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  1. Article ; Online: Dose-Dependent Protective Effect of Hygrophila auriculata Seeds on Cyproterone Acetate-Induced Testicular Dysfunction.

    Ghosh, Chaitali / Maity, Ratnabali / Roy, Aaishi / Mallick, Chhanda

    Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)

    2023  Volume 30, Issue 11, Page(s) 3359–3371

    Abstract: Infertility affects 15% of global population. This study was designed to search out the most effective dose of chloroform fraction of hydro-ethanolic extract of Hygrophila auriculata seed to ameliorate cyproterone acetate (CPA)-treated male subfertility. ...

    Abstract Infertility affects 15% of global population. This study was designed to search out the most effective dose of chloroform fraction of hydro-ethanolic extract of Hygrophila auriculata seed to ameliorate cyproterone acetate (CPA)-treated male subfertility. The rats were made subfertile by CPA at the dose of 2.5 mg/100gm body weight for 45 days. The male subfertility represented by low sperm concentration, less motile, less viable, and less hypo osmotic tail swelled spermatozoa in CPA-treated group. Serum LH, FSH, and testosterone levels were significantly decreased in CPA-treated group in respect to control. Androgenic key enzyme Δ
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Male ; Rats ; Animals ; Cyproterone Acetate/adverse effects ; Cyproterone Acetate/metabolism ; Testosterone ; Chloroform/adverse effects ; Chloroform/metabolism ; Seeds ; Testis/metabolism ; Infertility, Male/metabolism ; Acanthaceae ; Body Weight ; Oxidative Stress
    Chemical Substances Cyproterone Acetate (4KM2BN5JHF) ; Testosterone (3XMK78S47O) ; Chloroform (7V31YC746X)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-07
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2276411-2
    ISSN 1933-7205 ; 1933-7191
    ISSN (online) 1933-7205
    ISSN 1933-7191
    DOI 10.1007/s43032-023-01279-9
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  2. Article: Multiple hurdle mechanism and blood-brain barrier in epilepsy: glucocorticoid receptor-heat shock proteins on drug regulation.

    Achar, Aneesha / Ghosh, Chaitali

    Neural regeneration research

    2021  Volume 16, Issue 12, Page(s) 2427–2428

    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-28
    Publishing country India
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2388460-5
    ISSN 1876-7958 ; 1673-5374
    ISSN (online) 1876-7958
    ISSN 1673-5374
    DOI 10.4103/1673-5374.313046
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  3. Article ; Online: Regional variations in allergen-induced airway inflammation correspond to changes in soluble guanylyl cyclase heme and expression of heme oxygenase-1.

    Sumi, Mamta P / Westcott, Rosemary / Stuehr, Eric / Ghosh, Chaitali / Stuehr, Dennis J / Ghosh, Arnab

    FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

    2024  Volume 38, Issue 6, Page(s) e23572

    Abstract: Asthma is characterized by airway remodeling and hyperreactivity. Our earlier studies determined that the nitric oxide (NO)-soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC)-cGMP pathway plays a significant role in human lung bronchodilation. However, this bronchodilation ... ...

    Abstract Asthma is characterized by airway remodeling and hyperreactivity. Our earlier studies determined that the nitric oxide (NO)-soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC)-cGMP pathway plays a significant role in human lung bronchodilation. However, this bronchodilation is dysfunctional in asthma due to high NO levels, which cause sGC to become heme-free and desensitized to its natural activator, NO. In order to determine how asthma impacts the various lung segments/lobes, we mapped the inflammatory regions of lungs to determine whether such regions coincided with molecular signatures of sGC dysfunction. We demonstrate using murine models of asthma (OVA and CFA/HDM) that the inflamed segments of these murine lungs can be tracked by upregulated expression of HO1 and these regions in turn overlap with regions of heme-free sGC as evidenced by a decreased sGC-α1β1 heterodimer and an increased response to heme-independent sGC activator, BAY 60-2770, relative to naïve uninflamed regions. We also find that NO generated from iNOS upregulation in the inflamed segments has a higher impact on developing heme-free sGC as increasing iNOS activity correlates linearly with elevated heme-independent sGC activation. This excess NO works by affecting the epithelial lung hemoglobin (Hb) to become heme-free in asthma, thereby causing the Hb to lose its NO scavenging function and exposing the underlying smooth muscle sGC to excess NO, which in turn becomes heme-free. Recognition of these specific lung segments enhances our understanding of the inflamed lungs in asthma with the ultimate aim to evaluate potential therapies and suggest that regional and not global inflammation impacts lung function in asthma.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Humans ; Mice ; Allergens ; Asthma ; Heme ; Heme Oxygenase-1/metabolism ; Inflammation ; Nitric Oxide ; Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase
    Chemical Substances Allergens ; Heme (42VZT0U6YR) ; Heme Oxygenase-1 (EC 1.14.14.18) ; Nitric Oxide (31C4KY9ESH) ; Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase (EC 4.6.1.2) ; Hmox1 protein, mouse (EC 1.14.14.18)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 639186-2
    ISSN 1530-6860 ; 0892-6638
    ISSN (online) 1530-6860
    ISSN 0892-6638
    DOI 10.1096/fj.202301626RRR
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  4. Article ; Online: COVID-19-Associated Neurological Disorders: The Potential Route of CNS Invasion and Blood-Brain Relevance.

