270 results on '"A, Tilwani"'
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252. Endoscopic findings in pelvic tuberculosis (wadia syndrome)
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N.U. Joshi, K.P. Tilwani, R. D'souza, and B.J. Wadia
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tuberculosis ,business.industry ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Medicine ,General Medicine ,business ,medicine.disease ,Surgery - Published
- 2000
253. An analysis of the maternal mortality at a tertiary level referral center
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K.P. Tilwani and N.P. Kulkarni
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Emergency medicine ,medicine ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Referral center ,General Medicine ,Tertiary level ,business - Published
- 2000
254. The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Cognitive Strategy Uses of Saudi English Foreign Language Students’ Vocabulary Knowledge
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Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket, Asif, Muhammad, Hussain, Zahida, Patra, Indrajit, and Sarabani, Leeda
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the connection between emotional intelligence, strategy use, and vocabulary knowledge. However, very little attention has been paid to this subject, to the best of researchers’ knowledge. To this end, intermediate students were considered through the Cambridge English: Key English Test (KET). After taking the test, 50 male students with a mean age of 16 whose grades equaled (between 45 and 69) were chosen for this research sample. Adopting a correlational design, the researchers gathered three types of scores: an emotional intelligence questionnaire, cognitive strategy use questionnaire, and a vocabulary knowledge test. The data were checked for linearity of the relationship and normality of the distribution. Finally, Pearson product-moment correlation was conducted to identify any possible correlation between the variables. The results showed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and cognitive strategy use. The data analysis also indicated a relationship between emotional intelligence and vocabulary knowledge. Moreover, the data analysis showed that in comparison with cognitive strategy use, vocabulary knowledge has a higher correlation with emotional intelligence. The findings have some pedagogical implications for instructors of proficiency courses, writing textbook developers, EFL learners, and language teachers who can benefit from this research results.
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- 2022
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255. A Contrastive Corpus-Based Approach to the Expression of Adversarialness across English and Persian: A Case Study of Political Press Conferences
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Pourshahian, Bahar, Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket, and Naserpour, Azam
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With the point of departure in discourse analysis (DA), this corpus comparative study concentrated on sequences with adversarial questions in political press conferences to investigate the differences in the use of adversarial questioning between two contexts, namely, English and Persian political press conferences, and particularly highlight the strategies which were used by journalists in such sequences of talk journalists and politicians so as to show the importance of improving linguistic proficiency in EFL context. For this reason, this study analyzed a corpus of data from some political press conferences with American and Iranian Government which is randomly selected from appropriate websites between 2007 and 2021. The study applied Clayman, Heritage, and McDonald (2006) for quantifying adversarial questions as exhibited by the press to the questions addressed the Presidents of Iran and the United States. Questions from selected conferences were coded according to adversarialness. Frequency and chi-square tests were used for analysis. The results showed significant difference across the 2 corpora in some journalists’ questions. In terms of question design, accountability questions in Iranian journalists’ questions as Persian corpus indicated higher frequency. In addition, in referencing frames, higher frequency was observed in declarative questions in Persian corpus. However, English corpus displayed higher frequency in other-referencing frames. Finally, in content adversarialness, global adversarialness indicated higher frequency in Persian corpus. Consequently, the results showed that adversarial questions were used in Persian corpus more significantly than English corpus. The results of the study not only will help the students gain linguistic competence, but it will also improve their overall language proficiency.
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- 2022
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256. Challenges of Learning Postgraduate Class with No Prior Work Experience: A Phenomenological Study
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Tsehay Birhanu, Ermiyas, Assefa, Yalalem, and Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket
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The main purpose of this research was to explore the lived experience of students who learn postgraduate classes without having prior work experience. To achieve the intended objective, the team of researchers used a qualitative research approach. The phenomenological research design was used to have the real lived experience of novice scholarship students. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus group discussion, and unstructured participant observation. The participants were ten postgraduate students who enrolled in the College of Education and Behavioural Sciences at Bahir Dar University. Data analysis was guided by Smith’s Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, and we construct themes based on data we obtain from participants. The study revealed that postgraduate students with no prior work experience have both good and bad experiences. The good experiences were related to the opportunity they have to learn at a young age, and the bad experiences were the challenges they faced as a result of being novices in the work environment. They faced psychological challenges, economic challenges, language-related challenges, lack of information about the world of work, sexual harassment, and other challenges. At the end of the research, we infer implications based on the findings of the research.
