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Bashir Ahmad Ali Muhammad Yousafzai Ayaz Ali Khan Mohammad Attaullah Waqar Ali Saeed Ahmad Ghazala Yasmin Zamani Farhat Naz Sumayya Raziq Amjad Ali 《Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences》2021,28(8):4324-4328
Present study focuses on ameliorative potential of Typha elephantina leave’s aqueous (TE.AQ) extract against Paracetamol (PCM) induced toxicity in rabbits. We fed the male rabbits with 300 mg PCM in alone and in combination with TE.AQ at different doses i.e. (100, 200 and 300 mg/kg body weight) or silymarin (100 mg/kg) daily for 21 days. PCM in alone significantly (P < 0.5) increased serum urea, uric acid, creatinine, total protein, albumin, globulin and blood urea nitrogen. Serum sodium, potassium and magnesium level were high. The glutathione, radical scavenging activity and Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances were significantly reduced. Treatment with TE.AQ at dose rate 300 mg/kg body weight and Silymarin significantly ameliorated all the parameters when compared with PCM administered group. The 100 and 200 mg of TE.AQ showed no significant effects. The histopathological examination confirmed the therapeutic potential of TE.AQ. These results established the presence of natural antioxidants in Typha elephantina leaves. 相似文献
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Afsheen Raza Najia K. Ghanchi Ali bin Sarwar Zubairi Ahmed Raheem Sobia Nizami Mohammad Asim Beg 《PloS one》2013,8(12)
Background
Cytokine-mediated endothelial activation pathway is a known mechanism of pathogenesis employed by Plasmodium falciparum to induce severe disease symptoms in human host. Though considered benign, complicated cases of Plasmodium vivax are being reported worldwide and from Pakistan. It has been hypothesized that P.vivax utilizes similar mechanism of pathogenesis, as that of P.falciparum for manifestations of severe malaria. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to characterize the role of cytokines and endothelial activation markers in complicated Plasmodium vivax isolates from Pakistan.Methods and Principle Findings
A case control study using plasma samples from well-characterized groups suffering from P.vivax infection including uncomplicated cases (n=100), complicated cases (n=82) and healthy controls (n=100) were investigated. Base line levels of Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin-10 (IL-10), Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), Vascular adhesion molecule-1(VCAM-1) and E-selectin were measured by ELISA. Correlation of cytokines and endothelial activation markers was done using Spearman’s correlation analysis. Furthermore, significance of these biomarkers as indicators of disease severity was also analyzed. The results showed that TNF-α, IL-10, ICAM-1and VCAM-1 were 3-fold, 3.7 fold and 2 fold increased between uncomplicated and complicated cases. Comparison of healthy controls with uncomplicated cases showed no significant difference in TNF-α concentrations while IL-6, IL-10, ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and E-selectin were found to be elevated respectively. In addition, significant positive correlation was observed between TNF-α and IL-10/ ICAM-1, IL-6 and IL-10, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1.A Receiver operating curve (ROC) was generated which showed that TNF-α, IL-10, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 were the best individual predictors of complicated P.vivax malaria.Conclusion
The results suggest that though endothelial adhesion molecules are inducible by pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α, however, cytokine-mediated endothelial activation pathway is not clearly demonstrated as a mechanism of pathogenesis in complicated P.vivax malaria cases from Pakistan. 相似文献3.
Ibatsam Khokhar Irum Mukhtar Sobia Mushtaq 《Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection》2013,46(14):1347-1351
Microorganisms are increasingly exploited as a source of new biological control agents. Genus Penicillium is a source of novel bioactive molecules which can be used as antifungal agents. The objective of this study was to evaluate the antifungal potential of Penicillium strains. Culture filtrates of two Penicillium species were tested for their antifungal potential by well diffusion assays. Filtrate of Penicillium isolates showed high antifungal effects on mycelial growth of Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, Macrophomina phaseolina, Aspergillus japonicus var aculeatus and Cladosporium cladosporioides. But Penicillium italicum inhibit the fungal growth from 45 to 68% as compared to Penicillium simplissimum (25–68%). However in case of A. japonicus var aculeatus, Penicillium spp. extracts were equally effective and reduce the colony growth up to 68%. However, P. simplissimum extract was least effective in case of M. phaseolina, where it decreased the colony growth only 25%. 相似文献
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Mahim Khan Muhammad Qasim Usman Ali Ashfaq Sobia Idrees Masoud Shah 《Bioinformation》2013,9(14):710-714
Background:
HCV has become a leading cause of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma and is a major health concern worldwide. To date,
there is no vaccine available in the market to tackle this disease, therefore there is a strong need to develop antiviral compounds
that can target all genotypes of HCV with the same efficiency. Medicinal plants have low cost and are less toxic therefore, extracts
of medicinal plants can serve as important antiviral agents against HCV. This study was designed to screen phytochemicals of
Accacia nilotica to find a potent drug candidate that can inhibit HCV infection effectively.Results:
Docking of NS3/4A protease and Flavonoids of Accacia nilotica revealed that most of the flavonoids bound deeply with the active
