Anti-diabetic and anti-microbial activity of aspalathus linearis and syzygium aromaticum formulation mediated zinc oxide nanoparticles.

Introduction: Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) exhibit a wide range of biomedical applications majorly used as antiinflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, and anti-microbial activity and other biomedical applications because they show less toxicity and are very compatible. Zinc metal is an inorganic and essential element in the human body at the trace level. ZnO NPs are also GRAS substances (Generally Recognized As Safe).

Development and Validation of Social-Cognitive Theory Based Oral Cancer Awareness Assessment Tool for Adolescents.

Introduction: Creating oral cancer awareness among adolescents will bring change by modifying the risk factors responsible for oral cancer. Social cognitive theory (SCT) is one promising theory for developing oral cancer awareness programmes among school adolescents. However, data are limited on SCT-based intervention assessment in creating oral cancer awareness among rural community.

Biochemical and functional characterization of the SMC holocomplex from .

Multi-subunit SMC complexes are required to perform essential functions, such as chromosome compaction, segregation and DNA repair, from bacteria to humans. Prokaryotic SMC proteins form complexes with two non-SMC subunits, ScpA and ScpB, to condense the chromosome. The mutants of both and genes in have been shown to display characteristic phenotypes such as growth defects and increased frequency of anucleate cells.