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NAME

Choudhary, Dharamainder

POSITION TITLE

Postdoctoral Associated

EDUCATION/TRAINING  (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

(if applicable)

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., INDIA

M.Sc.

1989

Physical Chemistry

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., INDIA

M.Sc.

1991

Biotechnology

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, INDIA

Ph.D.

1998

Toxicology

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

 

A. Professional Experience

1998-2000- Research Associate at Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi, India

2000-Present Post-doctoral fellow,  University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA

 

B. AWARDS & HONORS

·        Qualified NET-UGC (University Grants Commission, India) award fellowship (1991-1996).

·        Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE) 1991 with 85 percentile.

·        Postgraduate Merit Scholarship for 1987-1989 from A.M.U., Aligarh.

·        Postgraduate Merit Scholarship for 1989-1991 from A.M.U., Aligarh.

 

Research Publications

 

Choudhary D., Chandra D. and Kale R.K. Influence of methylglyoxal on antioxidant enzymes and oxidative damage (1997) Toxicology letters, 93 (2,3); 141-152.

Choudhary D., Srivastava M., Sarma A. and Kale R.K. Effect of 45 MeV 7Li and 68 MeV 16O charged particle on biological membranes. (1997) GSI report, 09; D7.

Srivastava M., Choudhary D., Sarma A. and Kale R.K. Effect of 45 MeV 7Li and 68 MeV 16O charged particles on microsomal membrane fluidity. (1998) Current Science, 74 (1); 58-61.

Choudhary D., Srivastava M., Sarma A. and Kale R.K. Effect of high linear energy transfer radiation on biological membranes. (1998) Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 37; 177-85.

Choudhary D., Chandra D., Sarma A. and Kale R.K. Effect of low doses of mixed neutron-gamma radiation on the glyoxalase system. (1999) Physica Medica, 15 (1); 27-33.

Choudhary D., Chandra D. and Kale R.K. Modulation of radioresponse of glyoxalase system by curcumin. (1999) Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 64(1); 1-7.

Chandra D., Choudhary D., Lochab S.P., Sarma A. and Kale R.K. Effect of low doses of n-g mixed radiation on bioreductive enzymes in different tissues of mice. (2000) Physica Medica, 16(2); 83-89. 

Gupta S., Choudhary D. and Sarma A. Study of carbonaceous clusters in irradiated polycarbonate with UV-vis spectroscopy. (2000) Journal of Polymer Science and Polymer Physics, 38(12); 1589-1594.

Choudhary D., Sarma A. and Kale R.K. a-tocopherol protection against oxidative membrane damage induced by high LET radiation. (2000) Research Communications in Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, 4(3-4); 245-258.

Ghosh S., Singh F., Choudhary D., Ganesan V., Shah P., Gupts A., and Avasthi D.K. Effect of substrate temperature on the physical properties of copper nitride films by r.f. reactive sputtering. (2001) Surface and Coatings Technology, 142-144; 1034-1039.

Choudhary D. Chandra D., Choudhary S. and Kale R.K. Modulation of glyoxalase and antioxidant enzymes in liver, spleen and erythrocytes of mice by dietary administration of fenugreek seeds. (2001) Food and Chemical Toxicology, 39 (10); 989-997.

Agrawal A., Choudhary D. and Kale R.K. Radiation induced oxidative stress: I. Studies in Ehrlich solid tumor in mice. (2001) Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 223; 71-80. Sarma A.,

Choudhary D., Barua P., Kothari S.K., Saini S.K., Rao S. Renovated radiation biology beam line of NSC and the radiation field characteristics. (2001) NSC/TR/2000-2001/73.

Jain M., Choudhary D., Kale R.K. and Bhalla-Sarin N. Salt- and glyphosate-induced increase in glyoxalase I activity in cell lines of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea).
(2002) Physiologia Plantarum. 114(4); 499-505.

Choudhary D. and Kale R.K. Antioxidant and non-toxic properties of Piper betle leaf extract: In vitro and in vivo studies. (2002) Phytotherapy Research 16(5) 461-466.

Raychaudhuri S., Karmakar P., Choudhary D., Sarma A. and Thakur A.R. Effect of heavy ion
irradiation on DNA DSB repair in Methanosarcina barkeri (2003) Anaerobe 9 (1) 15-21.

Choudhary D., Jansson I., Schenkman J.B., Sarfarazi M. and Stoilov I. Comparative expression profiling of 40 mouse cytochrome P450 genes in embryonic and adult tissues. (2003) Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 414(1) 91-100.

Bhat N.N., Choudhary D., Sarma A., Gupta B.L. and Siddappa K. Response of an FBX dosimeter to high LET Li-7 and C-12 ions (2003) Radiation Protection Dosimetry 68 (5): 909-916.

Schenkman J.B, Choudhary D., Jansson I., Stoilov I., Sarfarazi M. Involvement of cytochrome P450s in development (2003) Proceedings of Indian Science Academy (PINSA) B69 (6) 917-929.

Choudhary D., Jansson I., Stoilov I., Sarfarazi M. and Schenkman J.B. Metabolism of retinoids and arachidonic acid by human and mouse cytochrome P450 1B1. (2004) Drug Metabolism Disposition 32 (8): 840-847.

Choudhary D., Jansson I., Sarfarazi M. and Schenkman J.B. Xenobiotic-metabolizing cytochromes P450 in ontogeny: evolving perspective. (2004) Drug Metabolism Reviews 36:549-568.

Choudhary, D Jansson, I., Sarfarazi, M.  and Schenkman, J.B.. Physiological Significance and Expression of P450s in the developing eye. Drug Metabolism Reviews 38:337-352 (2006).

 

ORAL PAPERS PRESENTED

Choudhary D., Srivastava M. and Kale R.K. Effect of high LET radiation on membranes. International CME Programme in Clinical Radiobiology, Trivandrum, India in Jan 1997.

Choudhary D., Srivastava M., Sarma A. and Kale. R.K. Effect of charged particle irradiation on biological membranes. 6th Workshop of Heavy Charged Particles in Biology and Medicine, Baveno, Italy Sep29-Oct1, 1997.

Choudhary D., Lochab S.P., Sarma A. and Kale R.K. Effect of mixed radiation on the glyoxalase system. Int. Conf. on Radiation Biology: DNA Damage, Repair and Carcinogenesis, Shillong, India on 7-10th April, 1998.

Choudhary D., Tayal D, and Sarma A. International Symposium on Apoptosis, Chandigarh, India on 29-30th Oct, 1998.

Choudhary D., Kale R.K. and Sarma A. Workshop on New Frontiers in Heavy ion Radiobiology, Delhi, India on 24th May, 2000.

Choudhary D., Jansson I.J., Stoilov I., Sarfarazi M. and Schenkman J.B., NUTMEG meeting at Salem, MA, USA on 5th Nov, 2002.