site of NS3/4A protease. Compound 01 showed a high ranking on docking score. All other compounds also showed reliable
docking scores and had interactions with the binding cavity of NS3/4A protease, suggesting them as a potent drug candidate to
block HCV replication.Conclusion:
To recognize binding interactions of Accacia nilotica phytochemicals with NS3/4A protease, molecular docking was performed to
find potential inhibitor against NS3/4A protease of HCV. After post docking analysis, important interactions were found between
active compounds and active site of NS3/4A protease. It can be concluded from the study that phytochemicals of Accacia nilotica
may serve as a potential drug candidate with relatively simple structural changes against HCV NS3/4A protease. 相似文献
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Akhtar S Shamotienko O Papakosta M Ali F Dolly JO 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2002,277(19):16376-16382
Most neuronal Kv1 channels contain Kv1.1, Kv1.2 alpha, and Kvbeta2.1 subunits, yet the influences of their stoichiometries on properties of the (alpha)(4)(beta)(4) variants remain undefined. cDNAs were engineered to contain 0, 1, 2, or 4 copies of Kv1.1 with the requisite number of Kv1.2 and co-expressed in mammalian cells with Kvbeta2.1 to achieve "native-like" hetero-oligomers. The monomeric (Kv1.1 or 1.2), dimeric (Kv1.1-1.2 or 1.2-1.2), and tetrameric (Kv1.1-(1.2)(3)) constructs produced proteins of M(r) approximately 62,000, 120,000, and 240,000, which assembled into (alpha)(4)(beta)(4) complexes. Each alpha cRNA yielded a distinct K(+) current in oocytes, with voltage dependence of activation being shifted negatively as the Kv1.1 content in tetramers was increased. Channels containing 1, 2, or 4 copies of Kv1.1 were blocked by dendrotoxin k (DTX)(k) with similarly high potencies, whereas Kv(1.2)(4) proved nonsusceptible. Accordingly, Kv1.2/beta2.1 expressed in baby hamster kidney cells failed to bind DTX(k); in contrast, oligomers containing only one Kv1.1 subunit in a tetramer exhibited high affinity, with additional copies causing modest increases. Thus, one Kv1.1 subunit largely confers high affinity for DTX(k), whereas channel electrophysiological properties are tailored by the content of Kv1.1 relative to Kv1.2. This notable advance could explain the diversity of symptoms of human episodic ataxia I, which is often accompanied by myokymia, due to mutated Kv1.1 being assembled in different combinations with wild-type and Kv1.2. 相似文献
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Tauqeer Ahmad Yasir Sobia Aslam Muhammad Shahid Rizwan Allah Wasaya Muhammad Ateeq Muhammad Naeem Khan Sikander Khan Tanveer Walid Soufan Basharat Ali Allah Ditta Arpna Kumari Ayman EL Sabagh 《Phyton》2022,91(11):2491-2504
In soil biota, higher and enduring concentration of heavy metals like cadmium (Cd) is hazardous and associated
with great loss in growth, yield, and quality parameters of most of the crop plants. Recently, in-situ applications of
eco-friendly stabilizing agents in the form of organic modifications have been utilized to mitigate the adverse
effects of Cd-toxicity. This controlled experiment was laid down to appraise the imprints of various applied
organic amendments namely poultry manure (PM), farmyard manure (FYM), and sugarcane press mud (PS)
to immobilize Cd in polluted soil. Moreover, phytoavailability of Cd in wheat was also accessed under an alkaline
environment. Results revealed that the addition of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) in Cd-contaminated soil significantly
increased germination rate, leaf chlorophyll content, plant height, spike length, biological and grain yield amongst
all applied organic amendments. Moreover, the addition of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) also reduced the phytoavailability of Cd by 73–85% in the roots, 57–83% in the shoots, and 81–90% in grains of wheat crop. Thus, it is affirmed
that incorporation of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) performed better to enhance wheat growth and yield by remediating
Cd. Thus, the application of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) reduced the toxicity induced by Cd to plants by declining its
uptake and translocation as compared to all other applied organic amendments to immobilize Cd under sandy
alkaline polluted soil. 相似文献
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Jabbar Khan Sanaullah Khan Sobia Attaullah Ijaz Ali Shahid Niaz Khan 《BMC cell biology》2012,13(1):1-9
Background
Autophagy is a ubiquitous cellular process responsible for the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic components through the autophagosomal-lysosomal pathway. In skeletal muscle, autophagy has been regarded as a key regulator for muscle mass maintenance, and its imbalance leads to sarcopenia. However, the underlying mechanism is poorly understood.Results
In this study, we demonstrate that ceMTM3, a FYVE-domain containing myotubalarin family phosphatase, is required for the maintenance of muscle fibers by preventing excessive autophagy in Caenorhabditis elegans. Knockdown of ceMTM3 by using feeding-based RNA interference caused loss of muscle fibers accompanied by shortening of muscle cell and body size in aged C. elegans worms. This was preceded by the occurrence of excessive autophagy in the muscle and other tissues, which subsequently resulted in increased lysosomal activity and necrotic cell death. However, knockdown of ceMTM3 did not aggravate the abnormalities of muscle wasting in autophagy-deficient atg-18 mutant worms.Conclusions
Our data suggest an important role of ceMTM3 in regulating autophagy and maintaining muscle fibers. This study may have clinical implications for prevention and treatment of sarcopenia. 相似文献8.
