Safaet Alam, Md. Moklesur Rahman Sarker, Taposhi Nahid Sultana, Md. Nafees Rahman Chowdhury et al.
Diabetes, a chronic physiological dysfunction affecting people of different age groups and severely impairs the harmony of peoples’ normal life worldwide. Despite the availability of insulin preparations and several synthetic oral antidiabetic drugs, there is a crucial need for the discovery and dev...
Kushal Biswas, AK Azad, Taposhi Nahid Sultana, Farzana Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: (L.) has widely known for its medicinal values. Our aim is to investigate the cholinesterase inhibitory activities as well as thrombolytic activities of the bark and seeds crude methanolic extracts (CMEs) in the treatment of AD and clotting disorder. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The crude meth...
Shaid All Sahaba, Mohammad Mamun Ur Rashid, Md. Saiful Islam, Noor Ahmed Nahid et al.
Background Breast cancer (BC) is the most common disease in women and the leading cause of death from cancer globally. Epidemiological studies examined that nucleotide excision repair genes ERCC2 (rs13181) and ERCC4 (rs2276466) SNPs might increase cancer risk. Based on the previous investigation, th...
Nusrat Islam Chaity, Taposhi Nahid Sultana, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Ishrat Islam Shrabonee et al.
Background Past studies have established the association of CHRNA5-A3-B4 gene cluster variants with various smoking behaviors in different ethnicities, yet no such study has been reported in Bengali ethnicity to date. Methods A case-control study with 129 smokers and 111 non-smokers was conducted an...
Zasia Hossain Tishe, Sanjana Shawkat, Meherun Nessa Popy, Sadia Biswas Mumu et al.
BACKGROUND: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) is among the vital pro-inflammatory cytokines that potentially exerts a significant influence on the immune response, hence potentially regulating the advancement of cervical lesions. OBJECTIVE: Our study objective was to examine the relationship betwe...
Taposhi Nahid Sultana, Nusrat Islam Chaity, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Ishrat Islam Shrabonee et al.
Background Among Bangladeshi males and females, colorectal cancer is the fourth and fifth most prevalent cancer, respectively. Several studies have shown that the transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFβ1) gene and SMAD4 gene have a great impact on colorectal cancer. Objective The present study aimed...
Sadia Islam, Taposhi Nahid Sultana, Syed Masudur Rahman Dewan, Md. Sohan et al.
Background and Aims: Emerging infectious diseases pose a constant threat to global health and the economy. Among them, the concept of "disease X" has emerged owing to the uncertainty about the identity of the pathogen that may cause the next pandemic. Disease X has gained significant attention due t...
Sharmin Sultana Jyoti, Farhana Islam, Ishrat Islam Shrabonee, Taposhi Nahid Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: gene R229Q polymorphism in nephrotic syndrome (NS) children of different ethnicities steered us to investigate the genotype frequency and associated risk of this polymorphism in Bangladeshi NS children. METHODS: A prospective case-control study was conducted which comprised a total of 14...
Kushal Biswas, Saiyara Hossain, Sanzida Alam, Taposhi Nahid Sultana et al.
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Arjyabrata Sarker, Kushal Biswas, Manjurul Islam Chowdhury, Farzana Khan et al.
Background: Makaradhwaja (MD) and Siddha Makaradhwaja (SMD) are Ayurvedic preparations used as traditional medicines for different clinical indications in the rural population. Principle purpose of using MD is controlling hypotension and while SMD is useful in peripheral circulatory failure treatmen...