Epirubicin (EPI) is a chemotherapeutic agent belonging to the anthracycline drug class indicated for treating several tumors. It acts by suppressing the DNA and RNA synthesis by intercalating between their base pair. ...

A pure fraction of a riboflavin-tryptophan adduct was obtained for the first time from a mixture of products resulting from the anaerobic photoirradiation of riboflavin and tryptophan in solution. The procedure used to ...

Mammalian sperm must undergo a complex process called capacitation in order to fertilize the egg. During this process, hyperpolarization of the sperm plasma membrane has been mostly studied in mouse, and associated to its ...

The most concerned polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) benzo[a]pyrene, dibenz[a,h]anthracene, chrysene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[k]fluoranthene and benz[a]anthracene were simultaneously determined in the presence ...

Despite the major physiologic role of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), few studies have evaluated the ideal conditions for measuring human plasma ACE activity, specifically when using Z-phenylalanine-histidyl-leucine ...

A flow system designed with solenoid valves is proposed for determination of weak acid dissociable cyanide, based on the reaction with o-phthalaldehyde (OPA) and glycine yielding a highly fluorescent isoindole derivative. ...