    Achar, Aneesha / Ghosh, Chaitali

    Cells

    2020  Volume 9, Issue 11

    Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel human coronavirus that has sparked a global pandemic of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19). The virus invades human cells through the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) ... ...

    Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel human coronavirus that has sparked a global pandemic of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19). The virus invades human cells through the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor-driven pathway, primarily targeting the human respiratory tract. However, emerging reports of neurological manifestations demonstrate the neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV-2. This review highlights the possible routes by which SARS-CoV-2 may invade the central nervous system (CNS) and provides insight into recent case reports of COVID-19-associated neurological disorders, namely ischaemic stroke, encephalitis, encephalopathy, epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, and inflammatory-mediated neurological disorders. We hypothesize that SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion, neuroinflammation, and blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction may be implicated in the development of the observed disorders; however, further research is critical to understand the detailed mechanisms and pathway of infectivity behind CNS pathogenesis.
    MeSH term(s) Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 ; Betacoronavirus/immunology ; Betacoronavirus/metabolism ; Blood-Brain Barrier/physiopathology ; Blood-Brain Barrier/virology ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/complications ; Coronavirus Infections/immunology ; Coronavirus Infections/virology ; Cytokines/metabolism ; Humans ; Nervous System Diseases/complications ; Pandemics ; Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A/metabolism ; Pneumonia, Viral/complications ; Pneumonia, Viral/immunology ; Pneumonia, Viral/virology ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Virus Internalization
    Chemical Substances Cytokines ; Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A (EC 3.4.15.1) ; ACE2 protein, human (EC 3.4.17.23) ; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (EC 3.4.17.23)
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-10-27
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2661518-6
    ISSN 2073-4409 ; 2073-4409
    ISSN (online) 2073-4409
    ISSN 2073-4409
    DOI 10.3390/cells9112360
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  5. Article ; Online: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a newly emerged pathogen: an overview.

    Rathore, Jitendra Singh / Ghosh, Chaitali

    Pathogens and disease

    2020  Volume 78, Issue 6

    Abstract: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral pneumonia, responsible for the recent pandemic, and originated from Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The causative agent of the outbreak was identified as coronavirus and designated as severe acute ... ...

    Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral pneumonia, responsible for the recent pandemic, and originated from Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The causative agent of the outbreak was identified as coronavirus and designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2). Few years back, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS- CoV) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) were reported to be highly pathogenic and caused severe infections in humans. In the current situation SARS-CoV-2 has become the third highly pathogenic coronavirus that is responsible for the present outbreak in human population. At the time of this review, there were more than 14 007 791 confirmed COVID-19 patients which associated with over 597 105 deaths in more then 216 countries across the globe (as reported by World Health Organization). In this review we have discussed about SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARC-CoV-2, their reservoirs, role of spike proteins and immunogenicity. We have also covered the diagnosis, therapeutics and vaccine status of SARS-CoV-2.
    MeSH term(s) Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 ; Animals ; Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use ; Betacoronavirus/drug effects ; Betacoronavirus/genetics ; Betacoronavirus/immunology ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/drug therapy ; Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology ; Coronavirus Infections/pathology ; Disease Reservoirs/veterinary ; Disease Reservoirs/virology ; Humans ; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus/drug effects ; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus/genetics ; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus/immunology ; Pandemics ; Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A/metabolism ; Pneumonia, Viral/drug therapy ; Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology ; Pneumonia, Viral/pathology ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/drug therapy ; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/epidemiology ; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/pathology ; Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/immunology ; Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/metabolism ; Zoonoses/virology
    Chemical Substances Antiviral Agents ; Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus ; spike protein, SARS-CoV-2 ; Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A (EC 3.4.15.1) ; ACE2 protein, human (EC 3.4.17.23) ; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (EC 3.4.17.23)
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ISSN 2049-632X
    ISSN (online) 2049-632X
    DOI 10.1093/femspd/ftaa042
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  6. Article ; Online: Effect of gestational disorders on preterm birth, low birthweight, and NICU admission.

