Citation: Botelho D, Leo BF, Massa C, Sarkar S, Tetley T, Chung KF, Chen S, Ryan MP, Porter A, Atochina-Vasserman EN, Zhang J, Schwander S and Gow AJ (2018) Exposure to Silver Nanospheres Leads to Altered Respiratory Mechanics and Delayed Immune Response in an in Vivo Murine Model. Front. Pharmacol. 9:213. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00213 Exposure to Silver Nanospheres Leads to Altered Respiratory...

Increasing uses of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in commercial products and industrial applications has eventually resulted to their releases into atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic environments. However, knowledge gaps in ENPs toxicity, fate, and behaviour currently limit our ability to quantify risk assessment of materials with nanoscale dimensions, and therefore, the extent of the resul...

Figure S1: X-ray powder diffraction pattern of the iron oxide nanospheres sample. X-ray Powder diffraction (XRPD) was measured on a conventional in-house powder diffractometer using Cu Kα radiation. Rietveld refinement yields cubic lattice parameters of 8.362(2) Å for the nanospheres and 8.348(1) Å for the nanocubes, which are both close to the cubic spinel lattice parameter of maghemite. The r...

THE following comments are directed to the sections (2) ‘‘revisit to the grain growth problems in alumina’’ and (3) grain growth without a liquid phase in the article of concern. The purpose of this comment is to challenge the authors’ assertions and refute the following arguments, namely, first that ‘‘MgO can be considered a very effective grain growth promoter in the sintering of alumina,’’ s...

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Chemistry department, Faculty of Science, Taif University, KSA. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Nine alumina samples of various modification techniques were subjected to thermal analysis via thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA), in order t...

Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) consisting of unmethylated bacterial DNA sequences with CpG motifs are potent immunological adjuvants. Immunostimulatory CpG sequences are species-specific. Optimal CpG sequences specific for humans, rodents, livestock, and companion animals have been reported. Nearly all of these reports describe the use of soluble forms of CpG ODN and antigens. We investi...

Dental enamel is a bio-ceramic formed through a cascade of intra and extra-cellular events among which protein self-assembly is a critical step. Amelogenin selfassembly into nanospheres has been proposed as a key factor in controlling the oriented and elongated growth of enamel crystals. This manuscript is a short review of our recent in vitro study on the process of amelogenin selfassembly int...

Synthesis of highly aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with controlled positions is an important step toward manufacturable ultradense carbon nanotube integrated circuits. One of the most promising synthesis methods is chemical vapor deposition (CVD), in which small catalyst particles with diameters of approximately a few nanometers determine the position and diameter of SWNTs.1 Sig...

A simple and scalable coordination-derived method for the synthesis of porous Co3O4 hollow nanospheres is described here. The initially formed coordination-driven self-assembled aggregates (CDSAAs) could act as the precursor followed by calcination treatment. Then the porous hollow Co3O4 nanospheres are obtained, in which the primary Co3O4 nanoparticles are inter-dispersed. When the nanospheres...

This study aimed to optimize the preparation conditions of pachyman (PHY)-loaded poly(d,l-lactic acid) (PLA) (PHYP) nanospheres by response surface methodology, explore their characteristics, and assess their effects on splenic lymphocytes. Double emulsion solvent evaporation was used to synthesize PHYP nanospheres, and the optimal preparation conditions were identified as a concentration of po...