Engineered vesicles facilitate the programmed transdermal-intestinal delivery of cinnabar for insomnia mitigation by modulating serotonin-Htr1d-cAMP [PDF]
Materials Today BioInsomnia is a prevalent sleep disorder and it affects brain development, with pediatric populations being particularly vulnerable. Cinnabar, a mineral drug composed of HgS, has demonstrated efficacy in alleviating insomnia through suppressing the ...
Yunhao Ren +6 more
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Hybrid TiO2 Particles/Fluorinated Polymer as a Protective Layer for α-HgS Cinnabar: A Multi-Analytic Study [PDF]
MoleculesIn recent years, hybrid materials have been widely applied in the cultural heritage conservation field, especially to preserve color pigments. Among these, one of the most problematic (in terms of conservation science) is the red pigment cinnabar ...
Federica Valentini +9 more
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Mass spectrometry measurements of mercury isotope ratios support geochemical sourcing of archaeological cinnabar in the Andean region. [PDF]
PLoS ONEGeochemical methods can identify the long-distance exchange of resources in the archaeological record. Cinnabar is a mineral with a limited number of geological sources; however, methods for determining the geological origin of cinnabar are constricted ...
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The regulatory effects of realgar and cinnabar on glucose metabolism in mice [PDF]
Frontiers in EndocrinologyBackgroundGlucose metabolism plays a central role in maintaining systemic energy homeostasis, and its dysregulation is closely linked to the pathogenesis of metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. While traditional mineral medicines such as realgar
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Traditional Chinese medicine Zhusha Anshen Wan: protective effects on liver, kidney, and intestine of the individual drugs using 1H NMR metabolomics [PDF]
Frontiers in PharmacologyIntroduction: Zhusha Anshen Wan (ZSASW) is a traditional Chinese medicine compound mainly composed of mineral drugs. In clinical practice, ZSASW did not show the toxicity of administering equal doses of cinnabar alone, suggesting that the four ...
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Modulation of the S/HgCl2 Ratio for the Synthesis and Conversion of Cinnabar and Metacinnabar [PDF]
NanomaterialsCinnabar has been used as a red pigment for centuries, but its degradation significantly impacts the aesthetic quality of historical paintings, particularly murals.
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth-Century Occupational Medicine. [PDF]
Am J Ind MedABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Zanatta A, Mason P, Bollini S, Magno G.
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Pioneering genome editing in parthenogenetic stick insects: CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout in Medauroidea extradentata [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe parthenogenetic life cycle of the stick insect Medauroidea extradentata offers unique advantages for the generation of genome-edited strains, as an isogenic and stable mutant line can in principle be achieved already in the first generation (G0 ...
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Advances in the safety evaluation of mineral medicines - Cinnabar and Realgar
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2019 Mineral medicines have a long history in the treatment of diseases. Among these, cinnabar and realgar are the most commonly used. This review discusses the differences between cinnabar and realgar and other mercurials and arsenicals.
Jing-Zhuo Tian +6 more
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Environmental legacy of pre-Columbian Maya mercury
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 The Mexico and Central American region has a history of mercury use that began at least two millennia before European colonisation in the 16th century.
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