Consuming salt-rich packaged food or adding extra salt to your food for extra flavour is secretly harming your heart and kidney health. A recent study found that India is consuming significantly more than the recommended level of sodium, the primary ingredient of salt. Experts decode its harms ...
As a widely applied nanomaterial, silver nanomaterials (AgNMs) have increased public concern about their potential adverse biological effects. However, there are few related researches on the long-term toxicity, especially on the reversibility of AgNMs i
Aminoglycoside (AMG) antibiotics are being applied to treat infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria, mainly in livestock, and are prescribed only in severe cases because of their adverse impacts on human health and the environment. Monitoring antibiotic residues in dairy products relies on the acc...
In the last years, AuNPs have shown to be a very promising strategy in the treatment of a wide range of diseases, including cancer, which is a major public health problem. Thus, the present work aimed at the design and characterization of AuNPs formulations uncoated and coated with HAOA or...
2DG-PEG-AuD showed accumulation in other organs, such as kidney (2.491), heart (1.472), and lungs (6.376). Compared to tumor-targeted 2DG-PEG-AuD, PEG-AuD showed relatively less accumulation in the tumor (2.148) due to the lack of tumor targeting and exhibited major accumulation in ...
Gold mine tailings pose a risk to health and the environment as well. One of the historical places with the highest gold production in the world, South Africa, has reported a direct relationship between the presence of heavy metals in soil and water and cases of cancer in children and adults...
Chemotherapy, for example, has severe consequences that are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as mild (grade 1), moderate (grade 2), severe (grade 3) and disabling (grade 4) ones [48]. These include the most nausea, vomiting (even more than ten times a day) and damage...