Oxidative stress is considered the principal mediator of myocardial injury under pathological conditions.It is well known that reactive oxygen(ROS)or nitrogen species(RNS)are involved in myocardial injury and repair a...Oxidative stress is considered the principal mediator of myocardial injury under pathological conditions.It is well known that reactive oxygen(ROS)or nitrogen species(RNS)are involved in myocardial injury and repair at the same time and that cellular damage is generally due to an unbalance between generation and elimination of the free radicals due to an inad-equate mechanism of antioxidant defense or to an increase in ROS and RNS.Major adverse cardiovascular events are often asso-ciated with drugs with associated findings such as fibrosis or inflammation of the myocardium.Despite efforts in the preclinical phase of the development of drugs,cardiotoxicity still remains a great concern.Cardiac toxicity due to second-generation anti-psychotics(clozapine,olanzapine,quetiapine)has been observed in preclinical studies and described in patients affected with mental disorders.A role of oxidative stress has been hypothesized but more evidence is needed to confirm a causal relationship.A better knowledge of cardiotoxicity mechanisms should address in the future to establish the right dose and length of treatment without impacting the physical health of the patients.展开更多
The realization of an efficient optical sensor based on a photonic crystal metasurface supporting bound states in the continuum is reported. Liquids with different refractive indices, ranging from 1.4000 to 1.4480, ar...The realization of an efficient optical sensor based on a photonic crystal metasurface supporting bound states in the continuum is reported. Liquids with different refractive indices, ranging from 1.4000 to 1.4480, are infiltrated in a microfluidic chamber bonded to the sensing dielectric metasurface. A bulk liquid sensitivity of 178 nm/RIU is achieved, while a Q-factor of about 2000 gives a sensor figure of merit up to 445 in air at both visible and infrared excitations. Furthermore, the detection of ultralow-molecular-weight(186 Da) molecules is demonstrated with a record resonance shift of 6 nm per less than a 1 nm thick single molecular layer. The system exploits a normal-to-the-surface optical launching scheme, with excellent interrogation stability and demonstrates alignment-free performances, overcoming the limits of standard photonic crystals and plasmonic resonant configurations.展开更多
The behavior of a negative refraction photonic crystal slab irradiated with out-of-plane incident beam is an unexplored subject.In such an experimental configuration,guided mode resonance appears in the reflection spe...The behavior of a negative refraction photonic crystal slab irradiated with out-of-plane incident beam is an unexplored subject.In such an experimental configuration,guided mode resonance appears in the reflection spectrum.We show that,in this case,the light coupled inside the photonic crystal is backpropagating.A relationship with the negative index properties is established using a new approach in which the guided resonance is recovered by modeling the photonic crystal layer with a simple Lorentz resonator using the Fresnel reflection formula.展开更多
文摘Oxidative stress is considered the principal mediator of myocardial injury under pathological conditions.It is well known that reactive oxygen(ROS)or nitrogen species(RNS)are involved in myocardial injury and repair at the same time and that cellular damage is generally due to an unbalance between generation and elimination of the free radicals due to an inad-equate mechanism of antioxidant defense or to an increase in ROS and RNS.Major adverse cardiovascular events are often asso-ciated with drugs with associated findings such as fibrosis or inflammation of the myocardium.Despite efforts in the preclinical phase of the development of drugs,cardiotoxicity still remains a great concern.Cardiac toxicity due to second-generation anti-psychotics(clozapine,olanzapine,quetiapine)has been observed in preclinical studies and described in patients affected with mental disorders.A role of oxidative stress has been hypothesized but more evidence is needed to confirm a causal relationship.A better knowledge of cardiotoxicity mechanisms should address in the future to establish the right dose and length of treatment without impacting the physical health of the patients.
文摘The realization of an efficient optical sensor based on a photonic crystal metasurface supporting bound states in the continuum is reported. Liquids with different refractive indices, ranging from 1.4000 to 1.4480, are infiltrated in a microfluidic chamber bonded to the sensing dielectric metasurface. A bulk liquid sensitivity of 178 nm/RIU is achieved, while a Q-factor of about 2000 gives a sensor figure of merit up to 445 in air at both visible and infrared excitations. Furthermore, the detection of ultralow-molecular-weight(186 Da) molecules is demonstrated with a record resonance shift of 6 nm per less than a 1 nm thick single molecular layer. The system exploits a normal-to-the-surface optical launching scheme, with excellent interrogation stability and demonstrates alignment-free performances, overcoming the limits of standard photonic crystals and plasmonic resonant configurations.
基金Portions of this work were performed at the Molecular Foundry,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,which is supported by the Office of Science,Office of Basic Energy Sciences,of the US Department of Energy under contract no.DE-AC02-05CH11231This work was partially supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under grants PON PANDION 01_00375.
文摘The behavior of a negative refraction photonic crystal slab irradiated with out-of-plane incident beam is an unexplored subject.In such an experimental configuration,guided mode resonance appears in the reflection spectrum.We show that,in this case,the light coupled inside the photonic crystal is backpropagating.A relationship with the negative index properties is established using a new approach in which the guided resonance is recovered by modeling the photonic crystal layer with a simple Lorentz resonator using the Fresnel reflection formula.
