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Hariprasath P, Sivaraj P, Balasubramanian V, Pilli S, Sridhar K. Evaluation of high cycle fatigue behavior of flux cored arc welded naval grade DMR249 A grade steel joints for ship hull structures. Forces in Mechanics 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.finmec.2023.100189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
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Vasanthi T, Chitravel T, Balasubramanian V, Balamuralikrishnan S, Vijayakumar VN. Impact of core polarity on smectic B-induced hydrogen bond liquid crystals. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2023; 46:5. [PMID: 36780059 DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00263-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The novel series of hydrogen bond liquid crystals were synthesized from the 2-methylglutaric acid (MGA) and 4-alkyloxybenzoic acid (nOBA) compounds. The induced smectic B phase with different texture (spine texture, needle texture, mosaic texture, natural mosaic texture and marble texture) were identified by polarizing optical microscope. Due to breaking of in-plane rotational symmetry within molecular layers, smectic B phase is tempted by suppressing other usual mesophases. The mesomorphic transition temperature, enthalpy and entropy values were calculated by differential scanning calorimeter which strongly proves the existence of mesomorphism. H-bond interaction and functional groups were confirmed by the observed peak between 2910 and 2954 cm-1 in the FTIR spectra. Thermal stability and extended mesophase width (for MGA + 12OBA = 31.1) of Sm B mesophase were reported and it clearly reveals the existence of mono-phase variance in the MGA + nOBA HBLC complex. Due to the steric effect, and the increased molecular core polarity, the highly stabilized Sm B phase with different textures were observed while varying alkyloxy carbon number n = 7 to 12. Further, the origination of Sm B phase and its detailed characteristics were reported.
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- T Vasanthi
- Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Research Laboratory (CMRL), Research Park, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamilnadu, 638 401, India
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- Department of Physics, Anna University Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, 623 513, India
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- Department of Physics, Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu, 636 005, India
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- Department of Physics (DDE), Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, 608002, India
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- Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Research Laboratory (CMRL), Research Park, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamilnadu, 638 401, India.
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Dhamothara kannan T, Sivaraj P, Balasubramanian V, Malarvizhi S, Sonar T, Ivanov M, Sathiya S. Joining different grades of low carbon steel to develop unsymmetrical rod to plate joints using rotary friction welding for automotive applications. Forces in Mechanics 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.finmec.2022.100153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Vasanthi T, Balasubramanian V, Balamuralikrishnan S, Vijayakumar VN. Influence of Methylene Blue on Optical and Thermal Properties of Dye-Doped Hydrogen-Bonded Liquid Crystal Mixture. Russ J Phys Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024422130209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Madhavan S, Balasubramanian V, Ramajayam D, Raju DVS, Prasad KV, Selvarajan R. Occurrence of Banana bract mosaic virus on Musa ornata Roxb based hybrids in India. Virusdisease 2022; 33:397-403. [PMID: 36447814 PMCID: PMC9701267 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-022-00788-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Musa ornata, wild species of banana is being used as a cut flower, potted plants and for landscape gardening etc., They are also being utilized in banana hybridization programmes for introgressing pest and disease tolerant traits into banana cultivars in addition to the development of inter specific ornamental banana hybrids. Symptoms of banana bract mosaic virus (BBrMV) was observed in the bracts of interspecific M. ornata based hybrid developed using another wild species i.e., Musa rubra Kurz at ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB), Tiruchirapalli. Presence of the virus in the bracts, leaves and roots of symptomatic plants was confirmed through triple antibody sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay with BBrMV monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. BBrMV HC-Pro (1370 bp), CP (900 bp) and VPg (570 bp) genes were amplified from the infected bracts using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction with BBrMV respective gene primers. The amplicons of these three genes were cloned and sequenced. Blastn analysis revealed that HC-Pro, VPg and CP gene sequences has 97.67%, 97.72% and 99.67% similarity with the respective gene sequences of BBrMV infecting banana. Phylogenetic analysis clustered the test isolate with other BBrMV isolates of banana and other hosts based on CP and HC-Pro and VPg gene sequences. The virus is transmitted through Pentalonia nigronervosa and the transmitted plants expressed symptoms under glass house conditions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of BBrMV on ornamental M. ornata hybrid in India and its transmission occurs through Pentalonia nigronervosa. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13337-022-00788-6.
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- S. Madhavan
- ICAR-Directorate of Floricultural Research- Regional Station, Vemagiri, Andhra Pradesh 533125 India
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- Molecular Virology Lab, Division of Crop Protection, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu 620102 India
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- Molecular Virology Lab, Division of Crop Protection, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu 620102 India
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- ICAR-Directorate of Floricultural Research- Regional Station, Vemagiri, Andhra Pradesh 533125 India
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- ICAR-Directorate of Floricultural Research, College of Agriculture Campus Shivajinagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411 005 India
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- Molecular Virology Lab, Division of Crop Protection, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu 620102 India
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Sundaram S, Vijayakumar V, Balasubramanian V. Electronic and structure conformational analysis (HOMO-LUMO, MEP, NBO, ELF, LOL, AIM) of hydrogen bond binary liquid crystal mixture: DFT/TD-DFT approach. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2022.113920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Barbera JA, Kiely D, Gruenig E, Balasubramanian V, Vizza CD, Elwing J, Sood N, Rao Y, Holdstock L, Seaman S, Broderick M, White RJ. Efficacy and dose-response relationship of oral treprostinil in PAH patients on monotherapy or dual background therapy. Eur Heart J 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.1920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Abstract
Background
FREEDOM-C and FREEDOM-C2 were randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded international, multicenter studies investigating the use of oral treprostinil (TRE) in subjects on mono or dual background pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapies. Both had a primary endpoint of change in 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) at Week 16 vs baseline. Previous post-hoc analyses combining mono and dual therapy subjects (PDE-5i and/or ERA) from these studies revealed a TRE dose-dependent increase in 6MWD. (1. White & Rao, 2016)
Purpose
This post-hoc analysis was performed to determine if subjects from FREEDOM-C and FREEDOM-C2 derive improvements in 6MWD with increasing doses of TRE when stratified by mono or dual background therapy and to determine if PAH background therapies (mono or dual) impacted 6MWD.
