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  1. Book: Biodiversity conservation

    Ghosh, Asish K.

    2009  

    Author's details A. K. Ghosh
    Language English
    Size X, 304 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
    Publisher A. P. H. Publ
    Publishing place New Delhi
    Publishing country India
    Document type Book
    HBZ-ID HT015715600
    ISBN 978-81-313-0227-9 ; 81-313-0227-X
    Database Catalogue ZB MED Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Book: Environment

    Ghosh, Asish K.

    issues and concerns

    2007  

    Author's details by Asish Ghosh
    Language English
    Size 267 S. : graph. Darst., Kt.
    Publisher A. P. H. Publ. Corp
    Publishing place New Delhi
    Publishing country India
    Document type Book
    HBZ-ID HT015252847
    ISBN 81-313-0130-3 ; 978-81-313-0130-2
    Database Catalogue ZB MED Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  3. Article ; Online: Acetyltransferase p300 Is a Putative Epidrug Target for Amelioration of Cellular Aging-Related Cardiovascular Disease.

    Ghosh, Asish K

    Cells

    2021  Volume 10, Issue 11

    Abstract: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of accelerated as well as chronological aging-related human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Genetic, immunologic, unhealthy lifestyles including daily consumption of high-carb/high-fat fast food, lack of ... ...

    Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of accelerated as well as chronological aging-related human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Genetic, immunologic, unhealthy lifestyles including daily consumption of high-carb/high-fat fast food, lack of exercise, drug addiction, cigarette smoke, alcoholism, and exposure to environmental pollutants like particulate matter (PM)-induced stresses contribute profoundly to accelerated and chronological cardiovascular aging and associated life threatening diseases. All these stressors alter gene expression epigenetically either through activation or repression of gene transcription via alteration of chromatin remodeling enzymes and chromatin landscape by DNA methylation or histone methylation or histone acetylation. Acetyltransferase p300, a major epigenetic writer of acetylation on histones and transcription factors, contributes significantly to modifications of chromatin landscape of genes involved in cellular aging and cardiovascular diseases. In this review, the key findings those implicate acetyltransferase p300 as a major contributor to cellular senescence or aging related cardiovascular pathologies including vascular dysfunction, cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, cardiac fibrosis, systolic/diastolic dysfunction, and aortic valve calcification are discussed. The efficacy of natural or synthetic small molecule inhibitor targeting acetyltransferase p300 in amelioration of stress-induced dysregulated gene expression, cellular aging, and cardiovascular disease in preclinical study is also discussed.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Calcinosis/genetics ; Calcinosis/pathology ; Cardiovascular Diseases/drug therapy ; Cardiovascular Diseases/pathology ; Cellular Senescence ; Epigenesis, Genetic ; Humans ; Molecular Targeted Therapy ; p300-CBP Transcription Factors/metabolism
    Chemical Substances p300-CBP Transcription Factors (EC 2.3.1.48) ; p300-CBP-associated factor (EC 2.3.1.48)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-22
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2661518-6
    ISSN 2073-4409 ; 2073-4409
    ISSN (online) 2073-4409
    ISSN 2073-4409
    DOI 10.3390/cells10112839
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  4. Article ; Online: Pharmacological activation of PPAR-γ: a potential therapy for skin fibrosis.

    Ghosh, Asish K

    International journal of dermatology

    2020  Volume 60, Issue 3, Page(s) 376–383

    Abstract: Skin fibrosis caused by excessive collagen synthesis and deposition in the dermis affects the quality of daily life of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The skin quality, including its smoothness in young age and wrinkly during the aging ... ...

