Over the past decade, formation of monodisperse colloidal nanocrystals with size and shape control has been intensively pursued. This topic is of key importance for elucidating unique size/shape-dependent physiochemical properties and for applications in optoelectronics, sensing, catalysis, crystallization, and mineralization. Currently, a major research direction appears to be shifting to crea...

The secondary hydroxyl group involved in the oxidation, and the cis-vicinal secondary hydroxyl group, must have a D configuration jvith respect to t,he primary alcohol group adjacent to the site of oxidation. This specific mode of otida,tion facilitated the synthesis of several new ketoses. In a series of papers, Hudson and Richtmyer and their a.ssociates described the microbiological synthesis...

Correction for 'Polyol synthesis, functionalisation, and biocompatibility studies of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as potential MRI contrast agents' by Roxanne Hachani et al., Nanoscale, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/c5nr03867g.

PURPOSE Dogs fed a diet containing 30% galactose experience retinal vascular changes similar to those in human diabetic retinopathy, with selective pericyte loss as an initial lesion. In the present study the relationship among reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)-dependent reductases, polyol formation, and flux through the polyol pathway in cultured dog retinal capillary...

BACKGROUND Peritoneal dialysis with glucose- and lactate-containing dialysis solutions stimulates peritoneal angiogenesis and fibrosis. These serious side effects can also be induced by chronic peritoneal exposure to dialysis solutions in nonuremic rats. The high glucose concentrations of the dialysis solutions may saturate physiological glucose metabolism pathways and stimulate the polyol path...