Junaidi Khotib

• Doctor of Pharmacy
• Professor at Airlangga University

Hydroxyapatite (HA) is widely used as a bone graft. However, information on the head-to-head osteoinductivity and in vivo performance of micro- and nanosized natural and synthetic HA is still lacking. Here, we fabricated nanosized bovine HA (nanoBHA) by using a wet ball milling method and compared its in vitro and in vivo performance with microsize...

Background: Dyslipidemia is a lipid metabolic disorder that increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, typically marked by abnormalities in triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and total cholesterol (TC), along with decreased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels. This study explored the potential of quercetin, a natural substance,...

Food allergies are a global health problem that continues to grow annually, with a prevalence of more than 10%. Shrimp allergy is the most common and life-threatening allergy. There is no cure for food allergies, but shrimp allergen extract (SAE) offers promise as a treatment through allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT). However, whether SAE induc...

Subchondral defects are often caused by trauma involving cartilage damage, leading to subsequent damage to the underlying bone, specifically the subchondral region. Bilayer scaffolds made from biomaterials, such as bovine hydroxyapatite, possess biocompatible and biodegradable properties that mimic the natural environmental conditions of target tis...

Introduction: Oxaliplatin is a platinum-based chemotherapy agent that often causes chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). This effect limits the potential activity and decreases the cancer patient’s quality of life. Melanocortin and transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) pathways are believed to be essential in recruiting an all...

Food allergy is a growing public health concern. It affects children and adults, resulting in significant declines in the overall quality of life. In most cases, individuals must avoid consuming allergenic foods, which can be challenging, especially for patients who experience life-threatening symptoms even with minimal exposure to allergens. This...

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most diagnosed cancer among women worldwide and the second-most cause of women's deaths. The interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) are critical for BC pathogenesis. They participate in BC development and progression by regulating several pathways. The findings of this...

Background Controlling apoptosis induced by oxidative stress in pancreatic β-cells provides promising strategies for preventing and treating diabetes. Clinacanthus nutans leaves possess bioactive constituents with potential antioxidant and anti-diabetic properties. Aim This study aimed to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which C. nutans ext...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the Dalbergiella welwitschia alkaloid-rich extracts on liver damage in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Hence, to induce diabetes, 45 mg/kg body weight of streptozotocin was intraperitoneally injected into the Wistar rats. Subsequently, 5 % (w/v) of glucose water was given to the induced animals for 24...

Background: Allergic inflammation is a condition caused by complex interactions between several inflammatory cells in the body. Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1 (MALT1) is a cysteine protease that bridges innate and adaptive immune responses in allergic inflammation. MALT1 protease inhibition is a potential strateg...

Background: Low on-treatment platelet reactivity (LTPR) or High on-treatment platelet reactivity (HTPR) with P2Y12 inhibitors is associated with bleeding (LTPR) or ischemic events (HTPR) in patients on dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Objective: Mapping of Indonesian patients’ platelet response second...

Background: Antibiotic resistance has become a significant problem due to its impact such as higher medical costs, prolonged hospital stays, and increased mortality. The Internal Medicine Ward has a high consumption of antibiotics, particularly for gastroenteritis, typhoid, diabetic ulcer, urinary tract infection, and sepsis. The DDD/ATC systems ap...

Background: Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) is an intervention designed to optimise the appropriate use of antibiotics is expected to reduce selective pressure on microbes, control antimicrobial resistance, improve patient clinical outcomes, and cost reduction. Objective: The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of antimicrobial stewardship o...

Background: The different sequences of the allergen protease can induce different immunogenicity for the development of immunotherapy. Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus that has Der p1 as major protein will be developed as local allergen to be immunotherapy for treating rhinitis allergy. Objective: This study aims to optimize and standardize the local...

Background: Phenytoin metabolism has been shown to vary in different ethnic groups. Therefore, the authors studied phenytoin pharmacokinetics in Indonesian adult patients with epilepsy. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine and analyse the pharmacokinetic parameters of Michaelis Menten Vmax (maximum velocity) and Km (the Michaelis c...