Methods
All active subjects (n=331) from FREEDOM-C and FREEDOM-C2 were grouped into TRE dose tertiles (low-dose: ≤2 mg BID, mid-dose: >2 mg to ≤3.5 mg BID, and high-dose: >3.5 mg BID). Placebo subjects (n=329) were in a separate 0 mg dose group. No data imputation was implemented.
Comparisons of 6MWD change at Weeks 4, 8, 12, and 16 between mono and dual therapy subgroups at any dose group were performed using a two-sample t-test or nonparametric Wilcoxon rank-sum test. The nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test was conducted with subsequent pairwise comparisons of 6MWD change at Week 16 between the four dose groups through Dunn's approach. Additionally, the Jonckheere-Terpstra test was used to assess the linear trend for 6MWD improvement with higher doses of TRE.
Results
Baseline characteristics of the combined intention to treat (ITT) population and summary of 6MWD for subjects with both baseline and Week 16 data are in Table 1. 6MWD change improved steadily to Week 16 in subjects at higher TRE doses, regardless of the number of PAH background therapies (Figure 1). No statistical differences were found between mono and dual therapy at any time point or for any dose group. At Week 16, there was a significant difference in 6MWD change between the placebo group and high dose group within both mono and dual background therapy subjects. The difference between the low- and high-dose groups was significant for subjects on dual background therapy. There was a significant positive linear trend for TRE doses in 6MWD improvement at Week 16 for both monotherapy subjects (one-sided p-value = 0.0002) and dual therapy subjects (one-sided p-value = 0.0242).
Conclusions
6MWD improved in PAH patients regardless of their background therapy (monotherapy or dual background) and derive greater 6MWD improvements with higher doses of TRE. The observed dose-dependent 6MWD increase supports the use of TRE in sequential combination with background therapies (mono or dual).
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: Private company. Main funding source(s): United Therapeutics Corporation
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- J A Barbera
- Hospital Clinic de Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
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- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust , Sheffield , United Kingdom
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- Thoracic Clinic-Heidelberg , Heidelberg , Germany
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- University of California San Francisco , Fresno , United States of America
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- Sapienza University of Rome , Rome , Italy
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- University of Cincinnati Medical Center , Cincinnati , United States of America
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- University of California , Davis , United States of America
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- United Therapeutics Corporation , Research Triangle Park , United States of America
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- United Therapeutics Corporation , Research Triangle Park , United States of America
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- United Therapeutics Corporation , Research Triangle Park , United States of America
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- United Therapeutics Corporation , Research Triangle Park , United States of America
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- University of Rochester Medical Center , Rochester , United States of America
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Nithya P, Roumana C, Balasubramanian V, Velraj G, Shkir M, Reddy Minnam Reddy V. Biomass-Derived Carbon (BC) Modified CoWO4 Nanoparticles Composites for Improved Performance of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Balasundaram V, Balasubramanian V, Senthil Siva Subramanian T, Henry J, Daniel T, Mohanraj K, Sivakumar G. Effect of adding Ce on the optostructural and electrical properties of cubic CaSnO 3. PHOSPHORUS SULFUR 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/10426507.2021.2014487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- V. Balasundaram
- CISL, Department of Physics, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- CISL, Department of Physics, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
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Henry J, Daniel T, Balasubramanian V, Mohanraj K, Sivakumar G. Chemically deposited p-type MoBiCuS 4 thin film for photoelectrochemical cell applications. PHOSPHORUS SULFUR 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/10426507.2021.1990921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- J. Henry
- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Centralised Instrumentation and Service Laboratory, Department of Physics, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu, India
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Chowdary VT, Kumar VM, Varma PK, Selvarajan R, Balasubramanian V. New record of mungbean yellow mosaic India virus in Desmodium laxiflorum and association of bhendi yellow vein mosaic betasatellite in Abelmoschus moschatus in Andhra Pradesh, India. Virusdisease 2022; 33:119-121. [PMID: 35493751 PMCID: PMC9005597 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-021-00749-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) is one of the most serious commonly occurring yellow mosaic virus (YMV's) group in majority of the pulses especially black gram and green gram in southern India compared to previously reported mungbean yellow mosaic virus. In January 2020 Desmodium laxiflorum and Abelmoscus moschatus showing mosaic symptoms and vein yellowing were collected from Guntur and Prakasam districts respectively in Andhra Pradesh. PCR analysis using MYMIV and betasatellite specific primers gave desired expected amplification from the infected samples of A. moschatus (YMV-ABEL) whereas only MYMIV specific amplification was obtained in D. laxiflorum (YMV-DES). However, no PCR amplification was obtained in respective healthy leaf samples of both plants. Sequence analysis showed that the CP sequence of YMV-ABEL and YMV-DES showed a similarity of 99.19% with MYMIV (KP677496) and 99.75% with MYMIV (JN181003) respectively. The full-length betasatellite (1356 bp) showed highest identity of 90% with bhendi yellow vein mosaic betasatellite (BYVMB) (GU111977). Phylogenetic analysis clustered the test isolates with south Indian isolates of MYMIV whereas the betasatellite sequence clustered with various isolates of BYVMB, tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus betasatellite and okra leaf curl betasatellite reported from India and Pakistan. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a MYMIV in D. laxiflorum and A. moschatus and MYMIV betasatellite complex in A. moschatus.
