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- Title
- CuFeO2/Cu photoelectrode modified with SrTiO3 perovskite for efficient hydrogen generation from sanitation water
- Author
- Abdelazeez, Ahmed A., Rabia, Mohamed, Ahmed, Aya, Ahmed, Ashour M.
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources--Research, Perovskite (Mineral)
- Description
- We prepared a perovskite material, copper-doped strontium titanate (Cu-SrTiO3), using the chemical bath deposition method and cast it on a CuFeO2/Cu photoelectrode to generate hydrogen from sanitation water splitting. This preparation method consi...
- Title
- Exploring feasibility of mHealth to manage hypertension in rural Black older adults : a convergent mixed method study
- Author
- Abel, Willie M., Greer, B Danice
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- African Americans, Public health
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to explore perceived ease of use, usability, and the feasibility of using mobile health applications to manage hypertension self-care in rural Black older adults with hypertension.Mobile health applications have the p...
- Title
- Self-care management strategies used by Black women who self-report consistent adherence to antihypertensive medication
- Author
- Abel, Willie M., Joyner, Jessica S, Cornelius, Judith B, Greer, Danice B
- Date Created
- 2017
- Description
- Background: Black women in the USA have the highest prevalence rate of hypertension (HTN) contributing to a higher risk of organ damage and death. Research has focused primarily on poorly controlled HTN, negative belief systems, and nonadherence f...
- Title
- Self‐management program and Black women with hypertension : randomized controlled trial substudy
- Author
- Able, Willie M., Crane, Patricia B., Efird, Jimmy T., Ferdinand, Keith C.
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Women, Black, Hypertension
- Description
- The prevalence of hypertension (HTN) among Black women in the United States has increased over the past 10 years with a decline in levels of HTN awareness, treatment, and control. Higher death rates occur in Black women from HTN-related diseases w...
- Title
- Associations between public fear of COVID-19 and number of COVID-19 vaccinations : a county-level longitudinal analysis
- Author
- Ademu, Lilian, Guo, Yuqi, Gao, Jingjing
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
- Description
- A large number of COVID-19 infections and deaths and the ensuing socioeconomic problems created widespread public fear around COVID-19. Fear around COVID-19 greatly influences people's attitudes towards receiving the COVID-19 vaccines. The purpose...
- Title
- Impact of short-term air pollution on respiratory infections : a time-series analysis of COVID-19 cases in California during the 2020 wildfire season
- Author
- Ademu, Lilian, Gao, Jingjing, Thompson, Onah Peter, Ademu, Lawrence Anebi
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- COVID-19 (Disease), Environmental health
- Description
- The 2020 California wildfire season coincided with the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many counties in California, with impacts on air quality. We quantitatively analyzed the short-term effect of air pollution on COVID-19 transmission usi...
- Title
- Artificial immune cell, AI-cell, a new tool to predict interferon production by peripheral blood monocytes in response to nucleic acid nanoparticles
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Nucleic acid nanoparticles, or NANPs, rationally designed to communicate with the human immune system, can offer innovative therapeutic strategies to overcome the limitations of traditional nucleic acid therapies. Each set of NANPs is unique in th...
- Title
- Biomotors, viral assembly, and rna nanobiotechnology: current achievements and future directions
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Rolband, Lewis
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...
- Title
- Broccoli fluorets : split aptamers as a user-friendly fluorescent toolkit for dynamic RNA nanotechnology
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- RNA aptamers selected to bind fluorophores and activate their fluorescence offer a simple and modular way to visualize native RNAs in cells. Split aptamers which are inactive until the halves are brought within close proximity can become useful fo...
- Title
- Change in lipofectamine carrier as a tool to fine-tune immunostimulation of nucleic acid nanoparticles
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Newton, Hannah S., Xu, Jie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) require a carrier to allow for their intracellular delivery to immune cells. Cytokine production, specifically type I and III interferons, allows for reliable monitoring of the carrier effect on NANP immunostimul...
- Title
- Characterization of cationic bolaamphiphile vesicles for sirna delivery into tumors and brain
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Kim, Taejin, Gupta, Kshitij
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are potential therapeutic substances due to their gene silencing capability as exemplified by the recent approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the first siRNA therapeutic agent (patisiran). Howeve...
- Title
- DNA-templated fluorescent silver nanoclusters inhibit bacterial growth while being non-toxic to mammalian cells
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Rolband, Lewis
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Silver has a long history of antibacterial effectiveness. The combination of atomically precise metal nanoclusters with the field of nucleic acid nanotechnology has given rise to DNA-templated silver nanoclusters (DNA-AgNCs) which can be engineere...
- Title
- Editorial for the special issue on nucleic acid architectures for therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and materials
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Title
- Exosome mediated delivery of functional nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs)
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Ke, Weina
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- RNAi-based technologies have shown biomedical potential; however, safe and efficient delivery of RNA remains a barrier for their broader clinical applications. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) programmed to self-assemble and organize multiple th...
- Title
- Expanding structural space for immunomodulatory nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) via spatial arrangement of their therapeutic moieties
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Rolband, Lewis
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Different therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs) can be unified in a single structure by their elongation with short oligonucleotides designed to self-assemble into nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs). With this approach, therapeutic cocktails with preci...
- Title
- First step towards larger DNA-based assemblies of fluorescent silver nanoclusters: template design and detailed characterization of optical properties
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Shevchenko, Oleg
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Besides being a passive carrier of genetic information, DNA can also serve as an architecture template for the synthesis of novel fluorescent nanomaterials that are arranged in a highly organized network of functional entities such as fluorescent ...
- Title
- Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin, Chandler, Morgan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
- Title
- The immunorecognition, subcellular compartmentalization, and physicochemical properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles can be controlled by composition modification
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Marriott, Ian, Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have become powerful new platforms as therapeutic and diagnostic tools due to the innate biological ability of nucleic acids to identify target molecules or silence genes involved in disease pathways. However, th...
- Title
- Induction of cytokines by nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) depends on the type of delivery carrier
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Avila, Yelixza I.
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Recent insights into the immunostimulatory properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have demonstrated that variations in the shape, size, and composition lead to distinct patterns in their immunostimulatory properties. While most of these ...
- Title
- Special issue nanotechnology to overcome the world's most critical health issues: liposomes and beyond-a themed issue dedicated to Professor Yechezkel Barenholz
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry