidosis resulting in pneumonia, fever, and acute septicemia in humans. B. pseudomallei show resistance to drugs. No such FDA-approved vaccine is available against B. pseudomallei, and treatment is limited to ther...
M. Nazmul Hoque, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar, Md. Arif Khan, Md. Arju Hossain et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has created an urgent global situation. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in COVID-19 patients to understand disease pathogenesis and the genetic factor(s) re...
Kishor Mazumder, Yasmeen Nazim Ruma, Rasheda Akter, Asma Aktar et al.
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Functional disability associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease is a challenging concern in healthcare systems. Along with environmental factors and epigenetic disorders, multiple pathways are reported as prominent mechanism f...
Shahina Akter Moni, Golam Sabbir Satter, A.H.M. Selim Reza, Md. Aminul Ahsan
ABSTRACT In this study, the spatial distribution and hydrochemistry of arsenic (As) in shallow alluvial aquifers of Bidyananda and Nazimkhan Union of Rajarhat opazilla, Kurigram district of Bangladesh have been evaluated. Nineteen groundwater samples (depth: 10 to 50 m) were collected from the studi...
Shahina Akter, Muhammad Shahab, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar, Chandni Hayat et al.
BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which has brought a great challenge to public health. After the first emergence of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in the city of Wuhan, China, in ...
Md. Amdadul Huq, Shahina Akter
The present study describes the isolation and characterization of novel bacterial species Arthrobacter bangladeshi sp. nov., applied for the green synthesis of AgNPs, and investigates its antibacterial efficacy against drug-resistant pathogenic Salmonella Typhimurium and Yersinia enterocolitica. Nov...
Maria Karolaynne da Silva, Daniel Melo de Oliveira Campos, Shopnil Akash, Shahina Akter et al.
mRNA vaccines are a new class of vaccine that can induce potent and specific immune responses against various pathogens. However, the design of mRNA vaccines requires the identification and optimization of suitable antigens, which can be challenging and time consuming. Reverse vaccinology is a compu...
M. A. H. Akhand, Shahina Akter, M. A. Rashid
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population based optimization technique on metaphor of social behavior of flocks of birds or schools of fishes and has found popularity in solving difficult optimization problems. A number of PSO based methods have been investigated for solving Traveling Salesm...
M. A. H. Akhand, Shahina Akter, S. Sazzadur Rahman, M. M. Hafizur Rahman
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is population based optimization technique on metaphor of social behavior of flocks of birds and/or schools of fishes. For better solution, at every step each particle changes its velocity based on its current velocity with respect to its previous best position and ...
Badrul Alam, Rajib Majumder, Shahina Akter, Sang‐Han Lee
The present study was conducted to evaluate the methanolic extract of Piper betle leaves (MPBL) and its organic fractions with regard to antitumor activity against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) in Swiss albino mice and to confirm their antioxidant activities. At 24 h post‑intraperitoneal inoculati...
Ohana Leticia Tavares da Silva, Maria Karolaynne da Silva, João Firmino Rodrigues-Neto, João Paulo Matos Santos Lima et al.
Abstract Yellow fever outbreaks are prevalent, particularly in endemic regions. Given the lack of an established treatment for this disease, significant attention has been directed toward managing this arbovirus. In response, we developed a multiepitope vaccine designed to elicit an immune response,...
Lincon Mazumder, Muhammad Shahab, Saidul Islam, Mahmuda Begum et al.
BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN) is the agent responsible for causing respiratory diseases, including pneumonia, which causes severe health hazards and child deaths globally. Antibiotics are used to treat SPN as a first-line treatment, but nowadays, SPN is showing resistance to several ant...
Md. Nahian, Muhammad Shahab, Lincon Mazumder, Jonas Ivan Nobre Oliveira et al.
BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major pathogen that poses a significant hazard to global health, causing a variety of infections including pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains has increased the difficulty of conventional antibiotic treatment, hig...
Shahina Akter, M. Ferdows, MD. Shamshuddin, Zailan Siri
Abstract The present article describes a mathematical model for incompressible free convection flow with convective heat transport from an inclined stationary/moving flat plate under impact of induced magnetic field (IMF). The current flow model is formulated to consider different water‐based nanofl...