Recent Research Trends in Medical and Health Sciences

The present volume is based on the contributions made by various authors on different important topic of “Recent Research Trends in Medical and Health Sciences” and introduces the subject along the following topics: Methods in Improving Short Term Memory: A Brief Review; Are Children Falling into the Trench of Fast Food?; Biomedical Research Ethics: Past, Present and Future; Early (Short-Term) Side-Effects of Chemotherapy in Pediatric Solid Tumors; Health and Pollution in Banbishnupur village, Haldia, West Bengal; A Study to Evaluate the Morphometric measures of Gonial angle and Bi-gonial width for Healthy Individuals in Garden City university dental camp; Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity (overnutrition) among the Bengali Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Sectional Study from Darjeeling District, West Bengal (India). We must place on record our sincere gratitude to the authors not only for their effort in preparing the papers for the present volume, but also their patience in waiting to see their work in print

Superficial preparation of biocompatible carbon quantum dots for antimicrobial applications

UGC-NFHE; GC-RGNF; New Delhi, India; Government of India

Recent Research Trends in Medical and Health Sciences

<p>The present volume is based on the contributions made by various authors on different important topic of “Recent Research Trends in Medical and Health Sciences” and introduces the subject along the following topics: Methods in Improving Short Term Memory: A Brief Review; Are Children Falling into the Trench of Fast Food?; Biomedical Research Ethics: Past, Present and Future; Early (Short-Term) Side-Effects of Chemotherapy in Pediatric Solid Tumors; Health and Pollution in Banbishnupur village, Haldia, West Bengal; A Study to Evaluate the Morphometric measures of Gonial angle and Bi-gonial width for Healthy Individuals in Garden City university dental camp; Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity (overnutrition) among the Bengali Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Sectional Study from Darjeeling District, West Bengal (India). We must place on record our sincere gratitude to the authors not only for their effort in preparing the papers for the present volume, but also their patience in waiting to see their work in print.</p&gt

Preliminary phytochemical screenings of marine alga ulva fasciata and its growth performance, biochemical composition on indian major carp cirrhinus mrigala fingerlings

To screening the preliminary phytochemical compounds of Ulva fasciata collected from Mandapam, south east coast, Tamil Nadu, India. U. fasciata, it was subjected to petroleum ether, chloroform, acetone and ethanol extractions. Totally 10 compounds were present in it, such as alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, phenolics, saponins, cardiac glycosides, sterols, quinones and reducing sugar were present in the extract of U. fasciata. Among these, alkaloids, phenolics, quinones, and flavonoids were reducing sugar were luxuriant presence of U. fasciata extract. Basal diet prepared by replacing the fish meal with the U. fasciata at 1, 3 and 5% along with groundnut oilcake and soy bean meal (as protein source), wheat bran and sun flavor oil (as carbohydrate and lipid sources respectively), and tapioca flour and egg albumin as binding agents, and fed to Cirrhinus mrigala fingerlings for 60 days. The artificial feed formulated without incorporation of U. fasciata was served as control.  Among the three ratio of U. fasciata incorporated diets, 5% of feed fed C. mrigala fingerlings showed the best (P<0.05) survival and growth performance including weight gain (WG), muscle basic biochemical constituents (total protein, carbohydrate, lipid and ash). Moreover, 5% of U. fasciata incorporated diet can also be considered as a good nutritional supplement. Therefore, the present work recommends incorporation of U. fasciata as feed additive to achieve sustainable production of C. mrigala culture

Development of chitosan/agar-silver nanoparticles-coated paper for antibacterial application

The radical proliferation of pathogenic bacteria and their infections causes significant issues for human health and the environment. Today, biopolymers are used to produce different nanoparticles. In the present investigation, the fabricated chitosan/agar-silver nanoparticles (Cht/Ar-AgNPs)-coated papers were tested for antibacterial applications. Agar was used as a reducing agent for the synthesis of AgNPs. Synthesized Ar-AgNPs were examined through optical, phase crystallinity and topological analysis. Cht and Ar-AgNPs solution was mixed with various ratios of 9:1, 8:2, 7:3, 6:4, and 5:5 by weight. In addition to that, the conformity of Cht/Ar-AgNPs-coated papers was characterized by structural, spectral, and morphological analysis. However, Cht/Ar-AgNPs-coated papers were subjected to antibacterial properties. The ratio of (6:4) Cht/Ar-AgNPs-coated paper showed excellent antibacterial agent, and it can be used as extending the food product shelf life