Objectives Brain injury resulting from an ischemic stroke affects cognitive performance by disrupting the hippocampus. Several processes are involved in brain injury progression, including inflammation, glutamate excitotoxicity, and modulated brain peptide systems such as the melanocortin system. Reports show that quercetin exerts neuroprotective a...

The Covid-19 Pandemic outbreak has changed various forms of life in society, including restrictions on activities in an open-source environment. The pandemic has also created various kinds of unresolved mental health problems, both in the national dan global area, both those who are directly exposed to the virus and those who are not. Today, the co...

Glucokinase plays an important role in regulating the blood glucose level and serves as an essential therapeutic target in type 2 diabetes management. Entada africana is a medicinal plant and highly rich source of bioactive ligands with the potency to develop new target drugs for glucokinase such as diabetes and obesity. Therefore, the study explor...

Introduction mRNA vaccines have been developed as a promising cancer management. It is noted that specification of the antigen sequence of the target antigen is necessary for the design and manufacture of an mRNA vaccine. Areas covered The steps involved in preparing the mRNA-based cancer vaccines are isolation of the mRNA cancer from the target p...

In nicotine withdrawal (NW) conditions, molecular changes, such as increasing corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in the amygdala, and melanocortin signaling in the hypothalamus, can occur in the brain, leading to increased feeding behavior and body weight as somatic changes as well as high anxiety-like behavior as an affective changes. Therefore,...

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence and predictors of excessive polypharmacy in geriatric inpatients in Indonesia. Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 1533 inpatients over the age of 60 years at Universitas Airlangga Hospital, Indonesia. Effects of a patient's baseline characteristics on excessive polypharmacy were e...

Glucokinase has play an important role in regulating blood glucose level and serves as one essential therapeutic target in type 2 diabetes management. Entada africana , medicinal plant and highly rich source of bioactive ligands with potency to develop new target drug for glucokinase such as diabetes and obesity. Therefore, the study explored compu...

Background: Bone fracture is the main consequence of osteoporosis, which may become a neglected disease. Objective: This study aims to fabricate bovine hydroxyapatite-gelatine (BHA-GEL) based bone-implant with alendronate (ALE) in vivo. Methods: Wistar rats were used for an osteoporotic animal model induced by ovariectomy. There were three gro...

Allergic asthma is a chronic respiratory disease mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE) and T helper type 2 (Th2) cells. Janus kinase 1 (JAK1) and JAK3, which are interleukin-4 signaling components, are crucial in Th2 cell differentiation. Thus, inhibition of JAK1 and JAK3 is a promising therapeutic target to treat allergic asthma. This study explores...

Background: Food allergies have become more common in the last decade. Shrimp is one of the most dominant food allergy triggers in Asian countries, including Indonesia. After ingesting allergens, B cells will produce allergen-specific Immunoglobin E (IgE). In the sensitization period, repeated allergen exposure promotes Mast Cell (MC) degranulatio...

Background: Allergy is a hypersensitivity reaction that is generally mediated by Immunoglobulin E (IgE). More than 25% of the world's population is suspected of having these various diseases, and the prevalence and progression of these diseases have continued to increase significantly in recent years. Among these allergyrelated diseases, allergic...

The African nutmeg (Monodora myristica) is a medically useful plant. We, herein, aimed to critically examine whether bioactive compounds identified in the extracted oil of Monodora myristica could act as antimicrobial agents. To this end, we employed the Schrödinger platform as the computational tool to screen bioactive compounds identified in the...

Cancer is a second leading disease-causing death worldwide that will continuously grow as much as 70% in the next 20 years. Chemotherapy is still becoming a choice for cancer treatment despite its severity of side effects and low success rate due to ineffective delivery of the chemodrugs. Since it was introduced in 1960, significant progress has be...

Hydroxyapatite (HA) is a biomaterial widely used to treat bone defect, such as due to traffic accident. The HA scaffold is obtained from synthetic HA or natural sources, such as bovine hydroxyapatite (BHA). This study aims to compare the characteristics and in vivo performance of BHA-based and HA-based scaffolds. For this purpose, the scaffold was...

