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Background: Warfarin is an anticoagulant widely used to prevent thromboembolic events (TEs) in patients with various cardiovascular (CV) diseases. Pharmacogenomics (PGx)-guided testing is a growing method suggested to help predict warfarin dosing. A systematic review was performed to compare the incidence of thromboembolic events (TEs), bleeding events (BEs), time in therapeutic range (TTR), the proportion of time to therapeutic range (PTTR) and warfarin dose adjustments between PGx-guided warfarin therapy and standard of care (SOC) in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (Afib), pulmonary embolism (PE), and deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Methods: Two reviewers independently searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library and clinicaltrials.gov databases from October 2019-August2022 to identify studies. Abstracts were reviewed for outcomes of interest and patient demographics to identify patients present with International Normalized Ratio (INR) readings, TTR, PTTR, BEs and TEs. Results: From the database search, 28 articles were retrieved based on abstract screening. A total of 6 articles were ultimately selected for the systematic review. All articles found favor in the PGx-guided group...
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Urolithiasis, also called kidney stone, was caused by a missense mutation in the adenine phosphoribosyl transferase enzyme encoded by the APRT gene. This gene was present in human chromosome 16. In this paper, a comparative study of the effectiveness of six ligands reported in Synadenium grantii was analyzed by docking approach. For this purpose, the effective six ligands that were present in Synedenium grantii were selected, downloaded, and docked with APRT. The interactions of these ligands with APRT were analyzed by docking by using Autodock vina. The selected six ligands were phorbol ester, terpene, flavonoid, tannin, coumarin, and anthraquinone. All these ligands have anti-urolithiatic activity and are used to treat urolithiasis. A docking study by AutoDock vina reveals the interacting amino acid residues that have not been reported yet. Based on interactions of different ligands with APRT, our analysis shows that flavonoid was most effective, followed by terpene, phorbol ester, tannin and coumarin. The results show that anthraquinone was the least effective. The docking study performed by Autodock vina...
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The main objective of the current study was to see whether SG peel methanolic extract had antidiabetic and hepatoprotective results in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Streptozotocin was administered intraperitoneally to rats to trigger diabetes. When rats had an elevated blood sugar level three days after acquiring streptozotocin, it was determined that they were diabetic. Diabetic rats were given pre-determined doses of a methanolic extract of SG. Our experimental study took 28 days to complete. Rats were fasted overnight for an oral glucose tolerance test, and antioxidant parameters were measured. Rats were euthanized after 28 days to perform histopathological tests. One of the three doses of methanolic extract of SG peels (50, 100 and 200 mg/kg) showed nearly identical findings to Glibenclamide (2.5 mg/kg). After administering sponge gourd peel extract doses, blood glucose levels were found to be depleted. The positive impact on HOMA-IR and HOMA- β, plasma insulin levels, glycated haemoglobin, and several other variables. Furthermore, antioxidant parameters, including GLUT2 and SGLT1, significantly improved in diabetic rats. Finally, in Streptozotocin-induced...
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Depression is accepted as a condition of misery and is treated as a disorder that includes mental and emotional disorders. Depression is a deadly disease that affects about 5% of the general population. In addition, depression is a heavy burden on patients and families. Furthermore, many epidemiological studies have shown that the occurrence of depressive disorders in the general population is increasing at an alarming rate. Depression is the most common form of emotional disorder, from a very mild condition to severe depression associated with hallucinations and delusions. In addition, altered levels of serotonin and other biogenic amines have also been shown to contribute to neuromodulatory disturbance in the etiology of depression. According to monoamine theory in depressive disorder, patients with major depression have shown biochemical symptoms which may change monoamine neurotransmitters, specifically nor-epinephrine and serotonin. Clinical data suggested that dopamine is also involved in the pathophysiology and treatment of...
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The present study evaluated the antibacterial and antifungal activities of the medicinal plant Bauhinia vahlii. The antibacterial and antifungal activities of vacuum dried ethanol extract of the stem and leaves of Bauhinia vahlii (EEBVS and EEBVL) were performed using the Disc diffusion method. The antibacterial and antifungal activities recorded significant effects against five bacterial strains, including Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi and two fungal strains, including Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger. The ethanol extracts of Bauhinia vahlii stem and leaves were showed the significant antibacterial effect of different bacterial strains and antifungal activity of fungal strains in the ethanol extract of stem (14 mm) but more activity observed in the ethanol extract of leaves (17 mm) in the Escherichia coli bacterial strain against different bacterial strains as compared to standard drug Amikacin (19 mm) whereas more potent in ethanol extracts of leaves (19 mm) in the fungal strain Candida albicans as compared to standard drug fluconazole (21 mm) as observed by zones of inhibitions...
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