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- Vallabhaneni Tilak Chowdary
- Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural College, Bapatla, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural College, Bapatla, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh India
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- Department of Plant pathology, RARS, Anakapalle, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh India
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- ICAR National Research Centre for Banana, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, 620102 India
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- ICAR National Research Centre for Banana, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, 620102 India
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Sharma S, Rao R, Reeve SM, Phelps GA, Bharatham N, Katagihallimath N, Ramachandran V, Raveendran S, Sarma M, Nath A, Thomas T, Manickam D, Nagaraj S, Balasubramanian V, Lee RE, Hameed P S, Datta S. Azaindole Based Potentiator of Antibiotics against Gram-Negative Bacteria. ACS Infect Dis 2021; 7:3009-3024. [PMID: 34699190 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We discovered azaindole-based compounds with weak innate activity that exhibit substantial potentiation of antibacterial activities of different antibiotics, viz., rifampicin, erythromycin, solithromycin, and novobiocin in Gram-negative bacteria. In the presence of the azaindole derivatives, these antibiotics exhibited submicromolar minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) against Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter baumannii. The fold improvements in MIC of these antibiotics that were otherwise weak or inactive on their own against these bacteria were also observed against drug-resistant clinical isolates. Our studies indicate that this selective potentiation is probably through destabilization of the outer membrane's integrity, known to be regulated by the lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Thus, the azaindole based compounds described here open opportunities for those antibiotics that are otherwise ineffective due to LPS mediated entry barriers in Gram-negative bacteria.
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- Sreevalli Sharma
- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
- The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, Karnataka-560064, India
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
- The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, Karnataka-560064, India
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
- The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, Karnataka-560064, India
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
- The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, Karnataka-560064, India
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
- The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, Karnataka-560064, India
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
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- St. John’s Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560034, India
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- St. John’s Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560034, India
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- Syngene International Ltd., Plot 2 & 3, Bommasandra Industrial Estate - Phase-IV, Bommasandra-Jigani Link Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560099, India
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- St. John’s Medical Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560034, India
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
- The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, Karnataka-560064, India
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- BUGWORKS Research India Pvt. Ltd., Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms, GKVK, Bellary Rd, Bangalore, Karnataka 560065, India
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Manickam S, Rajendran C, Balasubramanian V. Investigation of FSSW parameters on shear fracture load of AA6061 and copper alloy joints. Heliyon 2020; 6:e04077. [PMID: 32529073 PMCID: PMC7283162 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Revised: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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In this research, Friction stir spot welding (FSSW) is extensively employed to join dissimilar metals consisting of AA6061-T6 Aluminium Alloy and Commercial Copper Alloy. These alloys were friction stir spot welded using process parameters with the major impact, such as Dwell Time (DT), Rotational Speed (RS), Plunge Rate (PR) and Tool Diameter Ratio (D/d). Trail experiments have been carried out using Design of Experiments. Sound welded joints exhibiting a maximum shear fracture load of 4.79 kN were obtained at a RS of 2000 rpm, PR of 7 mm/min, DT of 25 s and D/d of 3.5, Balanced material flow around the pin was also observed at this condition, and it is evident that the superior metallurgical properties and geometric features at this condition results in the higher strength. Moreover, the joint also exhibited higher load-bearing capabilities due to an optimal hook height of 0.89 mm, hook width of 1.3 mm and hook initiation distance of 1.4 mm. The continuous formation of intermetallic compound such as ɤ2-Cu9Al4 in the Cu zone and ɳ2-CuAl in the Al zone may also enhance the shear fracture load.