Planas-Iglesias J Guney E García-García J Robertson KA Raza S Freeman TC Ghazal P Oliva B 《Omics : a journal of integrative biology》2012,16(5):245-256
Cells exploit signaling pathways during responses to environmental changes, and these processes are often modulated during disease. Particularly, relevant human pathologies such as cancer or viral infections require downregulating apoptosis signaling pathways to progress. As a result, the identification of proteins responsible for these changes is essential for the diagnostics and development of therapeutics. Transferring functional annotation within protein interaction networks has proven useful to identify such proteins, although this is not a trivial task. Here, we used different scoring methods to transfer annotation from 53 well-studied members of the human apoptosis pathways (as known by 2005) to their protein interactors. All scoring methods produced significant predictions (compared to a random negative model), but its number was too large to be useful. Thus, we made a final prediction using specific combinations of scoring methods and compared it to the proteins related to apoptosis signaling pathways during the last 5 years. We propose 273 candidate proteins that may be relevant in apoptosis signaling pathways. Although some of them have known functions consistent with their proposed apoptotsis involvement, the majority have not been annotated yet, leaving room for further experimental studies. We provide our predictions at http://sbi.imim.es/web/Apoptosis.php. 相似文献
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Pathan AK Sayyed AH Aslam M Razaq M Jilani G Saleem MA 《Journal of economic entomology》2008,101(5):1676-1684
The toxicity of some of the most commonly used insecticides in the organophosphate and pyrethroid classes were investigated against different Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) populations collected over three consecutive years (2005-2007). The populations were tested using leaf dip bioassays for residual effects and topical applications to measure the response of larvae that would come into direct contact with field application of insecticides. In leaf dip assays, the LC50 (micrograms per milliliter; 120 h) values for chlorpyrifos and profenofos were in the range of 59.3-1,023 and 180.02-1,118 respectively. The LC50 values for lambda-cyhalthrin, alphamethrin, and deltamethrin were 359.08-2,677, 112.9-923.5, and 47.81-407.03, respectively. The toxicity for the above insecticides in topical application was similar to toxicity in leaf dip assays. The susceptibility of a laboratory population, which was locally developed and designated as (Lab-PK), to deltamethrin was comparable with another susceptible laboratory population. Resistance ratios for five field populations were generally low to medium for deltamethrin, but high to very high for chlorpyrifos, profenofos, lambda-cyhalthrin and alphamethrin compared with the Lab-PK population. Our data also suggested that the five field populations had multiple resistance to two classes of insecticides. The populations showed resistance to two organophosphates tested and to lambda-cyhalthrin and alphamethrin; however, resistance to deltamethrin was only found at two locations. This pattern indicates occurrence of two divergent patterns of resistance within pyrethroids. The resistance to the insecticides was stable across 3 yr, suggesting field selection for general fitness had also taken place in various populations of C. carnea. The broad spectrum of resistance and stability of resistance to insecticides in C. carnea in the current study suggested that it could be a prime candidate for mass releases and compatible with most spray programs. 相似文献
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Mohammad Attaullah Masarrat J. Yousuf Sohail Shaukat Syed Ishtiaq Anjum Mohammad Javed Ansari Islam Dad Buneri Muhammad Tahir Muhammad Amin Naveed Ahmad Shahid Ullah Khan 《Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences》2018,25(7):1284-1290
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are frequently used worldwide as insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and termiticides and have been associated with a variety of cancers in animal and human studies. In the present study, we examined residues of fourteen OCPs in the serum samples of diagnosed cancer patients and healthy residents of Karachi, Pakistan. A random collection of fasting blood samples was carried out from the donors with informed consent. Serum was separated within 2?h of blood collection and was then subjected to extraction with organic solvents followed by purification with florisil column. The final organic extract of each serum sample was processed with Gas Chromatograph coupled with Electron Capture Detector (GC-ECD). OCPs were detected in 97.59% of the cancer cases and 93.75% of the healthy subjects. Mean concentrations of total OCPs (ΣOCPs) was found elevated in the cancer group (0.606?mg/kg) compared with the control group (0.322?mg/kg). Endosulfan was the highest prevalent OCP with a mean concentration of 0.214?mg/kg in the cancer group and 0.166?mg/kg in the control group. The second most prevalent OCP was 4,4-DDE with a mean concentration of 0.131?mg/kg in the cancer group and 0.019?mg/kg in the control group. Highest level of ΣOCPs was detected in the breast cancer cases (20.411?mg/kg) with a mean level of (2.041?mg/kg). In light of the obtained results and available literature on the subject, it has been concluded that OCPs are positively associated with the risk of various cancers in humans. 相似文献