Brucellosis is a widespread and persistent zoonotic disease caused by Gram-negative Brucella species, posing significant threats to human health, livestock, and economic stability. This review provides a comprehensive insight into current knowledge on Brucella pathogenicity, genomic structure and therapeutic challenges. We highlight the host-specific pathogenic mechanism of predominated species as B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant development and productivity are significantly hindered by salt stress, leading to substantial financial losses in the agriculture sector. Salinity stress negatively impacts the overall growth, physiology, and metabolism of plants. Specifically, NaCl stress is particularly harmful to tomato plants, causing suppression of seedling growth, accumulation of sodium (Na) and chloride (Cl) ions, disrupted ion homeostasis, reduced proline and chlorophyll content, and impairment of antioxidant enzyme systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe tomato is well-known for its anti-oxidative and anti-cancer properties, and with a wide range of health benefits is an important cash crop for human well-being. However, environmental stresses (especially abiotic) are having a deleterious effect on plant growth and productivity, including tomato. In this review, authors describe how salinity stress imposes risk consequences on growth and developmental processes of tomato through toxicity by ethylene (ET) and cyanide (HCN), and ionic, oxidative, and osmotic stresses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIron deficiency anemia (IDA) has reached epidemic proportions in developing countries and has become a major global public health problem, affecting mainly 0-5-year-old children and young women of childbearing age, especially during pregnancy. Iron deficiency can lead to life-threatening loss of red blood cells, muscle function, and energy production. Therefore, the pathogenic features associated with IDA are weakness and impaired growth, motor, and cognitive performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ongoing worldwide epidemic of diabetes increases the demand for the identification of environmental, nutritional, endocrine, genetic, and epigenetic factors affecting glucose uptake. The measurement of intracellular fluorescence is a widely used method to test the uptake of fluorescently-labeled glucose (FD-glucose) in cells in vitro, or for imaging glucose-consuming tissues in vivo. This assay assesses glucose uptake at a chosen time point.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe leptin receptor (LepR) acts as a signaling nexus for the regulation of glucose uptake and obesity, among other metabolic responses. The functional role of LepR under leptin-deficient conditions remains unclear. This study reports that epiregulin (EREG) governed glucose uptake in vitro and in vivo in mice by activating LepR under leptin-deficient conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmaceutics
December 2021
Diabetes poses a high risk for debilitating complications in neural tissues, regulating glucose uptake through insulin-dependent and predominantly insulin-independent pathways. Supramolecular nanostructures provide a flexible strategy for combinatorial regulation of glycemia. Here, we compare the effects of free insulin to insulin bound to positively charged nanofibers comprised of self-assembling amino acid compounds (AACs) with an antioxidant-modified side chain moiety (AAC2) in both in vitro and in vivo models of type 1 diabetes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Diagn Res
July 2016
Introduction: Type I diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells of pancreas. Two forms of T1DM are known called as 1A (autoimmune) and 1B (idiopathic).
Aim: Aim was to study the prevalence of Anti-TTG IgA, Anti-TPO, GADA, ZnT8 and IA-2 autoantibodies and HLA DR and DQ genes and its diagnostic value in T1DM.