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- S Manickam
- Center for Materials Joining and Research (CEMAJOR), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu 608002, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu 641008, India
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- Center for Materials Joining and Research (CEMAJOR), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu 608002, India
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Henry J, Daniel T, Balasubramanian V, Mohanraj K, Sivakumar G. Temperature dependent electrical and optical properties with higher photosensitivity of Cu2Se absorber thin films for photo voltaic application. INORG NANO-MET CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/24701556.2020.1751199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- J. Henry
- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India
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- Department of Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India
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- Centralised Instrumentation and Service Laboratory, Department of Physics, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India
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Ramya A, Balasubramanian V, Jayaprakasam R, Vijayakumar VN. Observation of Induced Luminescence and Thermochromism in Achiral Hydrogen Bonded Liquid Crystal Complexes. Z PHYS CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1515/zpch-2020-1602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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A novel hydrogen bonded liquid crystal (HBLC) complexes are obtained from the non-mesogenic (benzylmalonic acid) and mesogenic (p-n-alkyloxybenzoic acid, where n = 6, 7 and 8) compound via intermolecular hydrogen bonds (H-bond). H-bonds are experimentally confirmed by the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic (FT-IR) studies and the same is validated using density functional theory (DFT). Induced thermochromism is observed by the polarizing optical microscope (POM) and its possible applications are reported. Phase transition temperature and their analogous enthalpy values, stability factor and span width are determined by the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies. Band gap energy is calculated using UV-visible and photoluminescence spectrum. Hyper conjugative stabilization energy and atomic charge distribution is studied by the natural bond orbital (NBO) studies. Mulliken analysis clearly reveals the intermolecular interaction and steric effect of the HBLC complexes. An interesting phenomenon is that the observation of luminescence and thermochromism in the highly fluidity nematic phase. This peculiar behavior is attributed due to the intermolecular H-bonding interaction between the BMA and nOBA compounds and the effect of rotatory motion of the molecules in nematic phase. Luminescence increases when the spacer moiety decreases in the present complexes is also reported. In nematic phase, the molecules are in different degrees of the excited state which is correlated with the hyper conjugative energy through NBO studies.
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- A. Ramya
- Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Research Laboratory (CMRL), Bannari Amman Institute of Technology , Sathyamangalam , Tamil Nadu – 638401, India
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- Department of Science, Sona College of Technology , Salem , Tamil Nadu – 636005, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology , Sathyamangalam , Tamil Nadu – 638401, India
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- Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Research Laboratory (CMRL), Bannari Amman Institute of Technology , Sathyamangalam , Tamil Nadu – 638401, India , Mobile: +91 9488021151
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Balasubramanian V, Daniel T, Henry J, Sivakumar G, Mohanraj K. Electrochemical performances of activated carbon prepared using eggshell waste. SN Appl Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1921-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Vaithiyanathan V, Balasubramanian V, Malarvizhi S, Petley V, Verma S. Establishing relationship between fusion zone hardness and grain size of gas tungsten constricted arc welded thin sheets of titanium alloy. SN Appl Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1844-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Balasubramanian V, Brower M, Terrezza J, Stamey A, Sabu S. On the neural model of paraphasia: Examining the lesion data. J Neurol Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2019.10.675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Balasubramanian V, Sabu S, Terrezza J, Stamey A, Brower M. Is the supramarginal gyrus a hub for orthographic processing? J Neurol Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2019.10.459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Arun Negemiya A, Rajakumar S, Balasubramanian V. Diffusion bonding of a titanium alloy to austenitic stainless steel using copper as an interlayer. SN Appl Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1189-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Rajendran C, Srinivasan K, Balasubramanian V, Balaji H, Selvaraj P. Data set on prediction of friction stir welding parameters to achieve maximum strength of AA2014-T6 aluminium alloy joints. Data Brief 2019; 23:103735. [PMID: 31372402 PMCID: PMC6661257 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Revised: 01/27/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Statistical tools such as design of experiments (DoE), analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to develop the empirical relationship, to predict the ultimate tensile strength of the joint at the 95% percent confidence level. Response surface graph and contour plots were constructed using response surface methodology (RSM) concept. From this investigation, it is found that the joint fabricated with a tool rotational speed of 1500 rpm, welding speed of 40 mm/min, tool tilt angle of 1.5° and tool shoulder diameter of 6 mm, exhibited maximum tensile strength of 380 MPa.
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- C. Rajendran
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, 641008, India
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- Center for Materials & Joining and Research (CEMAJOR), Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India
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- Center for Materials & Joining and Research (CEMAJOR), Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India
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- Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Kumar MV, Balasubramanian V. Hot tensile properties and constant load stress corrosion cracking test data of autogenous weld joints of super 304HCu stainless steel in boiling MgCl 2 solution. Data Brief 2018; 18:102-110. [PMID: 29896498 PMCID: PMC5996137 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Revised: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Hot tensile test data of Gas Tungsten Arc Welded (GTAW) autogenous joints of Super 304HCu tubes tested at their operating temperature are presented along with the microstructure of the weld joint. The GTAW joints exhibited lower tensile strength than the parent metal and the failure occurred in the weld metal region for all test temperatures. Constant load Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) test data of the GTAW weld joints tested in boiling MgCl2 environment at different applied stress level are presented. SCC curves obtained from the test were analyzed to derive SCC parameters such as rate of steady state elongation, the time required for set-in of tertiary region, and time to complete fracture. The fracture surfaces of SCC samples were examined using Scanning Electron Microscope to reveal the mode of fracture. Super 304HCu stainless steel being used as construction material for super heaters and reheaters of advanced ultra super critical boilers, this data will be an addition to the design data available for material selection in design of power plants.