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- 2022
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257. The Impact of Using TED Talks as a Learning Instrument on Enhancing Indonesian EFL Learners’ Listening Skill
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Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket, Vadivel, Balachandran, Cecilia Uribe-Hernández, Yrene, Suardi Wekke, Ismail, and Mohammad Farooq Haidari, Mir
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Regarding the popularity of TED Talks which are freely accessible online, we were encouraged to examine the impacts of this online resource on Indonesian EFL learners’ listening skills. The Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was used to recruit 70 Indonesian intermediate respondents for the research. They were then split into two groups: one experimental group (EG) and one control group (CG). After that, a listening test was administered to both groups. After that, the EG participants watched TED Talks via mobile devices, and the CG participants practiced listening skills via DVDs and CDs of the course textbook for 13 sessions. When the treatment ended, a posttest of listening skills was administered to the participants of both groups, and the collected data were analyzed via running paired samples and independent samples t-tests. The results indicated that both groups had better listening performances in their listening posttests, but the EG outperformed the CG after the treatment. Overall, the results showed that using TED Talks was more advantageous for listening development than using DVDs and CDs of the course textbook. The implications of this study can encourage EFL teachers to integrate TED Talks into their English classes.
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- 2022
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258. Intrinsic Rewards for Creativity and Employee Creativity to the Mediation Role of Knowledge Sharing and Intrinsic Motivation
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Sami Muzafary, Sayed, Naim Wahdat, Muhammad, Hussain, Mudassir, Mdletshe, Bonga, Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket, and Khattak, Robi
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The purpose of this research is to examine the mediating role of knowledge sharing and intrinsic motivation on the relationship between intrinsic rewards for creativity and employee creativity and furthermore explore the mediating role of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between intrinsic rewards for creativity and knowledge sharing. A total of 400 matched data were collected from employees and their immediate supervisors of four public universities in Afghanistan. The results revealed that knowledge sharing and intrinsic motivation mediated the linkage between intrinsic rewards for creativity and employee creativity, which comprises idea generation. The results have shown that the relationship between intrinsic rewards for creativity and knowledge sharing is mediated by intrinsic task motivation. The current research contributes to the employee creativity literature by empirically examining the mediating role of knowledge sharing and intrinsic motivation in the relationship between intrinsic rewards for creativity and employee creativity in the one hand and the mediating role of intrinsic motivation in the relationship between intrinsic rewards for creativity and employee creativity in other.
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- 2021
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259. Wenckebach periods in left bundle branch block
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R N, Mathur, A K, Swaroop, S, Puri, R K, Goyal, and A, Tilwani
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Male ,Electrocardiography ,Bundle-Branch Block ,Humans ,Aged - Published
- 1982
260. Assessment of heavy metal contamination in two edible fish species Carassius carassius and Triplophysa kashmirensis of Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir, India.
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Rather, Mohd Yousuf, Tilwani, Younus Mohd, and Dey, Arpita
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HEAVY metals ,CONTAMINATION of edible fish ,CRUCIAN carp ,ATOMIC absorption spectroscopy ,PIGEON pea ,SIZE of fishes - Abstract
The present study was aimed to examine the concentration of heavy metals in the two edible fish species Carassius carassius and Triplophysa kashmirensis of the Dal Lake (Srinagar, Jammu, and Kashmir, India). Metals cadmium (Cd), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), and chromium (Cr) were analyzed using atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Differences in the heavy metal accumulation were observed between the two species as well as between different sizes of the same species. Small size fishes exhibited more concentration of heavy metals than the larger size fishes of the same species. Heavy metals were found in the ranking order of Zn > Cr > Pb > Cu > Mn > Cd in both species of fishes and in both sizes as well. Zn, being the most concentrated metal found in both species, can pose a threat in the near future. Since both species are edible and constitute an essential part of human diet, the heavy metals assessed can be bioaccumulated in humans when consumed; hence, an extensive investigation is needed to evaluate the heavy metal concentration of other edible fishes of the Dal Lake in the future. The study will also be helpful in providing baseline data on the heavy metal accumulation of edible fish species in freshwater ecosystems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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261. English Language Learners’ Use of Translation and Attitudes towards Learning Vocabulary
