General design concept for single‐atom catalysts toward heterogeneous catalysis

W Guo, Z Wang, X Wang, Y Wu - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a new and popular material, single‐atom catalysts (SACs) exhibit excellent activity,
selectivity, and stability for numerous important reactions, and show great potential in …

Vitamin D and endothelial function

DH Kim, CA Meza, H Clarke, JS Kim, RC Hickner - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vitamin D is known to elicit a vasoprotective effect, while vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor
for endothelial dysfunction (ED). ED is characterized by reduced bioavailability of a potent …

Nanocatalytic tumor therapy by single-atom catalysts

M Huo, L Wang, Y Wang, Y Chen, J Shi - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Initiating localized catalytic chemical reactions in tumor microenvironment (TME) can
achieve appealing tumor-therapeutic efficacy concurrently with high specificity and desirable …

Engineering single-atom catalysts toward biomedical applications

B Chang, L Zhang, S Wu, Z Sun, Z Cheng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to inherent structural defects, common nanocatalysts always display limited catalytic
activity and selectivity, making it practically difficult for them to replace natural enzymes in a …

Quantum biology: An update and perspective

Y Kim, F Bertagna, EM D'souza, DJ Heyes… - Quantum …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Understanding the rules of life is one of the most important scientific endeavours and has
revolutionised both biology and biotechnology. Remarkable advances in observation …

Arsenic contamination of groundwater: a review of sources, prevalence, health risks, and strategies for mitigation

S Shankar, U Shanker, Shikha - The scientific world journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Arsenic contamination of groundwater in different parts of the world is an outcome of natural
and/or anthropogenic sources, leading to adverse effects on human health and ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] European contribution to the study of ROS: A summary of the findings and prospects for the future from the COST action BM1203 (EU-ROS)

J Egea, I Fabregat, YM Frapart, P Ghezzi, A Görlach… - Redox biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) provides an ideal
framework to establish multi-disciplinary research networks. COST Action BM1203 (EU …

Photodynamic efficiency: from molecular photochemistry to cell death

IOL Bacellar, TM Tsubone, C Pavani… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinical modality used to treat cancer and infectious
diseases. The main agent is the photosensitizer (PS), which is excited by light and converted …

Arsenic and selenium toxicity and their interactive effects in humans

HJ Sun, B Rathinasabapathi, B Wu, J Luo, LP Pu… - Environment …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) are unusual metalloids as they both induce and
cure cancer. They both cause carcinogenesis, pathology, cytotoxicity, and genotoxicity in …

Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction

JT Sylvester, LA Shimoda, PI Aaronson… - Physiological …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
It has been known for more than 60 years, and suspected for over 100, that alveolar hypoxia
causes pulmonary vasoconstriction by means of mechanisms local to the lung. For the last …