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Photochemical synthesis of 2,5-dialkoxy- and 2,5-diacetoxy-dihydrofurans from trans-enedicarbonyl compounds
No full textPyridinium dichromate in organic synthesis: a convenient oxidation of alpha-ynols-iodine complexes to alpha,beta-unsaturated alpha-iodo-aldehydes
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Michael addition to trans-enedicarbonyl compounds: a faile route to 2,3,4,5-tetra-substituted furans
No full textImproved procedure for 3,4-dihydro-1(H)-2-benzopyran ring closure. A general access to 3-substituted isochromans
No full textPyridinium chlorochromate in organic synthesis. A convenient preparation of 4-oxo-2-alkenenethioic S-esters
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Scavenging of hydroxyl radical by resveratrol and other stilbene derivatives upon hydrogen peroxide attack on DNA
No full textResveratrol (3,5,4’-trihydroxystilbene) is of interest due to its role in prevention and therapy of degenerative diseases as cancer and aging. However, depending on its concentration and cell type studied, resveratrol activity appears conflicting. It exerts antioxidant action as scavenger of free radicals and as promoter of antioxidant enzyme activity, but resveratrol acts also as a pro-oxidant. Here we present experimental and theoretical studies for resveratrol and two methoxy-derivatives found in plants, pterostilbene and 3,5,4’-trimethoxystilbene. We show that both methoxy-derivatives induce less DNA damage than resveratrol. The protective effects of the three molecules against oxidative DNA damage induced by hydrogen peroxide treatment were analyzed on mammalian cells in vitro. Our data show for the first time that the methoxylated derivatives of resveratrol are very efficient in reducing DNA damage: using the same concentration of the three molecules we obtain a relative reduction of 85.5% (pterostilbene), 43.7% (trimethoxystilbene) and 21.1% (resveratrol). Analysis of the crystal structures of pterostilbene and 3,5,4’-trimethoxystilbene, compared to resveratrol, show fewer intermolecular interactions and a lack of planarity, due to packing forces, which is confirmed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We also describe the results of DFT calculations (including water solvent effects) in which the three stilbene species scavenge the hydroxyl radical (associated with the H2O2 insult)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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