    Abstract Skin fibrosis caused by excessive collagen synthesis and deposition in the dermis affects the quality of daily life of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The skin quality, including its smoothness in young age and wrinkly during the aging process, depends largely on the levels of extracellular matrix proteins such as collagen in skin. As physiological levels of collagen are desirable for skin homeostasis, beauty, and its flexibility, too much collagen deposition in the skin is associated with tight hard skin, loss of adipose layer, and flexibility, the pathological manifestations of skin fibrosis in fibrotic diseases such as scleroderma. To understand the molecular basis of skin fibrosis and in search of its therapy, different cellular, molecular, epigenetic, and preclinical studies have been undertaken to control abnormal excessive synthesis and accumulation of matrix protein collagen. Over the last two decades, numerous phase 1 through 3 clinical trials have been conducted to test the safety and efficacy of a wide variety of compounds in amelioration of skin fibrosis and other pathologies in scleroderma, yet, no effective therapy for skin fibrosis is available. This article solely focuses on the role of a nuclear receptor and transcription factor, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-γ), as an anti-skin fibrotic driving force and the potential therapeutic efficacies of PPAR-γ-specific ligands/agonists including antidiabetic drugs and other natural or semi-synthetic compounds derived from cannabis in amelioration of skin fibrosis in scleroderma. The underlying molecular basis of agonist-activated PPAR-γ-mediated suppression of profibrogenic signaling and skin fibrogenesis is also highlighted.
    MeSH term(s) Cells, Cultured ; Collagen ; Fibroblasts ; Fibrosis ; Humans ; PPAR gamma
    Chemical Substances PPAR gamma ; Collagen (9007-34-5)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-12-30
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 412254-9
    ISSN 1365-4632 ; 0011-9059 ; 1461-1244
    ISSN (online) 1365-4632
    ISSN 0011-9059 ; 1461-1244
    DOI 10.1111/ijd.15388
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  5. Article ; Online: Acetyltransferase p300 Is a Putative Epidrug Target for Amelioration of Cellular Aging-Related Cardiovascular Disease

    Asish K. Ghosh

    Cells, Vol 10, Iss 2839, p

    2021  Volume 2839

    Abstract: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of accelerated as well as chronological aging-related human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Genetic, immunologic, unhealthy lifestyles including daily consumption of high-carb/high-fat fast food, lack of ... ...

    Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of accelerated as well as chronological aging-related human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Genetic, immunologic, unhealthy lifestyles including daily consumption of high-carb/high-fat fast food, lack of exercise, drug addiction, cigarette smoke, alcoholism, and exposure to environmental pollutants like particulate matter (PM)-induced stresses contribute profoundly to accelerated and chronological cardiovascular aging and associated life threatening diseases. All these stressors alter gene expression epigenetically either through activation or repression of gene transcription via alteration of chromatin remodeling enzymes and chromatin landscape by DNA methylation or histone methylation or histone acetylation. Acetyltransferase p300, a major epigenetic writer of acetylation on histones and transcription factors, contributes significantly to modifications of chromatin landscape of genes involved in cellular aging and cardiovascular diseases. In this review, the key findings those implicate acetyltransferase p300 as a major contributor to cellular senescence or aging related cardiovascular pathologies including vascular dysfunction, cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, cardiac fibrosis, systolic/diastolic dysfunction, and aortic valve calcification are discussed. The efficacy of natural or synthetic small molecule inhibitor targeting acetyltransferase p300 in amelioration of stress-induced dysregulated gene expression, cellular aging, and cardiovascular disease in preclinical study is also discussed.
    Keywords acetyltransferase p300 ; small molecule inhibitors ; cellular senescence ; diabetes ; TGF-β ; vascular calcification ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article: p300 in Cardiac Development and Accelerated Cardiac Aging.

    Ghosh, Asish K

    Aging and disease

    2020  Volume 11, Issue 4, Page(s) 916–926

    Abstract: The heart is the first functional organ that develops during embryonic development. While a heartbeat indicates life, cessation of a heartbeat signals the end of life. Heart disease, due either to congenital defects or to acquired dysfunctions in ... ...

    Abstract The heart is the first functional organ that develops during embryonic development. While a heartbeat indicates life, cessation of a heartbeat signals the end of life. Heart disease, due either to congenital defects or to acquired dysfunctions in adulthood, remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Epigenetics plays a key role in both embryonic heart development and heart disease in adults. Stress-induced vascular injury activates pathways involved in pathogenesis of accelerated cardiac aging that includes cellular dysfunction, pathological cardiac hypertrophy, diabetic cardiomyopathy, cardiac matrix remodeling, cardiac dysfunction and heart failure. Acetyltransferase p300 (p300), a major epigenetic regulator, plays a pivotal role in heart development during embryogenesis, as deficiency or abnormal expression of p300 leads to embryonic death at early gestation periods due to deformation of the heart and neural tube. Acetyltransferase p300 controls heart development through histone acetylation-mediated chromatin remodeling and transcriptional regulation of genes required for cardiac development. In adult hearts, p300 is differentially expressed in different chambers and epigenetically controls cardiac gene expression. Deregulation of p300, in response to prohypertrophic and profibrogenic stress signals, is associated with increased recruitment of p300 to several genes including transcription factors, increased acetylation of specific lysines in histones and transcription factors, altered chromatin organization, and increased hypertrophic and fibrogenic gene expression. Cardiac hypertrophy and myocardial fibrogenesis are common pathological manifestations of several stress-induced accelerated cardiac aging-related pathologies, including high blood pressure-induced or environmentally induced cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, diabetes-induced cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. Numerous studies using cellular and animal models clearly indicate that pharmacologic or genetic normalization of p300 activity has the potential to prevent or halt the progression of cardiac aging pathologies. Based on these preclinical studies, development of safe, non-toxic, small molecule inhibitors/epidrugs targeting p300 is an ideal approach to control accelerated cardiac aging-related deaths worldwide.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ISSN 2152-5250
    ISSN 2152-5250
    DOI 10.14336/AD.2020.0401
    Database MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

