Global investment in developing COVID-19 vaccines has been substantial, but vaccine hesitancy has emerged due to misinformation. Concerns about adverse events, vaccine shortages, dosing confusion, mixing vaccines, and access issues contribute to hesitancy. Initially, the WHO recommended homologous vaccination (same vaccine for both doses), but evolving factors led to consideration of heterologous vaccination (different vaccines).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer remains a significant global health concern, with mortality rates steadily rising and prompting an urgent search for effective treatments. This study focuses on the medicinal properties of plants from the Phyllanthus genus, specifically Phyllanthus amarus and Phyllanthus niruri, which have shown promise in traditional medicine. Through bioguided fractionation using preparative high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), bioactive compounds were isolated and identified using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF-MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding COVID-19 exposure differences among Healthcare Workers (HCWs) across various healthcare units is crucial for their protection and effective management of future outbreaks. However, comparative data on COVID-19 among HCWs in different healthcare units are scarce in Brazil. This study evaluated the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection and workplaces in HCWs from three distinct healthcare settings in Brazil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci
July 2019
The classical approach to drug discovery from natural products (NP's) requires strenuous and complex purification steps for the isolation and structural elucidation. Modern strategies as dereplication aim to accelerate the identification of known compounds present in a crude or partially purified extract. In this work, we investigated the influence of the solid-phase extraction (Oasis, Plexa, and Agilent C18 cartridges with and without organic modifiers) chemical profile obtained by UPLC-QTOF-MS and NMR and cytotoxicities of aqueous extracts from Phyllanthus niruri and P.
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