Allergen extract as allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is the only causative therapy and provides protection or tolerance to an allergen in the long term. However, allergen extracts from different countries may have different effectiveness. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Indonesian shrimp allergen extract (SAE) as an immunothe...

Osteosarcoma is a common primary malignant bone tumor that typically manifests in the second decade of life. This study aimed to identify osteogenic compounds that potentially serve as multitarget inhibitors for osteosarcoma. The study was a molecular docking study of nine Food and Drug Administration-approved compounds with osteogenic properties t...

The antioxidant properties from medicinal plants have protective effects against oxidative stress-linked diseases. Their antioxidantcapacities are related to phenolic compounds, including phenols and flavonoids.Clinacanthus nutans, a native to Asia, includingMalaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, are used for treating diabetes and other diseases, but t...

This study aims to study the process of fabricating and characterization nanofibers based on cellulose acetate polymer filled with ceftriaxone and ibuprofen using the electrospinning method as a model for a targeted drug delivery system. Cellulose acetate has been successfully fabricated into nanofibers using the electrospinning method and filled w...

Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass, that can result in fracture when injury, for example, due to a traffic accident. This study aimed to identify secondary metabolites from Zingiber officinale that potentially inhibit cathepsin K, a critical enzyme that caused osteoporosis. In this study, a molecular docking...

Osteoblasts, cells derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the bone marrow, are cells responsible for bone formation and remodeling. The differentiation of osteoblasts from MSCs is triggered by the expression of specific genes, which are subsequently controlled by pro-osteogenic pathways. Mature osteoblasts then differentiate into osteocytes...

Introduction : Morphine is an opioid prescribed to treat aches and pains. However, morphine often causes opioid-induced constipation (OIC). Aquaporin (AQP) transporters, especially AQP3 and AQP4, play an essential role in mediating constipation. Bisacodyl is a common laxative used to treat constipation. To date, the effects of bisacodyl on AQP3 and...

Bone grafts a commonly used therapeutic technique for the reconstruction and facilitation of bone regeneration due to fractures. BHA–GEL (bovine hydroxyapatite–gelatin) pellet implants have been shown to be able accelerate the process of bone repair by looking at the percentage of new bone, and the contact between the composite and bone. Based on t...

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a one of side effect in cancer patients that receive antineoplastic agent, like oxaliplatin. Orexinergic system in the hypothalamus is the one of system that modulate nociceptive and neuropathy. Because there is flavonoids such as resveratrol and andrographolide that may prevent chemotherapy indu...

In vivo study of bovine hydroxyapatite-gelatin-hydroxypropyl methylcellulose with alendronate as injectable bone substitute composite in osteoporotic animal model ABSTRACT The injectable bone substitute (IBS) is a self-setting local drug delivery system that adjusts the shape of the bone gap in the fracture. This study aimed to examine the effectiv...

Background and aim: Perennial allergic rhinitis (AR) is a chronic upper respiratory disease, with inflammation mediated by immunoglobulin E in the nasal mucosa caused by house dust mites. Recently, allergen immunotherapy showed promising allergic healing in patients with a definite history of sensitization. Based on this finding, a product was dev...

Background: In developing a pharmaceutical product, it is necessary to conduct pre-clinical and clinical trials to ensure its safety and effectiveness. The toxicity test is conducted to assess the safety of a substance to determine its toxic effect of the substance. Objective: This study aims to determine the acute and subchronic toxicity of admini...

Depression is a heterogeneous disorder with more than one possible etiologies. Currently, studies are mostly focused on neuronal dysfunction, while the involvement of other brain cells, such as microglia, has not been widely explored. This review aimed to systematically review the studies reporting the effect of microglia inhibitors on depressive-l...

Vitamin B12, only found naturally in animal-based foods, is essential for brain functions and various chemical reactions in the human body. Insufficient vitamin B12 leads to vitamin B12 deficiency, common among strict vegetarians due to their limited intake of animal-based foods. Nevertheless, extensive studies have demonstrated that macroalgae, sp...

Natural products offer a wide range of bioactivity including antimicrobial properties. There are many reports showing the antimicrobial activities of phytochem icals from plants. However, the bioactivity is limited due to multidrug resistant properties of the microorganism and different composition of cell membrane. The antibacterial activity of th...

