Optically Transparent Gold Nanoparticles for DSSC Counter-Electrode: An Electrochemical Characterization by Jessica Barichello, Donatella Spadaro, Sara Gullace, Alessandro Sinopoli, Pietro Calandra, Alessia Irrera, Fabio Matteocci, Giuseppe Calogero, Stefano Caramori, Carlo Alberto Bignozzi

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Psychometric properties of the Trauma Checklist 2.0 and its predictive utility of felony re-offending among high-risk juvenile offenders by Jenna N. Shold, J. Michael Maurer, Brooke L. Reynolds, Aparna R. Gullapalli, Corey H. Allen, Bethany G. Edwards, Nathaniel E. Anderson, Carla L. Harenski, Craig S. Neumann, Kent A. Kiehl

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Cataract Surgery Visual Outcomes and Associated Risk Factors in Secondary Level Eye Care Centers of L V Prasad Eye Institute, India. by Sumathi Matta, Jiwon Park, Ghanshyam Palamaner Subash Shantha, Rohit C Khanna, Gullapalli N Rao

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Changing trends in the prevalence of visual impairment, uncorrected refractive errors and use of spectacles in Mahbubnagar district in South India by Srinivas Marmamula, Jill E Keeffe, Saggam Narsaiah, Rohit C Khanna, Gullapalli N Rao

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Control of Source‐To‐Sink Processes on the Dispersal, Fractionation, and Deposition of Magnetic Minerals in a Tropical Mesotidal Estuarine System by Firoz Badesab, Nitin Kadam, Sriram Gullapalli, Pawan Dewangan, Virsen Gaikwad, Narayan Satelkar, Sadashiv Khalap, Mamilla Venkateshwarlu, Rakesh Kumar Sahoo, Walsh Fernandes, Piyush Dahake, Deblina Banerjee

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Ardisia recurvipetala (Primulaceae-Myrsinoideae), a new species from northern Peninsular Malaysia by Avelinah Julius, Mat Yunoh Siti-Munirah, Timothy M. A. Utteridge

“…Ardisia recurvipetala is unique amongst all members of §Crispardisia by having leaf margins with both vascularised glands and pustule-like structures and can be further distinguished from other Peninsular Malaysian members of this subgenus by the lamina raised between the leaf venation giving a somewhat bullate appearance, unbranched inflorescences, brownish-red pedicels and recurved corolla lobes, each with a creamy-white apex and a small pink patch at the base. …”
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Diversity of Catechin Content in the Leaves of Persimmon Germplasms by Yiru Wang, Yujing Suo, Huawei Li, Weijuan Han, Peng Sun, Fangdong Li, Jianmin Fu

“…The results showed that the content of (−)-epicatechin (EC) and (−)-gallocatechin gallate (GCG) had higher coefficient of variation (CV) values in persimmon young leaves (106.74%) and adult leaves (91.49%), respectively. …”
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Computational and In Vitro Investigation of (-)-Epicatechin and Proanthocyanidin B2 as Inhibitors of Human Matrix Metalloproteinase 1 by Kyung Eun Lee, Shiv Bharadwaj, Umesh Yadava, Sang Gu Kang

“…Altogether with computational and MMP-1–zymography results, our findings support (-)-epicatechin as a comparatively strong inhibitor of human MMP-1 with considerable drug-likeness against proanthocyanidin B2 in reference to epigallocatechin gallate.…”
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Relationship between Neuroprotective Effects and Structure of Procyanidins by Juan Chen, Yixuan Chen, Yangfan Zheng, Jiawen Zhao, Huilin Yu, Jiajin Zhu

“…In vitro, a rat pheochromocytoma cell line (PC12) was exposed to the grape seed-derived procyanidin monomers: catechin (C), epicatechin (EC), and epicatechin gallate (ECG); the procyanidin dimers: procyanidin B1 (B1), procyanidin B2 (B2), procyanidin B3 (B3), procyanidin B4 (B4), procyanidin B1-3-<i>O</i>-gallate (B1-G), and procyanidin B2-3-<i>O</i>-gallate (B2-G); and the procyanidin trimers: procyanidin C1 (C1) and <i>N</i>-acetyl-<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">l</span>-cysteine (NAC) for 24 h. …”
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Integration of non-targeted/targeted metabolomics and electronic sensor technology reveals the chemical and sensor variation in 12 representative yellow teas by Yuan Li, Yilong Li, Tian Xiao, Huimin Jia, Yu Xiao, Zhonghua Liu, Kunbo Wang, Mingzhi Zhu

“…Sensor variation of yellow teas might be attributed to some compounds related to bitterness and aftertaste-bitterness (4′-dehydroxylated gallocatechin-3-O-gallate, dehydrotheasinensin C, myricitin 3-O-galactoside, phloroglucinol), aftertaste-astringency (methyl gallate, 1,5-digalloylglucose, 2,6-digalloylglucose), and sweetness (maltotriose). …”
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Green Tea Catechins: Nature’s Way of Preventing and Treating Cancer by Mohd Farhan

