{"title":"A review on traditional uses, phytochemistry and pharmacological activities of Acacia nilotica (Indian babul)","authors":"M. Janani, M. Ahamed","doi":"10.1504/ijbnn.2020.116318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbnn.2020.116318","url":null,"abstract":"Plants play an inevitable role in human life by providing the basic needs for livelihood and serving as a source of medicine from ancient civilisation. Globally, a majority of populations rely on phytomedicine as a source of primary healthcare and the demand for the plant-based medicine. Babul or Kikar, scientifically known as Acacia nilotica (A. nilotica) is a perennial tree belonging to the family of Fabaceae, a multipurpose tree widespread in the tropical and subtropical regions of countries. The whole plant part is loaded with therapeutic potential and used as folk medicine from long ago. The tree is also a rich source of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals and secondary active metabolites. In Indian Ayurveda and other traditional medicinal systems, A. nilotica plays an immense role in treating and curing various infections and diseases. The present review briefly provides up-to-date information on morphology, phytochemistry, therapeutic potential and other information on A. nilotica.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66691691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esmeralda Sarai Zuñiga Aguilar, E. I. A. Gómez, C. González, D. S. R. Martinez
{"title":"Functional tests of an in vitro maintenance system prototype type organ-on-chip for skeletal muscle","authors":"Esmeralda Sarai Zuñiga Aguilar, E. I. A. Gómez, C. González, D. S. R. Martinez","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2021.10036686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2021.10036686","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the necessity to develop new systems which maintains the proper conditions for cell growth and cell interaction in vitro this work has focused on the characterisation of two models of maintenance system prototypes type organ-on-chip skeletal muscle tissue of neonatal mouse. Cell growth were monitored four days. The images of the cells were obtained through an optical microscope to measure the variations of the alignment angle, the analysis was performed using the ImageJ software. It is concluded that the two OoC prototype models delimit and help cell alignment, but because the surface of the microchannels was not homogeneous or completely flat, adding to this the depth factor, the cell proliferation was affected. As a result, we demonstrated that the proposed organ-on-chip system promotes cell alignment.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66691753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Adi, H. Rachmawati, A. Veterini, Nancy Margarita Rehatta
{"title":"The simple method of extra virgin olive oil nanoemulsion for oral consumption: the chance for enteral nanonutrition production","authors":"A. Adi, H. Rachmawati, A. Veterini, Nancy Margarita Rehatta","doi":"10.1504/ijbnn.2020.116312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbnn.2020.116312","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the phenolic compounds in olive oil have positive effects on health. These effects can be seen from changes in levels of biomarkers in the body. Olive oil is the main consumption in Mediter...","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66691683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of creatinine on triangular silver nanoplates surface using surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensor","authors":"N. A. Bakar, M. Salleh, A. Umar","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2017.10006374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2017.10006374","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we attempt to detect various concentrations of creatinine molecules on the triangular silver nanoplate films surface using a self-build surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor. The SERS sensor system consists of a butterfly laser diode, Inphotonic Raman fibre, Ocean Optics spectrophotometer and sensor chamber to contain the creatinine sample. Triangular-shaped silver nanoplate films were prepared on quartz surface by self-assembly technique. Detection of creatinine was done by irradiating creatinine on the triangular nanoplates surface using 785 nm of the laser light. It was found that the enhancement of the creatinine Raman peaks is linear with the creatinine concentrations. The lowest creatinine concentration that was detected by this SERS sensor is 0.005 M.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"3 1","pages":"335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44212758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fabrication of optical fibre pencil shaped tips for nano objective imaging using home made tapering technique","authors":"Fazle Kibria","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2017.10006348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2017.10006348","url":null,"abstract":"A method is developed to produce chemically etched optical fibre tips for small and nano objective imaging with valuable properties such as large transmission and no lateral light leaks. Tips are coated with a dielectric material like Al, Cr, etc., that is refraction-index approximately matched to silica. First small objective imaging of latex nanospheres with the smallest optical aperture tips confirms their ability to reach subwavelength optical resolution. In addition, thanks to their high transmission and collection efficiencies as well as their natural achromatism. Probing optical properties of materials and optical characterisation of molecular defects at the nanometre scale has been inaccessible until recently owing to the diffraction limit of light. With the invention of nanometric fibre optic tip by the help of chemical etching and tapering technique, resolution at the 50 ± 100 nm level using visible or near infrared light is now practical. The unique capability of fibre optic probe to simultaneously measure surface topography and local optoelectronic properties, thereby eliminating the need to perform cross correlation analysis on results obtained using different techniques, is particularly useful in this area. The noticeable improvement of tapering technique was observed here.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"3 1","pages":"287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47269542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antimony oxide nanostructures synthesised in water and their possible use in packaging of mineral water","authors":"M. A. Shah","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2017.085421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2017.085421","url":null,"abstract":"Herein, we report a safe, low cost and reproducible approach for the synthesis of antimony oxide (Sb2O3) nanostructures. The organics free approach is based on a simple reaction of antimony powder and de-ionised water at ~270°C without harmful additives. By the morphological investigations using FE-SEM, it was observed that the grown products are nanostructures having well defined faces in the submicron range. The EDS and XRD patterns confirmed the composition and crystallinity of the grown samples. Possible involved mechanism for the growth of Sb2O3 nanostructures has been proposed. The aim of the study is to provide the feasibility of the simple route for the preparation of Sb2O3 nanostructures without additives and their possible use in packaging of water.