Diverse applications of nanomedicine

B Pelaz, C Alexiou, RA Alvarez-Puebla, F Alves… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The design and use of materials in the nanoscale size range for addressing medical and
health-related issues continues to receive increasing interest. Research in nanomedicine …

Natural volatile oils derived from herbal medicines: a promising therapy way for treating depressive disorder

Y Zhang, Y Long, S Yu, D Li, M Yang, Y Guan… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Depression is a common global mental disorder that seriously harms human physical and
mental health. With the development of society, the increase of pressure and the role of …

Structural basis of odorant recognition by a human odorant receptor

CB Billesbølle, CA de March, WJC van der Velden… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Our sense of smell enables us to navigate a vast space of chemically diverse odour
molecules. This task is accomplished by the combinatorial activation of approximately 400 …

Conducting nanomaterial sensor using natural receptors

OS Kwon, HS Song, TH Park, J Jang - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
One of the recently emerging topics in biotechnology is natural receptors including G protein-
coupled receptors, ligand-gated ion channels, enzyme-linked receptors, and intracellular …

From anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune responses to COVID-19 via molecular mimicry

D Kanduc - Antibodies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aim: To define the autoimmune potential of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Methods: Experimentally validated epitopes …

Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

Project management: Fulton Lucinda A. 1 Mardis … - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
We present here a draft genome sequence of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus. Because the
chicken is a modern descendant of the dinosaurs and the first non-mammalian amniote to …

Structural diversity of G protein-coupled receptors and significance for drug discovery

MC Lagerström, HB Schiöth - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2008 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of membrane-bound receptors
and also the targets of many drugs. Understanding of the functional significance of the wide …

Concerted and birth-and-death evolution of multigene families

M Nei, AP Rooney - Annu. Rev. Genet., 2005 - annualreviews.org
Until around 1990, most multigene families were thought to be subject to concerted
evolution, in which all member genes of a family evolve as a unit in concert. However …

Widespread receptor-driven modulation in peripheral olfactory coding

L Xu, W Li, V Voleti, DJ Zou, EMC Hillman, S Firestein - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The mammalian nose is arguably the best chemical sensor on the planet,
able to detect and discriminate among a large and diverse repertoire of mostly small …

Recurrent evolution of vertebrate transcription factors by transposase capture

RL Cosby, J Judd, R Zhang, A Zhong, N Garry… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION How novel protein architectures evolve remains poorly understood. The
rearrangement of domains with preexisting functions into new composite architectures …