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Afzal Hussain
Life Sciences
English
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Investigating the chemo-preventive role of noscapine in lung carcinoma via therapeutic targeting of human aurora kinase B
Lung carcinoma is the major contributor to global cancer incidence and one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Irregularities in signal transduction events, genetic alterations, and mu...
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Role of Exosomes in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases
Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common neurological ailment in the world after Alzheimer’s disease (AD), affects about 1% of those over 65 years. Exosomes were first thought to be useless cell debris...
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HPV pathogenesis, various types of vaccines, safety concern, prophylactic and therapeutic applications to control cervical cancer, and future perspective
Over 98% of cervical cancers (CC) are caused by regular infections with "high risk" genotype of the human papilloma virus (HPV). However, this is not always the causative factor. Therefore, production of HPV v...
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Metals Phytoextraction by Brassica Species
The wider application of heavy metals in different industrial, agricultural, and pharmaceutical process has increased the unchecked addition of these metals in the environment. These heavy metals have become a...
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Approaches in Enhancing Thermotolerance in Plants: An Updated Review
Global warming has been increasing manifold in recent times, and this may cause tremendous economic losses in the near future. Recently, heat stress is considered one of the major constraints affecting crop gr...
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The Ameliorative Role of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (ALA) Under Cr Stress in Two Maize Cultivars Showing Differential Sensitivity to Cr Stress Tolerance
Heavy metal (HM) contamination of the environment is a serious threat to sustainable crop production. Among the HMs, chromium (Cr) is one of the most toxic HMs that is known to negatively affect growth and met...
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Role of Zinc–Lysine on Growth and Chromium Uptake in Rice Plants under Cr Stress
Chromium (Cr) is a very toxic heavy metal present in agricultural soils. Soils contaminated with Cr are the major source of Cr entrance into the food chain. The present experiment was designed to determine the...
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Fulvic Acid Prevents Chromium-induced Morphological, Photosynthetic, and Oxidative Alterations in Wheat Irrigated with Tannery Waste Water
Rapid industrialization is potentially contaminating the environment. Tannery is one of the industries producing very high amount of effluents, having a significant quantity of chromium (Cr) along with other p...
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5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Induced Heavy Metal Stress Tolerance and Underlying Mechanisms in Plants
Plants face different types of biotic and abiotic stresses during their life span. Heavy metal (HM) stress is considered as one of the most challenging and emerging threats to sustainable agricultural developm...
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Role of Zinc in Alleviating Heavy Metal Stress
Heavy metals pollution is continuously increasing and posing threats to our environment. This heavy metals’ presence in soils accumulates in plants which become part of food supply. Heavy metals at their highe...
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Role of Iron in Alleviating Heavy Metal Stress
Heavy metals naturally present in soils usually result from human activities such as agricultural practices, mining, automobile, sewage processing, and metal industries. Higher concentrations of these metals i...
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Evidences for anti-mycobacterium activities of lipids and surfactants
Tuberculosis is the most widespread and deadly airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The two-pronged lethal effect on the bacteria using lipids/surfactants and anti-tubercular drugs may render th...
