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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Avicenna J Med Biotech</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">2008-2835</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2008-4625</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Avicenna Research Institute</publisher-name>
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        <article-title>&lt;i&gt;In silico&lt;/i&gt; Biological Activity of Steroids from the Marine Gastropods &lt;i&gt;Telescopium telescopium&lt;/i&gt; Collected from South West Coast of India</article-title>
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        <contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ragi</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Leena</surname><given-names>P</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Prashob Peter</surname><given-names>K</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nair</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Department of Genetics, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran</aff></contrib-group>
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      <volume>10</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>158</fpage>
      <lpage>162</lpage>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>8</day>
          <month>3</month>
          <year>2017</year>
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        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>17</day>
          <month>7</month>
          <year>2016</year>
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      &lt;p&gt;Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the sterol profiling and predict the pharmacological potential of marine gastropod &lt;em&gt;Telescopium telescopium (T. telescopium)&lt;/em&gt;, collected from mangrove ecosystem in the South west coast of India.&lt;br /&gt;
Methods: Sterol fractions were separated from the crude lipids using 15% ethyl acetate. Ethyl acetate fractions were dried under ultrahigh purity N&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and analyzed using GC-MS. The biological activity was predicted using the software CLC-Pred; &lt;em&gt;In silico&lt;/em&gt; predictions of cytotoxicity for tumor and non-tumor cell lines and PASS.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
Results: This study proved the existence of four sterols, of which cholesterol was abundant. It was found that most of the steroids profiled from &lt;em&gt;T. telescopium&lt;/em&gt; displayed activity against reproductive system as well as skin related diseases.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
Conclusion: The predicted anti infertility and skin related activity of the steroids identified from the marine gastropod &lt;em&gt;T. telescopium&lt;/em&gt; is useful to attract industrial interest towards this species which will be helpful in rising new combinations with added therapeutic and nutritional worth.&lt;/p&gt;

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