Research and application of leek roots in medicinal field

Some Chinese herbs have been used to prevent and treat diseases,and are also used as common food ingredients.These Chinese herbs are potential resource for research and development of new drugs.Leek roots is a typical medicine of food and medicine continuum.It has a long history of medicinal applications and edible food in China.In this paper,the origin,biological active components,pharmacological action and clinical application of leek roots were introduced.We hope that this review will contribute to the development of leek roots for pharmaceutical research and clinical applications,as well as related health products.

Precise design strategies of nanomedicine for improving cancer therapeutic efficacy using subcellular targeting

Therapeutic efficacy against cancer relies heavily on the ability of the therapeutic agents to reach their final targets.The optimal targets of most cancer therapeutic agents are usually biological macromolecules at the subcellular level,which play a key role in carcinogenesis.Therefore,to improve the therapeutic efficiency of drugs,researchers need to focus on delivering not only the therapeutic agents to the target tissues and cells but also the drugs to the relevant subcellular structures.In this review,we discuss the most recent construction strategies and release patterns of various cancer cell subcellular-targeting nanoformulations,aiming at providing guidance in the overall design of precise nanomedicine.Additionally,future challenges and potential perspectives are illustrated in the hope of enhancing anticancer efficacy and accelerating the translational progress of precise nanomedicine.

Anomalous enhancement oxidation of few-layer MoS_(2)and MoS_(2)/h-BN heterostructure

Because of profound applications of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide(MoS_(2))and its heterostructures in electronics,its thermal stability has been spurred substantial interest.We employ a precision muffle furnace at a series of increasing temperatures up to 340℃to study the oxidation behavior of continuous MoS_(2)films by either directly growing mono-and fewlayer MoS_(2)on SiO_(2)/Si substrate,or by mechanically transferring monolayer MoS_(2)or hexagonal boron nitride(h-BN)onto monolayer MoS_(2)substrate.Results show that monolayer MoS_(2)can withstand high temperature at 340℃with less oxidation while the few-layer MoS_(2)films are completely oxidized just at 280℃,resulting from the growth-induced tensile strain in few-layer MoS_(2).When the tensile strain of films is released by transfer method,the stacked few-layer MoS_(2)films exhibit superior thermal stability and typical layer-by-layer oxidation behavior at similarly high temperature.Counterintuitively,for the MoS_(2)/h-BN heterostructure,the h-BN film itself stacked on top is not damaged and forms many bubbles at 340℃,whereas the underlying monolayer MoS_(2)film is oxidized completely.By comprehensively using various experimental characterization and molecular dynamics calculations,such anomalous oxidation behavior of MoS_(2)/h-BN heterostructure is mainly due to the increased tensile strain in MoS_(2)film at elevated temperature.