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PUBLICATIONS

  1. Himank Kumar, Ishan Wadi, Vinod Devaraji, Pillai C.R. and Sujit Kumar Ghosh (2018). A Novel Quinoline-Appended Chalcone Derivative as Potential Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytocide. Journal of Vector Borne Diseases. 56, 189–199

  2. Gautam Kumar, G., Tanwar O., Kumar J., Akhtar M., Sharma S., Pillai C R., Alam M. M, Zama M. S. (2018) Pyrazole- pyrazoline as promising noval antimalarial agents: A mechanistic study: (2018) Eur J. Med. Chemistry. 149- 139-147. ( e pub- Feb 15)

  3. Ishan Wadi, Pillai C.R., Anvikar A.R., Sinha A., Nath M. and Valecha N. (2018). Methylene blue induced morphological deformations in Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes: Implication for transmission –blocking.  Malaria Journal 17. 11

  4. Rakhi Dhawan, Pillai C.R., Mohanty A.K., Kumar A. (2017). Achieving in vitro gametocytogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum in optimal conditions: A review. International Journal of Medical and Health Research. 3 (12), 83-90.

  5. Pooja Agarwal, Anvikar, A R, Pillai C.R., Srivastava, K. (2017). In vitro susceptibility of Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates to different antimalarial drug and antibiotics. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 146 (5) 622-628.

  6. Sharma S, Kaitholia K, Mishra N, Srivastava B, Pillai C.R.,  Valech N, Anvikar AR (2016). In vitro sensitivity pattern of chloroquine and artemisinin in Plasmodium falciparum. Indian J Med Microbiol. 34:509-12

  7. M.Punnam Chander, Pillai C.R., I P Sunish, P.Vijayachari,.(2016). Antimicrobial and antimalarial properties of medicinal plants used by the indigenous tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Microbial Pathogenesis 96: 85-88.

  8. M. Punnam Chander, Pillai C.R. and P.Vijayachari (2016). Antimalarial efficacy of nine medicinal plants traditionally used by the Karens of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Bangladesh J Pharmacol 2016; 11: 126-129.

  9. Nisha Raina, Amit K. Goyal, Pillai C.R. and Goutam Rath (2013). Development and Charaterization of Artemether loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles. Indian Journal of Pharmacuetical Education and Research,  47 : 123-28

  10. A.K.Anvikar, B Sharma, S.K.Sharma, S.K.Ghosh, R.Bhatt. A.Kumar, S.S.Mohanty, Pillai C.R., A.P.Dash, N.Valecha (2012). In vitro assessment of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in five States of India. Indian J Med Res.135, 494-99.

  11. V.Venkatesalu, N. Gopalan, Pillai C.R., V.Singh, M. Chandrasekaran, A. Senthilkumar,  N. Chandramouli (2012). In vitro anti-plasmodial activity of some traditionally used  medicinal  plants against Plasmodium falciparum.  Parasitol. Res. Vol.    24: 34-39

  12. M Farahna, S Badri, S Khalid, M Idris, Pillai C.R., E A Khalil (2010). Anti-plasmodial effects   of Azardirachta indica in experimental cerebral malaria: Apoptosis of cerebellar Purkinje cells of   mice as a marker. North Am J Med Sci. 2,  518-525.

  13. P.V.Lalitha, S.Biswas, Pillai C.R., R.K.Seth, R.K.Saxena (2010). Expression, purification and characterization of allel Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Vaccine, 28, (2010), 4661-4667

  14. P.V.Lalitha, S.Biswas, Pillai C.R., and R.K.Saxena (2008). Immunogenecity of recombinant malaria vaccine candidate, domain I+II of AMA-1 ectodomain from Indian P.falciparum alleles. Vaccine 26 (2008) 4526-4535.

