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At present, Pakistan is striving hard to uplift its economy with sustainability. Agriculture, being the largest economic support system of the country, also faces numerous challenges due to changes in ... Read More
Water is a dynamic and valuable resource for all living creatures on this planet. Its importance can never be denied by different sectors of economy. Water is fundamental need and has become an import ... Read More
Electric rays (Order Torpedoniformes) represented by 13 species belonging to 4 genera and 3 families are reported from Pakistan. Genus Narcine is reported by 6 species, Torpedo by 5 species and Bentho ... Read More
Yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus, 1758) which belongs to Family Ostraciidae is reported for the first time from Gwadar and Churna Island, Balochistan coast. There were previous report from S ... Read More
Radula is an important organ and has immense role in feeding of gastropods and also play vital role for taxonomic studies. The structure of radula is species specific. It has role in feeding and also ... Read More
Bluespine unicorn fish (Naso unicornis) was reported for the first time from Pakistan. Two specimens of this species were collected in April, 2017 and September, 2021. Addition of this species has in ... Read More
A 62 years-old male with medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, primary hypertension, chronic kidney disease, dyslipidemia, and ischemic cardiomyopathy was consulted. The patient had a coronary ... Read More
Fungal diseases are a constant threat to crop production worldwide. For chemical control of fungal diseases fungicides are used excessively which not only pollute the environment but also harm the hum ... Read More
This report aimed to document the genomic characterization and the genetic profile analysis related to the dissemination of beta-lactams and vancomycin through Mobile Genetic Elements (plasmids, inse ... Read More
In herbivore insects, RNAi can be achieved by feeding target insects on plants produce double standard RNA (dsRNAs) either by stable or transient transformation. Production of dsRNAs through stable tr ... Read More
Emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria has become a global problem because infections due to MDR are hard to treat due to resistance to two or more classes of drugs, limiting the therapeutic ... Read More
Objective: To determine build distribution among school students to assist them in choosing suitable careers. Study Design: This was an anthropometric study. Place and Duration of Study: Initiated i ... Read More
A number of studies have been conducted to understand the interrelationship of plasma/ serum leptin changes according to blood pressure (BP) and body mass index (BMI) variations. However, in view of c ... Read More
Although the host factors and the physical environment are known to be associated with high rates of asthma prevalence in urban settings, but the connection between asthma and level of awareness due t ... Read More
Global-electrocortical activity is being modeled as a system of driven harmonic oscillators, considering telencephalonic structures as masses of linked oscillators generating activity at a number of r ... Read More
Sharks are important component of the coastal and offshore fisheries of Pakistan. A total of 79 species of sharks belonging to Infraclass Selachii (Subclass: Elasmobranchii) and 6 orders are recorded ... Read More
The present studies report the variation in fruit mass, brood size, pericarp mass, seed mass and seed packaging cost in Sapindus mukorossi collected from Nanjing city, Jiangsu province of Peoples Repu ... Read More
This study was carried out to find the sex ratio (Male:Female) of two Teraponid species of Family Teraponidae (i.e., Terapon jarbua and T. puta) from Pakistan. The result of present investigation show ... Read More
Life cycle stages of plants reflect the environment to which they are subjected to varied factors including abiotic and biotic. They are often exposed to various heavy metals throughout their life spa ... Read More
The present research was conducted to estimate the gene action for inheritance of resistant to CLCV disease. Adequacy of additive and dominance model was conducted, both scaling test designated that h ... Read More
Onion (Allium cepa L.) is an important vegetable crop of Sindh province of Pakistan. In general onion bulbs are stored in respect to their cultural and economical practice. The losses due to sprouting ... Read More
The current study is designed to check the effects of most commonly using pesticides exposure on human health by evaluating especially hematological, liver and renal indicators. Two hundred seventy fi ... Read More
Salsola imbricata Forssk is a leaf succulent halophyte of coastal and inland salty soils. This study was carried out to evaluate the salt tolerance range of S. imbricata and on the effects of moderate ... Read More
Unsustainable industrialization and exponential growth of human population in the metropolis of Karachi is responsible for extensive pollution all long the Karachi coast. The major source of pollution ... Read More
Sindh Coastal and Rural Districts(CRDs) including Thatta, Sujawal and Badin arehighly vulnerable due to multifaceted impacts of climate change which has become a major challenge. This study deals with ... Read More
A preliminary screening to determine the qualitative and quantitative glucan producing potential of VGS (Viridans group streptococci) was performed. VGS were recovered from oral cavity of individuals ... Read More