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- M Vinoth Kumar
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Padur, Chennai, Tamilnadu 603103, India
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- Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu 608002, India
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Sivamaran V, Balasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan M, Viswabaskaran V, Gouravrao A. Optimizing Chemical Vapor Deposition Parameters to Attain Minimum Diameter Carbon Nano Tubes by Response Surface Methodology. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1166/jamr.2018.1377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Karthick K, Malarvizhi S, Balasubramanian V, Krishnan S, Sasikala G, Albert SK. Tensile and impact toughness properties of various regions of dissimilar joints of nuclear grade steels. Nuclear Engineering and Technology 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2017.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Vellingiri B, Venkatesan D, Bharathi G, Ramkumar S, Manickam S, Balasubramanian V. Association of SNCA in late-onset Parkinson’s disease with 22q11.2 deletion. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.11.246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Balasubramanian V, Mehta G, Jones H, Sharma V, Davies NA, Jalan R, Mookerjee RP. Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Hepatic DDAH1 with TNF Blockade Leads to Improved eNOS Function and Reduced Portal Pressure In Cirrhotic Rats. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17900. [PMID: 29263339 PMCID: PMC5738445 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18094-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Portal hypertension (PH) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic liver disease. Infection and inflammation play a role in potentiating PH and pro-inflammatory cytokines, including TNF, are associated with severity of PH. In this study, cirrhotic bile duct ligated (BDL) rats with PH were treated with Infliximab (IFX, a monoclonal antibody against TNF) and its impact on modulation of vascular tone was assessed. BDL rats had increased TNF and NFkB compared to sham operated rats, and their reduction by IFX was associated with a reduction in portal pressure. IFX treatment also reduced hepatic oxidative stress, and biochemical markers of hepatic inflammation and injury. IFX treatment was associated with an improvement in eNOS activity and increased l-arginine/ADMA ratio and DDAH1 expression. In vitro analysis of HepG2 hepatocytes showed that DDAH1 protein expression is reduced by oxidative stress, and this is in part mediated by post-transcriptional regulation by the 3′UTR. This study supports a role for the DDAH1/ADMA axis on the effect of inflammation and oxidative stress in PH and provides insight for new therapies.
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- V Balasubramanian
- Liver Failure Group, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Liver Failure Group, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Liver Failure Group, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Liver Failure Group, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Liver Failure Group, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Liver Failure Group, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Liver Failure Group, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, UK.
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Tantry SJ, Markad SD, Shinde V, Bhat J, Balakrishnan G, Gupta AK, Ambady A, Raichurkar A, Kedari C, Sharma S, Mudugal NV, Narayan A, Naveen Kumar CN, Nanduri R, Bharath S, Reddy J, Panduga V, Prabhakar KR, Kandaswamy K, Saralaya R, Kaur P, Dinesh N, Guptha S, Rich K, Murray D, Plant H, Preston M, Ashton H, Plant D, Walsh J, Alcock P, Naylor K, Collier M, Whiteaker J, McLaughlin RE, Mallya M, Panda M, Rudrapatna S, Ramachandran V, Shandil R, Sambandamurthy VK, Mdluli K, Cooper CB, Rubin H, Yano T, Iyer P, Narayanan S, Kavanagh S, Mukherjee K, Balasubramanian V, Hosagrahara VP, Solapure S, Ravishankar S, Hameed P S. Discovery of Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine Ethers and Squaramides as Selective and Potent Inhibitors of Mycobacterial Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Synthesis. J Med Chem 2017; 60:1379-1399. [PMID: 28075132 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The approval of bedaquiline to treat tuberculosis has validated adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase as an attractive target to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Herein, we report the discovery of two diverse lead series imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine ethers (IPE) and squaramides (SQA) as inhibitors of mycobacterial ATP synthesis. Through medicinal chemistry exploration, we established a robust structure-activity relationship of these two scaffolds, resulting in nanomolar potencies in an ATP synthesis inhibition assay. A biochemical deconvolution cascade suggested cytochrome c oxidase as the potential target of IPE class of molecules, whereas characterization of spontaneous resistant mutants of SQAs unambiguously identified ATP synthase as its molecular target. Absence of cross resistance against bedaquiline resistant mutants suggested a different binding site for SQAs on ATP synthase. Furthermore, SQAs were found to be noncytotoxic and demonstrated efficacy in a mouse model of tuberculosis infection.
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- Subramanyam J Tantry
- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- Infection Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca , 35 Gatehouse Drive, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451, United States
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- Infection Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca , 35 Gatehouse Drive, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451, United States
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Global Alliance for TB Drug Development , 40 Wall Street, 24th Floor, New York, New York 10005, United States
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- Global Alliance for TB Drug Development , 40 Wall Street, 24th Floor, New York, New York 10005, United States
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- University of Pennsylvania , 111 Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- University of Pennsylvania , 111 Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- AstraZeneca , Alderley Park, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire U.K. SK10 4TG
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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- Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. , Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024, India
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Sanzeni A, Balasubramanian V, Tiana G, Vergassola M. Complete coverage of space favors modularity of the grid system in the brain. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:062409. [PMID: 28085304 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.062409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex fire when animals that are exploring a certain region of space occupy the vertices of a triangular grid that spans the environment. Different neurons feature triangular grids that differ in their properties of periodicity, orientation, and ellipticity. Taken together, these grids allow the animal to maintain an internal, mental representation of physical space. Experiments show that grid cells are modular, i.e., there are groups of neurons which have grids with similar periodicity, orientation, and ellipticity. We use statistical physics methods to derive a relation between variability of the properties of the grids within a module and the range of space that can be covered completely (i.e., without gaps) by the grid system with high probability. Larger variability shrinks the range of representation, providing a functional rationale for the experimentally observed comodularity of grid cell periodicity, orientation, and ellipticity. We obtain a scaling relation between the number of neurons and the period of a module, given the variability and coverage range. Specifically, we predict how many more neurons are required at smaller grid scales than at larger ones.
