Publications by authors named "S Haghgoo"

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  • Conventional gadolinium-based contrast agents used in MRI are linked to Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) in patients with poor kidney function, prompting research into safer alternatives.
  • A study introduced Gadolinium oxide nanoparticles (Gd2O3 NPs) coated with β-cyclodextrin to assess Gd biodistribution in rats with renal impairment, marking the first application of this method.
  • Results indicated higher Gd concentrations in tissues from the new Gd2O3@PCD group without notable tissue damage, while showing that traditional agents like Omniscan led to worse histopathological outcomes compared to Dotarem.
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Context: Fullerenes are of high significance due to their unique chemical properties and various applications in technology, particularly materials science, drug delivery, electronics, and nanoelectronics. In the recent years, many attempts have been focused to introduce new heteroatom-doped fullerenes having advanced chemical properties and tunable electronic traits, which make them a potential candidate for application in many branches of sciences. In this study, a novel CN azafullerene with a fascinating structure of chained nitrogen atoms on a buckyball pole, with different electronic and optical properties compared to its other analogs, is introduced and trace of N-N substructures on the surface of C fullerene cage is investigated.

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Today, in the modern world, people are often exposed to electromagnetic waves, which can have undesirable effects on cell components that lead to differentiation and abnormalities in cell proliferation, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage, chromosomal abnormalities, cancers, and birth defects. This study aimed to investigate the effect of electromagnetic waves on fetal and childhood abnormalities. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar were searched on 1 January 2023.

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Axillary lymph node detection is crucial to staging and prognosis of the lymph node metastatic spread in breast cancer. Currently, lymphoscintigraphy and blue dye, as the conventional methods to localize sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs), are invasive and can only be performed during surgery. This study has had a novel hybrid gadolinium oxide nanoparticle coating with Cyclodextrin-based polyester as a high-relaxivity T magnetic resonance molecular imaging (MRMI) contrast agent (CA).

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Combinations of fullerene and metal oxides (MOx) are interesting, not only because they display the individual properties of fullerene and of MOx nanoparticles, but they may also exhibit synergetic properties that are advantageous for gas sensing applications. In the present work, the adsorption of some different MOxs on fullerene C, and also the NO and CO sensing properties of these complexes, have been theoretically studied. All quantum mechanical computations have been carried out using Gaussian G09, employing the DFT method at the B97D/6-311G(d,p) level.

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