Wednesday 19 July 2017

Current Advances in Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Micro/Nano Plastics: A Review

With the increasing demand for and reliance on plastics as an everyday item, and rapid increase in their production and subsequent indiscriminate disposal, the environmental implications of plastics are of growing concern.

Micro/Nano Plastics
Given that plastic polymers are highly resistant to degradation, the influx of these persistent, complex materials is a risk to human and environmental health. Microplastics is described as a truly heterogeneous mixture of particles ranging in size form a few microns to several millimeters in diameter; including particles of various shapes from completely spherical to elongated fibers. Microplastic pollution has been reported on a global scale from the poles to the equator. The main route of concern is currently as a consequence of ingestion, which could lead to physical and toxicological effects on aquatic organisms. To this end, in order to minimize the negative impacts posed by plastic pollution (microplastics), a plethora of strategies have been developed at various levels to reduce and manage the plastic wastes. The main objective of this paper is to review some of the published literatures on management measures of plastic wastes. Read more>>>>>>>

Thursday 6 July 2017

Fermented Medicinal Plant Designed by Lactobacillus Hits Alternative Complement Pathway and Controlled hA1c Level

About defence system of vertebrate, the complexed problems of developing our dual system, the innate and inductive do not seem to guard or even protect the maturation of one internal threat to survival. Also, all the individual suffers from the risk of immunodeficiencyin daily activities with both internal and/or externals events, such personalhabitat of individual, such in lifestyle related disease. Recently, complementary, and alternative medicines (CAM) have interested more and more attractive since they are able to treat many life-style related diseases, such as Diabetes mellitus, fatigue syndrome that spurred in the industrialized world. The present report had showed that typical styles of CAM, preparing special molecule for both digestive and easy to augmented human complement component that regulated the functions of leukocytes in human immune defence system.
journal of natural products chemistry & research
We had been published and proposed that the health promoting supplement could work after depredated the polysaccharide to appropriate fragment they possible to activate complement component. This was especially being part of alternative complement pathway. Dietary Supplements and fermented derivatives suggested as potent agent food supplement for regulating an acquired immunity through alternative complement pathway. These processes were close concollection of the complement activating process different from invasion of infectious agent where the immune complex and/or toxic polysaccharide such as LPS worked as pathway of complement.(Read More)

Tuesday 4 July 2017

Progress in Copper Complexes as Anticancer Agents

The advent of targeted therapies, i.e., small molecules or antibodies that interfere with signaling proteins involved in the etiology of cancer, revolutionized thetreatment of tumors with an addiction to specific oncogenes (e.g., ALK in lung cancer, Bcr-Abl in chronic myeloid leukemia, KIT in GIST, EGFR in lung cancer, HER2 in breast cancer or MET in liver tumors). However, for many cancers, the progressionfree survival of patients treated with targeted therapy is less than one year, which justify for a regain of interest in cytotoxic agents including metallodrugs. 
journal of medicinal chemistry
Indeed, the prevalent success of cisplatin in the treatment of various types of cancers has placed organometallic compounds on the forefront in the development of anticancer drugs. In this quest, copper derivatives hold promising opportunities due to opportunities provided by the hypoxic environment that is a hallmark of cancer cells coupled with the ability of copper complexes to catalyze the formation of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen species (ROS and RNS).(Read More)

Monday 3 July 2017

Verification of Phase Diagrams by Three-Dimension Computer Models

Such known programs as Lukas Program, ThermoCalc, ChemSage, FACTSage, MTDATA, PanEngine, PANDAT are created for the calculations of phase equilibria. Thanks to them itbecame possible the use of more realistic models of the thermodynamicproperties of phases, the calculation of phase diagrams in the complex two-component systems and the systems with the large number of components. The CALPHAD-method, which makes possible to generalize and to refine within the framework information about the phase equilibria and the thermodynamics of phases for one model, is most claimed today. It is effective means for decreasing the volumes of the experiments, necessary for understanding of phase transformations in the alloys and the ceramics. The CALPHAD ideology became the powerful means of theoretical studies and obtaining of adequate information about the phase equilibria. 
journal of modern chemistry & applications

Thermodynamic properties and phase diagrams for the technologically important multi-component materials can be predicted with its use. The reliable thermodynamic descriptions of two-component systems are the basis of the data bases with such characteristics. However, the CALPHAD application is limited by a deficiency in reliable thermodynamic data and the weak possibilities of the visualization of three-dimensional objects. In addition to this, using of thermodynamic methods of the states diagram calculating is hindered by the need of evaluating the thermodynamic properties of phases (in the absence of experimental data) and the agreement of experimental data of phase equilibria with the thermodynamic models. The innovation technology of assembling the space models of multidimensional phase diagrams from the entire totality of the geometric images corresponding to them is proposed: “To decode the diagrams topology the schemes of uni- and invariant states had been elaborated. This sort of schemes with phase’s routes designations makes possible to calculate the number of phase regions, surfaces and to know a type of every surface (plane, ruled or unruled surface). Detailed analysis of T-x-y diagrams geometrical constructions had been carried out with their aid, and their computer models had been designed” .(Read more)