The genus Alocasia (Schott) G. Don consists of 113 species distributed across Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Alocasia plants grow in tropical and subtropical forests with humid lowlands. Featuring their large green heart-shaped or arrow-shaped ear leaves and occasionally red-orange fruit, they are very popular ornamental plants and are widely...

Background: Lavender oil is widely known to possess a relaxant effect to relieve stress, anxiety, and depression. Linalyl acetate, linalool, geranyl acetate, and β-caryophyllene were the major constituents of lavender oil that potentially act on NMDAR (N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors), and emerging targets in the treatment of depression. Objective:...

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a global pandemic and emergency. Currently, there is no therapeutic agent that has been proven effective against the virus. Objective: We investigated and screened for 401 antiviral compounds that could inhibit one or more of the three protein targets in SARS-CoV-2...

Submicron hydroxyapatite has been reported to have beneficial effects in bone tissue engineering. This study aimed to fabricate submicron-scale bovine hydroxyapatite (BHA) using the high-energy dry ball milling method. Bovine cortical bone was pretreated and calcined to produce BHA powder scaled in microns. BHA was used to fabricate submicron BHA w...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that causes neuronal plasticity and increased hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis of stress disorders. The change in metabolism is reportedly associated with inadequate response to antianxiety and antidepressant agents. Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of milnacipran antide...

Objectives: Bone defect is serious condition that is usually caused by traffic accident. Chitosan is a polymer developed as a scaffold to treat bone defect. However, the mechanism by which chitosan can accelerate bone growth in defect area is still unclear. This study aims to identify proteins which are crucial to the osteogenic properties of chit...

Objectives: Histamine N-methyltransferase (HNMT) is an enzyme that plays a crucial role in the inactivation of histamine in central nervous system, kidneys and bronchi. Inhibition of HNMT is known to have a potential role in treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, memory impairment, mental illness and neurodegenerative illnesses. Theref...

Bone defects and periodontal disease are pathological conditions that may become neglected diseases if not treated properly. Hydroxyapatite (HA), along with tricalcium phosphate and bioglass ceramic, is a biomaterial widely applied to orthopedic and dental uses. The in vivo performance of HA is determined by the interaction between HA particles wit...

Objectives Alendronate are widely used in the treatment of bone disorders characterized by inhibit osteoclast-mediated bone resorption such as Paget’s disease, fibrous dysplasia, myeloma, bone metastases and osteoporosis. In recent studies alendronate improves proliferation and differentiation of osteoblasts, thereby facilitating for bone regenerat...

Objectives Biomaterials are widely used as drug delivery systems targeting bone tissue, such as to treat bone infectious disease. However, the addition of drugs to biomaterials weakens their mechanical properties. Crosslinkers are compounds that improve the mechanical properties of biomaterials. This study aims to determine the effect of glutaralde...

Objectives Pakistan has taken unprecedented measures to control the spread of COVID-19. Complete lockdown followed by smart lockdown and quarantine centres was established. Their awareness and attitude towards COVID-19 had an impact on the individual behaviour of the precautionary measures. The current study examined the knowledge, attitudes and pr...

Objectives Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is exceptionally common around the world. The development of NAFLD is increasing rapidly in the world, along with changes in lifestyle. Excess lipid intake is one of the risk factors for NAFLD. The NAFLD model is induced by a high-fat diet contains SFA, MUFA, and ῳ-6 PUFA. This study aims to asses...

Objectives: This study was designed to evaluate the potential of Andrographis paniculata ethanolic extract to inhibit the increase in proliferation and induction of abnormal cell death. Methods: The hyperplasia stage as an early stage of cancer development was induced by oral administration of 20 mg/Kg BW DMBA to SD rats twice a week for 5 weeks...

Objectives: Depression is a mental disorder that profoundly affects all aspects of life, but currently, antidepressants have some problems with their effectiveness and side effects. Resveratrol is a compound that has the ability to regulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. This study aimed to determine resveratrol's effect on physical and...

