Development status of electrocatalytic hydrogenation of biomass small molecules and prospects for industrial production by Yuchen Lei, Fuhai Zhang, Wenbin Zhang, Wei Zhao

“…Currently, depolymerizing biomass macromolecules into small organic monomers via thermocatalytic pyrolysis is a well-established technique. …”
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Understand the Ability of Anionic Polymers to Alter the Morphology of Calcite by Insil Choi, Il Won Kim

“…Molecular dynamics was utilized to investigate the ability of anionic macromolecules to drastically change the morphology of calcite in the presence of magnesium ions. …”
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Cytological and biochemical markers of autophagy in wheat suspension culture cells under abiotic stress by A.B. Mazina, S.A. Dmitrieva, A.G. Renkova, J.N. Valitova, V.R. Khabibrakhmanova, F.V. Minibayeva

“…Autophagy is a highly conserved process of intracellular degradation of damaged, oxidized or excess macromolecules and organelles in eukaryotic cells. Under optimal conditions, the baseline level of autophagy is low. …”
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Exploring the elastocaloric effect of Shape Memory Alloys for innovative biomedical devices: a review by Girolamo Costanza, Ilaria Porroni, Maria Elisa Tata

“…This paper discusses Shape Memory Alloys� (SMA) elastocaloric effect (EC) and underscores its potential use in substituting conventional cooling systems, for future and innovative applications in the biomedical sector, where temperature has a significant influence on the structure and function of crucial macromolecules and cells. After an introduction on SMA�s EC and its relevance for medical and biomedical field, the authors examine the principles and mechanisms at the base of this particular property, with a focus on main keys essential to evaluate performances and the differences characterizing most used elastocaloric alloys, also exploring strategies currently in place to improve performances. …”
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Poly(Methacrylic Acid) Adsorption and Electrical Surface Properties of Titanium Dioxide Suspensions by M.M. Soltys, Z.M. Yaremko, N.H. Tkachenko, V.D. Havryliv

“…The influence of the adsorbed poly(methacrylic acid) macromolecules on the zeta potential of the particles can be explained according to a scheme which envisages both a decrease in the particle surface potential and a change in the potential distribution in the electrical double layer.…”
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Disruption in the Blood-Brain Barrier: The Missing Link between Brain and Body Inflammation in Bipolar Disorder? by Jay P. Patel, Benicio N. Frey

“…The blood-brain barrier (BBB) regulates the transport of micro- and macromolecules between the peripheral blood and the central nervous system (CNS) in order to maintain optimal levels of essential nutrients and neurotransmitters in the brain. …”
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Importins and Exportins Regulating Allergic Immune Responses by Ankita Aggarwal, Devendra K. Agrawal

“…Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of macromolecules is a well-controlled process involving importins and exportins. …”
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MPicker: visualizing and picking membrane proteins for cryo-electron tomography by Xiaofeng Yan, Shudong Li, Weilin Huang, Hao Wang, Tianfang Zhao, Mingtao Huang, Niyun Zhou, Yuan Shen, Xueming Li

“…Abstract Advancements in cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) allow the structure of macromolecules to be determined in situ, which is crucial for studying membrane protein structures and their interactions in the cellular environment. …”
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Supramolecular Biopolymers for Tissue Engineering by Rosario Pérez-Pedroza, Alan Ávila-Ramírez, Zainab Khan, Manola Moretti, Charlotte A. E. Hauser

“…Supramolecular biopolymers (SBPs) are those polymeric units derived from macromolecules that can assemble with each other by noncovalent interactions. …”
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Intestinal Permeability Assays: a Review by A. A. Iakupova, S. R. Abdulkhakov, R. K. Zalyalov, A. G. Safin, R. A. Abdulkhakov

“…The intestinal barrier integrity and permeability assays differ by the application setting (in vivo or ex vivo), subject (human or animal), marker molecules used to assess permeability (ions, various size carbohydrates, macromolecules, antigens, bacterial products and bacteria), biomaterial for the marker concentration assays (peripheral blood, portal venous blood, urine, stool). …”
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Parallelizing the cryo‐EM structure determination in THUNDER using GPU cluster by Zhao Wang, Huabin Ruan, Guangwen Yang, Xueming Li

