Molecules, Volume 30, Issue 10

Although the global incidence of tuberculosis has declined in recent years, tuberculosis remains a major global public health challenge. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) including M. tuberculosis, M. bovis, M. microti, etc., is the deadl...

In this study, cucurbit[n]urils (n = 6, 7, 8) were carefully evaluated for their cytotoxicity and immunotoxicity to human peripheral blood monocytes. The cytotoxicity was studied by evaluating the survival of monocytes, while the immunotoxicity level...

Ganoderma capense, a member of the Ganoderma genus within the Polyporaceae family, has long been recognized for its high nutritional value and extensive use in traditional medicine. Its primary distribution is in China and South Africa, with the type...

Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is one of the most important reactions in electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices. To overcome the slow kinetics, minimize the overpotential, and make this reaction feasible, efficient, and stable, electr...

Probes sensitive to mechanical stress are in high demand for analyzing pressure distributions in materials. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are especially promising for designing pressure sensors due to their structural tunability. In this work...

Androgenetic alopecia is associated with testosterone-mediated anagen-to-catagen transition and matrix keratinocyte apoptosis in hair follicle cells. Activation of Nox isozymes is involved in testosterone-mediated keratinocyte apoptosis, leading to a...

Imidazole is a five-membered heterocyclic system featuring two nitrogen heteroatoms at the 1- and 3-positions of the ring. The imidazole scaffold is particularly suited for kinase inhibition concepts. This further confirms that this scaffold is a pri...

A complex salt roasting–water leaching process was developed and optimized for the efficient extraction of lithium (Li), rubidium (Rb), and cesium (Cs) from lepidolite. The effects of roasting parameters (temperature, time, and complex salt com...

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) is a powerful nonlinear spectroscopic technique widely used in biological imaging, chemical analysis, and combustion and flame diagnostics. The adoption of pulse shapers in CARS has emerged as a useful app...

The valence bond (VB) framework is widely recognized as a powerful tool for elucidating the electronic origins of activation energy barriers in chemical reactions. We employed ab initio VB calculations to investigate the hydrogen abstraction (H-abstr...