Roles of Inflammasomes in Inflammatory Kidney Diseases by Jinjin Fan, Kaifeng Xie, Liqin Wang, Nuoyan Zheng, Xueqing Yu

“…Inflammasomes are macromolecules consisting of multiple proteins, and their formation initiates the cleavage of procaspase-1, resulting in the activation of gasdermin D as well as the maturation and release of interleukin-1β and IL-18, leading to pyroptosis. …”
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Contribution of Metal Species to the Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Degradation of Natural Organic Matter by Ceyda Senem Uyguner, Miray Bekbolet

“…The role of organic matters which are high molecular weight macromolecules in natural water supplies and their subsequent removal by advanced oxidation technologies has gained importance because they posses a substantial capacity to complex dissolved metal species. …”
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Functional Hydration Behavior: Interrelation between Hydration and Molecular Properties at Lipid Membrane Interfaces by Nozomi Watanabe, Keishi Suga, Hiroshi Umakoshi

“…It stabilizes the structure of biological macromolecules, controls biochemical activities, and regulates interfacial/intermolecular interactions. …”
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Influence of Temperature and Purity of Polyacrylic Acid on its Adsorption and Surface Structures at the ZrO/Polymer Solution Interface by M. Wiśniewska, S. Chibowski

“…The occurrence of a minimum in the adsorption of PAA between 25–30°C was caused by conformational changes of the polymer macromolecules. For non-filtered PAA, a decrease in polymer adsorption and an increase in the thickness of the adsorbed polymer layers were observed. …”
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Study on the Miscibility of Polypyrrole and Polyaniline Polymer Blends by Tekalign A. Tikish, Ashok Kumar, Jung Yong Kim

“…The polymer blends showed almost amorphous nature in XRD spectra because of intermolecular interaction between PPy and PANI macromolecules, which was confirmed by FT-IR data. Specifically, the DSC result for the PPY : PANI = 50 : 50 wt.% blend showed only one glass transition temperature (Tg), which indicates that the two polymers are well miscible without undergoing any phase separation.…”
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Development status of electrocatalytic hydrogenation of biomass small molecules and prospects for industrial production by Yuchen Lei, Fuhai Zhang, Wenbin Zhang, Wei Zhao

“…Currently, depolymerizing biomass macromolecules into small organic monomers via thermocatalytic pyrolysis is a well-established technique. …”
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Understand the Ability of Anionic Polymers to Alter the Morphology of Calcite by Insil Choi, Il Won Kim

“…Molecular dynamics was utilized to investigate the ability of anionic macromolecules to drastically change the morphology of calcite in the presence of magnesium ions. …”
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Exploring the elastocaloric effect of Shape Memory Alloys for innovative biomedical devices: a review by Girolamo Costanza, Ilaria Porroni, Maria Elisa Tata

“…This paper discusses Shape Memory Alloys� (SMA) elastocaloric effect (EC) and underscores its potential use in substituting conventional cooling systems, for future and innovative applications in the biomedical sector, where temperature has a significant influence on the structure and function of crucial macromolecules and cells. After an introduction on SMA�s EC and its relevance for medical and biomedical field, the authors examine the principles and mechanisms at the base of this particular property, with a focus on main keys essential to evaluate performances and the differences characterizing most used elastocaloric alloys, also exploring strategies currently in place to improve performances. …”
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Disruption in the Blood-Brain Barrier: The Missing Link between Brain and Body Inflammation in Bipolar Disorder? by Jay P. Patel, Benicio N. Frey

“…The blood-brain barrier (BBB) regulates the transport of micro- and macromolecules between the peripheral blood and the central nervous system (CNS) in order to maintain optimal levels of essential nutrients and neurotransmitters in the brain. …”
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Importins and Exportins Regulating Allergic Immune Responses by Ankita Aggarwal, Devendra K. Agrawal

“…Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of macromolecules is a well-controlled process involving importins and exportins. …”
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Supramolecular Biopolymers for Tissue Engineering by Rosario Pérez-Pedroza, Alan Ávila-Ramírez, Zainab Khan, Manola Moretti, Charlotte A. E. Hauser