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- A Sanzeni
- Department of Physics, University of Milan and INFN, Via Celoria 13, 20133 Milano, Italy.,Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0374, USA
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- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Centre for Complexity & Biosystems and Department of Physics, University of Milan and INFN, University of Milan, via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0374, USA
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Guhathakurta S, Balasubramanian V, Tata BVR, Ponraju S. Is Gamma Irradiation as a Secondary Sterilization Procedure Required for Decellularized Xenogenic Tissue Material? CURR SCI INDIA 2016. [DOI: 10.18520/cs/v110/i3/337-344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Landge S, Ramachandran V, Kumar A, Neres J, Murugan K, Sadler C, Fellows MD, Humnabadkar V, Vachaspati P, Raichurkar A, Sharma S, Ravishankar S, Guptha S, Sambandamurthy VK, Balganesh TS, Ugarkar BG, Balasubramanian V, Bandodkar BS, Panda M. Nitroarenes as Antitubercular Agents: Stereoelectronic Modulation to Mitigate Mutagenicity. ChemMedChem 2016; 11:331-9. [PMID: 26751718 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201500462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Nitroarenes are less preferred in drug discovery due to their potential to be mutagenic. However, several nitroarenes were shown to be promising antitubercular agents with specific modes of action, namely, nitroimidazoles and benzothiazinones. The nitro group in these compounds is activated through different mechanisms, both enzymatic and non-enzymatic, in mycobacteria prior to binding to the target of interest. From a whole-cell screening program, we identified a novel lead nitrobenzothiazole (BT) series that acts by inhibition of decaprenylphosphoryl-β-d-ribose 2'-epimerase (DprE1) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The lead was found to be mutagenic to start with. Our efforts to mitigate mutagenicity resulted in the identification of 6-methyl-7-nitro-5-(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-benzothiazoles (cBTs), a novel class of antitubercular agents that are non-mutagenic and exhibit an improved safety profile. The methyl group ortho to the nitro group decreases the electron affinity of the series, and is hence responsible for the non-mutagenic nature of these compounds. Additionally, the co-crystal structure of cBT in complex with Mtb DprE1 established the mode of binding. This investigation led to a new non-mutagenic antitubercular agent and demonstrates that the mutagenic nature of nitroarenes can be solved by modulation of stereoelectronic properties.
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- Sudhir Landge
- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- Global Health Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, SK10 4TF, UK
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- iMED Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, SK10 4TF, UK
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India
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- iMED Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd., Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560024, India. .,Biocon Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Center, Biocon Park, Jigani Link Road, Bangalore, 560099, India.
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Tantry SJ, Shinde V, Balakrishnan G, Markad SD, Gupta AK, Bhat J, Narayan A, Raichurkar A, Jena LK, Sharma S, Kumar N, Nanduri R, Bharath S, Reddy J, Panduga V, Prabhakar KR, Kandaswamy K, Kaur P, Dinesh N, Guptha S, Saralaya R, Panda M, Rudrapatna S, Mallya M, Rubin H, Yano T, Mdluili K, Cooper CB, Balasubramanian V, Sambandamurthy VK, Ramachandran V, Shandil R, Kavanagh S, Narayanan S, Iyer P, Mukherjee K, Hosagrahara VP, Solapure S, Hameed P S, Ravishankar S. Scaffold morphing leading to evolution of 2,4-diaminoquinolines and aminopyrazolopyrimidines as inhibitors of the ATP synthesis pathway. Med Chem Commun 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c5md00589b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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2,4-Diaminoquinazolines, 2,4-diaminoquinolines and aminopyrazolopyrimidines, inhibitors of mycobacterial ATP synthesis, are novel lead molecules towards discovery and development of new anti-tubercular agents.
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Landge S, Mullick AB, Nagalapur K, Neres J, Subbulakshmi V, Murugan K, Ghosh A, Sadler C, Fellows MD, Humnabadkar V, Mahadevaswamy J, Vachaspati P, Sharma S, Kaur P, Mallya M, Rudrapatna S, Awasthy D, Sambandamurthy VK, Pojer F, Cole ST, Balganesh TS, Ugarkar BG, Balasubramanian V, Bandodkar BS, Panda M, Ramachandran V. Discovery of benzothiazoles as antimycobacterial agents: Synthesis, structure-activity relationships and binding studies with Mycobacterium tuberculosis decaprenylphosphoryl-β-D-ribose 2'-oxidase. Bioorg Med Chem 2015; 23:7694-710. [PMID: 26643218 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2015.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Revised: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We report the discovery of benzothiazoles, a novel anti-mycobacterial series, identified from a whole cell based screening campaign. Benzothiazoles exert their bactericidal activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) through potent inhibition of decaprenylphosphoryl-β-d-ribose 2'-oxidase (DprE1), the key enzyme involved in arabinogalactan synthesis. Specific target linkage and mode of binding were established using co-crystallization and protein mass spectrometry studies. Most importantly, the current study provides insights on the utilization of systematic medicinal chemistry approaches to mitigate safety liabilities while improving potency during progression from an initial genotoxic hit, the benzothiazole N-oxides (BTOs) to the lead-like AMES negative, crowded benzothiazoles (cBTs). These findings offer opportunities for development of safe clinical candidates against tuberculosis. The design strategy adopted could find potential application in discovery of safe drugs in other therapy areas too.