Objectives: Ischemic stroke is known as a common causes of disability, lower psychological well-being as well as preventable death. The pathogenesis of ischemic stroke process becomes worse immediately after oxidative stress occurs. One of the flavonoids with antioxidant abilities is quercetin. This study was aimed to investigate quercetin adminis...

Background The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection has resulted in a global pandemic and emergency. Currently, there is no therapeutic agent that has been proven to be effective and selective to deal with this pandemic. Objective In this study, we explored and screened 401 compounds-related viruses that may inhibit one or more of the three protein targe...

Osteomyelitis is an infectious disease which is also a major complication of bone defects. This study aims to determine the effect of bovine hydroxyapatite-gelatin-based bone implants with gentamicin as an antibiotic (BHA-GEL-GEN implant) on the regeneration of bone defects in vivo. The BHA-GEL-GEN and BHA-GEL implants were made by direct compressi...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that causes the infectious disease coronavirus disease-2019. Currently, there is no effective drug for the prevention and treatment of this virus. This study aimed to identify secondary metabolites that potentially inhibit the key proteins of SARS-CoV-2. This was an in silico m...

Objectives Among Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) patients treated with Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (TKI-imatinib-nilotinib), some showed a suboptimal response. Based on pharmacokinetic studies, TKI trough level ( ${C}_{min}\hat{\infty }$ ) is associated with clinical outcomes, reflected by the BCR-ABL ratio. However, the interindividual pharmacokineti...

Introduction: Depressive disorders are the 4th leading cause of health problems and the 2nd leading cause of burden among all diseases. Almost all depressive disorder patients have cognitive impairments to a certain extend. Studies about cognitive impairments in depression had been conducted, but whether cognitive dysfunctions are the cause or the...

Abstract: Background: Catechin is one of the secondary metabolites in Camellia sinensis L. that is alternatively produced through in vitro cultures. The in vitro culture product is possibly improved by optimizing the culture medium with the addition of growth regulators and precursors. The purpose of this study was to confirm the success of the sec...

Background Catechin is one of the secondary metabolites in Camellia sinensis L. that is alternatively produced through in vitro cultures. The in vitro culture product is possibly improved by optimizing the culture medium with the addition of growth regulators and precursors. The purpose of this study was to confirm the success of the secondary cate...

Aim: This study examines the effect of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) on sodium valproate-induced liver injury through histological features of mice liver tissue. Materials and methods: Mice were divided into three groups; (1) vehicle group, (2) sodium valproate group, and (3) sodium valproate-ALA group. The vehicle group was injected with saline intra...

Bovine bone is a considerable source for the production of hydroxyapatite. The recent study reported a novel method to extract hydroxyapatite from bovine bone without producing hazardous residue. The bovine bones were cut and boiled in the opened chamber followed by boiling in pressurized tank. The bones were then soaked into 95% ethanol. Calcinati...

Highlights • Trends in the uses of Spirulina over different decades were critically examined • Findings from surveyed literature indicated that Spirulina utilization was mainly focused on its food and feed potential before the last 20-30 years • The review observed that research focused on the health and pharmaceutical uses, biofertilizer, bioplast...

Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic degenerative joint disease, characterized by physiological disorders, such as cartilage degradation, bone remodeling, osteophyte formation, and joint inflammation, which results in pain. Several studies have reported problems with the use of pain medications in OA, such as the use of a combination of many...

Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease and a common cause of joint pain, functional loss, and disability. The severity of this disease is always associated with increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines, which play an important role in cartilage damage, synovitis, and other damage to joint tissues. The discovery that...

Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic disease in the joints. One of the proinflammatory cytokines that is thought to have a major role in the inflammatory process, the emergence of pain, and cartilage damage in OA is tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α). Meloxicam is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug class of drugs that is relatively selective...

Background Oxidative stress plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology and pathogenesis of mental diseases, such as depression or anxiety. Psychological stress induced by predatory stimulus is one of the models that explain how induced affective behavior is manifested as a depression-like state. Quercetin is a flavonoid that exhibits potential pha...

Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is indicated by liver steatosis without excessive alcohol use or other liver disease. Several studies have reported that metabolic syndromes such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia have a linear correlation associated with NAFLD pathophysiology. One of the characteristics of dy...