  15. Pramatha R.Bhattacharya, Vinay Bhatia  and  Pillai C.R. (2005). Genetic Diversity of T Helper Cell Epitopic Regions of Circum Sporozoite Protein of  Plasmodium falciparum isolates from India. Trans. of the Roy. Soc. of Trop. Med. And Hyg. 100, 395-400

  16. P.G. Vathsala, A.Pramanik, S.Dhanasekaran, C.Usha Devi, Pillai C.R., S.K.Subarao, S.K.Ghosh, S.N. Tiwari, T.S. Sathyanaranan, P.R. Deshpande, G.C. Mishra, M.R. Ranjit, A.P. Dash, P.N. Rangrajan and G.Padmanaban (2004). Chlroquine resistance Pfcrt (K76T) Mutation in P.falciparum malaria is rampant in India. Am. J. of Trop. Med. Hyg. . 70 (3): 256-9.

  17. Pillai C.R. (2004) Cerebral Malaria. Health Education and Media Advocacy (The Leprosy Mission Trust India  Publications) Vol. III , Issue- 9, 7-10 .

  18. Pillai C.R. (2004) Cerebral Malaria.(Cont…) Health Education and Media Advocacy (The Leprosy Mission Trust India  Publications) Vol. III ,Issue- 10, 9-11.

  19. Rana Chattopadhyay, Tarvinder Taneja, Kausik Chakrabarti, Pillai C.R. and Chetan E.Chitnis (2003). An intercellular cell adhesion molecule –1 binding domain from a Plasmodium falciparum field isolate: Conservation in a functional domain involved in cerebral malaria. Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology. 133, 255-265.

  20. Pillai C.R. and C.Usha Devi (2002). Malaria Parasite Bank: A National resource for the control of malaria.  Proceedings of the WHO workshop on the control of Kala azar  and Malaria. Eds S.K. Bhattacharya, N.K. Ganguly and C.P. Thakur. Strategies for control of Kala-azar and Malaria, Dec., 27-28,  pp 175-185.

  21. Kailash C.Pandey, Sanjay Singh, Pillai C.R., Usha Pillai, Andrew Lynn, S. K.,  Jain and Chetan E. Chitnis (2002). Bacterially expressed and refolded receptor binding domain of Plasmodium falciparum EBA-175 elicits invasion inhibitory antibodies- Implications for malaria vaccine development. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology.,  123,1,23-33.

  22. Pillai C.R. (2002) Reserve Bank of Malaria Parasites .Health Education and Media Advocacy (The Leprosy Mission Trust India  Publications) Vol. 1 ,Issue -2,10-12

  23. Thomas, B.E., M. Manocha, W. Haq, T.Adak, Pillai C.R., D.N. Rao (2001). Modulation of the humoral response to repeat and non-repeat sequences of the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium vivax using novel adjuvant and delivery system. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 95, 451-472.

  24. Dhiman, R.C., S.K. Sharma, Pillai C.R. and S.K. Subbarao (2001). Investigation of outbreak of malaria in tribal area of Vishakhapattanam, Andhra Pradesh. Current Science. 80, 781-785.

  25. Usha Devi, C. Neena Valecha, P.K. Atul and Pillai C.R. (2001). Antiplasmodial effect of three medicinal plants: A preliminary study. Current Science, 80, 917-919.

  26. Dhiman, R.C., Pillai C.R. and S.K.Subbarao (2001). Investigation of epidemic foci of malaria in Behraich Dist. (U.P.)  Indian Journal of Medical Research, 113, 186-191.

  27. Pillai C.R. and C. Usha Devi (2000). Role of macrophages in experimental malaria: VII. Studies on adoptive transfer of macrophages. J.Commun.Dis. 32: 34-40.

  28. Poonam Sharma, Pillai C.R. and J.D. Sharma (2000). In vitro schizontocidal activity of standard antimalarial drugs on chloroquine sensitive and chloroquine resistant isolates of Plasmodium falciparum. Ind. J. Exptl. Biol.38: 1129-1133.

  29. Usha Devi, C., Pillai C.R., S.K.Subbarao and S.C. Dwivedi (2000). Short term in vitro cultivation of erythrocytic stages of P. vivax.  J. Parasit. Dis. 24 , 61-66.

