Dr. M.Muthukumaran
@ptuniv.edu.in
Assistant Professor (Contract), Department of HSS
Puducherry Technological University
Dr. M. Muthukumaran, an Assistant Professor of Biology at Puducherry Technological University. At Pondicherry University (PU), a Ph.D., degree was awarded. I received Sinthanai Sirpi Singaravelar Sudar Award and Vermi-Scientist Dr. Sultan Ismail recognized my research. I delivered my research in the field of Plant-Toxicity at SETAC-EUROPE (24th ANNUAL MEETING /Switzerland-Basel). The book and research papers from Lambert, Nature, and Elsevier are among my publications.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Botany (Ecology and Environmental Sciences)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Plants and stress physiology, Plant Toxicology, Ethnopharmacology, Flora and faunal diversity and Plant Biology.
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Prabhakar Yellanur Konda, Vidyasagar Chennupati, Sreenivasulu Dasari, Nishesh Sharma, Muthukumaran Muthulingam, Ranjani Ramakrishnan, Ankanna Sade, Vigneshwari Jagadheeshkumar, Vijayakumar Natesan, and Krishna Kumar Jaiswal
Elsevier BV
Prabhakar Yellanur Konda, Vijayakumar Poondla, Krishna Kumar Jaiswal, Sreenivasulu Dasari, Reddemma Uyyala, Venkata Prasad Surtineni, Janardhan Yadav Egi, Anthony Johnson Antony Masilamani, Lakshmi Bestha, Sreenath Konanki,et al.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AbstractThe high fat diet alters intestinal microbiota due to increased intestinal permeability and susceptibility to microbial antigens leads to metabolic endotoxemia. But probiotic juices reported for various health benefits. In this background we hypothesized that pectinase treated probiotic banana juice has diverse effects on HFD induced obesity and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. 20 weeks fed HFD successfully induced obesity and its associated complications in experimental rats. The supplementation of probiotic banana juice for 5 months at a dose of 5 mL/kg bw/day resulted significant decrease (p < 0.05) in body weight (380 ± 0.34), total fat (72 ± 0.8), fat percentage (17 ± 0.07) and fat free mass (165 ± 0.02). Reduction (p < 0.05) in insulin resistance (5.20 ± 0.03), lipid profile (TC 120 ± 0.05; TG 160 ± 0.24; HDL 38 ± 0.03), liver lipid peroxidation (0.7 ± 0.01), hepatic enzyme markers (AST 82 ± 0.06; ALT 78 ± 0.34; ALP 42 ± 0.22), and hepatic steatosis by increasing liver antioxidant potential (CAT 1.4 ± 0.30; GSH 1.04 ± 0.04; SOD 0.82 ± 0.22) with normal hepatic triglycerides (15 ± 0.02) and glycogen (0.022 ± 0.15) contents and also showed normal liver size, less accumulation of lipid droplets with only a few congestion. It is concluded that the increased intestinal S. cerevisiae yeast can switch anti-obesity, antidiabetic, antioxidative stress, antioxidant and anti-hepatosteatosis effect. This study results will have significant implications for treatment of NAFLD.
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GRANT DETAILS
DST-SERB Travel Grant (Delhi, IN) for delivered presentation in 24th Annual Meeting in Switzerland (Basel) by the organization of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC, Brussels).
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, or ACADEMIC BENEFITS
1.Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Brussels, Belgium / 2014-05-11 to 2014-05-15 | Research Presentation
Invited position. Short term Membership.
2. Appreciation award for best poster in National Symposium in Center for Bioinformatics in Pondicherry University.
3. Sinthanai Sirpi Singaravalar Sudar Award for merit-doctorate honored by Meenavar Kalai Ilakiya Ayyvumaiyam, Puducherry.
4. Evaluator of 27th National Children's Science Congress - 2019 in the theme of " Science, Technology and innovation for green, clean and healthy nation" conducted by Tamil Nadu Science Forum.