The aim of this study was the synthesis of silver nanoparticles by the most common chemical reduction method and to investigate their effects on blood hematology and biochemical parameters in Albino W ... Read More
Epilepsies are common chronic neurological disorders that affect approximately 500 million people world-wide, and are mainly characterized by recurrent seizures. There are a variety of factors that ma ... Read More
Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis involves mainly the inflammatory processes. In this regard, the degree of inflammation especially in coronary heart disease (CHD) and other ischemic disorders is widely ... Read More
Current research studied the changes and comparison in pH, pO2 , pCO2 and related parameters in set of 3 groups. Group I = Non -athletes with no extensive exercise. Group II = Non- athletes with exten ... Read More
The materials of water supply pipes exhibit differential tendencies to develop biofilms on the pipe surface. To evaluate the vulnerability of five types of commonly used pipe materials (HDPE, PC, PVC, ... Read More
Although most nonsyndromic hereditary deafness caused by mutations in nuclear genes, significant contributions of mitochondrial DNA mutations (mtDNA) have become clearer in recent years. The aim of pr ... Read More
In this review, several conventional techniques have been described in order to purify monoclonal antibodies which include Bead-based chromatography, affinity chromatography with protein A to several ... Read More
Some observations on propagular-size, sapling growth in tidal marsh and macro- and micromorphology of sapling leaves of a true mangrove species, Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco grown in a coastal n ... Read More
Invertase (EC. 3.2.1.26) is commercially important enzymes that hydrolyzes the sucrose and fructose, is a glycoprotein and has optimum pH of 4.5. Invertase is stable at a temperature of 50oC and has m ... Read More
Stingrays belonging to Family Dasyatidae are commercially exploited in Pakistan (Northern Arabian Sea) since long and mainly landed as bycatch of trawling and bottom-set gillnet fishing, In some areas ... Read More
Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 is found in coastal subtropical and tropical waters around the world, being an important variety of fish. It is fished as well as farmed. A new species of thorny-headed w ... Read More
The marine catfish (Arius arius) is widely consumed in many Asian countries because of their good nutrient values and meat. Helminth infection constitutes significant economic loss in fish industry. T ... Read More
The current field experiment was conducted to estimate the genetic divergence between different upland cotton genotypes and also to know the extent of correlation of seed cotton yield with its associa ... Read More
Combining ability study of cotton varieties were conducted using a line × tester design with six hybrids, 2 testers (male) and 3 lines (females) for the characters seed cotton yield and related traits ... Read More
Phenolic compounds and elements in the leaves of 7 species of the genus Cleome L. from Pakistan were studied. A total of 44 phenolic compounds and 15 elements were detected in leaves of the genus and ... Read More
Gerrmicidal potential of organic fractions of Calotropis procera (Ait.) R. Br. (milkweed) leaves was determined by using agar well dissemination technique. Fractions of milkweed leaves were prepared w ... Read More
A number of plants contain various metabolites that have great medicinal importance. Green Biotechnology deals with the detection of those therapeutic compounds. Researchers focused on the isolation a ... Read More
The current assessment aimed to evaluate physico-chemical, metal and microbiological characteristics along with Water Quality Index (WQI) of tanker water (12 samples) which were collected during 2018 ... Read More
STR markers, also known as microsatellites are dispersed across the whole genome of humans. STR markers are highly polymorphic due to different sort of mutations being carried out in genome. In forens ... Read More
The Risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) based on the Framingham Heart criteria, was used to estimate the risk of CHD in Sudanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) over the next ten years. ... Read More
This study was to explore the anticancer potential of marine algae. a total of fourteen seaweeds belonging to different groups (5 red, 5 brown and 4 green) were collected from Buleji coast, Karachi. C ... Read More
As the second prevalent cancer in women, breast cancer is a global epidemiologic problem and the medications used nowadays are not very effective being associated with undesirable complications.Due to ... Read More
Viridans group streptococci (VGS), normal inhabitant of oral cavity, are involved in a number of oral and extra-oral diseases. Among oral diseases, dental caries is the most common public health probl ... Read More
Rice grain morphology is affected by discoloration disease that responsible for causing huge yield loss every year and its threat increasing significantly. Disease scores and identification of pathoge ... Read More
Fibronectin type III domain-containing protein (FNDC) 5, the precursor of irisin, is encoded by the FNDC5 gene. Irisin is secreted from skeletal muscle and helps in metabolism by increasing energy lev ... Read More
Dr. Farooqi was born on July 20th, 1960 in Hyderabad (Sindh). He studied at Sindh University Model School and completed matriculation from the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad ... Read More