  30. Bhattacharya, P.R. and Pillai C.R. (1999). Strong association but incomplete correlation between allelic variations of Pfmdr 1 gene and chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from India. Annals of Trop.Med. & Parasitol. 93: 679-684.

  31. Okoyeh, J.N., Pillai C.R. and Chetan E.  Chitnis (1999).  Plasmodium falciparum Field Isolates Commonly Use Erythrocyte invasion Pathways that are Independent of Sialic Acid Residues of Glycophorin A. Infection and Immunity. 67 : 5784-5791.

  32. Pillai C.R. and C. Usha Devi (1999). Role of macrophages in experimental malaria. VI. Effect of Freund’s complete adjuvant in Plasmodium berghei infected mice. J.Com. Dis. 31: 121-126.

  33. Nidhi Bhutani, M.R.Ranjit, M.Yameen, Neeru Singh, Vas Dev, Pillai C.R., M.A Ansari and Y.D.Sharma (1998). Genetic Diversity among field isolates of Plasmodium falciparum in India. Current Science 75, 160-163.

  34. Chetan Chitnis, Rana Chattopadhyay and Pillai C.R. (1998). Antigenic Variation and Cytoadherence by Malaria Parasites: in The Changing face of Malaria. Round Table Conference Series No. 4 pp. 111-115. Ranbaxy Science Foundation, New Delhi.

  35. Pillai C.R., C.Usha Devi, D.S.Choudhury and N.N.Singh (1997). Role of Macrophages in Experimental Malaria IV. Bioassay of Silica in Immunity against Plasmodium berghei infection. Ind. J. Exp. Biol. 35. 861-865.

  36. Pillai C. R. and    C. Usha  Devi    (1997).    Role of   Macrophages   in   Experimental Malaria. V. Effect of Ethyl palmitate on Macrophages in Plasmodium berghei    infected mice. J.Com. Dis. 29, 355-359.

  37. Sharma, Y.D., S.Biswas, C.R.Pillai, M.A.Ansari, T.Adak, C.Usha Devi (1996). High prevalence of chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum infection in Rajasthan epidemic. Acta Tropica. 62 135-141.

  38. Usha Devi, C., C.R. Pillai, T. Adak, V.P.Sharma and S.C.Dwivedi (1996). In vitro sensitivity of Indian isolates of Plasmodium falciparum to antimalarials. J. Parasit. Dis.  20.  177-180.

  39. Pillai, C.R. and C. Usha Devi Pillai (1996). Malariarodhi Ek-Cloneye   (Monoclonal) Pratipindon Ka Addhayan. Malaria Patrika 4: 7-12.

  40. Pillai, C.R. and C.Usha Devi (1996). Malaria Parasite Bank. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India, on Parasitology. 66, Spl.Issue, 161-171.

  41. Pillai, C.R., C.Usha Devi and N.N.Singh (1995). Role of Macrophages in Experimental Malaria III. Effect of Antimacrophage serum (AMS) and AMS-IgG on Plasmodium berghei infected mice. Jour. of Basic and Applied Biomed. 3: 17-24.

  42. Sharma, Y.D., Rajiv Kant, C.R.Pillai, M.A.Ansari & Usha Pillai (1995). Cerebral Malaria. Nature 376: 380.

  43. Pillai, C.R. and C. Usha Devi  (1994).  Malaria Anusandhan Kendra Ka Malaria Parjeevee Bank. Malaria Patrika 1: 21-28.

  44. Pillai, C.R. (1994). In vitro cultivation and cryopreservation of blood stages of malaria parasites. Proceedings of the workshop on Cultivation of Parasites of Biomedical      Importance. CDRI, Lucknow, Nov.28-Dec.10, 1994.

  45. Pillai, C.R, C.Usha Devi and Q.Z.Hussain (1994). Role of Macrophages in Experimental Malaria II.  Raising of Anti macrophage serum and purification of anti-macrophage antibody. Jour. of Basic and Applied Biomed.2: 35-40.