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Benhima, M., Tilwani, S. A., and Muhammad Asif
262. Flipped classroom model and self-efficacy in an iranian english as a foreign language context: A gender-based study
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Namaziandost, E., Tilwani, S. A., Khodayari, S. M., Ziafar, M., Alekasir, S., Gilakjani, A. P., and Murad Sawalmeh
263. The impact of bioactive agents PDGF & BMP on resolution of bony defects
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Tilwani, Sunny
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- Biomedical engineering, BMP, Bone defects, FDBA, Growth factors, PDGF, Bone graft
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Bioactive agents are proteins that regulate cellular activities including cell migration, proliferation, differentiation and matrix synthesis. Over the last decades there has been a focused effort to understand how these agents influence repair or regeneration of bony defects. Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) has potent chemotactic and angiogenic properties. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) is a known factor for osteoblasts. This study evaluated the impact of recombinant human PDGF and BMP-2 on resolution of critical bony defects (2 mm) using mouse calvarial bone cultures. Calvaria from 5-7 day neonatal CD-1 mice were dissected and cultured in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium under sterile conditions. In the first experiment, two different delivery systems to deliver PDGF - freeze-dried bone allograft and beta- tricalcium phosphate were compared. The second experiment analyzed bone formation in response to BMP-2 in the presence or absence of freeze-dried bone allograft. The media was changed every 2 days and the spent media were analysed for calcium release. At the end of three weeks the calvaria were processed for histological observation, biochemical analyses and neutral red staining. The results show higher bone formation in response to BMP-2 than PDGF. The presence of allograft inhibits this response. We found B-TCP to be a better delivery agent for PDGF compared to freeze-dried bone allograft. The histologic assessment showed development of new bone through intramembranous pathway that replicates native bone development in presence of BMP-2. In conclusion our study proves that incorporation of two bioactive agents- PDGF and BMP-2 in an osteoconductive scaffold can induce repair and new bone formation in mouse calvarial bone cultures.
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- 2018
264. Low oxygen tension modulates the effects of TNFα and fibronectin fragments in compressed chondrocytes
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Tilwani, Reshma Kishan
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- 612.7, chondrocytes ; Oxygen tension ; inflammatory mechanisms
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Oxygen tension and biomechanical signals are factors that regulate inflammatory mechanisms in chondrocytes. We examined whether low oxygen tension influenced the cells response to TNFα and dynamic compression. Chondrocyte/agarose constructs were treated with varying concentrations of TNFα (0.1 to 100 ng/ml) and cultured at 5% and 21% oxygen tension for 48 hours. In separate experiments, constructs were subjected to dynamic compression (15%) and treated with TNFα (10 ng/ml) and/or L-NIO (1 mM) at 5% and 21% oxygen tension using an ex-vivo bioreactor for 48 hours. Markers for catabolic activity (NO, PGE2) and tissue remodelling (GAG, MMPs) were quantified by biochemical assay. ADAMTS-5 and MMP-13 expression were examined by real-time qPCR. 2-way ANOVA and a post hoc Bonferroni-corrected t-test were used to analyse data. TNFα dose-dependently increased NO, PGE2 and MMP activity (all p < 0.001) and induced MMP-13 (p < 0.05) and ADAMTS-5 gene expression (p < 0.01) with values greater at 5% oxygen tension than 21%. The induction of catabolic mediators by TNFα was reduced by dynamic compression and/or L-NIO (all p < 0.001), with a greater inhibition observed at 5% than 21%. The stimulation of GAG synthesis by dynamic compression was greater at 21% than 5% oxygen tension and this response was reduced with TNFα or reversed with L-NIO. The present findings revealed that TNFα has dose-dependent catabolic activities and increased production of inflammatory mediators at low oxygen tension. Dynamic compression or the NOS inhibitor downregulated the inflammatory effects induced by TNFα, linking both types of stimuli to reparative activities. Future therapeutics should develop oxygen-sensitive antagonists which are directed to interfering with the TNFα induced pathways.
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- 2017
265. 32P Patient derived circulating tumor cell clusters for personalized chemotherapy.
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Kumar, P., Joshi, A., Ghosh, A., Rai, P., Tilwani, S., Kanakasetty, G.B., Prabhash, K., and Venkataramanan, R.
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CANCER chemotherapy - Published
- 2024
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266. Cost of implementing the QualityRights programme in public hospitals in Gujarat providing mental healthcare.
