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Shishir Shishodia is a researcher affiliated with Texas Southern University in the United States, specializing primarily in Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several intersecting subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Immunology; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine; and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology.

The research topics covered by Shishodia focus on aspects of immune regulation, health effects related to environmental factors, and disease mechanisms. Specific areas of interest include Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation, Birth, Development, and Health, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases, Radioactivity and Radon Measurements, and Heavy Metals in the Environment.

Shishodia's recent publications demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach integrating biology, toxicology, and environmental science. Notable papers include:

  • Overnutrition and Lipotoxicity: Impaired Efferocytosis and Chronic Inflammation as Precursors to Multifaceted Disease Pathogenesis (2024), published in Biology
  • Impacts of Indoor Dust Exposure on Human Colonic Cell Viability, Cytotoxicity and Apoptosis (2023), published in Toxics
  • Cytotoxicity Analysis of Pre- and Post-Hurricane Harvey Soil Samples Collected from Greater Houston Bayous (2021), published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Assessment of Soil and Water Characteristics and Land Cover Changes along the Tigris River in Baghdad (2021), published in International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

Their frequent coauthors include researchers such as D. Vrinceanu, Maruthi Sridhar Balaji Bhaskar, Vivek Mann, Alamelu Sundaresan, and Noura Abdulrahman, indicating collaborations across related environmental health and scientific disciplines.

Shishodia's work has been published in venues that reflect an interdisciplinary emphasis on environmental and biological sciences, such as Biology, Toxics, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, and the International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Molecular targets of dietary agents for prevention and therapy of cancer

    Bharat B. Aggarwal;Shishir Shishodia

  • Role of Resveratrol in Prevention and Therapy of Cancer: Preclinical and Clinical Studies

    Bharat B. Aggarwal;Anjana Bhardwaj;Rishi S. Aggarwal;Navindra P. Seeram

  • Inflammation and cancer: How hot is the link?

    Bharat B. Aggarwal;Shishir Shishodia;Santosh K. Sandur;Manoj K. Pandey

  • Curcumin: Getting Back to the Roots

    Shishir Shishodia;Gautam Sethi;Bharat B. Aggarwal

  • Curcumin Suppresses the Paclitaxel-Induced Nuclear Factor-κB Pathway in Breast Cancer Cells and Inhibits Lung Metastasis of Human Breast Cancer in Nude Mice

    Bharat B. Aggarwal;Shishir Shishodia;Yasunari Takada;Sanjeev Banerjee

  • Curcumin (Diferuloylmethane) Down-Regulates Expression of Cell Proliferation and Antiapoptotic and Metastatic Gene Products through Suppression of IκBα Kinase and Akt Activation

    Sita Aggarwal;Haruyo Ichikawa;Yasunari Takada;Santosh K Sandur

  • Ursolic Acid Inhibits Nuclear Factor-κB Activation Induced by Carcinogenic Agents through Suppression of IκBα Kinase and p65 Phosphorylation: Correlation with Down-Regulation of Cyclooxygenase 2, Matrix Metalloproteinase 9, and Cyclin D1

    Shishir Shishodia;Sekhar Majumdar;Sanjeev Banerjee;Bharat B. Aggarwal

  • Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) inhibits constitutive NF-κB activation, induces G1/S arrest, suppresses proliferation, and induces apoptosis in mantle cell lymphoma

    Shishir Shishodia;Hesham M. Amin;Raymond Lai;Bharat B. Aggarwal

  • Resveratrol inhibits proliferation, induces apoptosis, and overcomes chemoresistance through down-regulation of STAT3 and nuclear factor-κB–regulated antiapoptotic and cell survival gene products in human multiple myeloma cells

    Anjana Bhardwaj;Gautam Sethi;Saroj Vadhan-Raj;Carlos Bueso-Ramos

  • Role of curcumin in cancer therapy

    Shishir Shishodia;Madan M. Chaturvedi;Bharat B. Aggarwal

  • Suppression of the nuclear factor-κB activation pathway by spice-derived phytochemicals: Reasoning for seasoning

    Bharat B. Aggarwal;Shishir Shishodia

  • Resveratrol blocks interleukin-1β–induced activation of the nuclear transcription factor NF-κB, inhibits proliferation, causes S-phase arrest, and induces apoptosis of acute myeloid leukemia cells

    Zeev Estrov;Shishir Shishodia;Stefan H Faderl;David Harris

  • Nuclear factor–κB and STAT3 are constitutively active in CD138+cells derived from multiple myeloma patients, and suppression of these transcription factors leads to apoptosis

    Alok C. Bharti;Shishir Shishodia;James M. Reuben;Donna Weber

  • Nuclear factor-kappaB and IkappaB kinase are constitutively active in human pancreatic cells, and their down-regulation by curcumin (diferuloylmethane) is associated with the suppression of proliferation and the induction of apoptosis.

    Lan Li;Bharat B. Aggarwal;Shishir Shishodia;James Abbruzzese

  • Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) down-regulates cigarette smoke-induced NF-κB activation through inhibition of IκBα kinase in human lung epithelial cells: correlation with suppression of COX-2, MMP-9 and cyclin D1

    Shishir Shishodia;Pravin Potdar;C. Gary Gairola;Bharat B. Aggarwal

  • The molecular targets and therapeutic uses of curcumin in health and disease

    Bharat B. Aggarwal;Young-Joon Surh;Shishir Shishodia

  • Nuclear Factor-κB Activation: A Question of Life or Death

    Shishir Shishodia;Bharat B. Aggarwal

  • From traditional Ayurvedic medicine to modern medicine: identification of therapeutic targets for suppression of inflammation and cancer.

    Bharat B Aggarwal;Haruyo Ichikawa;Prachi Garodia;Priya Weerasinghe

  • Guggulsterone inhibits NF-κB and IκBα kinase activation, suppresses expression of anti-apoptotic gene products, and enhances apoptosis

    Shishir Shishodia;Bharat B. Aggarwal

  • Cigarette smoke condensate activates nuclear transcription factor-κB through phosphorylation and degradation of IκBα: correlation with induction of cyclooxygenase-2

    Ruby John Anto;Asok Mukhopadhyay;Shishir Shishodia;C. Gary Gairola

Frequent Co-Authors

Gautam Sethi
Gautam Sethi National University of Singapore
Zeev Estrov
Zeev Estrov The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Moshe Talpaz
Moshe Talpaz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bokyung Sung
Bokyung Sung The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hagop M. Kantarjian
Hagop M. Kantarjian The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Carlos E. Bueso-Ramos
Carlos E. Bueso-Ramos The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Muraleedharan G. Nair
Muraleedharan G. Nair Michigan State University
Navindra P. Seeram
Navindra P. Seeram University of Rhode Island
Young-Joon Surh
Young-Joon Surh Seoul National University
Indra D. Bhatt
Indra D. Bhatt G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development

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