Bi-layer (Au-Si₃N₄) microcantilevers fabricated in an array were used to detect vapors of energetic materials such as explosives under ambient conditions. The changes in the bending response of each thermal bimorph (i.e., microcantilever) with changes in actuation currents were experimentally monitored by measuring the angle of the reflected ray from a laser source used to illuminate the gold n...

Gold in the form of thio-complexes has been successfully used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis for nearly 40 years (Lande, 1927; Pick, 1927), but the mode of action of gold compounds on the diseased connective tissue has yet to be elucidated. In our experiments we have tried to demonstrate the direct binding of gold by collagen because it may be assumed that this type of reaction is sim...

Gold and ruthenium compounds hold today great promise as new metallodrugs for treatment of human ovarian carcinoma; yet, their mode of action is still largely unknown. To shed light on their molecular mechanisms in previous studies we performed proteomic analysis in the A2780 human ovarian cancer cell line, after treatment with four different gold and two ruthenium compounds. To gain a better i...

Metals and metal compounds have been used in medicine for several thousands of years. In this review we summarized the anti-cancer activities of the ten most active metals: arsenic, antimony, bismuth, gold, vanadium, iron, rhodium, titanium, gallium and platinum. The first reviewed metal, arsenic, presents the anomaly of displaying anti-cancer and oncogenic properties simultaneously. Some antim...

In this study, we evaluated reactivity of organic peroxides with metals. The effect of useful metals for decomposition of organic peroxides was measured by Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC). Results of DSC measurement with several kinds of sample cells showed that some of organic peroxides have high reactivity with gold plated cell. Hydroperoxides were decomposed lower temperature by usin...

objective(s):in recent years, the chemistry of tetrazolo[5',1':2,3][1,3,4]thiadiazepino [7,6-b]quinolines have received considerable attention owing to their synthetic and effective biological importance which exhibits a wide variety of biological activity. as the inhibitor of aldose reductase, the aforementioned compounds may have implication in preventing complications of diabetes. ...

BACKGROUND The novel chiral phosphorus-1,1-dithiolates [4-CH3OC6H4P(S)(OR)S]-[H3NC(CH3)3]+ were synthesized by the reaction of [RPS2)]2 (R = 4-MeOC6H4) or P2S5 and the respective alcohol ROH (R = myrtanyl, 2-naphthylethyl, myrtenyl, borneol) in toluene. The reaction of phosphorus-1,1-dithiolates 1-4 and Au(tht)Cl, AuClPPh3 or AgNO3 and PPh3 gave rise to gold(I)- and silver(I)-complexes in THF. ...

Over expression of histone deacetylases (HDACs) leads to the suppression of various gene expressions including cancer suppressor gene. Thus, novel inhibitors of these enzymes can be a valid method to treat cancers. To facilitate the discovery of novel HDAC8 inhibitors, pharmacophore models were generated using ligand and receptor based approaches and validated with a database of active and inac...

Virtual screening by molecular docking has become a widely used approach to lead discovery in the pharmaceutical industry when a high-resolution structure of the biological target of interest is available. The performance of three widely used docking programs (Glide, GOLD, and DOCK) for virtual database screening is studied when they are applied to the same protein target and ligand set. Compar...