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- 1Klaczek, Chantelle E
- 1Locke, Andrew J
- 1Lu, Lei
- 1MacDonald, Shannon E.
- 1Mehinrad, Parnian
- 3Department of Biological Sciences
- 3Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 2Department of Chemistry
- 1Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 1Department of Biochemistry
- 1Faculty of Nursing
- 3Goss, Greg (Biological Sciences)
- 1Chen, Lingyun (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Dr. Afsaneh Lavasanifar (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- 1Dr. Nils O. Petersen, Department of Chemistry
- 1Glover, Chris (Science and Technology, Athabasca University)
- 1Lavasanifar, Afsaneh (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
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Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Studies of the Phospholipid Coated Gold Nanoparticles (GNPs)
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Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have been applied as diagnostic and therapeutic agents because they can be targeted, localized, and be heated to cause cell death. However, their use has been limited by their relatively low biocompatibility. In this work, we coated the GNPs surface by a biocompatible...
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Fall 2016
Arsenic trioxide (ATO), dissolved in water as arsenous acid or inorganic arsenite (AsIII), is an effective chemotherapeutic agent against acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). It has been investigated as a potential treatment for a variety of solid tumors although with much poorer efficacy than for...
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Spring 2023
As of 2016, the global annual production of plastic was 330 million metric tonnes (Plastics Europe, 2017). This staggering number is expected to double over the next 20 years as consumption increases (Plastics Europe, 2017; Lebreton et al., 2019). Less than half of the plastic produced reaches a...
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Uptake of waterborne selenite, and its toxic effects, in the water flea (Daphnia magna), Westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
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Selenium is an essential element, playing an important role in many physiological processes. However, it possesses a narrow margin between essentiality and toxicity. In aquatic systems, selenium is increasingly identified as a trace element of major concern with levels exceeding regulatory...