Afsona Parveen

Afsona Parveen

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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Prithviraj KarakPrithviraj Karak
Prithviraj Karak
AAfsona Parveen
Afsona Parveen
AMAnindya Modak
Anindya Modak
AAAtin Adhikari
Atin Adhikari
SCSankha Chakrabortty
Sankha Chakrabortty
Pollution, especially plastic pollution, presents a serious worldwide danger to essential environmental resources. Microplastics are tiny plastic fragments varying in size from 50 μm to 5 mm. The primary aim of this article is to develop an extensive review grounded in the latest data accessible until 2024, adhering to PRISMA guidelines. A total of 329 data points were collected and 297 of those were removed through filtering, leaving 32 articles for the study, and taking into account the complete evolution of all the publications. This study seeks to enhance public awareness and knowledge among researchers about the harmful effects of plastic pollution on the environment and society by identifying its sources and consequences for humans and ecosystems. A detailed analysis of the sources of microplastics in the oceans and their detrimental effects on marine organisms is presented. This research additionally explores the transport of microplastics through various environmental pathways, including water and air. Aquatic species ingest microplastics, which subsequently transfer up the food chain, including humans, and these risks are discussed. Microplastics may increase the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), leading to DNA and cellular damage, oxidative stress, alterations in gene expression, and decreased cell viability. Developing clear and effective guidelines and regulations is crucial for addressing the adverse issues related to microplastics. All participants in the policymaking and implementation of these guidelines must understand their roles and responsibilities.

31 May 2025 in Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin
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AAfsona Parveen
Afsona Parveen
ACArnab Chatterjee
Arnab Chatterjee
Prithviraj KarakPrithviraj Karak
Prithviraj Karak
Carbon-based nanoparticles possess distinctive chemical, physical, and biological characteristics that render them suitable for biomedical uses. This paper reviews recent advancements in CBN synthesis methods, emphasizing the importance of careful modification for biomedical uses, particularly in the passivation of drugs and chemicals on their surfaces. This review article examines information from 2021-2024 regarding carbon-based nanoparticles and the biomedical uses of graphene, fullerene, carbon nanotubes, nano horns, nanodiamonds, quantum dots, and graphene oxide. Initially, a total of 5,612 relevant data points from various databases such as PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science were analyzed. After eliminating duplicates, nearly 3,905 data points were found to meet the inclusion criteria for this study, with the latest research indicating that 1,791 (45.8%) of these databases pertained to graphene. Carbon nanotubes accounted for approximately 928 (25.14%) databases, while graphene oxide represented around 837 (21.43%) databases, placing them in second and third positions, respectively. Nanohorns and fullerene were found in very minor quantities, specifically 34 (0.87%) and 06 (0.15%) in the database. Carbon-based nanomaterials, have the capacity to revolutionize biological medicine by improving regenerative treatments, personalized healthcare, and therapeutic outcomes. They are utilized in scaffolding, drug delivery, tissue engineering, bioimaging, and additional fields. Nonetheless, successful integration necessitates tackling scale and regulatory limitations.

1 September 2026 in Pathophysiology
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SDSayandeep K Das
Sayandeep K Das
Prithviraj KarakPrithviraj Karak
Prithviraj Karak
AAfsona Parveen
Afsona Parveen
SDSwastika N. Das
Swastika N. Das
SNSavitri M. Nerune
Savitri M. Nerune
Background/Objectives: Microplastics (MPs) are increasingly reported in human reproductive tissues and fluids, but detection alone does not establish tissue injury or disease. Recent reviews have synthesised occurrence, reproductive toxicity, placental transfer, fertility, and pregnancy outcomes. The unresolved problem is that occurrence, model-response, lesion-comparison, clinical-association, and causal evidence are not interchangeable. This review asks what minimum evidence is required for an MP finding in the female genital tract (FGT) or fetoplacental continuum to become lesion-relevant and where inference must stop. Methods: We performed a critical narrative search of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar from database inception through 10 July 2026. The final synthesis comprised 59 sources: 28 primary studies, 24 reviews or systematic syntheses, and 7 regulatory, consensus, or professional-guidance documents.. Methodological recommendations were graded as claim-essential, context-dependent, or exploratory and as routine, specialised, or research-intensive. Results: The distinct contribution is an FGT-specific mechanistic and claim-to-evidence architecture rather than another environmental or reproductive-toxicity catalogue. We propose an ordered, claim-calibrated evidence ladder linking external exposure, internal dose, reproductive-fluid burden, spatial localisation, lesion response, and clinically annotated phenotype. The framework specifies the minimum evidence for occurrence, localisation, lesion, clinical, and causal claims and provides explicit stopping and downgrading rules rather than treating all desirable measurements as mandatory. The FGT Lesion Atlas is a compartment-by-compartment map of prioritised, non-exhaustive endpoints and sampling requirements. The FGT Lesionome is a cross-compartment synthesis of recurring barrier-receptivity, stromal-fibrotic, vascular-perfusion, immune-microbiome, endocrine-steroidogenic, and particle-cargo axes. An integrated hypothesis-generating pathway links systemic or local exposure, internal and target-compartment burden, physicochemical conditioning in reproductive-fluid microenvironments, particle or particle-associated-constituent interaction with compartment-specific cells and matrices, the six response axes, physiological dysfunction, and clinically annotated outcomes. A reproductive-fluid model, an assisted-reproductive-technology sentinel sequence, and an FGT Microplastic Pathology Reporting Checklist rank study elements by evidentiary necessity, feasibility, and interpretive consequence. Conclusions: The framework is hypothesis-generating, not a validated causal map or a universal core outcome set. It separates essential validity safeguards from context-dependent best practices and exploratory endpoints. Human reproductive and fetoplacental disease causation remains unproven without contamination-controlled sampling, polymer confirmation, spatial co-localisation with lesions, temporality, exposure-response assessment, confounder control, replication, and appropriately powered, temporally informative clinical outcomes.