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  7. Article ; Online: Emerging resistome diversity in clinical Vibrio cholerae strains revealing their role as potential reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance.

    De, Rituparna / Mukhopadhyay, Asish K / Ghosh, Manisha / Basak, Surajit / Dutta, Shanta

    Molecular biology reports

    2024  Volume 51, Issue 1, Page(s) 409

    Abstract: Background: This is a unique and novel study delineating the genotyping and subsequent prediction of AMR determinants of Vibrio cholerae revealing the potential of contemporary strains to serve as precursors of severe AMR crisis in cholera.: Methods ... ...

    Abstract Background: This is a unique and novel study delineating the genotyping and subsequent prediction of AMR determinants of Vibrio cholerae revealing the potential of contemporary strains to serve as precursors of severe AMR crisis in cholera.
    Methods and results: Genotyping of representative strains, VC1 and VC2 was undertaken to characterize antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) against chloramphenicol, SXT, nalidixic acid and streptomycin against which they were found to be resistant by antibiogram analysis in our previous investigation. strAB, sxt, sul2, qace∆1-sul1 were detected by PCR. Genome annotation and identification of ARGs with WGS helped to detect the presence of almG, varG, strA (APH(3'')-Ib), strB (APH(6)-Id), sul2, catB9, floR, CRP, dfrA1 genes. Signatures of resistance determinants and protein domains involved in antimicrobial resistance, primarily, efflux of antibiotics were identified on the basis of 30-100% homology to reference proteins. These domains were predicted to be involved in other metabolic functions on the basis of 100% identity with 100% coverage with reference protein and nucleotide sequences and were predicted to be of a diverse taxonomic origin accentuating the influence of the microbiota on AMR acquisition. Sequence analysis of QRDR (quinolone resistance-determining region) revealed SNPs. Cytoscape v3.8.2 was employed to analyse protein-protein interaction of MDR proteins, MdtA and EmrD-2, with nodes of vital AMR pathways. Vital nodes involved in efflux of different classes of antibiotics were found to be absent in VC1 and VC2 justifying the sensitivity of these strains to most antibiotics.
    Conclusions: The study helped to examine the resistome of VC isolated from recent outbreaks to understand the underlying reason of sensitivity to most antibiotics and also to characterize the ARGs in their genome. It revealed that VC is a reservoir of signatures of resistance determinants and serving as precursors for severe AMR crisis in cholera. This is the first study, to our knowledge, which has scrutinized and presented systematically, information on prospective domains which bear the potential of serving as AMR determinants in VC with the help of bioinformatic tools. This pioneering approach may help in the prediction of AMR landfalls and benefit epidemiological surveillance and early warning systems.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Vibrio cholerae/genetics ; Cholera/drug therapy ; Cholera/epidemiology ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology ; Prospective Studies ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial/genetics ; Microbial Sensitivity Tests
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-09
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 186544-4
    ISSN 1573-4978 ; 0301-4851
    ISSN (online) 1573-4978
    ISSN 0301-4851
    DOI 10.1007/s11033-024-09313-y
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  8. Article ; Online: Field evaluation of a simple and rapid diagnostic test, RLDT to detect Shigella and enterotoxigenic E. coli in Indian children.

    Chowdhury, Goutam / Ghosh, Debjani / Zhou, Yiyi / Deb, Alok K / Mukhopadhyay, Asish Kumar / Dutta, Shanta / Chakraborty, Subhra

    Scientific reports

    2024  Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 8816

    Abstract: The diagnostic assays currently used to detect Shigella spp. (Shigella) and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are complex or elaborate which make them difficult to apply in resource poor settings where these diseases are endemic. The simple and ... ...

