DR. (MISS) SUMAN GUPTA
 
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Scientist
Division of Parasitology
Central Drug Research Institute
Lucknow-226 001
 
Educational Qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D.
Date of Birth June 2, 1953
Teephone :: 2612411-18 (Ext. 4428)
E.mail : gupta_suman@yahoo.com sumancdri@gmail.com
Fax : +91-0522-2623405/2623938
 
 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
 
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK 1990
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
 
Chemotherapy & Immunology of helminthic infections (15 years)
chemotherapy & immunodiagnois of leishmaniasis (18 years)
 
CURRENT AREAS OF INTEREST
Drug & Diagnostic Research for Leishmaniasis
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Influence of Brugia malayi life stages and BmAFII fraction on experimental Leishmania donovani infection in hamsters. P.K.Murthy, S. Dixit, R.L.Gaur, R.Kumar M.K.Sahoo, N.Shakya, S.K Joseph, S Palne, S.Gupta. Acta Tropica Online, Feb. 7. (2008)
Characterization of natural antimony resistance in Leishmania donovani isolates M.K.Mittal, S.Rai, Ashutosh, Ravinder, S.Gupta, S Sundar & N. Goyal. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 76(4), 681-688, 2007.
Synthesis of 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyrimidines & triazine heterocycles as antileishmanial agents. N Sunduru, A. Agarwal, S.B Katiyar, Nishi, N. Goyal, S.Gupta & P.M.S. Chauhan. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 14,7706-7715, 2006.
Use of Leishmania donovani Field Isolates Expressing the Luciferase Reporter Gene in In vitro Drug Screening. Ashutosh, S.Gupta, Ramesh, S.Sundar, & N. Goyal. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemothreapy 49(9), 3776-3783, 2005.
Efficacy of picroliv in combination with miltefosine, an orally effective antileishmanial against experimental visceral leishmaniasis. S.Gupta, Ramesh, S.C.Sharma, & V.M.L Srivastava/ Acta Tropica 94 (4) 41-47, 2005.
Adjunct effect of immunostimulating hexapeptide analogous to human beta casein fragment (54-59) to sodium stibogluconate against experimental visceral leishmaniasis. S.Gupta, V.M.L Srivastava, A.Puri. D.Pandey,. & W Haq. Immunotoxicology and Immunopharmacology 26(3), 425-434, 2004.
Leishmanicidal activity of phenylene bridged C2 symmetric glycosyl ureides. N. Tiwari, Ramesh, R.C.Mishra, RP Tripathi, V.M.L.Srivastava & S.Gupta. Bioorganic Chemistry Letters 14,4055-4059, 2004.
Direct Agglutination Test based on Freeze Dried Antigen for Leishmania donovani: Development and comparative evaluation with Aqueous Antigen and Recombinant rk39 antigen for serodiagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis. S. Gupta, S. Tiwari & G.K. Jain. Tropical Medicine 43, 93-100, 2001.
A rising trend in kala-azar in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, India: A recent survey using direct agglutination test. S. Gupta, S. Tiwari, A.K. Bagchi & J.C. Katiyar. Current Science 73, 456-459, 1997.
Anilino- (2-bromophenyl) acetonitrile : a promising orally effective antileishmanial agent.
S. Gupta, Tiwari, S., Bhaduri, A P and Jain, G K. Acta Tropica 84, 165-173, 2000