Periploca aphylla (PA), an interesting Saudi medicinal plant, is used in folk medicine to treat urticaria, cerebral fever, tumors, and swelling. To prove its use in folk medicine, two different extracts from the aerial parts of the plant: chloroform...
The rapid, highly-sensitive and ecologically greener reversed-phase (RP)/normal-phase (NP) high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) densitometric technique has been developed and validated for the determination of trans-resveratrol (TRV). T...
The retention behavior of a wide variety of stationary phases was compared in supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and normal-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (NP-HPLC). We also attempted to elucidate the retention behavior in SFC by...
Breast cancer is considered the most common and deadly cancer among women worldwide. Nanomedicine has become extremely attractive in the field of cancer treatment. Due to the high surface to volume ratio and other unique properties, nanomaterials can...
Micropropagation techniques allow the mass production of banana plants but can cause somaclonal variations such as dwarfism. Changes in the metabolite profile during micropropagation of normal (NP) and dwarf (DP) banana plants have not been described...
The greenness evaluation of literature analytical methods for pterostilbene (PT) analysis was not performed. Accordingly, the rapid, sensitive, and green/sustainable reversed-phase high-performance thin-layer chromatography (RP-HPTLC) method was deve...
TLC (thin-layer chromatography) and HPTLC (high-performance thin-layer chromatography) in normal (NP) and reversed (RP) phase systems were combined with densitometry to analyze caffeine, propyphenazone, and paracetamol. This work aims to check whethe...
Background: Plastic is one of the most versatile and widely used materials, but the environmental accumulation of nanoplastics (NPs) poses a risk to human health. Preclinical studies have verified that the liver is one of the main organs susceptible...
A nifedipine (NP) dry emulsion was fabricated by the adsorption of medium internal-phase emulsions (MIPEs). Simple homogenizers were first used to mix conventional liquid MIPEs, and then a microfluidizer was used to reduce the resulting emulsions&rsq...
Nonylphenols (NPs), widely used as emulsifiers in petroleum production and refining, are compounds of environmental concern, with endocrine-disrupting effects. They can be released during oil extraction and processing, carried into petroleum products...
In this work; delafloxacin (DLFX) was determined using a validated green RP-HPTLC and NP-HPTLC methods in commercial tablets and in-house developed solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). RP-HPTLC determination of DLFX was performed using “RP-18 sili...
The small sized copper nanoparticles (Cu-NPs), prepared in the presence of triethylene tetramine (TETA) and assisted with microwave irradiation, have an extremely low melting temperature. Melting of the small sizezd Cu-NPs can be triggered by the hea...
Plasma protein binding is an important determinant of the pharmacokinetic properties of chemical compounds in living organisms. The aim of the present study was to determine the index of protein binding affinity based on chromatographic experiments....
Zinc ferrite nanoparticles (ZFO NPs) are a promising magneto-crystalline platform for nanomedicine-based cancer theranostics. ZFO NPs synthesized using co-precipitation method are characterized using different techniques. UV-visible spectroscopy exhi...
The development of biodegradable, biocompatible materials with inherent antibacterial properties, suitable for 3D printing, is a key challenge in modern materials science. Composites based on PLA and copper nanoparticles (NPs) are promising candidate...
The results presented in this paper confirm the beneficial role of an easy-to-use and low-cost thin-layer chromatography (TLC) technique for describing the retention behavior and the experimental lipophilicity parameter of two biguanide derivatives,...
The main hypothesis of the present research is investigating the efficacy of titanium oxide nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs) to prevent the growth of fungal strains when applied on leather under an experimental study. Therefore, fifteen fungal strains were i...
The current study investigated the anticancer properties of gold nanoparticles (SG-stabilized AuNPs) synthesized using water extracts of the brown seaweed Sargassum glaucescens (SG). SG-stabilized AuNPs were characterized by ultraviolet-visible spect...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of protein restriction and subsequent protein realimentation on the body composition, gut microbiota and metabolite profiles of piglets. Fifty weaned piglets were randomly assigned to two treatm...
Plant-mediated metallic nanoparticles have beenreported for a diversified range of applications in biological sciences. In the present study, we propose the Polianthes tuberosa flower as a reducing and stabilizing agent for the synthesis of silver na...
The present research is focused on the in-depth qualitative analysis of three types of lime essential oil (EO), viz., Key (A and B) and Persian, using the off-line combination of normal phase high performance liquid chromatography (NP-HPLC) and compr...
This paper investigates the cooling performance of nanofluid (NF) mixed convection in a porous I-shaped electronic chip with an internal triangular hot block using Buongiorno’s two-phase model. This type of cavity and hot block geometry has not...
To obtain enantiopure compounds, the so-called chiral high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method, i.e., HPLC using a chiral stationary phase, is very useful, as reviewed in the present Special Issue. On the other hand, normal HPLC (on silic...
The present work proposes the optimization of the co-digestion of vinasse, filter cake, and deacetylation liquor in a continuous reactor by adding iron(III) oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles (NPs), comparing the results with a previous reactor operation wi...