    Ghosh, Chaitali / Wojtowycz, Martha

    Archives of gynecology and obstetrics

    2020  Volume 303, Issue 2, Page(s) 419–426

    Abstract: Objective: Many modifiable maternal behaviors and experiences before and during pregnancy are associated with adverse health outcomes. The relationship between a number of maternal and gestational disorders and perinatal outcomes (preterm birth, low ... ...

    Abstract Objective: Many modifiable maternal behaviors and experiences before and during pregnancy are associated with adverse health outcomes. The relationship between a number of maternal and gestational disorders and perinatal outcomes (preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)) admission in the Central New York population is determined using the Statewide Perinatal Data System, in a retrospective population-based cohort study.
    Methods: Singleton births excluding newborns with congenital anomalies among 165,739 women between 2004 and 2012 are included in this study. Multivariable logistic regression analysis is used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) adjusted for maternal age, race, education, employment, parity, body mass index, smoking, drug use, depression, abortions, gender of child, prenatal care, and hospital level.
    Results: Previous preterm birth and vaginal bleeding are independent high-risk factors for all three perinatal outcomes, pre-pregnancy diabetes (OR 4.95, 95% CI 4.34, 5.64) for preterm birth and (OR 7.45, 95% CI 6.58, 8.44) for NICU admission; and gestational hypertension (OR 4.35, 95% CI 4.03, 4.70) for low birth weight. Among infections, bacterial vaginosis is retained in the multivariable model as a risk factor for preterm and low birth weight while hepatitis C is a risk factor for NICU admission.
    Conclusions: Our findings suggest the continued importance of addressing the need to provide preconception and inter conception care for women since many modifiable risk factors are correlated and need to be addressed well before the woman becomes pregnant.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Birth Weight ; Cohort Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced/epidemiology ; Infant, Low Birth Weight ; Infant, Newborn ; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal/statistics & numerical data ; Maternal Age ; Parity ; Pre-Eclampsia/epidemiology ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy in Diabetics/epidemiology ; Premature Birth/epidemiology ; Prenatal Care ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-09-08
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 896455-5
    ISSN 1432-0711 ; 0932-0067
    ISSN (online) 1432-0711
    ISSN 0932-0067
    DOI 10.1007/s00404-020-05760-7
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  7. Article ; Online: Computational exploration of the genomic assignments, molecular structure, and dynamics of the

    Chaudhary, Shobhi / Ali, Waseem / Yadav, Mohit / Singh, Garima / Gupta, Nomita / Grover, Sonam / Ghosh, Chaitali / Chandra, Subhash / Rathore, Jitendra Singh

    Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

    2024  , Page(s) 1–15

    Abstract: Toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules, initially discovered on bacterial plasmids and subsequently identified within chromosomal contexts, hold a pivotal role in the realm of bacterial physiology. Among these, the pioneering TA system, ...

    Abstract Toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules, initially discovered on bacterial plasmids and subsequently identified within chromosomal contexts, hold a pivotal role in the realm of bacterial physiology. Among these, the pioneering TA system,
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 49157-3
    ISSN 1538-0254 ; 0739-1102
    ISSN (online) 1538-0254
    ISSN 0739-1102
    DOI 10.1080/07391102.2024.2311337
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  8. Article: Regions of Inflammation in mouse asthma correspond to regions of heme-free soluble guanylyl cyclase and can be tracked by marked expression of heme-oxygenase-1.

    Sumi, Mamta / Westcott, Rosemary / Stuehr, Eric / Ghosh, Chaitali / Stuehr, Dennis J / Ghosh, Arnab

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2023  

    Abstract: Asthma is characterized by airway remodeling and hyperreactivity. Our earlier studies determined that the Nitric Oxide (NO)-soluble Guanylyl Cyclase (sGC)-cGMP pathway plays a significant role in human lung bronchodilation. However this bronchodilation ... ...

