Vidhya Prakash

Dr. Vidhya Prakash

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Academic Career Length

11Years (2016-Present)

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

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Vidhya Prakash
CBChinchu Bose
Chinchu Bose
DKDamu Sunil Kumar
Damu Sunil Kumar
RCRobin Mathew Cherian
Robin Mathew Cherian
STShwetha Susan Thomas
Shwetha Susan Thomas
BNBipin G Nair
Bipin G Nair
Natural products have been a long-standing source for exploring health-beneficial components from time immemorial. Modern science has had a renewed interest in natural-products-based drug discovery. The quest for new potential secondary metabolites or exploring enhanced activities for existing molecules remains a pertinent topic for research. Resveratrol belongs to the stilbenoid polyphenols group that encompasses two phenol rings linked by ethylene bonds. Several plant species and foods, including grape skin and seeds, are the primary source of this compound. Resveratrol is known to possess potent anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative, and immunoregulatory properties. Among the notable bioactivities associated with resveratrol, its pivotal role in safeguarding the intestinal barrier is highlighted for its capacity to prevent intestinal inflammation and regulate the gut microbiome. A better understanding of how oxidative stress can be controlled using resveratrol and its capability to protect the intestinal barrier from a gut microbiome perspective can shed more light on associated physiological conditions. Additionally, resveratrol exhibits antitumor activity, proving its potential for cancer treatment and prevention. Moreover, cardioprotective, vasorelaxant, phytoestrogenic, and neuroprotective benefits have also been reported. The pharmaceutical industry continues to encounter difficulties administering resveratrol owing to its inadequate bioavailability and poor solubility, which must be addressed simultaneously. This report summarizes the currently available literature unveiling the pharmacological effects of resveratrol.

30 May 2026 in Microorganisms
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NSNidhisha Babysulatha Sasidharan
Nidhisha Babysulatha Sasidharan
SHSreetha Hely
Sreetha Hely
SJSubin John
Subin John
KAKalyani Arun
Kalyani Arun
NRNandhana Joy Raveendran
Nandhana Joy Raveendran
VPVidhya Prakash
Vidhya Prakash
Postbiotics are increasingly recognized as a predominant group of biotherapeutic agents sourced from the microbial secretome, offering functional benefits, while circumventing the safety concerns associated with the application of live microbial consortia. These microbial derivatives are emerging as promising approaches for tackling complex diseases, encompassing cancer, autoimmune diseases, and metabolic disorders, through modulation of host cell signalling pathways, including G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), the NF-κB (Nuclear Factor Kappa B) pathway, and epigenetic regulatory pathways. Besides systemic effects, postbiotics may also have localized effects, such as epithelial regeneration, modulation of fibroblast functions, and control of collagen remodelling. Eventually, the scale-up in the production of postbiotics has initiated new avenues in improving sustainable agriculture and environmental biotechnology. This comprehensive review attempts to integrate mechanistic insights and translational applications, highlighting the therapeutic potential of postbiotics across biomedical and ecological domains. These observations could pave the way to bridge the gap between microbiome regulation, precision medicine, and sustainable biotechnology, thereby positioning postbiotics as a versatile tool addressing some of the most pressing health and sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

1 March 2016 in IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA)
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The wheeled mobile robots (WMR) find use for doing a variety of tasks in different types of workspaces. These workspaces are form of ideal natural flat, smooth terrain, unpredictable and irregular nature of these work spaces demanding a design challenges. Typically there work spaces may have pits, undulatory is not flat terrain, obstacles into tasks of the robot. There would result in wheel slippage orodometry error. This tasks a toll in the form of deviation from intended trajectory, navigation, travel time &budgeted energy consumption. These engineering issues can be addressed by proper design of wheel rotation, vibration amplitude of the robot body, travel time modulation differently up to the terrain condition (wet, dry, soft, hard)&wind effect. The wheel slip & odometry error is estimate of computational by design, pay load distribution, speed, wheel diameter, wheel width are the ply able design parameter in the designness scope. The effect of proper selection of the values of there parameters is studied in this review. The paper reviews are analyzing the basic& direct effect of parameters are how to associate with wheel slippage and odometry error and also which is the most affecting factor on the wheeled mobile robots.

