Mahmuda Akter, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, A. K. M. Atique Ullah et al.
With the development of nanotechnology, silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have become one of the most in-demand nanoparticles owing to their exponential number of uses in various sectors. The increased use of Ag-NPs-enhanced products may result in an increased level of toxicity affecting both the enviro...
Emanuel Fleige, Mohiuddin Quadir, Rainer Haag
The use of polymeric nanocarriers to transport active compounds like small-molecular drugs, peptides, or genes found an increased attention throughout the different fields of natural sciences. Not only that these nanocarriers enhance the properties of already existing drugs in terms of solubility, b...
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Yuan Cheng, Mukesh Kumar Kanwar, Xianyao Chu et al.
Plants respond to environmental pollutants such as heavy metal(s) by triggering the expression of genes that encode proteins involved in stress response. Toxic metal ions profoundly affect the cellular protein homeostasis by interfering with the folding process and aggregation of nascent or non-nati...
Wade Johannessen, Dawn M. Elliott
STUDY DESIGN: The biphasic compressive material properties of normal and degenerate human nucleus pulposus tissue were measured in confined compression. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to determine the effects of degeneration and age on the mechanical properties of human nucleus pulposus...
Mohammad Shah Jahan, Guo ShiRong, Jin Sun, Sheng Shu et al.
Photosynthesis is a fundamental biosynthetic process in plants that can enhance carbon absorption and increase crop productivity. Heat stress severely inhibits photosynthetic efficiency. Melatonin is a bio-stimulator capable of regulating diverse abiotic stress tolerances. However, the underlying me...
Yixin He, Jing Li, Jiancheng Chen, Xiaojun Miao et al.
Nanoplastics in the environment lead to the human exposure to these particles. However, the consequences of this exposure are not yet fully understood. Here, the cytotoxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) with a uniform size (50 nm) but distinct surface functionalization (pristine polystyren...
Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Md. Mezanur Rahman, Md. Mesbah Uddin Ansary, Sanjida Sultana Keya et al.
Accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and their destructive effects on cellular organelles are the hallmark features of plants exposed to abiotic stresses. Plants are well-equipped with defensive mechanisms like antioxidant systems to deal with ROS-induced oxidative stress. Silicon has been...
Huimin Wang, Chunxiao Li, Xiaoqing Liu, Xiang Zhou et al.
A rationally and modularly engineered two-layered CHA–HCR circuit was constructed for amplified biosensing and bioimaging with high performance.
Maria Greger, Ahmad Humayan Kabir, Tommy Landberg, Pooja Jha Maity et al.
Cadmium (Cd) is a health threat all over the world and high Cd content in wheat causes high Cd intake. Silicon (Si) decreases cadmium content in wheat grains and shoot. This work investigates whether and how silicate (Si) influences cadmium (Cd) uptake at the cellular level in wheat. Wheat seedlings...
G. A. King, A. J. Daugulis, P. Faulkner, Mattheus F. A. Goosen
Abstract The search for more productive mammalian cell culture techniques has been primarily driven by the need to increase both the cell density and product concentration. In the technique used in our laboratory, microencapsulation, hybridoma cells were grown and monoclonal antibody was entrapped w...
Jonathan A. Coulter
BACKGROUND: This follow-up study aims to determine the physical parameters which govern the differential radiosensitization capacity of two tumor cell lines and one immortalized normal cell line to 1.9 nm gold nanoparticles. In addition to comparing the uptake potential, localization, and cytotoxici...
Jiyang Fan, Hongxia Li, Jiang Jiang, Leo K.Y. So et al.
Silicon carbide nanocrystals are water-soluble, chemically inert, and highly fluorescent, and they may be idealas biological labels. After the uptake of3C–SiC nanocrystals, human fetal osteoblast (hFOB) cells exhibit brightgreen–yellow fluorescence (see image).The nanoparticles show high resistancea...
Maretoshi Hirai, Tetsuya Ohbayashi, Masahito Horiguchi, Katsuya Okawa et al.
Elastic fibers are required for the elasticity and integrity of various organs. We and others previously showed that fibulin-5 (also called developing arteries and neural crest EGF-like [DANCE] or embryonic vascular EGF-like repeat-containing protein [EVEC]) is indispensable for elastogenesis by stu...
Angela M. Bodles, David J. S. Guthrie, Brett Greer, G. Brent Irvine
The non-beta-amyloid (Abeta) component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid (NAC) and its precursor alpha-synuclein have been linked to amyloidogenesis in several neurodegenerative diseases. NAC and alpha-synuclein both form beta-sheet structures upon ageing, aggregate to form fibrils, and are neurotoxic....
Casey L. Korecki, Jeffrey J. MacLean, James C. Iatridis
STUDY DESIGN: A bovine intervertebral disc organ culture model was used to study the effect of dynamic compression magnitude on mechanical behavior and measurement of biosynthesis rate, cell viability, and mRNA expression. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the effect of loading m...