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"3 1","pages":"343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJBNN.2017.085421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47574968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simple method for surface modification of iron oxide nanoparticles with silica and gold","authors":"F. Fathi, M. Sadjadi, N. Farhadyar","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2017.10006347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2017.10006347","url":null,"abstract":"Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles have special properties such as stability, biocompatibility and high magnetic saturation that are used for bioapplications. To avoid aggregation of magnetic nanoparticles, their surface must be modified by coating materials. In this paper, we focused on synthesis of iron oxide (IO) nanoparticles with co-precipitation method and coating them with PVP, SiO2 and Au. The FT-IR, XRD, TEM, SEM and EDX show the surface modifications.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"3 1","pages":"299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41323441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis of hydroxyapatite nano powders by rapid gel combustion","authors":"Ö. Yıldız, Orçun Ziğindere","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2016.10004875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2016.10004875","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we have executed a very detailed literature research on the synthesis of hydroxyapatite (HA), {Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2} nano powders. HA is a very important bioceramic material with excellent biocompatibility and bone bonding ability used in the medical field as bone substitute materials, because of its structural and compositional similarity to that of the mineral phase of hard tissue in human beings. HA nano powders (n-HAPs) in soft agglomerate form were synthesised by 'Rapid Gel Combustion' process. Synthesised n-HAPs were characterised by SEM, XRD and FTIR. The n-HAPs have white colour, spherical morphology consisting of micro and nano pores, crystallite size of 42.74 nm, very high specific surface area of 74.06 m2.g−1, Ca/P molar ratio of 1.65 and crystalline structure with characteristic HA peaks (JCPDF 9-432) without any secondary phases. FTIR spectra demonstrated the characteristic peaks of absorbed water, hydroxyl and Ca-phosphate.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"1 1","pages":"307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66691555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis and characterisation of nano powders for production of zirconia toughened alumina bioceramic implant materials","authors":"Ö. Yıldız, M. Yilmaz","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2016.10004876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2016.10004876","url":null,"abstract":"Zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) is a very important bio ceramic implant material with excellent biocompatibility as an inert bone substitute material for orthopedic applications and also for dental implants. In this study, alumina (Al2O3) and yttria stabilised zirconia (YSZ) nano powders in soft agglomerate form were synthesised by co-precipitation method. Aluminium nitrate {Al(NO3)3•9H2O}, zirconium oxynitrate {ZrO(NO3)2•xH2O} and yttrium nitrate hexahydrate {Y(NO3)36H2O} were dissolved in distilled water. NaOH solution was added as precipitant. The solution was turned into gel by mixing on hot plate magnetic stirrer at ambient temperature. In this way, Al2O3 and YSZ nano powders were synthesised together to produce the ZTA bioceramic implant material. The crystal structure, morphology and other physical properties of synthesised nano powders were investigated and characterised by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The composition ratio of ZrO2/Al2O3 and co-precipitation conditions had significant effect on the synthesised powder morphology and particle size and distribution in final product. The powders have a different morphology like formless and spherical and have the particle size distribution in the range of 100-900 nm. The final products have a very high relative sinter density about 91%, a small particle size of < 2 µm and homogeneity of particle and porosity distribution in microstructure.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"1 1","pages":"320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66691566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Soundararajan, Neha Deora, L. Lincoln, Purandhi Roopmani, Shikha Gupta, Rajatha Shambu
{"title":"Biogenic silver nanoparticles synthesised from Zingiber officinale and its antifungal properties","authors":"M. Soundararajan, Neha Deora, L. Lincoln, Purandhi Roopmani, Shikha Gupta, Rajatha Shambu","doi":"10.1504/IJBNN.2014.065471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBNN.2014.065471","url":null,"abstract":"A silver particle at the nanoscale level behaves as an effective antimicrobial agent and offers numerous applications in biosensing and medicine. The current study unveils the effect of rhizome of Zingiber officinale and its silver nanoparticles against the growth and hydrolytic enzyme of two lethal moulds, Alternaria alternata and Curvularia lunata. The rhizome of Zingiber officinale was extracted under aseptic conditions to get cold distilled water and silver nanoparticle extracts in order to check the effect on inhibition of cell mass formation and protease activity of Curvularia lunata and Alternaria alternata. The formation of silver nanoparticles was confirmed by UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The obtained results showed that the highest tested concentration (2%) of Zingiber officinale in cold distilled water and silver nanoparticle extracts strongly inhibited the cell mass formation as well as protease activity in test organisms. The silver nanoparticle extract showed potent antifungal activity when compared to cold distilled water extract. The study unravels the antifungal property of Zingiber officinale and its biogenically synthesised silver nanoparticles that can be exploited further for therapeutical and other industrial applications.","PeriodicalId":89939,"journal":{"name":"International journal of biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology","volume":"3 1","pages":"251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJBNN.2014.065471","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66691502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}