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Molecules, Volume 25, Issue 24

December-2 2020 - 280 articles

Cover Story: Zinc, the second most abundant trace element in the human body, is one of the most important micro-elements essential for human physiology and the impairment of its homeostasis can lead to various diseases and can also be related to cancer development. Its ubiquity in thousands of proteins and enzymes is related to its chemical features, its lack of redox activity, and its ability to support different coordination geometries and to promote fast ligand exchange. Zinc compounds can have beneficial therapeutic and preventive effects on infectious diseases generally exerting lower toxicity and determining few side effects. Among the great number of zinc derivatives that have been proposed as antitumor agents so far, this review focuses on recent zinc complexes comprising N-donor ligands. View this paper.
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Articles (280)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,981 Views
11 Pages

21 December 2020

Schisandra chinensis Fructus (SCF), a well-known traditional medicinal material, is a rich source of dibenzocyclooctene type lignans and polyphenols, which are important ingredients in SCF and show various activities. SCF also contains about 18% orga...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,372 Views
9 Pages

Multicomponent Synthesis of Luminescent Iminoboronates

  • Samuel Guieu,
  • Cátia I. C. Esteves,
  • João Rocha and
  • Artur M. S. Silva

21 December 2020

A family of iminoboronates was prepared through a one-pot multicomponent reaction, starting from boronic acid, anthranilic acid, and different salicylaldehydes. Their synthesis was straightforward and the complexes were obtained in good to excellent...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,431 Views
10 Pages

21 December 2020

In this tribute to John B. Goodenough I will describe how John’s talk on the metal-to-nonmetal transition of vanadium oxide VO2, presented at the Bordeaux Conference (September 1964) attended by inorganic chemists, metallurgists, crystallograph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,880 Views
20 Pages

An Analysis of Exhaust Emission of the Internal Combustion Engine Treated by the Non-Thermal Plasma

  • Ming-Hsien Hsueh,
  • Chia-Nan Wang,
  • Meng-Chang Hsieh,
  • Chao-Jung Lai,
  • Shi-Hao Wang,
  • Chia-Hsin Hsieh,
  • Tsung-Liang Wu and
  • Jo-Hung Yu

21 December 2020

Industries’ air pollution causes serious challenges to modern society, among them exhaust gases from internal combustion engines, which are currently one of the main sources. This study proposes a non-thermal plasma (NTP) system for placement i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,162 Views
24 Pages

Fluorine-18-Labeled Fluorescent Dyes for Dual-Mode Molecular Imaging

  • Maxime Munch,
  • Benjamin H. Rotstein and
  • Gilles Ulrich

21 December 2020

Recent progress realized in the development of optical imaging (OPI) probes and devices has made this technique more and more affordable for imaging studies and fluorescence-guided surgery procedures. However, this imaging modality still suffers from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,453 Views
12 Pages

Therapeutic Potential of Rhododendron arboreum Polysaccharides in an Animal Model of Lipopolysaccharide-Inflicted Oxidative Stress and Systemic Inflammation

  • Ajaz Ahmad,
  • Adil Farooq Wali,
  • Muneeb U. Rehman,
  • Andleeb Khan,
  • Mohammad Raish,
  • Mohsin Kazi,
  • Osamah Alnemer and
  • Padma G. M. Rao

21 December 2020

Systemic inflammation results in physiological changes, largely mediated by inflammatory cytokines. The present investigation was performed to determine the effect of Rhododendron arboreum (RAP) on inflammatory parameters in the animal model. The RAP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,399 Views
17 Pages

Effect of CO2 Flow Rate on the Extraction of Astaxanthin and Fatty Acids from Haematococcus pluvialis Using Supercritical Fluid Technology

  • Carolina Espinosa Álvarez,
  • Renata Vardanega,
  • Francisca Salinas-Fuentes,
  • Jenifer Palma Ramírez,
  • Waldo Bugueño Muñoz,
  • Diana Jiménez-Rondón,
  • M. Angela A. Meireles,
  • Pedro Cerezal Mezquita and
  • Mari Carmen Ruiz-Domínguez

21 December 2020

Haematococcus pluvialis is the largest producer of natural astaxanthin in the world. Astaxanthin is a bioactive compound used in food, feed, nutraceutics, and cosmetics. In this study, astaxanthin extraction from H. pluvialis by supercritical fluid e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,162 Views
10 Pages

Chitosan Oligosaccharides Coupling Inhibits Bacterial Biofilm-Related Antibiotic Resistance against Florfenicol

  • Xianghua Yuan,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Ruilian Li,
  • Junlin Zhou,
  • Jinhua Wei,
  • Siming Jiao,
  • Zhuo A. Wang and
  • Yuguang Du

21 December 2020

The formation of bacterial biofilms has increased the resistance of bacteria to various environmental factors and is tightly associated with many persistent and chronic bacterial infections. Herein we design a strategy conjugating florfenicol, an ant...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,076 Views
12 Pages

Mapping the Chiroptical Properties of Local Domains in Thin Films of Chiral Silicon Phthalocyanines by CD Imaging

  • Dora-M. Răsădean,
  • Tiberiu-M. Gianga,
  • Tamás Jávorfi,
  • Rohanah Hussain,
  • Giuliano Siligardi and
  • G. Dan Pantoș

21 December 2020

The first example of uniformly chiral thin films of silicon phthalocyanines (SiPcs) are reported. The local domains of the films are mapped using circular dichroism (CD) imaging (CDi) technique available at the Diamond B23 beamline. The CDi allowed u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,306 Views
16 Pages

21 December 2020

Diesel exhaust particulates (DEP) have adverse effects on the respiratory system. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) abnormalities contribute to lung inflammation. However, the relationship between DEP exposure and ER stress in the respiratory immune system...

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