Saikat Mitra, Abdur Rauf, Abu Montakim Tareq, Shamima Jahan et al.
Carotenoids in food substances are believed to have health benefits by lowering the risk of diseases. Lutein, a carotenoid compound, is one of the essential nutrients available in green leafy vegetables (kale, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, and peas), along with other foods, such as eggs. As nutrition ...
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Ariful Haque Mollik, Md Nasir Ahmed, Zobaer Ahmed Bhuiyan et al.
Folk medicinal practitioners (Kavirajes) of Bangladesh are consulted for treatment of various ailments by a substantial segment of the rural and urban population of the country. The major element that distinguishes the folk medicinal practitioners from other forms of medical practices is their use o...
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Rownak Jahan, M. A. Khatun, Farhana Jahan et al.
A. R. Chowdhury, Farhana Jahan, Syeda Seraj, Zehedina Khatun et al.
A substantial section of the population of Bangladesh is poor and more than a third of the total population of 150 million people lives below the poverty line (i.e. having a daily income of less than US$ 1 per day). The poorer section of the population resides mostly in the rural areas and the urban...
Shafi Mahmud, Md. Robiul Hasan, Suvro Biswas, Gobindo Kumar Paul et al.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a potentially lethal and devastating disease that has quickly become a public health threat worldwide. Due to its high transmission rate, many countries were forced to implement lockdown protocols, wreaking havoc on the global economy and the medical crisis. Th...
Iftekhar Alam, Shamima Akhtar Sharmin, Mst. Kamrun Naher, Md. Jahangir Alam et al.
Viral diseases affecting sweetpotato are the most devastating and cause up to 98 % yield loss. In this paper, we report, meristem culture, graft transmission and virus indexing for management of viral pathogens in seven elite sweetpotato cultivars. Plantlets were developed in vitro from the apical m...
Shamima Akhtar Sharmin, Md. Jahangir Alam, Md. Mominul Islam Sheikh, Kanak Kanti Sarker et al.
In this work, plant regeneration via somatic embryogenesis was achieved from leaf and internode derived callus of Wedelia calendulacea, an endangered medicinal plant. Primary callus was induced by culturing leaf disc and internode explant on Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with 2.0 mg L -1 o...
Naureen Banu, Najmul Alam, Mohammad Nazmul Islam, Sanjida Islam et al.
Pani heloch (Antidesma montanum) is traditionally used to treat innumerable diseases and is a source of wild vegetables for the management of different pathological conditions. The present study explored the qualitative phytochemicals; quantitative phenol and flavonoid contents; in vitro antioxidant...
Fayeza Karim, Qazi Shamima Akter, Shamima Jahan, Afruza Khanom et al.
Background: Complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) includes coagulation impairment. Hypercoagulable state in patient with DM may accelerate thromboembolic risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).Objective: To assess Prothrombin Time and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time in type 2 diabetes mellitus...
Chitra Das, Jahanara Begum, Tahmina Begum, Shamima Choudhury
Effect of thickness on the optical and electrical properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) thin films were studied. The films of different thicknesses were prepared by vacuum evaporation method (~10-4 Pa) on glass substrates at a substrate temperature of 323 K. The film thickness was measured in situ b...
Shopnil Akash, Md. Eram Hosen, Sajjat Mahmood, Sumaiya Jahan Supti et al.
Tick-borne Babesiosis is a parasitic infection caused by Babesia microti that can infect both animals and humans and may spread by tick, blood transfusions, and organ transplantation. The current therapeutic options for B. microti are limited, and drug resistance is a concern. This study proposes us...
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Mohammad Rashedul Haque, Samiun Islam, Farhana Jamal et al.
The multichannel vaginal cylinder (MVC) applicator employed for gynecological high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy increases dose delivery complexity, and thus makes the treatment more prone to errors. A quality assurance (QA) procedure tracking the source throughout dose delivery can detect dwell pos...
Ariful Haque Mollik, Rownak Jahan, Mohammad Irfan Ali, Shamima Ahsan et al.
An ethonomedicinal survey was carried out in the village of Vitbilia situated in Sujanagar sub-district of Pabna district, Bangladesh. Informed consent was obtained from the folk medicinal practitioners (Kavirajes) and interviews were conducted with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire and th...
Shamima Jahan, Md. Hasan Mahmud, Zidan Khan, Md Ashraful Alam et al.
Plant-derived chemicals are a source of novel chemotherapeutic agents. Throughout the human civilization, these novel chemicals have led to the discovery of new pharmacological active agents. Research on herbal medicine is of great importance, as most of the active agents used for treating numerous ...
Jahanara Akter, Md. Rashedul Islam, Shamima Akter, Md Mizanur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, safely managed sanitation (SMS) coverage is low, and diarrheal disease is a significant health problem. This study estimated the inequality in access to SMS facilities at the national and sub-national levels and assessed the prevalence of diarrheal diseases in connection w...