    Abstract The diagnostic assays currently used to detect Shigella spp. (Shigella) and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are complex or elaborate which make them difficult to apply in resource poor settings where these diseases are endemic. The simple and rapid nucleic acid amplification-based assay "Rapid LAMP-based Diagnostic Test (RLDT)" was evaluated to detect Shigella spp (Shigella) and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and determine the epidemiology of these pathogens in Kolkata, India. Stool samples (n = 405) from children under five years old with diarrhea seeking care at the hospitals were tested, and 85(21%) and 68(17%) by RLDT, 91(23%) and 58(14%) by quantitative PCR (qPCR) and 35(9%) and 15(4%) by culture, were positive for Shigella and ETEC, respectively. The RLDT showed almost perfect agreement with qPCR, Kappa 0.96 and 0.89; sensitivity 93% and 98%; specificity 100% and 97% for Shigella and ETEC, respectively. While RLDT detected additional 12% Shigella and 13% ETEC than culture, all culture positives for Shigella and ETEC except one each were also positive by the RLDT, sensitivity 97% and 93% respectively. RLDT is a simple, sensitive, and rapid assay that could be implemented with minimum training in the endemic regions to strengthen the disease surveillance system and rapid outbreak detection.
    MeSH term(s) Child ; Humans ; Child, Preschool ; Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli/genetics ; Escherichia coli Infections/diagnosis ; Escherichia coli Infections/epidemiology ; Rapid Diagnostic Tests ; Shigella/genetics ; Diarrhea/diagnosis ; Diarrhea/epidemiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-16
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-59181-6
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  9. Article: Field evaluation of a simple and rapid diagnostic test, RLDT to detect Shigella and enterotoxigenic E. coli in Indian children.

    Chowdhury, Goutam / Ghosh, Debjani / Zhou, YiYi / Deb, Alok K / Mukhopadhyay, Asish Kumar / Dutta, Shanta / Chakraborty, Subhra

    Research square

    2023  

    Abstract: The diagnostic assays currently used to ... ...

    Abstract The diagnostic assays currently used to detect
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3293791/v1
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  10. Article ; Online: Prevalence and changing antimicrobial resistance profiles of Shigella spp. isolated from diarrheal patients in Kolkata during 2011-2019.

    Bose, Puja / Chowdhury, Goutam / Halder, Gourab / Ghosh, Debjani / Deb, Alok K / Kitahara, Kei / Miyoshi, Shin-Ichi / Morita, Masatomo / Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan / Dutta, Shanta / Mukhopadhyay, Asish Kumar

    PLoS neglected tropical diseases

    2024  Volume 18, Issue 2, Page(s) e0011964

    Abstract: Background: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence, characteristics, and antimicrobial resistance patterns of various Shigella serogroups isolated from patients with acute diarrhea of the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Kolkata ... ...

    Abstract Background: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence, characteristics, and antimicrobial resistance patterns of various Shigella serogroups isolated from patients with acute diarrhea of the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Kolkata from 2011-2019.
    Principal findings: During the study period, Shigella isolates were tested for their serogroups, antibiotic resistance pattern and virulence gene profiles. A total of 5.8% of Shigella spp. were isolated, among which S. flexneri (76.1%) was the highest, followed by S. sonnei (18.7%), S. boydii (3.4%), and S. dysenteriae (1.8%). Antimicrobial resistance against nalidixic acid was higher in almost all the Shigella isolates, while the resistance to β-lactamases, fluoroquinolones, tetracycline, and chloramphenicol diverged. The occurrence of multidrug resistance was found to be linked with various genes encoding drug-resistance, multiple mutations in the topoisomerase genes, and mobile genetic elements. All the isolates were positive for the invasion plasmid antigen H gene (ipaH). Dendrogram analysis of the plasmid and pulsed-field electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles revealed 70-80% clonal similarity among each Shigella serotype.
    Conclusion: This comprehensive long-term surveillance report highlights the clonal diversity of clinical Shigella strains circulating in Kolkata, India, and shows alarming resistance trends towards recommended antibiotics. The elucidation of this study's outcome is helpful not only in identifying emerging antimicrobial resistance patterns of Shigella spp. but also in developing treatment guidelines appropriate for this region.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Prevalence ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial ; Chloramphenicol ; Diarrhea/epidemiology
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Chloramphenicol (66974FR9Q1)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-20
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2429704-5
    ISSN 1935-2735 ; 1935-2735
    ISSN (online) 1935-2735
    ISSN 1935-2735
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011964
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