Tetrazolium salts and formazan products in Cell Biology: Viability assessment, fluorescence imaging, and labeling perspectives

JC Stockert, RW Horobin, LL Colombo… - Acta histochemica, 2018 - Elsevier
For many years various tetrazolium salts and their formazan products have been employed
in histochemistry and for assessing cell viability. For the latter application, the most widely …

How green is your plasticizer?

R Jamarani, HC Erythropel, JA Nicell, RL Leask… - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Plasticizers are additives that are used to impart flexibility to polymer blends and improve
their processability. Plasticizers are typically not covalently bound to the polymers, allowing …

Antimicrobial and anticancer activities of silver nanoparticles synthesized from the root hair extract of Phoenix dactylifera

M Oves, M Aslam, MA Rauf, S Qayyum, HA Qari… - Materials Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
There is a continuous rise in the rate of medicine consumption because of the development
of drug resistance by microbial pathogens. In the last one decade, silver nanoparticles …

Electrospun chitosan/polycaprolactone-hyaluronic acid bilayered scaffold for potential wound healing applications

A Chanda, J Adhikari, A Ghosh, SR Chowdhury… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fabrication of mechanically stable, biocompatible bilayered polymeric scaffold consisting of
chitosan (CS)/polycaprolactone (PCL) and hyaluronic acid (HA) using less toxic solvent …

Design, synthesis and anticancer evaluation of 1H-pyrazolo [3, 4-d] pyrimidine derivatives as potent EGFRWT and EGFRT790M inhibitors and apoptosis inducers

AA Gaber, AH Bayoumi, AM El-Morsy, FF Sherbiny… - Bioorganic …, 2018 - Elsevier
In our attempt to develop effective EGFR-TKIs, two series of 1H-pyrazolo [3, 4-d] pyrimidine
derivatives were designed and synthesized. All the newly synthesized compounds were …

Knockdown of LncRNA ANRIL suppresses cell proliferation, metastasis, and invasion via regulating miR-122-5p expression in hepatocellular carcinoma

J Ma, T Li, X Han, H Yuan - Journal of cancer research and clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Objective Previous studies reported that lncRNA antisense non-coding RNA in the INK4
locus (ANRIL) was upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues and decreased …

Licochalcone A from licorice root, an inhibitor of human hepatoma cell growth via induction of cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest

J Wang, YS Zhang, K Thakur, SS Hussain… - Food and Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigated the anti-cancer activity of Licochalcone A (LCA), extracted from licorice root.
LCA inhibited the proliferation of HepG 2 cells with IC 50 (65.96 μM) for 24 h and IC 50 …

Cytoprotective effect and purification of novel antioxidant peptides from hazelnut (C. heterophylla Fisch) protein hydrolysates

C Liu, D Ren, J Li, L Fang, J Wang, J Liu… - Journal of Functional …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present study, antioxidant fraction (C2) has been obtained from a hazelnut processing
by-product. The C2 exhibited strong antioxidant and cytoprotective effect against Ang II …

Synthesis and antimalarial evaluation of [1, 2, 3]‐triazole‐tethered sulfonamide‐berberine hybrids

N Batra, V Rajendran, D Agarwal, I Wadi… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria still remains a global health problem despite of the availability of effective control
and treatment measures. In the present study, a novel series of [1, 2, 3]‐triazole tethered …

Antioxidant capacity of nitrogen and sulfur codoped carbon nanodots

W Zhang, J Chavez, Z Zeng, B Bloom… - ACS applied nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanodots (CNDs) have shown potential for antioxidative activity at the cellular level.
Here we applied a facile hydrothermal method to prepare fluorescent nitrogen and sulfur (N …