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Chemical and biological evaluation of palythoa tuberculosa collected from the red sea
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
A chemical study on the total extract of the zoanthid Palythoa tuberculosa, collected
from the Red Sea, resulted in the isolation of seven polyhydroxylated sterols viz:
palysterols A-G, six of which are new. Their chemical ...
Chemical and biological investigation into some selected African indigenous medicinal plants
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
African medicinal plants are commonly used throughout Africa to treat a variety of ailments including wounds and ulcers, cough and chest complaints, gingivitis, fever and gonorrhoea, indication all related to infection and ...
Synthesis of DMSO based silver nanoparticles for application in wound healing
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) apart from being chemically significant, have shown a lot of health benefits, the most studied being their anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. These biological properties can be ...
Quantum dots for multiplexed biological imaging
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Over the past two decades, indium phosphide (InP) colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have attracted substantial interest as a possibly less hazardous alternative to cadmium-based QDs. The improvements in their colloidal synthesis ...