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- Sudhir Landge
- iMed Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Global Health Institute, Switzerland
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- iMed Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
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- iMed Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
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- Global Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Mereside, UK
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- Global Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Mereside, UK
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- iMed Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
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- iMed Infection, AstraZeneca India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Global Health Institute, Switzerland
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Global Health Institute, Switzerland
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Jayandran M, Haneefa M, Balasubramanian V. Green synthesis and characterization of Manganese nanoparticles using natural plant extracts and its evaluation of antimicrobial activity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.7324/japs.2015.501218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Hermundstad A, Briguglio J, Conte M, Victor J, Balasubramanian V, Tkacik G. Natural scene statistics predict allocation of resources to nonlinear visual feature extraction. J Vis 2014. [DOI: 10.1167/14.15.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Balasubramanian V, Sukanya RS, Anuradha C, Selvarajan R. Population structure of Banana bract mosaic virus reveals recombination and negative selection in the helper component protease (HC-Pro) gene. Virusdisease 2014; 25:460-6. [PMID: 25674623 PMCID: PMC4262304 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-014-0241-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2014] [Accepted: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Banana bract mosaic virus (BBrMV) is a serious constraint in the production of banana and plantain in India. In this study, we have cloned, sequenced and analyzed the helper component proteinase (HC-Pro) gene of 22 isolates from India and compared with previously reported BBrMV isolates. Sequence identity of BBrMV isolates encoding HC-Pro gene, were 92-100 % both at the nucleotide (nt) and amino acid level. Phylogenetic analysis based on nt sequences of non recombinant isolates showed that TN15, TN9 and TN24 formed one cluster and all the remaining isolates formed into another cluster. Different functional motifs in the central region of HC-Pro gene of BBrMV isolates were found conserved. Four potential recombinants with a total of 15 breakpoints were mostly observed at the N and a few from C terminal regions. The codon based selection analysis revealed that most of the codons were under purifying or negative selection except a codon at position 74 which was under positive selection. It is likely that recombination identified in Indian BBrMV isolates, along with strong purifying selection, enhances the speed of elimination of deleterious mutations in the HC-Pro gene. This study suggested that negative selection and recombination were important evolutionary factors driving the genetic diversification and population structure of Indian BBrMV isolates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the diversity analysis and occurrence of recombination in the HC-Pro gene of BBrMV.
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- V. Balasubramanian
- Molecular Virology Lab, Division of Crop Protection, National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, 620102 Tamil Nadu India
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- Molecular Virology Lab, Division of Crop Protection, National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, 620102 Tamil Nadu India
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- Molecular Virology Lab, Division of Crop Protection, National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, 620102 Tamil Nadu India
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- Molecular Virology Lab, Division of Crop Protection, National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirapalli, 620102 Tamil Nadu India
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Balasubramanian V, Natarajan K, Rajeshkannan V, Perumal P. Enhancement of in vitro high-density polyethylene (HDPE) degradation by physical, chemical, and biological treatments. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2014; 21:12549-12562. [PMID: 24946709 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3191-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 06/10/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Partially degraded high-density polyethylene (HDPE) was collected from plastic waste dump yard for biodegradation using fungi. Of various fungi screened, strain MF12 was found efficient in degrading HDPE by weight loss and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrophotometric analysis. Strain MF12 was selected as efficient HDPE degraders for further studies, and their growth medium composition was optimized. Among those different media used, basal minimal medium (BMM) was suitable for the HDPE degradation by strain MF12. Strain MF12 was subjected to 28S rRNA sequence analysis and identified as Aspergillus terreus MF12. HDPE degradation was carried out using combinatorial physical and chemical treatments in conjunction to biological treatment. The high level of HDPE degradation was observed in ultraviolet (UV) and KMnO4/HCl with A. terreus MF12 treatment, i.e., FT10. The abiotic physical and chemical factors enhance the biodegradation of HDPE using A. terreus MF12.
