Carbon dots: A future Blood–Brain Barrier penetrating nanomedicine and drug nanocarrier

W Zhang, G Sigdel, KJ Mintz, ES Seven… - International journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) is one of the biggest challenges in
modern medicine due to the BBB's highly semipermeable property that limits most …

Oxidative stress and neurodegenerative disorders

J Li, WO, W Li, ZG Jiang, HA Ghanbari - International journal of molecular …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Living cells continually generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) through the respiratory
chain during energetic metabolism. ROS at low or moderate concentration can play …

Protein aggregation kinetics, mechanism, and curve-fitting: a review of the literature

AM Morris, MA Watzky, RG Finke - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is an important phenomenon that alternatively is part of the normal
functioning of nature or, central to this review, has negative consequences via its …

High-speed atomic force microscopy coming of age

T Ando - Nanotechnology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is now materialized. It allows direct
visualization of dynamic structural changes and dynamic processes of functioning biological …

[HTML][HTML] Filming biomolecular processes by high-speed atomic force microscopy

T Ando, T Uchihashi, S Scheuring - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the history of science and technology, researchers have always undertaken endeavors to
enhance the degree of “directness of measurement”. With “directness of measurement”, we …

[HTML][HTML] The brain interstitial system: Anatomy, modeling, in vivo measurement, and applications

Y Lei, H Han, F Yuan, A Javeed, Y Zhao - Progress in neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Although neurons attract the most attention in neurobiology, our current knowledge of neural
circuit can only partially explain the neurological and psychiatric conditions of the brain …

Pathogenic or not? And if so, then how? Studying the effects of missense mutations using bioinformatics methods

J Thusberg, M Vihinen - Human mutation, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Many gene defects are relatively easy to identify experimentally, but obtaining information
about the effects of sequence variations and elucidation of the detailed molecular …

Panax ginseng components and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

MP Razgonova, VV Veselov… - Molecular …, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
Ginseng is one of the main representatives of traditional Chinese medicine and presents a
wide range of pharmacological actions. Ginsenosides are the main class of active …

Structure-activity relationship of carbon nitride dots in inhibiting Tau aggregation

Y Zhou, N Kandel, M Bartoli, LF Serafim, AE ElMetwally… - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the numerous failed clinical trials of anti-amyloid drugs, microtubule associated
protein tau (MAPT) now stands out as one of the most promising targets for AD therapy. In …

Structure–property–activity relationships in carbon dots

Y Zhou, W Zhang, RM Leblanc - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDs) are one of the most versatile nanomaterials discovered in the 21st
century. They possess many properties and thus hold potentials in diverse applications …