“…Supramolecular biopolymers (SBPs) are those polymeric units derived from macromolecules that can assemble with each other by noncovalent interactions. …”
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Intestinal Permeability Assays: a Review by A. A. Iakupova, S. R. Abdulkhakov, R. K. Zalyalov, A. G. Safin, R. A. Abdulkhakov

“…The intestinal barrier integrity and permeability assays differ by the application setting (in vivo or ex vivo), subject (human or animal), marker molecules used to assess permeability (ions, various size carbohydrates, macromolecules, antigens, bacterial products and bacteria), biomaterial for the marker concentration assays (peripheral blood, portal venous blood, urine, stool). …”
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Parallelizing the cryo‐EM structure determination in THUNDER using GPU cluster by Zhao Wang, Huabin Ruan, Guangwen Yang, Xueming Li

“…However, obtaining high‐resolution 3D reconstructions from innumerable noisy images of macromolecules is an extremely complicated task, involving massive image analysis and calculation on a computing cluster. …”
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SOD1 Is Essential for the Viability of DT40 Cells and Nuclear SOD1 Functions as a Guardian of Genomic DNA by Eri Inoue, Keizo Tano, Hanako Yoshii, Jun Nakamura, Shusuke Tada, Masami Watanabe, Masayuki Seki, Takemi Enomoto

“…Reactive oxygen species (ROSs) are produced during normal cellular metabolism, particularly by respiration in mitochondria, and these ROSs are considered to cause oxidative damage to macromolecules, including DNA. In our previous paper, we found no indication that depletion of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase, SOD2, resulted in an increase in DNA damage. …”
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In-situ formation mechanism of endogenous fluorescent carbon dots during the roasting process of small yellow croaker (Larimichthys polyactis) by Yutong Qu, Shuyi Zhao, Jilong Ni, Long Jiao, Xiaoye Zhang, Soottawat Benjakul, Zhiyu Liu, Xiang Chen, Bin Zhang

“…This was due to the thermal aggregation of biological macromolecules such as proteins and fats, leading to thermal decomposition and disintegration, resulting in the formation of FCDs (∼5 nm). …”
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Modeling Dendrimers Charge Interaction in Solution: Relevance in Biosystems by Domenico Lombardo

“…Dendrimers are highly branched macromolecules obtained by stepwise controlled, reaction sequences. …”
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Research of Inonotus obliquus Oligosaccharide in Prevention of Hyperlipidemia by Dawei Wu, Yanrong Zhang, Dawei Wang, Tingting Liu, Shanshan Zhang, Chenhe Yang

“…Among them, 1,4-glycosidic bonds accounted for 9.2%, and 1,6-glycosidic bonds accounted for 85.1%. Oligosaccharide macromolecules formed a layered structure. Mouse experiments showed that IOP-2A had the function of preventing hyperlipidemia. …”
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Statistical Evaluations of the Reproducibility and Reliability of 3-Tesla High Resolution Magnetization Transfer Brain Images: A Pilot Study on Healthy Subjects by Kelly H. Zou, Hongyan Du, Shawn Sidharthan, Lisa M. DeTora, Yunmei Chen, Ann B. Ragin, Robert R. Edelman, Ying Wu

“…At 3 Tesla (T), MT affords higher resolution and increased tissue contrast associated with macromolecules. The reliability and reproducibility of a new high-resolution MT strategy were assessed in brain images acquired from 9 healthy subjects. …”
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Selected properties of phosphorus dendrimers: green approaches to catalysis by Caminade, Anne-Marie, Maraval, Valérie

“…This review describes the synthesis of polyphosphorhydrazone (PPH) dendrimers, which are highly branched macromolecules, having a phosphorus atom at each branching point. …”
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Ultramodern natural and synthetic polymer hydrogel scaffolds for articular cartilage repair and regeneration by Chun-Sheng Li, Yan Xu, Juan Li, Shu-Hao Qin, Shao-Wen Huang, Xue-Mei Chen, Yi Luo, Cheng-Tao Gao, Jian-Hui Xiao

“…Cellular scaffolds, which are among three key elements of tissue engineering, play significant roles in the repair of damaged articular cartilage by regulating cellular responses and promoting cartilage tissue regeneration. Biological macromolecules are commonly used as scaffold materials owing to their unique properties. …”
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