Boron- and phosphorus-containing molecular/nano platforms: exploiting pathological redox imbalance to fight cancer.

Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death globally. Despite multidisciplinary efforts, therapies to fight various types of cancer still remain inefficient. Reducing high recurrence rates and mortality is thus a major challenge to tackle.

A simple phosphorus determination in walnuts and assessment of the assimilable fraction.

In this work, a method for the determination of phosphorus in walnuts has been developed due to the fact that there is no specific method for this purpose. A closed-vessel microwave-assisted digestion of the samples was optimized and a modified molybdenum blue spectrophotometric method was carried out with excellent precision and selectivity. To differentiate assimilable and non-assimilable phosphorus, an easy extraction procedure using 1 M NHCl was used.