Graphene oxide-mediated photothermal therapy using femtosecond lasers has recently shown promise in treating hepatocellular carcinoma. However, significant work remains to optimize irradiation parameters for specific nanoparticle types and cancer cel...
Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) are increasingly used in sunscreens, food additives, pigments, rubber manufacture, and electronic materials. Several studies have shown that ZnO-NPs inhibit cell growth and induce apoptosis by the production of oxid...
The present scoping review underlines the molecular interplay between allergic rhinitis (AR), chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), and interleukin-8 (IL-8). A query of PubMed database resulted in the inclusion of 34 articles in the fina...
In order to reduce dietary nitrogen and achieve an efficient protein deposition as well as decrease N wastage, we challenged the nutrient utilization efficiency of two different producing types in front of a dietary crude protein (CP) restriction and...
Due to a trend to higher sustainability, biodiesel is often mixed into petrodiesel. The analysis of these blends on a molecular level is not trivial, since huge differences in concentrations and polarity of the analytes require a large dynamic range...
A new hypothesis highlights sleep-dependent learning/memory consolidation and regards the sleep-wake cycle as a modulator of β-amyloid and tau Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathologies. Sundowning behavior is a common neuropsychiatric symptom (NPS) associ...
Nanofluids have extensive applications in hydrodynamic journal bearings used in heavy industry machinery. Inorganic fullerene-like tungsten disulfide nanoparticles (IF-WS2 NPs) are the most common additive for lubrication purpose due to their excelle...
The tunneling of electrons and holes in quantum structures plays a crucial role in studying the transport properties of materials and the related devices. 8-
The current study investigated the potential of selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) and mannan-oligosaccharide (MOS) supplementation in ameliorating high stocking density (HSD) stress in broilers. A total of 392 day-old male chicks were divided into seven...
Gait training to intentionally lengthen the nonparetic step length can increase the propulsive force of the paretic leg but may also induce overactivity of the knee extensor muscles that might limit knee flexion during the swing phase. Herein, we inv...
Fabrication of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) via green process has received enormous attention for its application in biomedicine. Here, a simple and cost-effective green route is reported for the synthesis of ZrO2-doped ZnO/reduced graphene oxide nanocomp...
This study developed, validated, and tested a simple method for tocopherol analysis on five different food matrices (sunflower oil, mackerel fillets, almonds, spinach, and avocado pulp). Tocopherol extraction from foods was carried out by the Folch m...
Macrophage apoptosis, along with inflammation in the interface membrane, has been demonstrated to be significant in the pathogenesis and development of particle-induced periprosthetic osteolysis and aseptic loosening. Additionally, the apoptosis of m...
Valsartan (Val)—a lipophilic non-peptide angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist—is highly effective against hypertension and displaying limited solubility in water (3.08 μg/mL), thereby resulting in low oral bioavailability (23%). T...
Background: Plant-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) has emerged as a sustainable alternative to conventional chemical methods, offering environmentally friendly routes for producing nanomaterials with biomedical potential. This study...
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is considered to be one of the most serious version of primary malignant tumors. Temozolomide (TMZ), an anti-cancer drug, is the most common chemotherapeutic agent used for patients suffering from GBM. However, due to it...
Fungal metabolites, proteins, and enzymes have been rich sources of therapeutics so far. Therefore, in this study, the hypha extract of a newly identified noble fungus (Alternaria sp. with NCBI Accession number: MT982648) was used to synthesize silve...
This comprehensive review explores the utilization of chiral stationary phases (CSPs) in the context of single-column simultaneous chiral–achiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separation methods. While CSPs have traditionally be...
As a non-deterministic polynomial hard (NP-hard) problem, the shortest common supersequence (SCS) problem is normally solved by heuristic or metaheuristic algorithms. One type of metaheuristic algorithms that has relatively good performance for solvi...
Background/Objectives: Plant-mediated silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are promising components for oral biomaterials because of their antimicrobial potential; however, their biological behavior depends strongly on the phytochemical matrix, physicochemic...
Cloud computing, a superset of heterogeneous distributed computing, allows sharing of geographically dispersed resources across multiple organizations on a rental basis using virtualization as per demand. In cloud computing, workflow allocation to ac...
In the present work, we achieved the fabrication of MgO-Fe2O3/γ-Al2O3 NCs using a deposition–coprecipitation process. XRD, TEM, and SEM with EDX, XPS, FTIR, and PL spectroscopy were applied to examine the physicochemical properties of the...
The enantiomeric separation of 15 racemic 4-aryl-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-one (DHP) alkoxycarbonyl esters, some of which proved to be highly active as A2B adenosine receptor antagonists, was carried out by HPLC on ChirobioticTM TAG, a chiral statio...
The consumption of grape seed extracts is known for its contribution to animal and human health and is associated with its relevant procyanidin content. However, there is a little scientific unanimity whether these properties are due to the procyanid...
Understanding cellular interaction with nanomaterials represents a subject of great interest for the validation of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools. A full characterization of a designed product includes the evaluation of its impact on specific b...
As a typical desert oasis ecosystem in the arid region of Northwest China, the Ejina Delta plays a crucial role in regional ecological security through its vegetation dynamics and landscape pattern changes. Based on Landsat remote sensing images (199...
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