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BRBhargavi Rajarathinam
Bhargavi Rajarathinam
PNPranav Vijayakumar Nair
Pranav Vijayakumar Nair
NMNeeraja Murali
Neeraja Murali
GLGanga Lekshmi
Ganga Lekshmi
ASAbitha K. Sajeev
Abitha K. Sajeev
RARajaguru Aradhya
Rajaguru Aradhya
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are chronic inflammatory diseases resulting from complex interactions between host genetics, environmental factors, immune dysregulation, and the gut microbiome. Among environmental exposures, antibiotics have emerged as important factors of IBD risk and disease course because of their profound effects on intestinal microbial communities. This review synthesizes current evidence on the class-specific effects of antibiotics on IBD, integrating epidemiological, mechanistic, and clinical studies to examine how different antibiotic classes influence disease susceptibility, progression, and microbiome recovery. Current evidence indicates that antibiotic-associated IBD risk varies according to antibiotic class, cumulative exposure, age at exposure, and antimicrobial spectrum, with broad-spectrum and anti-anaerobic agents showing the strongest associations. Mechanistically, antibiotics promote dysbiosis by depleting beneficial commensal bacteria, disrupting microbial metabolite production, expanding pathobionts and the intestinal resistome, and impairing epithelial barrier integrity and immune homeostasis. The review also discusses microbiome-preserving and microbiome-restorative approaches, including antimicrobial stewardship, fecal microbiota transplantation, prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, postbiotics, and dietary interventions, as potential strategies to mitigate antibiotic-associated dysbiosis. Overall, the evidence highlights the class-specific effects of antibiotics in IBD and underscores the importance of microbiome-informed antimicrobial stewardship and precision therapeutic strategies to optimize patient outcomes while minimizing long-term disruptions of host–microbiome homeostasis.

22 May 2026 in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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JGJohn K. Giju
John K. Giju
SJSubin John
Subin John
ASAmrutha Sivadas
Amrutha Sivadas
MPMeera Prabhakar
Meera Prabhakar
KKKrishnakripa K.
Krishnakripa K.
VPVidhya Prakash
Vidhya Prakash
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory condition that has a rapidly changing global epidemiology. IBD has been traditionally viewed as a primary immune system dysfunction, but emerging evidence more accurately describes IBD as a perturbance of the intricate balance between host immunity, the intestinal microbiome, and intestinal metabolism. Although genetic and environmental components have long been recognized as contributors, accumulating evidence increasingly highlights the pivotal role of microbial dysbiosis in the pathogenesis of IBD. In patients with IBD, intestinal dysbiosis, which is often characterized by reduced Firmicutes and increased pro-inflammatory bacteria, triggers a cascade of pathogenic events. These pathogenic events include impaired epithelial barrier function, dysregulated immune activation against luminal antigens, and immune reprogramming. Central to these processes are functional changes in microbial metabolism, particularly in pathways involving short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), bile acids, and redox homeostasis, which critically contribute to the development of chronic mucosal inflammation. The current therapeutic backbone of IBD—including aminosalicylates, biologics, and immunomodulators—largely targets the inflammatory response. However, the challenges such as primary non-response, secondary loss of response, and systemic side effects are often problematic. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop novel therapeutic and preventive strategies that target the underlying microbial and metabolic causes of the disease rather than modulating immune responses. This review integrates the pathomechanistic implications of the microbiome-metabolic axis in the maintenance of gut homeostasis and its disruption in IBD, with particular emphasis on the global epidemiology of the disease. We further evaluate emerging therapeutic and preventive strategies aimed at restoring the microbiome-metabolic axis, including fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), probiotic therapy, bacteriophage therapy, and helminth-based therapies. In addition, we explore the potential of advanced approaches such as microbiome engineering and precision genome editing to enable highly personalized therapeutic paradigms. By bridging microbial ecology with clinical pathology, this review highlights the transformative potential of targeting the host-microbiota interface to achieve improved long-term outcomes in IBD.

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VPVidhya Prakash
Vidhya Prakash
SVShivani Chalil Velluva
Shivani Chalil Velluva
SSShiv Shankar Sreekumar
Shiv Shankar Sreekumar
NJNidhi Jayaprakash
Nidhi Jayaprakash
NPNandana S. Pillai
Nandana S. Pillai
BNBipin G Nair
Bipin G Nair
The clinical paradigm distinguishing chronic atopic dermatitis (AD) from acute bacterial infections is established by the emerging evidence which focuses on persistent innate immune memory as a central pathobiological factor mediating inflammatory skin diseases. While AD is classically defined by genetic susceptibility and epidermal barrier failure, progression of deep dermal Staphylococcus aureus invasion, which is characteristic of bacterial infections like cellulitis, implies a significant acute infectious condition resulting in significant tissue damage, which drives extensive innate immune reprogramming. Recent studies have established a bidirectional relationship between these conditions, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms remain undefined. However, trained immunity, governed by epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming, has now emerged as a critical mediator of this interaction. This review attempts to explore the molecular foundations of trained immunity as a mechanistic link between acute infectious conditions and chronic skin inflammation. The critical involvement of bacterial virulence factors and pattern recognition receptor signalling pathways, which instigate persistent innate memory, predisposes the tissue to recurrent infections and aggravated inflammatory responses. Furthermore, the persistent involvement of innate immune reprogramming in facilitating a mechanistic continuum between cellulitis and chronic dysregulation, characteristic of atopic dermatitis, is discussed. In continuum, we propose emphasising emerging therapeutic strategies targeting epigenetic checkpoints and metabolic rewiring to develop novel immunomodulatory interventions to combat infectious and inflammatory skin disorders.