Elemental composition of fruits and vegetables using INAA, AAS, and ICP-MS by Shafaei, Mohammad Ali

“…Man is being unceasingly divulged to a large number of inorganic elements in a great variety of chemical forms and when they enter the human body they can cause toxicity effects resulting in deterioration of man general health. …”
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Induction of apoptosis in A549 cells in vitro by Boesenbergin A isolated from Boesenbergia rotunda by Mohd Isa, Norbaiti

“…Expression of Bax, Bcl2 and Hsp70 protein were detected by using the western blot analysis. Toxic effect of BA on different cell types, reported as IC50, yielded 20.22 ± 3.15, 10.69 ± 2.64, 20.31 ± 1.34, 94.10 ± 1.19, and 9.324 ± 0.24 μg/mL for A549, PC3, HepG2, HT-29 and WRL-68, respectively. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of structure and magnetic properties of ferrite nanoparticles prepared by thermal treatment method by Naseri, Mahmoud Goodarz

“…But,the most commonly applied synthesis methods are difficult to employ on a large scale because of their complicated procedures, high reaction temperatures, long reaction times, toxic reagents and by-products, and their potential harm to the environment. …”
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Elemental Distributions in Marine Sediments in the Straits of Melaka Using Neutron Activation and Mass Spectroscopic Analyses by Al-Zahrany, Awad Ahmed

“…The concentration of Pb is greater than the concentration of the mean crustal materials but lower than the average shales. For toxic elements such as As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sb, and Zn the mean concentrations are either lower than or equal to the mean concentrations for the Straits of Johor and the Penang Island. …”
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Prophylactic and therapeutic efficacies of dietary zerumbone supplementation on the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in cholesterol-fed rabbits by Hassan, Hemn Hassan Othman

“…Furthermore, difficulty in finding a relatively efficacious, non toxic, readily available and cheap naturally existing antihyperlipidaemic and antiatherogenic complementary medicine warrant the search for such an agent. …”
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Biodegradation of phenol by free and immobilised cells of locally-isolated bacteria by Aisami, Abubakar

“…Due to the wider use of phenol and other phenolic compounds by industries, this has resulted in an increased presence of these toxic compounds in the environment. In Malaysia, phenol and phenolic compounds rank among the top three scheduled wastes with thousands of tonnes being produced yearly for disposal. …”
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Elucidation of the anti-inflammatory compound present in Jatropha curcas Linn Root and its mode of action by Othman, Ahmad Razi

“…The high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of spot H-4 showed two peaks (A and B), with eluent A (peak A) displaying better anti-inflammatory activity than eluent B (peak B), without being toxic to the cell growth. Identification of the compound present in eluent A by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) indicated that the compound belonged to the octadecanoic acid group. …”
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Hepatoprotective activity of Dicranopteris linearis (Burm. f.) Underw. leaf methanol extract and its ethyl acetate fraction by Kamisan, Farah Hidayah

“…For the partition extracts, EADL partition exhibited the best activity in protecting the liver against PCM-induced toxicity. Interestingly, EADL, at a low dose (50 mg/kg) significantly (p<0.05) reduced ALP, ALT and AST to 198.5 ± 19.78 U/L, 108.7 ± 29.00 U/L and 313.0 ± 65.99 U/L, respectively and the total bilirubin levels (1.133 ± 0.1687 umol/L) in PCM-induced hepatotoxic rats. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles by thermal treatment method by Gharibshahi, Leila

“…Various methods of synthesizing silver nanoparticles by using inorganic salts as metal precursors have been reported which are mostly complicated in preparation procedure, difficult to attain pure particles, and the methods produced toxic by-products that may harm the environment. …”
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Development and evaluation of bivalent dna vaccine against avian infectious bronchitis by Bande, Faruku

“…The encapsulated bivalent IB-DNA plasmid was found to be thermostable, less toxic and protected against in vitro enzymatic degradation. …”
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Extraction, Gene Regulation and Hypocholesterolemic Effects, and Antioxidative Activity of Thymoquinone Rich Fraction and Thymoquinone from Nigella Sativa (pdf incomplete) by Al-Naqeeb, Ghanya Naji

“…The concentration of the alanine aminotransferase (ALT), gamma glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT), urea and creatinine of plasma collected from experimental rats were also measured in this experiment to test any toxic effect of TQRF and TQ on liver and kidney of rats. …”
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Effects of Oryzanol and Tocotrienol on Platelet Aggregation and Blood Lipid Profile in Rats by Maliki, Nur Zillah

“…Treatment with oryzanol either oryzanol plus tocotrienol in triolein or oryzanol plus tocotrienol emulsion decreased the concentrations of kidney (urea and creatinine) and liver (ALT and GGT) function parameters suggesting that there is no toxic effect on the kidneys or liver. Histological assessment also showed that the blood vessel tissues were not affected by the treatment. …”
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Suppression Effect of Eurycomanone on the Growth of Human Hepatoma Cells (Hepg2) by Inducing P53-Mediated Apoptotic Pathway by Zakaria, Yusmazura

“…Eurycomanone also showed less toxicity towards both normal liver cells, Chang’s liver (17±0.15 μg/ml) and WLR-68 (20±0.22 μg/ml) as compared to tamoxifen (1.4±0.31 μg/ml) and vinblastine sulfate (4.2±0.37 μg/ml). …”
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Antitumor Effect of Zerumbone Isolated from Lempoyang (Zingiber Zerumbet) on Human Cervical Cancer Cells and Mouse Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia by Abdelwahab, Siddig Ibrahim

“…Hence, acute, sub-acute and sub-chronic toxicity studies and ZER was evaluated for its behavioural, biochemical and histo-pathological effects. …”
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Effect of probiotic Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain on aflatoxin B1 level in aflatoxin-induced rats by Nasrabadi, Elham Nikbakht

“…Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is considered as the most toxic food contaminant with harmful impact on human and animal health produced by Aspergillus species of fungi namely Aspergillus flavus (A. flavus) and Aspergillus parasiticus (A. parasiticus). …”
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Characterization and identification of metabolites in three types of Malaysian stingless bee honeys and their roles in reducing heterocyclic amines in grilled beef by Shamsudin, Sharina

“…This indicated that stingless bee honey is effective to reduce toxic and harmful HCAs formed in grilled beef. The last objective was to identify the potential metabolites in stingless bee honey related to HCAs suppression using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based metabolomics approaches. …”
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Photocatalytic Removal of Phenol Using Supported Nano-Tio2 Doped with Lanthanum by A. Jamal Muhammed, Muhammed Ahshath

“…. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Titanium dioxide (TiO2), plays a main role in this treatment due its special characteristics such as inert, non- toxic and also very stable. However, some modifications have to be done to improve its limitation. …”
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Synthesis Of Large Area Graphene And Graphene Flake Via Chemical Vapor Deposition Using Copper Catalyst And Methane by Mohd Zuhan, Mohd Khairul Nizam

“…N-heptane as support material for wet etching process is easier to conduct, generated less waste and does not cause significant contamination on the graphene and can be reused for another graphene transfer and create less toxic waste as compared by using polymer support. …”
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Phenotypic diversity as a tool to guide and optimize random strain improvement approaches by Klein-Marcuschamer, Daniel

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Prediction of nitric oxide concentrations during inflammation and carcinogenesis by Chin, Melanie Pei-Heng

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