Profile
Engaged in Ethnopharmacological Survey, Collection, and Identification of Bioresources used in Traditional Medicines. His team has documented details traditional health care practices of folklore healers of Manipur and Sikkim in written and audio-visual format. He is also working on pharmacological evaluation of traditional medicines to justify the traditional claim and to develop economic/safe/novel therapeutic products. After having generated a large database, his initial focus was for pharmacological evaluation of selected formulations against arthritis & metabolic disorders as claimed by the healers. The first time his team reported the role of COX-3 in the treatment of arthritic disorders which could provide a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of inflammatory disorders and identified COX-3 inhibitor from traditional medicine.
Current Focus Areas
Initial focus is ethnopharmacological survey and documentation of Traditional Knowledge of folklore healers of Sikkim. Subsequently traditional knowledge guided pharmacological evaluation of high altitude medicinal plants for against arthritis & metabolic disorders for developing economic/safe/novel therapeutic products.
Selected Publications
1. Dipak Biswas, Bharat Gopalrao Somkuwar, Jagat Chandra Borah, Pritish Kumar Varadwaj, Saurabh Gupta, Zeeshan Ahmad Khan, Gopinath Mondal, Asamanja Chattoraj, Lokesh Deb (2023). Phytochemical Mediated Modulation of COX-3 and NFκB for the Management and Treatment of Arthritis. Scientific Reports. 13:13612, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37729-2
2. Lokesh Deb, Laishram Surbala, Khumukcham Nongalleima, Ningthoukhongjam Dhaneshwor, Nameirakpam Surjit Singh, Amitabha Dey, Moirangthem Dinesh Singh, Narayan Chandra Talukdar, Ningthoukhongjam Tombi Raj (2015) Past, present and perspectives of Manipur Traditional Medicine: A major health care system available for rural population in the North –East India. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 169: 387-400.
3. Mahapatra Madhusmita, Bhumika Gurung, Bharat Gopalrao Somkuwar, Sunil S. Thorat, Bikash Rai, Pravin Kumar, Lokesh Deb (2021). Perspectives of Traditional Health Care System of Sikkim, North East India-An Ethno pharmacological Survey and Analysis. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 20(4), 965-981
4. Banani Das, Madhusmita Mahapatra, Bhumika Gurung, Amitabha Dey, Khumukcham Nongalleima, Supriya Das, Anupam Das Talukdar, Abhisheck Chowdhury, Manabendra Dutta Choudhury, Lokesh Deb (2024). Antifertility activity of Oroxylum indicum Vent. stem bark on female Wistar rats. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge. 23(2), 189-199, DOI: 10.56042/ijtk.v23i2.8722
5. Banani Das, Kalyan Roy, Anupam Das Talukdar, Amitabha Dey, Khumukcham Nongalleima, Supriya Das, Prasanti Sharma, Manabendra Dutta Choudhury, Lokesh Deb (2023). Antifertility Activity of Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent. Using in-vitro and in-vivo study on Human Sperm and Male Wistar Rats. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology. 61, 33-41