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Chatterjee, Susmita, Pathare, Soumitra, Funk, Michelle, Drew-Bold, Natalie, Das, Palash, Chauhan, Ajay, Kalha, Jasmine, Krishnamoorthy, Sadhvi, Sapag, Jaime C., Bobbili, Sireesha J., Shah, Sandip, Mehta, Ritambhara, Patel, Animesh, Gandhi, Upendra, Tilwani, Mahesh, Shah, Rakesh, Sheth, Hitesh, Vankar, Ganpat, Parikh, Minakshi, and Parikh, Indravadan
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PUBLIC hospitals , *MENTAL health facilities , *MENTAL health services , *INDIAN rupee , *PSYCHIATRIC hospitals , *HEALTH facilities - Abstract
Background & objectives: Investment in mental health is quite meagre worldwide, including in India. The costs of new interventions must be clarified to ensure the appropriate utilization of available resources. The government of Gujarat implemented QualityRights intervention at six public mental health hospitals. This study was aimed to project the costs of scaling up of the Gujarat QualityRights intervention to understand the additional resources needed for a broader implementation. Methods: Economic costs of the QualityRights intervention were calculated using an ingredients-based approach from the health systems' perspective. Major activities within the QualityRights intervention included assessment visits, meetings, training of trainers, provision of peer support and onsite training. Results: Total costs of implementing the QualityRights intervention varied from Indian Rupees (₹) 0.59 million to ₹ 2.59 million [1United States Dollars (US $) = ₹ 74.132] across six intervention sites at 2020 prices with 69-79 per cent of the cost being time cost. Scaling up the intervention to the entire State of Gujarat would require about two per cent increase in financial investment, or about 7.5 per cent increase in total cost including time costs over and above the costs of usual care for people with mental health conditions in public health facilities across the State. Interpretation & conclusions: The findings of this study suggest that human resources were the major cost contributor of the programme. Given the shortage of trained human resources in the mental health sector, appropriate planning during the scale-up phase of the QualityRights intervention is required to ensure all staff members receive the required training, and the treatment is not compromised during this training phase. As only about two per cent increase in financial cost can improve the quality of mental healthcare significantly, the State government can plan for its scale-up across the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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267. Physico-chemical and functional characterization of polysaccharide purified from mangrove Rhizophora mucronata leaves having potent biological activity.
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Jha, Natwar, Madasamy, Sivagnanavelmurugan, Prasad, Prema, Lakra, Avinash Kant, Tilwani, Younus Mohd, and Arul, Venkatesan
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MANGROVE plants , *RHIZOPHORA , *MONOSACCHARIDES , *GALACTURONIC acid , *MOLECULAR weights , *PSEUDOPLASTIC fluids , *POLYSACCHARIDES , *SCANNING electron microscopes - Abstract
Rhizophora mucronata Leaves Polysaccharide (RMLP) was extracted and purified from the mangrove Rhizophora mucronata leaves by anion-exchange and size-exclusion column chromatography. Physicochemical characterization of RMLP was evaluated by spectrtoscopic analysis (FT-IR, 1H & 13C NMR) and RP-HPLC. The molecular weight of RMLP was found to be 2.69 kDa, comprised of monosaccharides such as arabinose, galacturonic acid, galactose, mannose, xylose, rhamnose and glucose. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) images showed the appearance of irregular stacks of crystal blocks with a compact structure of RMLP at 5000x fold magnification. The viscosity analysis revealed the pseudoplastic fluid behavior of the polysaccharide with shear-thinning properties. The result of x-ray diffraction (XRD) and Congo red analysis confirmed the semicrystalline nature of RMLP and has triple-helical conformation. Thermal analysis (TGA and DSC) results proved high thermal stability of the RMLP fraction as its degradation temperature was found to be 310 C. The RMLP showed tremendous antibiofilm activity in a dose-dependent manner against the gram positive and gram negative pathogens. The RMLP showed effective antioxidant ability on DPPH scavenging, superoxide, ABTS, hydroxyl anion radical and Fe2+ chelating activities. These findings indicated that RMLP has promising antioxidant and antibiofilm properties against human pathogens, which makes it a better therapeutic agent in the field of functional foods and medicines. [Display omitted] • RMLP (polysaccharide) from the leaves of Rhizophora mucronata mangrove plant was characterized. • RMLP consists of arabinose, galacturonic acid, and galactose monosaccharides in major amount. • It showed shear thinning behavior in the solution having triple-helix conformation. • RMLP showed semi-crystalline nature and high thermal stability with a degradation temperature of 310 °C. • It shows promising antioxidant activity and antibiofilm activity against tested pathogens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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268. Comparative study of the clinico-trichoscopic response to treatment of hirsutism with long pulsed (1064 nm) Nd:YAG laser in idiopathic hirsutism and polycystic ovarian syndrome patients.