“…The catechin derivatives of green tea include epicatechin (EC), epigallocatechin (EGC), epicatechin gallate (ECG) and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). …”
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Dissecting the Activity of Catechins as Incomplete Aldose Reductase Differential Inhibitors through Kinetic and Computational Approaches by Francesco Balestri, Giulio Poli, Lucia Piazza, Mario Cappiello, Roberta Moschini, Giovanni Signore, Tiziano Tuccinardi, Umberto Mura, Antonella Del Corso

“…The study, conducted through both a kinetic and a computational approach, highlights structural constraints of catechin derivatives relevant in order to affect aldose reductase activity. Gallocatechin gallate and catechin gallate emerged as differential inhibitors of aldose reductase able to preferentially affect aldoses and 3-glutathionyl-4-hydroxynonenal reduction with respect to 4-hydroxynonenal reduction. …”
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Engineering the production of major catechins by Escherichia coli carrying metabolite genes of Camellia sinensis by Umar, Kabir Mustapha, Mohammed, Abdulkarim Sabo, Radu, Son, Abdul Hamid, Azizah, Saari, Nazamid

“…Two of the four major catechins, namely, (-)-epicatechin (0.01) and (-)-epicatechin gallate (0.36mg/L), and two other types ((+)-catechin hydrate (0.13mg/L) and (-)-catechin gallate (0.04mg/L)) were successfully produced.…”
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Hukum jiran tidak prihatin by Mohd Shariff, Roos Niza

“…KES remaja kurang upaya (OKU) Muhamad Firdaus Dullah, 15, yang ditemui terkurung dalam rumah dengan keadaan kurus kering dan bergelumang najis menarik perhatian ramai rakyat Malaysia. …”
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Decoding Macrophage Subtypes to Engineer Modulating Hydrogels for the Alleviation of Intervertebral Disk Degeneration by Da‐Wang Zhao, Qian Cheng, Huimin Geng, Jinbo Liu, Yuanqiang Zhang, Jiwei Cui, Chao Liu, Lei Cheng

“…In addition, epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate can decrease catabolism in the ECM in nucleus pulposus by inducing M2 macrophage polarization, which exists in normal intervertebral disks and can alleviate degeneration. …”
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The Role of Polyphenolic Antioxidants from Tea and Rosemary in the Hydroxyl Radical Oxidation of <i>N</i>-Acetyl Alanine by Nikolaos Vagkidis, Jennifer Marsh, Victor Chechik

“…In order to improve our understanding of factors determining such antioxidant properties, the mechanistic chemistry of four phenolic antioxidants found in tea and rosemary extracts (epicatechin, epigallocatechin gallate, rosmarinic and carnosic acids) has been investigated. …”
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Separation and Biological Activities of the Main Compounds from the Bark of <i>Myrica rubra</i> Siebold & Zucc by Tianyang Hao, Lingyang Fan, Yiyue Chang, Hui Yang, Kai He

“…In this study, the main compounds in <i>Myrica rubra</i> bark including epigallocatechin gallate, myricetrin, myricetin, taraxerol, myricanol, and 11-<i>O</i>-acetylmyricanol were separated using both silica gel column chromatography and high-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC). …”
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Separation and antioxidant activities of new acetylated EGCG compounds by Jianyong Zhang, Hongchun Cui, Junfeng Yin, Yuwan Wang, Yun Zhao, Jizhong Yu, Ulrich H. Engelhardt

“…Abstract Acetylation could improve the bioavailability of (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate (EGCG), but the relationship of substitution degree and antioxidant capacity of acetylated EGCG was unclear. …”
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Rapid and comprehensive grade evaluation of Keemun black tea using efficient multidimensional data fusion by Luqing Li, Yurong Chen, Shuai Dong, Jingfei Shen, Shuci Cao, Qingqing Cui, Yan Song, Jingming Ning

“…The correlation coefficient for the predicted sets of gallic acid, caffeine, epigallocatechin, catechin, epigallocatechin gallate, epicatechin, gallocatechin gallate and total catechins were 0.84089, 0.94249, 0.94050, 0.83820, 0.81111, 0.82670, 0.93230, and 0.93608, respectively. …”
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An In Vitro Catalysis of Tea Polyphenols by Polyphenol Oxidase by Kunyi Liu, Qiuyue Chen, Hui Luo, Ruoyu Li, Lijiao Chen, Bin Jiang, Zhengwei Liang, Teng Wang, Yan Ma, Ming Zhao

“…The relative levels of 28 metabolites after catalysis were decreased significantly (variable importance in projection (VIP) > 1.0, <i>p</i> < 0.05, and fold change (FC) < 0.5)), while the relative levels of 45 metabolites, including theaflavin, theaflavin-3′-gallate, theaflavin-3-gallate, and theaflavin 3,3′-digallate were increased significantly (VIP > 1.0, <i>p</i> < 0.05, and FC > 2). …”
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