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The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) as well as the requirement for long, expensive and toxic drug regimens impede efforts to control and eliminate TB. Therefore, there's a need for effective and affordable anti-mycobacterial agents which can shorten the duration of therapy and are active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in both active and latent phases. Nitrofurantoin (NFT) is a hypoxic agent with activity against a myriad of anaerobic pathogens and, like the first-line TB drug, rifampicin (RIF), kills non-replicating bacilli. However, the poor ability of NFT to cross host cell membranes and penetrate tissue means that it does not reach therapeutic concentrations. To improve TB efficacy of NFT, a series of NFT analogues was synthesized and evaluated in vitro for anti-mycobacterial activity against the laboratory strain, Mtb H37Rv, and for potential cytotoxicity using human embryonic kidney (HEK-293) and Chinese hamster ovarian (CHO) cells. The NFT analogues showed good safety profiles, enhanced anti-mycobacterial potency, improved lipophilicity, as well as reduced protein binding affinity. Analogue 9 which contains an eight carbon aliphatic chain was the most active, equipotent to isoniazid (INH), a major front-line agent, with MIC90 = 0.5 μM, 30-fold more potency than the parent drug, nitrofurantoin (MIC90 = 15 μM), and 100-fold more selective towards mycobacteria. Therefore, 9 was identified as a validated hit for further investigation in the urgent search for new, safe and affordable TB drugs. In the current study, four pairs of new enantiomeric alkaloids (1a/1b-4a/4b) were obtained from the leaves of Isatis indigotica Fortune Ex Land. Their structures were elucidated through spectroscopic methods and quantum mechanical calculations. Biologically, all isolates were evaluated for their neuroprotective effects against H2O2-induced SH-SY5Y cell injury. As a result, 1a and 1b exhibited enantioselective neuroprotective effects, further Annexin V-FITC/PI analysis showed that apoptosis ratios of 1a and 1b were reduced to 20.93% and 17.87%, respectively. Design, controlled synthesis, physico-chemical and biological characteristics of novel well-defined biodegradable star-shaped copolymers intended for advanced drug delivery is described. Tiplaxtinin These new biocompatible star copolymers were synthesised by grafting monodispersed semitelechelic linear (sL) N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide copolymers onto a 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid (bisMPA)-based polyester dendritic core of various structures. The hydrodynamic diameter of the star copolymer biomaterials can be tuned from 13 to 31 nm and could be adjusted to a given purpose by proper selection of the bisMPA dendritic core type and generation and by considering the sL copolymer molecular weight and polymer-to-core molar ratio. The hydrolytic degradation was proved for both the star copolymers containing either dendron or dendrimer core, showing the spontaneous hydrolysis in duration of few weeks. Finally, it was shown that the therapy with the biodegradable star conjugate with attached doxorubicin strongly suppresses the tumour growth in mice and is fully curative in most of the treated animals at dose corresponding approximately to one fourth of maximum tolerated dose (MTD) value. Both new biodegradable systems show superior efficacy and tumour accumulation over the first generation of star copolymers containing non-degradable PAMAM core. A silica-based immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) sorbent with the morphological properties suitable for purification of large phosphorylated biomolecules was synthesized. The sorbent was designed in the form of monodisperse-porous silica microspheres, 5.3 μm in size, having bimodal pore size distribution with a large median pore size (40 nm) and high surface area (163 m2/g) decorated with Ti(IV) cations (i.e. Ti(IV)@THSPMP@SiO2 microspheres). The decoration of silica microspheres with Ti(IV) cations was made by using 3-(trihydroxysilyl)propyl methylphosphonate (THSPMP) as a bifunctiontional linker, by preserving their bimodal pore size distribution. The mesopores provided a large surface area for parking of adsorbed phosphoproteins as large phosphorylated biomolecules while the intraparticular transport of phosphoproteins was facilitated by the macropores providing a large median pore size. High equilibrium adsorption capacity and high desorption yield in the purification of phosphoproteins wer phosphorylated biomolecules enriched. BACKGROUND Prior studies of internal pathology review (IPR) for melanoma have shown that changes in the pathology analysis are common. How these changes impact clinical management of melanoma or how the margin status reports may modify has not been evaluated. Our goal was to determine what changes to staging and surgical management occurred after IPR of newly diagnosed melanomas and to determine how the final surgical pathology report may correlate with the IPR. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted from 2014 to 2016 of newly diagnosed invasive melanomas referred to a single National Comprehensive Cancer Network tertiary care center. RESULTS A total of 370 cases met inclusion criteria. The most common feature changed after internal review was mitotic rate, in 155 (41.7%) patients, followed by Breslow depth in 99 (26.9%) patients. Tumor staging was changed in 45 (12.2%) patients. The most common change was a T1a lesion being upgraded to a T1b lesion. These tumor staging changes lead to 38 (10.3%) overall staging differences. A biopsy's deep margin status was changed in 27 (7.3%) patients. Outside hospital reports lacked information about deep margin status in 71 (19.2%) of specimens. Based on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, 22 (5.9%) patients had changes in their sentinel lymph node biopsy recommendations and one of these patients had a positive node found on pathology. Of those patients who had changes in the T-stage, 16 (4.3%) of them also had changes in the recommended wide local excision radial margin. CONCLUSIONS IPR of invasive melanoma leads to both changes in staging and the surgical management of melanoma and should remain an important component of care of melanoma patients at a tertiary referral center.Tiplaxtinin