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- V Balasubramanian
- Rhizosphere Biology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India,
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Priya TS, Balasubramanian V. Enzyme Mediated Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles using Marine Actinomycetes and Their Characterization. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.13005/bbra/1405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Hameed P S, Chinnapattu M, Shanbag G, Manjrekar P, Koushik K, Raichurkar A, Patil V, Jatheendranath S, Rudrapatna SS, Barde SP, Rautela N, Awasthy D, Morayya S, Narayan C, Kavanagh S, Saralaya R, Bharath S, Viswanath P, Mukherjee K, Bandodkar B, Srivastava A, Panduga V, Reddy J, Prabhakar KR, Sinha A, Jiménez-Díaz MB, Martínez MS, Angulo-Barturen I, Ferrer S, Sanz LM, Gamo FJ, Duffy S, Avery VM, Magistrado PA, Lukens AK, Wirth DF, Waterson D, Balasubramanian V, Iyer PS, Narayanan S, Hosagrahara V, Sambandamurthy VK, Ramachandran S. Aminoazabenzimidazoles, a Novel Class of Orally Active Antimalarial Agents. J Med Chem 2014; 57:5702-13. [DOI: 10.1021/jm500535j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Assessment, AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
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Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Diseases of Developing World
(DDW), GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
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- Tres
Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Diseases of Developing World
(DDW), GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
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Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Diseases of Developing World
(DDW), GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
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Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Diseases of Developing World
(DDW), GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
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Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Diseases of Developing World
(DDW), GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
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(DDW), GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
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Biology, Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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Biology, Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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- Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Medicines for Malaria Venture, International Center
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Balasubramanian V, Selvarajan R. Genetic diversity and recombination analysis in the coat protein gene of Banana bract mosaic virus. Virus Genes 2014; 48:509-17. [DOI: 10.1007/s11262-014-1056-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2014] [Accepted: 03/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Balasubramanian V, Jagannath M, Adalarasu K. Muscle fatigue based evaluation of bicycle design. Appl Ergon 2014; 45:339-345. [PMID: 23647886 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2013.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2011] [Revised: 02/13/2013] [Accepted: 04/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Bicycling posture leads to considerable discomfort and a variety of chronic injuries. This necessitates a proper bicycle design to avoid injuries and thereby enhance rider comfort. The objective of this study was to investigate the muscle activity during cycling on three different bicycle designs, i.e., rigid frame (RF), suspension (SU) and sports (SP) using surface electromyography (sEMG). Twelve male volunteers participated in this study. sEMG signals were acquired bilaterally from extensor carpi radialis (ECR), trapezius medial (TM), latissimus dorsi medial (LDM) and erector spinae (ES), during 30 min of cycling on each bicycle and after cycling. Time domain (RMS) and frequency domain (MPF) parameters were extracted from acquired sEMG signals. From the sEMG study, it was found that the fatigue in right LDM and ES were significantly (p < 0.05) higher in SP bicycle. This was corroborated by a psychophysical assessment based on RBG pain scale. The study also showed that there was a significantly lesser fatigue with the SU bicycle than the RF and SP bicycles.
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- V Balasubramanian
- Rehabilitation Bioengineering Group, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
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Balasubramanian V, Bernamonti A, de Boer J, Craps B, Franti L, Galli F, Keski-Vakkuri E, Müller B, Schäfer A. Inhomogeneous thermalization in strongly coupled field theories. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 111:231602. [PMID: 24476254 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.231602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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To describe theoretically the creation and evolution of the quark-gluon plasma, one typically employs three ingredients: a model for the initial state, nonhydrodynamic early time evolution, and hydrodynamics. In this Letter we study the nonhydrodynamic early time evolution using the AdS/CFT correspondence in the presence of inhomogeneities. We find that the AdS description of the early time evolution is well matched by free streaming. Near the end of the early time interval where our analytic computations are reliable, the stress tensor agrees with the second order hydrodynamic stress tensor computed from the local energy density and fluid velocity. Our techniques may also be useful for the study of far-from-equilibrium strongly coupled systems in other areas of physics.
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- V Balasubramanian
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA and Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, École Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France
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- Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Theoretische Natuurkunde, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and International Solvay Institutes, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics & Department of Physics, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Theoretische Natuurkunde, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and International Solvay Institutes, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics & Department of Physics, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-75108 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA and Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
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Briguglio J, Hermundstad A, Conte M, Victor J, Tkacik G, Balasubramanian V. Perceptual salience of fourth-order visual textures and natural scene statistics. J Vis 2013. [DOI: 10.1167/13.9.1234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Balasubramanian V, Kumar A, Jindal T, Guleria R, Khilnani G. 214 Changing paradigm in surgical management of broncho pulmonary carcinoids: A 7 year single institutional experience. Lung Cancer 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/s0169-5002(13)70214-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Balasubramanian V, Kumar A. 213 Surgical management of primary tracheal tumours: A single institutional experience. Lung Cancer 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/s0169-5002(13)70213-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Vinu A, Chauhan S, Mane G, Anand C, Dhawale D, Reddy B, Zaidi S, Al-Deyab S, Balasubramanian V, Mori T. Low-Temperature Synthesis of Pyrano- and Furo[3,2-c]quinolines via Povarov Reaction Using a Highly Ordered 3D Nanoporous Catalyst with a High Acidity. Synlett 2012. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1290452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- A. Vinu
- National Institute for Materials Science
- NIMS-IICT Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland
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- National Institute for Materials Science
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- National Institute for Materials Science
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- National Institute for Materials Science
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- National Institute for Materials Science
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- National Institute for Materials Science
- NIMS-IICT Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
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- Department of Chemistry, Petrochemicals Research Chair, Faculty of Science, King Saud University
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- National Institute for Materials Science
- NIMS-IICT Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
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Selvaraj A, Sivakumar S, Ramasamy AK, Balasubramanian V. Photocatalytic degradation of triazine dyes over N-doped TiO2 in solar radiation. Res Chem Intermed 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s11164-012-0756-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Balasubramanian V, Mann S, Millar-Craig MW, Raftery EB. Effect of labetalol in hypertension during exercise and postural changes. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2012; 8 Suppl 2:95S-100S. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1979.tb04761.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Balasubramanian V, Mann S, Raftery EB, Millar-Craig MW, Altman D. Effect of labetalol on continuous ambulatory blood pressure. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2012; 8 Suppl 2:119S-23S. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1979.tb04765.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Karthikeyan R, Balasubramanian V. Optimisation and sensitivity analysis of friction stir spot-welding process parameters for joining AA 6061 aluminum alloy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1504/ijmr.2012.048696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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