It is informed with deep sorrow that renowned Mycologist and Plant Pathologist Prof. Dr. Masoodul-Hasan Hashmi passed away on Saturday, 18th July, 2020 in Karachi. He earned Ph. D. degree from Univers ... Read More
Prof. Dr. Syed Irtifaq Ali, former Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi, was born in 1930. He was from a respectable family of Lucknow (British India). He completed his matriculation from ALLAH-ABAD ... Read More
The northern mountainous region of Pakistan is environmentally prone region with respect to natural disasters as well as climate change. The region under study comprises of three districts of Gilgit-- ... Read More
Growth and leaf characteristics of variously- aged saplings of Rhizophora mucronata Lam., a true mangrove species, grown by planting propagules in various nurseries established in tidal areas along th ... Read More
Dementia and diabetes are the are two major disorders that are found to be linked on Biochemical and Molecular level and it is because that pancreatic cells have molecular similarity with neuronal cel ... Read More
The Ciproxifan was docked into the active site of histamine N- methyl transferase (HNMT) enzyme and evaluated, based on fitness scoring function A Score available in the Argus lab software. We observe ... Read More
First record of Cephalopholis formosa from the coast of Pakistan is reported, based on one specimen (23.5 cm TL) collected from the waters from the coasts of the Sindh on 28-09-2019. This species has ... Read More
Tracheophilus bubulcum n.sp. (Trematoda: Cyclocoelidae) is described from nasal sinus in Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis Linn., 1758) from Oderolal station District Matiari, Sindh, Pakistan. The new speci ... Read More
The present experiment was conducted at Barley and Wheat Research Institute, ARI, Tandojam during 2016-2017 in order to study the inheritance pattern of various agronomic traits in nine F2 segregating ... Read More
A combining ability study conducted to evaluated 10 parents and 45 hybrids at two locations in Sindh province of Pakistan during 2017 revealed that general combining ability (GCA) variance was higher ... Read More
This paper proposes method of construction of Growth-and-Obesity Roadmaps 4.0 of families, with adult parents (father over-21; mother over-19) and their young children. Obesity Roadmap 2.5 is, still, ... Read More
Three nematodes namely Tylenchorhynchus annulatus, Hoplolaimus pararobustus and Xiphinema sp. were found associated with coriander and apparently were responsible for the poor growth of coriander. To ... Read More
The fungicidal effectiveness of Atriplex stocksii Boiss, Suaeda fruticosa (L.), and Salsola imbricata Forssk. parts (leaves and stem) was observed against root pathogenic fungi Macrophomina phaseolina ... Read More
The efficacy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Sargassum ilicifolium alone or in combination was examined to induce systemic resistance against a pathogenic strain of Macrophomina phaseolina in soybean un ... Read More
Aflatoxins produced by Aspergillus are the potent carcinogenic compounds frequently found in foods contaminated with Aspergillus species of section Flavi. The purpose of this study was to determine th ... Read More
The present review aims at discussing the structure, function, production of cutinase by using different microorganisms in a fermentation techniques, purification of cutinase and the applications of c ... Read More
Proximate analysis plays an important role in assessing the appropriateness of medicinal plants or their extracts orally taken by the marginal communities. It assessing its primary, secondary metaboli ... Read More
This research reveals the development of biofilms prepared by carrageenan extracted from S. robusta present in coastal waters of Karachi, Pakistan. The obtained biofilms were examined for various vari ... Read More
This study describes the status of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence in outpatients of thirteen districts of province of Sindh, Pakistan. The blood samples of outpatients (OPs) were randomly collecte ... Read More
Present study was designed for investigating the serum levels of vitamin-D and calcium and their association in male subjects with/ without palpitations (P), premature atrial contractions (PACs) and p ... Read More
The present study has been carried out to examine the extent of antibiotic resistance in the microbial flora of the marine environment. The antibiotic resistance of the microbes was tested by ‘disc di ... Read More
Various studies have reported that genetic variations in ADAM12 (a disintegrin and metalloprotease 12) gene lead to the development of the most common joint disorder Knee osteoarthritis (KOA). However ... Read More
Herein, docking analysis was performed between repurposed inhibitor drug molecules as ligands on structures of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein S1 and S2 along with serine protease which activate S1 and ... Read More
Herein, molecular structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) was used for docking or binding energy analysis with medicinally known anti-HIV protease inhibitor drug molecules at changing pH (4-8). V ... Read More
We belong to ALLAH and to Him we shall return! It is with deep sorrow to share the news that Prof. Dr. Surayya Khatoon (January 21, 1957 – December 06, 2020), Professor of Botany, and an eminent Taxon ... Read More
Prof. Dr. Mahmood Ahmad, the former Chairman of department of Botany (1977-1979 and 1992 -1995), died on December 4, 2020 at the age of 83 due to cardiac arrest. He was born in 1937 and his affiliatio ... Read More