Stone diseases (gallstones and kidney stones) are extremely painful and often cause death.
The prime aim of biomedical research in this area has been determination of factors …

Treating eutrophic water by struvite biomineralization has been studied for many years due
to its much lower costs than physicochemical methods. In this study, an eco-friendly method …

Gout arthritis, a painful condition characterized by the accumulation of uric acid (UA) crystals
in the joints, necessitates the development of efficient and accessible diagnostic methods. In …

Cardanol (CD) is used as a reactive compatibilizer, and blended with polylactic acid (PLA)
and polypropylene carbonate (PPC) resin (70/30 (w/w)) to obtain a series of PLA/PPC/CD …

In the present study, polysaccharide-based cryogels demonstrate their potential to mimic a
synthetic extracellular matrix. Alginate-based cryogel composites with different gum arabic …

Context: Urolithiasis is a polygenic disorder with complex etiology and even complicated
treatment outcomes. Daucus carota is a widely cultivated crop with traditional claims for its …

Waste cork and phloem fractions from the bark of Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) were subject
to low-temperature pyrolysis between 250 and 325° C and residence times of 30 or 60 min …

Urinary lithiasis is a worldwide disease. It is important to analyze kidney stone composition
and identify the minerals that compose them as well as etiology of this disease to develop …

The present investigation exposes the main results raised from an active collaboration
started in 2018 with the San Pio Hospital (Benevento, Southern Italy), aiming at a detailed …

Kidney stone disease affects people globally, with its prevalence on the rise. Given the
importance of elements' function in formation of kidney stones, this study investigated major …