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Nabi, Nahida, Bhat, Yasmeen Jabeen, Dar, Uzair Khursheed, Hakeem, Aijaz, Mir, Shahnaz A., Shah, Iffat Hassan, and Tilwani, Mohd Rafiq
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NEODYMIUM lasers , *HYPERTRICHOSIS , *ND-YAG lasers , *HAIR care & hygiene , *MEDICAL lasers , *SYNDROMES , *COMPARATIVE studies - Abstract
Treatment of hirsutism is usually resistant, and from medical management to laser hair reduction, the treatment of hirsutism and its assessment are the most challenging. The aim of the study was to compare the response to treatment by laser hair reduction with long pulsed (1064 nm) Nd:YAG laser in patients of idiopathic hirsutism and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) by clinical and trichoscopic assessment. A hospital-based comparative, observational prospective study was carried out on female patients with hirsutism over a period of 18 months with two groups of participants: fifty women with idiopathic hirsutism (group A) and fifty with PCOS (group B). Laser hair reduction was done with long pulsed (1064 nm) Nd:YAG laser in both groups up to six sessions, 4 weeks apart and followed for 3 months post last laser session. After the sixth session of laser hair reduction, excellent response (> 75% reduction) from baseline was seen in 70% of patients in group A and in 54% of patients in group B. After 3 months of follow-up of the last laser session, it was found that the results persisted in patients with idiopathic cause than in those due to PCOS, seen both clinically and trichoscopically with decrease in hair shaft thickness, hair shaft colour, terminal vs. vellus hair ratio and hair density per cm2. Hirsutism due to idiopathic cause responds better to laser hair reduction with long pulsed (1064 nm) Nd:YAG laser than that due to PCOS, due to underlying hormonal imbalance in the latter group. Follow-up of only up to 3 months after last laser session was done and tricoscan was not done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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269. Anti-inflammatory and anti-COVID-19 effect of a novel polyherbal formulation (Imusil) via modulating oxidative stress, inflammatory mediators and cytokine storm.
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Ratheesh, M., Sunil, Sujatha, Sheethal, S., Jose, Svenia P., Sandya, S., Ghosh, Oriparambil Sivaraman Nirmal, Rajan, Sony, Jagmag, Tariq, and Tilwani, Jayesh
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COVID-19 , *SARS-CoV-2 , *INFLAMMATORY mediators , *CYTOKINE release syndrome , *OXIDATIVE stress , *FOURIER transform infrared spectroscopy , *ZWITTERIONS - Abstract
In the current scenario, most countries are affected by COVID-19, a pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has a massive impact on human health. Previous studies showed that some traditionally used medicinal herbs and their combinations showed synergistic anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activity against SARS-CoV-2 type infections. Therefore, the goal of this study is to demonstrate the anti-viral and anti-inflammatory effects of a novel polyherbal formulation, hereinafter referred to as Imusil, on Vero E6 cell lines and Raw 264.7 murine macrophage cells respectively. The Imusil was subjected to identify its chemical characterisations such as UV–Visible spectrum profile, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and gas chromatography–mass spectroscopic (GC–MS) analysis. FT-IR analysis of Imusil peak values with various functional compounds such as alcohol, esters, aliphatic and carboxylic acids. GC–MS analysis of compounds with totally 87 compounds major chemical compounds were identified, such as 3-(Octanoyloxy) propane-1,2-diyl bis(decanoate), Succinic acid, 2-methylhex-3-yl 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl ester, Neophytadiene, 3,5,9-Trioxa-4-phosphaheneicosan-1-aminium, 4-hydroxy-N,N,N-trimethyl-10-oxo-7-[(1-oxododecyl)oxy]-, hydroxide, inner salt, 4-oxide, (R)-. The anti-viral activity of Imusil against SARS-CoV-2 was assessed using plaque reduction assay and anti-inflammatory study was conducted on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced RAW 264.7 cells. The results obtained from the study reveal that Imusil significantly inhibited SARS-CoV-2 replication in Vero E6 cells and the production of inflammatory mediator's cyclooxygenase-2 and pro-inflammatory cytokines like tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin- 6 were significantly reduced, along with thwarting the significant oxidative stress by preventing the expression of NOX-2 thereby inhibiting the reactive oxygen species formation. Hence, considering the current study as a novel strategy for mediating the COVID-19 associated aliments, inceptive scientific evidence of Imusil promises its potential therapeutic implications against COVID-19 and inflammatory conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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270. Wenckebach periods in left bundle branch block.
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Mathur RN, Swaroop AK, Puri S, Goyal RK, and Tilwani A
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- Aged, Electrocardiography, Humans, Male, Bundle-Branch Block physiopathology
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- 1982
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