Bone is an important organ for supports the body that stores reserve of calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals. In fracture conditions where bleeding, soft tissue edema, nerve damage, and blood vessels around the bone damage happen, they can cause the mobilization of these minerals in the surrounding tissue. One of the efforts made in the treatmen...

Endothelial dysfunction has been considered as one of the key initial events in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Several studies imply that chronic inflammation and oxidative stress play a critical role in endothelial dysfunction. The present study was designed to evaluate the preventive effect of alpha-...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia as a result of damage to insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Vanadyl sulfate is one of the form of vanadium which has begun to be used to treat diabetes in humans. In this study, investigation on the effectiveness of vanadyl sulfate in increasing pancreatic β cell...

Ischemic stroke is insufficient or interrupted of blood flow to an area of the brain, typically caused by blockage of an artery and can result in brain damaged. This study was aimed to investigate the efficacy of Recombinant Human Erythropoietin (rHuEPO) as a neuroprotection (antiapoptotic agent) on rat with ischemic stroke induced by right common...

Background Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have recently become potential candidates for a new therapeutic approach to ulcer and gastric bleeding. Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) plays an important role in cellular resistance to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). However, there is lack of evidence that fluvoxamine recruits...

Alendronate is a drug of the bisphosphonate group used for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. However, when given orally, alendronate can cause indigestion and osteonecrosis of the jaw. It also has a poor bioavailability. Taking these disadvantages into account, an injection formulation of alendronate was created...

The present study aimed to determine the potency of erythropoietin as angiogenesis inducer in ischemic stroke rats model. Animal model was treated by right unilateral common carotid artery occlusion (rUCCAO) for 90 minutes. The stroke model produced decreased motor function. Eight to 12 week-old Wistar rats were used. rHuEPO was administered for 7...

This study was designed to examine motor and congnitive changes, infarct lesion and neurohistological changes, involving histologic staining and immunohistochemical expression of caspase-3 after induction by right unilateral common carotid artery occlusion (RUCCAO) for 90 minutes. The animals were divided into two groups: sham group and stroke mode...

BEHAVIORAL ASSESMENT OF THE PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIC PAIN MODEL: RAT WITH CCI (CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY)ABSTRACTNeuropathic pain occurs in 20% of patients with chronic pain. This mainly due to the lack of effective treatment and the presence of drug’s side effects. Animal models have been broadly utilized in validating the therapeutic target and t...

INTRODUCTION Quercetin is a single compound that was expected to be effective to treat severe lupus manifestations because of its well-known anti-inflam-matory 1 and anti-oxidative effects. 2 This compound is predicted as an active marker of many medicinal plants which are examined as more safe, useful, and promising for lupus than the current trea...

T-cell activation, with the low expression of CD62L (L-selectin) marker in the spleen, will increase B cell activity to produce lupus antibodies. Therefore, lupus patients need drugs which could increase the L- selectin expression in the spleen to reduce the auto-reactive T cell. The tested drug to increase the L-selectin in this research was the e...

Body mass index (MBI) as a strong predictor for pregnancy outcomes has been established, but how micronutrients status during pregnancy as well as maternal-fetal endocrine correlates to pregnancy outcomes still need further explanation. The study's objective was to explain the relationship between pre-conceptional maternal body size, micronutrients...

Ethyl acetate fraction of Kalanchoe pinnata (Lmk) Pers leaves (EF-KP) is a potential material to be developed for lupus treatment. The aim of this research was to measure the effects of the EF-KP on lupus arthritis mice. The research was performed by testing of CD123+IFN-α+ dendritic cells and CD68+IL-6+ macrophages as the main biomarkers by using...

Back ground. Early teen marriage is starting point for the cycle of poor health status inter-generationally. Anthropometric indices prior to pregnancy have been established as the most important parameter for pregnancy outcomes. Objective. Research aimed to analyse the difference of health status and athropometric profile across age groups among ea...

Endothelial dysfunction is an initial condition of atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases where one of the risk factors is hypercholesterolemia. Blood cholesterol levels is associated with an increase in the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The increasing of ROS production can cause increased oxidative stress which in turn resultin...