  46. Pillai, C.R. and N.N.Singh (1993).  Role of Macrophages in Experimental Malaria: I. Development of immunobioassay indicators. Ind. J. of Malariology. 30: 23-28.

  47. Adak, T., C.P.Batra and Pillai C.R. (1993). A Report on Raising of Mother Stocks and Maintenance of Larvivorous Fish Hatcheries in Delhi.  Larvivorous Fishes of Inland Ecosystem. Eds.: V.P. Sharma & Apurba Ghosh: 24-28.

  48. Hussain, Q.Z., Pillai C.R., B.Ravindran and N.Kaushik (1986). Trypsin sensitive plasmodia in the liver of post-infection rats and rhesus monkeys.  Folia Parasitologica. 33: 107-113.

  49. Hussain, Q.Z., S.T.Pasha, Pillai C.R. et.al. (1985). Manual for the Workshop on Immunochemistry with reference to ELISA & Hybridoma. Biochemistry Division, NICD, Delhi-110 054.

  50. Bhattacharya, S.K., Pillai C.R., M. Mathur and P.Sen (1984). Effect of chloroquine and some antimalarials on the immune mechanism in experimental animals. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 35(4): 268-269.

  51. Ravindran, B., B.K. Sharma, Pillai C.R. and Q.Z.Hussain (1983).  Leucocyte migration inhibition test in human Plasmodium vivax malaria. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 86(6): 207-211.

  52. Saba Jalees, S.Jalil, Pillai C.R., Q.Z.Hussain and P.K.Topa (1982). Immunopro- phylaxis against Kala-azar.II. Experimental L.donovani infection in Hissar strain albino mice and comparison between mouse adopted and hamster maintained strains. J.Com. Dis. 14(2): 96-105.

  53. Saba Jalees, R.K. Sanyal, Q.Z. Hussain, P.K.Topa and Pillai C.R. (1979). Cultivation of Leishmania donovani in the yolk sac of the developing chick embryo and in the yolk homogenate in vitro. J. Com. Dis. 11(1): 1-19.

  54. Hussain, Q.Z., B.Ravindran, Pillai C.R. and Usha Devi (1978).Immunoprophylaxis against malaria. Aspects of Allergy and Applied Immunology, 10: 43-54.

  55. Hussain, Q.Z., S.T.Pasha, B. Ravindran, Pillai C.R., Usha Devi, P.Sethi and I.J.Malik(1977).  Immunoprophylaxis against malaria. Ann. Natl. Acad. Med. Sci. (India), 13(2): 79-96.

  56. Hussain, Q.Z., B.Ravindran, S.T.Pasha, Pillai C.R. and Usha Devi (1977). Immunoprophylaxis against Malaria. Recent advances in Malaria Research.  Proceedings of the International Symposium: 82-116.  

  57. Hussain, Q.Z., S.T.Pasha, B.Ravindran, P.Sethi, Usha Devi, I.J.Malik, Pillai C.R. and N.K.Satija(1976). Vaccine against Malaria in rodents. -A preliminary communication Ind. J. Med. Res. 64 (12): 1836-1840.

  58. Hussain, Q.Z., S.T. Pasha, B. Ravindran, P.Sethi, Usha Devi, I.J.Malik, Pillai C.R. and N.K.Satija(1976). Vaccine against Simian Malaria (P.cynomolgi). -A preliminary communication. Ind. J. Med. Res .64(12): 1841-1843.

  59. Pillai C.R., J.P. Gupta and M. Ramachandran (1976). The effect of L.carinii infection in albino rats on body weight, food intake and degree of parasitaemia.  J. Com. Dis. 8(4): 320-322.

  60. Bikram Chand, Pillai C.R., M. Ramachandran and Q.Z. Hussain (1975). Effect of diethvlcarbamazine(Hetrazan) on the Oxygen uptake on some rat organs.  J.Com.Dis. 7(4): 241-243.

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