PdIr Aerogels with Boosted Peroxidase-like Activity for a Sensitive Total Antioxidant Capacity Colorimetric Bioassay

Metallic aerogels (MAs), imparting the active catalytic properties of nanostructured noble metals to macroscopic aerogels, draw tremendous interest in diverse

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Ceruloplasmin Deficiency Impaired Brain Iron Metabolism and Behavior in Mice

Iron accumulation is an important cause of various brain diseases. As a ferroxidase, ceruloplasmin (Cp) plays a key role in

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Response of earthworm coelomocytes and catalase to pentanone and hexanone: a revelation of the toxicity of conventional solvents at the cellular and molecular level

Organic solvents like 2-pentanone and 2-hexanone which are widely used in industrial production make up a large proportion of the

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Salt-template preparation of Mo 5 N 6 nanosheets with peroxidase- and catalase-like activities and application for colorimetric determination of 4-aminophenol

Mo5N6 nanosheets were synthesized by a nickel-induced growth method and were found to possess peroxidase-like activity in acidic condition and catalase-like

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Thermalization of Fluorescent Protein Exciton-Polaritons at Room Temperature

Fluorescent proteins (FPs) have recently emerged as a serious contender for realizing ultra-low threshold room temperature exciton-polariton condensation and lasing.

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3D origami paper-based ratiometric fluorescent microfluidic device for visual point-of-care detection of alkaline phosphatase and butyrylcholinesterase

On-site multiplex enzyme detection is crucial for diagnosis, therapeutics and prognostic. To date, it is still a daunting challenge to

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Pandora box of BCA assay. Investigation of the accuracy and linearity of the microplate bicinchoninic protein assay: Analytical challenges and method modifications to minimize systematic errors

Bicinchoninic colorimetric assay is very widely used for total protein quantitative analysis. We report that bicinchoninic (BCA) total protein assay

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Binding of Cu+ and Cu2+ with peptides: Peptides = oxytocin, Arg8 -vasopressin, bradykinin, angiotensin-I, substance-P, somatostatin, and neurotensin.

The intrinsic binding ability of 7 natural peptides (oxytocin, arg8 -vasopressin, bradykinin, angiotensin-I, substance-P, somatostatin, and neurotensin) with copper in

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Allopregnanolone potentiates bioenergetic capacity and mitochondrial biogenesis in astrocytes

Background: We reported previously that the neurosteroid allopregnanolone (Allo) promotes neural stem cell regeneration and differentiation, reverses neurogenic, metabolic and

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