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β-Alanine intercede metabolic recovery for amelioration of human cervical and renal tumors
β-Alanine is a non-essential amino acid and presents as a major component of various sports supplements. It is a non-proteogenic amino acid, formed in vivo by degradation of carnosine, anserine, balenine, and ...
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Toxicological evaluation of aspartame against Madin–Darby canine kidney cells
Aspartame is most widely used as artificial sweeteners in more than 6000 food varieties. Aspartame digested into aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol, and several peroxides, superoxide molecules also gen...
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Green Synthesis and Characterization of Biologically Active Silver Nanoparticles Using Perilla frutescens Leaf Extract
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized using an aqueous Perilla leaf extract and evaluated for anticancer activity. These green -synthesized AgNPs were characterized using UV–Visible absorption spectros...
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Green Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Catalytic and In Vitro Anticancer Activities
The green synthesis of nanoparticles is a convenient, inexpensive, rapid and eco-friendly method compared to traditional synthesis methods. We synthesized iron oxide nanoparticles (α-Fe2O3 (hematite)) nanoparticl...
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Synthesis of berberine-piperazine conjugates as potential antioxidant and cytotoxic agents
Piperazine derivatives bearing different electron-withdrawing and electron-donating functional groups were linked to the well-known isoquinoline alkaloid derivative, berberine via efficient organic transformat...
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Anti-Proliferative Effect of Copper Oxide Nanorods Against Human Cervical Carcinoma Cells
Metal oxide nanoparticles have been widely investigated for its use in the pharmacological field. The present study was aimed to investigate the cytotoxicity of copper oxide nanorods in human cervical carcinom...
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A Novel Nano-finish Formulations for Enhancing Performance Properties in Leather Finishing Applications
The present study was aimed to investigate the novel approach for the promotion of leather finishing properties through the incorporation of copper nanoparticles (Cu nanoparticles). Cu nanoparticles were synth...
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In Vitro Selective Anti-Proliferative Effect of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Against Co-Cultured C2C12 Myoblastoma Cancer and 3T3-L1 Normal Cells
The zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticle has been widely used in biomedical applications and cancer therapy and has been reported to induce a selective cytotoxic effect on cancer cell proliferation. The present study...
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In Vitro Therapeutic Potential of Tio2 Nanoparticles Against Human Cervical Carcinoma Cells
Cellular and physiological responses to the degradation products of titanium implants are key indicators to determine the quality of biocompatibility of implant devices. The present study investigated titanium...
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Eco-friendly decoration of graphene oxide with green synthesized silver nanoparticles: cytotoxic activity
The aim of the present study was to focus on the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using the aqueous extract of dried jujube fruit and the synthesized AgNPs were coated on the graphene oxide (GO ...
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Time and Concentration-Dependent Therapeutic Potential of Silver Nanoparticles in Cervical Carcinoma Cells
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have well-known anti-bacterial properties and have been widely used in daily life as various medical and general products. There is limited information available on the cytotoxicit...
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Open AccessTherapeutic potential of cyanobacteria against streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Hypoglycemic effect of cyanobacteria has evaluated in the normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic male albino rats as a mammalian model. Normal and streptozotocin-diabetic rats were orally administered cyan...
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ZnO Nanoparticles Upregulates Adipocyte Differentiation in 3T3-L1 Cells
The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles on 3T3-L1 cell differentiation, by quantitating peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor γ (PPARγ), CCAAT/enhancer bin...
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Green Synthesis: In-vitro Anticancer Activity of Silver Nanoparticles on Human Cervical Cancer Cells
The development of an eco-friendly process for the synthesis of nanoparticles is an important and emerging area in the field of nanotechnology. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized using Saccharina japon...
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A novel approach for in vitro meat production
The present review describes the possibility of in vitro meat production with the help of advanced co-culturing methods. In vitro meat production method could be a possible alternative for the conventional mea...
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In vitro toxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles: a review
The toxic effect of ZnO nanoparticles is due to their solubility. ZnO nanoparticles dissolve in the extracellular region, which in turn increases the intracellular [Zn2+] level. The mechanism for increased intra...
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Systemic Mechanism of Taste, Flavour and Palatability in Brain
Taste is considered as one of the five traditional senses and has the ability to detect the flavour of food and certain minerals. Information of taste is transferred to the cortical gustatory area for identifi...
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Cytotoxicity of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Antioxidant Enzyme Activities and mRNA Expression in the Cocultured C2C12 and 3T3-L1 Cells
The present study was aimed to investigate the dose-dependent effect of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles on antioxidant enzyme activities and messenger RNA (mRNA) expression in the cocultured C2C12 and 3T3-L1 ce...
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Effects of stress hormone cortisol on the mRNA expression of myogenenin, MyoD, Myf5, PAX3 and PAX7
The present investigation was carried out to evaluate the effect of stress hormone cortisol on the myogenic markers in the C2C12 cells co-cultured with 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. Co-culturing was achieved by transw...
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Aspartame downregulates 3T3-L1 differentiation
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener used as an alternate for sugar in several foods and beverages. Since aspartame is 200 times sweeter than traditional sugar, it can give the same level of sweetness with les...