    Abstract Asthma is characterized by airway remodeling and hyperreactivity. Our earlier studies determined that the Nitric Oxide (NO)-soluble Guanylyl Cyclase (sGC)-cGMP pathway plays a significant role in human lung bronchodilation. However this bronchodilation is dysfunctional in asthma due to high NO levels which cause sGC to become heme-free and desensitized to its natural activator, NO. In order to determine how asthma impacts the various lung segments/lobes we mapped the inflammatory regions of lungs to determine whether such regions coincided with molecular signatures of sGC dysfunction. We demonstrate using models of mouse asthma (OVA, CFA/HDM) that the inflammed segments of the mouse asthma lungs can be tracked by upregulated expression of HO1 and these regions in-turn overlap with regions of heme-free sGC as evidenced by a decreased sGC-α1β1 heterodimer and an increased response to heme-independent sGC activator, BAY 60-2770 relative to naïve uninflamed regions. We also find that NO generated from iNOS upregulation in the inflamed segments has a higher impact in developing heme-free sGC as increasing iNOS activity correlates linearly with elevated heme-independent sGC activation. This excess NO works by affecting the epithelial lung hemoglobin (Hb) to become heme-free in asthma thereby causing the Hb to lose its NO scavenging function and exposing the underlying smooth muscle sGC to excess NO, which in-turn becomes heme-free. Recognition of these specific lung segments enhance our understanding of the inflammed lungs in asthma with the ultimate aim to evaluate potential therapies and suggests that regional and not global inflammation impacts lung function in asthma.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2023.11.29.569245
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  9. Article ; Online: Neurovascular glucocorticoid receptors and glucocorticoids: implications in health, neurological disorders and drug therapy.

    Williams, Sherice / Ghosh, Chaitali

    Drug discovery today

    2019  Volume 25, Issue 1, Page(s) 89–106

    Abstract: Glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) are ubiquitous transcription factors widely studied for their role in controlling events related to inflammation, stress and homeostasis. Recently, GRs have reemerged as crucial targets of investigation in neurological ... ...

    Abstract Glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) are ubiquitous transcription factors widely studied for their role in controlling events related to inflammation, stress and homeostasis. Recently, GRs have reemerged as crucial targets of investigation in neurological disorders, with a focus on pharmacological strategies to direct complex mechanistic GR regulation and improve therapy. In the brain, GRs control functions necessary for neurovascular integrity, including responses to stress, neurological changes mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and brain-specific responses to corticosteroids. Therefore, this review will examine GR regulation at the neurovascular interface in normal and pathological conditions, pharmacological GR modulation and glucocorticoid insensitivity in neurological disorders.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Brain/blood supply ; Brain/metabolism ; Brain/physiology ; Drug Resistance ; Glucocorticoids/therapeutic use ; Humans ; Nervous System Diseases/drug therapy ; Nervous System Diseases/metabolism ; Receptors, Glucocorticoid/metabolism ; Receptors, Glucocorticoid/physiology
    Chemical Substances Glucocorticoids ; Receptors, Glucocorticoid
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-09-18
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1324988-5
    ISSN 1878-5832 ; 1359-6446
    ISSN (online) 1878-5832
    ISSN 1359-6446
    DOI 10.1016/j.drudis.2019.09.009
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  10. Article: Drug Delivery Challenges in Brain Disorders across the Blood-Brain Barrier: Novel Methods and Future Considerations for Improved Therapy.

    Achar, Aneesha / Myers, Rosemary / Ghosh, Chaitali

    Biomedicines

    2021  Volume 9, Issue 12

    Abstract: Due to the physiological and structural properties of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), the delivery of drugs to the brain poses a unique challenge in patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. Several strategies have been investigated to ... ...

    Abstract Due to the physiological and structural properties of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), the delivery of drugs to the brain poses a unique challenge in patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. Several strategies have been investigated to circumvent the barrier for CNS therapeutics such as in epilepsy, stroke, brain cancer and traumatic brain injury. In this review, we summarize current and novel routes of drug interventions, discuss pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics at the neurovascular interface, and propose additional factors that may influence drug delivery. At present, both technological and mechanistic tools are devised to assist in overcoming the BBB for more efficient and improved drug bioavailability in the treatment of clinically devastating brain disorders.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-04
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2720867-9
    ISSN 2227-9059
    ISSN 2227-9059
    DOI 10.3390/biomedicines9121834
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