Pesticide residue in food is of grave concern in recent years. In this paper, a rapid, sensitive, SERS (Surface-enhanced Raman scattering) active reduced-graphene-oxide-gold-nano-star (rGO-NS) nano-composite nanosensor was developed for the detection...
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
Jun 4, 2018
The present work describes the development of an efficient, fast and accurate method for the quantification of polymer-based cocrystal formulations. Specifically, the content of carbamazepine-nicotinamide (CBZ/NIC) and ibuprofen-nicotinamide (IBU/NIC...
Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy
May 19, 2018
This study presents the analysis of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in human blood serum using Raman spectroscopy combined with pattern recognition technique. In total, 119 confirmed samples of HBV infected sera, collected from Pakistan Atomic Ener...
The use of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) constitutes one of the most important strategies to treat patients suffering from cancers such as hematological malignancies and solid tumors. These antibodies are prescribed by the physician and prepared by ho...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Mar 6, 2018
We present a method enabling the noninvasive study of minute cellular changes in response to stimuli, based on the acquisition of multiple parameters through label-free microscopy. The retrieved parameters are related to different attributes of the c...
A novel facile method for the detection of the phosphodiesterase type 5 enzyme inhibitors added illegally into health products was established using thin-layer chromatography and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy combined with BP neural network. Wh...
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Jan 16, 2017
In this work, the data fusion strategy of Fourier transform mid infrared (FT-MIR) spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) was used in combination with Support Vector Machine (SVM) to determine the geographic...
In this study we identify and classify high and low levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in healthy volunteers (HV) and diabetic patients (DP). Overall, 86 subjects were evaluated. The Raman spectrum was measured in three anatomical regions of the b...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 23, 2016
Given the well-known physical properties of graphene oxide (GO), numerous applications for this novel nanomaterial have been recently envisioned to improve the performance of biomedical devices. However, the toxicological assessment of GO, which stro...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 5, 2016
We have synthesized graphene oxide using improved Hummer's method in order to explore the potential use of the resulting graphene oxide as a nanocarrier for an active anticancer agent, chlorogenic acid (CA). The synthesized graphene oxide and chlorog...