Results: 3

Simple synthesis of photoluminescent carbon dots from a marine polysaccharide found in shark cartilage

BACKGROUND: For more than a decade, water-soluble, eco-friendly, biocompatible, and low-toxicity fluorescent nanomaterials have received considerable attention for their numerous in vivo and in vitro applications in biomedical imaging, disease diagnostics, and environmental monitoring. Owing to their tun...

Degradation of textile dyes by cyanobacteria

Braz. j. microbiol; 48 (1), 2017
Abstract Dyes are recalcitrant compounds that resist conventional biological treatments. The degradation of three textile dyes (Indigo, RBBR and Sulphur Black), and the dye-containing liquid effluent and solid waste from the Municipal Treatment Station, Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, by the cyanobacteria...

Effects of intracameral brilliant blue on the corneal endothelium of swine: in vitro study

Pesqui. vet. bras; 36 (8), 2016
The aim was to investigate the ultrastructural changes in the corneal endothelium of pigs induced by intracameral 0.05% brilliant blue. Twenty swine corneas were separated into two groups, the right eye bulbs (control group) and the left eye bulbs (experimental group) of the same animal. All the eye bulb...