Methylene blue as an antimalarial agent

RH Schirmer, B Coulibaly, A Stich, M Scheiwein… - Redox …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Methylene blue has intrinsic antimalarial activity and it can act as a chloroquine sensitizer. In
addition, methylene blue must be considered for preventing methemoglobinemia, a serious …

Resolution of overlapping UV–Vis absorption bands and quantitative analysis

L Antonov, D Nedeltcheva - Chemical Society Reviews, 2000 - pubs.rsc.org
Electronic transitions appear in the spectrum as individual bands, described by three basic
parameters (position, intensity and width), which can be used for estimation of the …

Resonance Rayleigh scattering study of the interaction of heparin with some basic diphenyl naphthylmethane dyes

S Liu, H Luo, N Li, Z Liu, W Zheng - Analytical chemistry, 2001 - ACS Publications
In a near-neutral medium, a combination of heparin with some basic diphenyl
naphthylmethane dyes such as victoria blue 4R (VB4R), victoria blue B (VBB), or night blue …

Separation of methylene blue from aqueous solution by micellar enhanced ultrafiltration

N Zaghbani, A Hafiane, M Dhahbi - Separation and Purification Technology, 2007 - Elsevier
Micellar enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF) is a separation technique which can be used to
remove metals ions or dissolved organics from water. In this study MEUF has been carried …

[PDF][PDF] Intrinsically colored and luminescent silk

NC Tansil, Y Li, CP Teng, S Zhang, KY Win… - Advanced …, 2011 - oggiscienza.it
Silk has been a highly prized material since its discovery a few thousand years ago, with a
current annual industrial output of approximately 30 billion US dollars in China alone.[1, 2] In …

Effect of the layer charge of clay minerals on optical properties of organic dyes. A review

J Bujdák - Applied Clay Science, 2006 - Elsevier
Interactions between clay minerals and cationic organic dyes cause significant changes in
the optical, spectral and chemical properties of the chromophores. These changes are due …

Triggers of full-length tau aggregation: a role for partially folded intermediates

CN Chirita, EE Congdon, H Yin, J Kuret - Biochemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease is characterized in part by the accumulation of full-length tau proteins
into intracellular filamentous inclusions. To clarify the events that trigger lesion formation, the …

A fluorescent light-up probe based on AIE and ESIPT processes for β-galactosidase activity detection and visualization in living cells

L Peng, M Gao, X Cai, R Zhang, K Li, G Feng… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel fluorescent probe SA-βGal is reported here with light-up response to β-
galactosidase. SA-βGal possesses the β-galactopyranoside group to react with β …

Small-molecule fluorophores with large Stokes shifts: 9-iminopyronin analogues as clickable tags

P Horváth, P Sebej, T Solomek… - The journal of organic …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The design, synthesis, and both experimental and theoretical studies of several novel 9-
(acylimino)-and 9-(sulfonylimino) pyronin derivatives containing either an oxygen or a …

Interactions of Methylene Blue with Human Disulfide Reductases and Their Orthologues from Plasmodium falciparum

K Buchholz, RH Schirmer, JK Eubel… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Methylene blue (MB) has experienced a renaissance mainly as a component of drug
combinations against Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Here, we report biochemically …