Targeting cancer cells through drug-based treatment or combination therapy protocols involving chemical compounds can be challenging due to multiple factors, including their resistance to bioactive compounds and the potential of drugs to damage healthy cells. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the structure of novel sulfur-containing shikonin oxime compounds and the corresponding cytotoxicity against four cancer types, namely colon, gastric, liver, and breast cancers, through computational chemistry tools. This investigation is suggested to help build insights into how the structure of the compounds influences their activity and understand the mechanisms behind it and subsequently might be used in multi-cancer drug design process to propose novel optimized compounds that potentially exhibit the desired activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe presence of harmful substances such as dyes in water systems poses a direct threat to the quality of people's lives and other organisms living in the ecosystem. Orange G (OG) is considered a hazardous dye. The existing paper attempts to evaluate a low-cost adsorbent for the effective removal of OG dye.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe use of fish waste as a source material for the development of functional beads has significant potential applications in the fields of materials science and environmental sustainability. In this study, a biomaterial bead of chitosan was cross-linked with bio-hydroxyapatite (Bio-Hap/Cs) through the encapsulation process to create a stable and durable material. The beads are characterized using scanning electron microscopy combined with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction techniques.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Neonicotinoids (NEOs) are used for the phytosanitary treatment of Mentha Spicata.L crops, and this practice requires precise control of these harmful substances at very low concentrations.
Objective: The objective of this study is to apply an approach allowing simultaneously validation and evaluation of measurement uncertainty based on total error methodology, in order to accurately quantify the presence of two NEOs in Mentha Spicata.
The Atlas cedar belongs to the Pinaceae family of trees and can be found in a crucial resinous mountain forest in Morocco that spans 133,000 hectares. This endemic species is valued for its wood quality and essential oil (EO), which has various biological activities. However, pathogenic fungi, particularly and , frequently attack Atlas cedarwood, causing significant damage and loss of value.
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