“…However, obtaining high‐resolution 3D reconstructions from innumerable noisy images of macromolecules is an extremely complicated task, involving massive image analysis and calculation on a computing cluster. …”
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SOD1 Is Essential for the Viability of DT40 Cells and Nuclear SOD1 Functions as a Guardian of Genomic DNA by Eri Inoue, Keizo Tano, Hanako Yoshii, Jun Nakamura, Shusuke Tada, Masami Watanabe, Masayuki Seki, Takemi Enomoto

“…Reactive oxygen species (ROSs) are produced during normal cellular metabolism, particularly by respiration in mitochondria, and these ROSs are considered to cause oxidative damage to macromolecules, including DNA. In our previous paper, we found no indication that depletion of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase, SOD2, resulted in an increase in DNA damage. …”
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In-situ formation mechanism of endogenous fluorescent carbon dots during the roasting process of small yellow croaker (Larimichthys polyactis) by Yutong Qu, Shuyi Zhao, Jilong Ni, Long Jiao, Xiaoye Zhang, Soottawat Benjakul, Zhiyu Liu, Xiang Chen, Bin Zhang

“…This was due to the thermal aggregation of biological macromolecules such as proteins and fats, leading to thermal decomposition and disintegration, resulting in the formation of FCDs (∼5 nm). …”
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Harnessing the power of exosomes for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of hematological malignancies by Amirata Mohseni, Fatemeh Salehi, Samaneh Rostami, Kaveh Hadiloo, Mehrdad Hashemi, Zahra Baridjavadi, Fatemeh Ahangari, Najibeh Karami, Fatemeh Samani, Safa Tahmasebi, Najma Farahani, Afshin Taheriazam

“…They consist of lipid bilayers containing macromolecules such as lipids, proteins, microRNAs, growth factors, cytokines, and carbohydrates. …”
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Research of Inonotus obliquus Oligosaccharide in Prevention of Hyperlipidemia by Dawei Wu, Yanrong Zhang, Dawei Wang, Tingting Liu, Shanshan Zhang, Chenhe Yang

“…Among them, 1,4-glycosidic bonds accounted for 9.2%, and 1,6-glycosidic bonds accounted for 85.1%. Oligosaccharide macromolecules formed a layered structure. Mouse experiments showed that IOP-2A had the function of preventing hyperlipidemia. …”
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Statistical Evaluations of the Reproducibility and Reliability of 3-Tesla High Resolution Magnetization Transfer Brain Images: A Pilot Study on Healthy Subjects by Kelly H. Zou, Hongyan Du, Shawn Sidharthan, Lisa M. DeTora, Yunmei Chen, Ann B. Ragin, Robert R. Edelman, Ying Wu

“…At 3 Tesla (T), MT affords higher resolution and increased tissue contrast associated with macromolecules. The reliability and reproducibility of a new high-resolution MT strategy were assessed in brain images acquired from 9 healthy subjects. …”
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Wearable Electrochemical Biosensors for Advanced Healthcare Monitoring by Haowei Duan, Shuhua Peng, Shuai He, Shi‐Yang Tang, Keisuke Goda, Chun H. Wang, Ming Li

“…The applications of these biosensors are then highlighted in detecting a variety of biochemical markers, such as small molecules, hormones, drugs, and macromolecules, in biofluids including interstitial fluid, sweat, wound exudate, saliva, and tears. …”
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Wearable electrodriven switch actively delivers macromolecular drugs to fundus in non-invasive and controllable manners by Xuan Qin, Haoliang Shi, Hongyang Li, Binbin Chu, Jiawei Zhang, Zhen Wen, Xuhui Sun, Houyu Wang, Yao He

“…We have developed a wearable electrodriven switch (WES) that improves the non-invasive delivery of macromolecules to the fundus. The WES system, which integrates an electrodriven drug delivery lens with a square wave generator, leverages electrical stimulation to enhance drug penetration through the sclera-choroid-retina pathway. …”
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Selected properties of phosphorus dendrimers: green approaches to catalysis by Caminade, Anne-Marie, Maraval, Valérie

“…This review describes the synthesis of polyphosphorhydrazone (PPH) dendrimers, which are highly branched macromolecules, having a phosphorus atom at each branching point. …”
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Modeling Dendrimers Charge Interaction in Solution: Relevance in Biosystems by Domenico Lombardo

“…Dendrimers are highly branched macromolecules obtained by stepwise controlled, reaction sequences. …”
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