Paulo F. Santos

TL;DR: Chronic sitagliptin treatment corrected the glycaemic dysmetabolism, hypertriglyceridaemia, inflammation, and hypertension, reduced the severity of the histopathological lesions of pancreatic endocrine and exocrine tissues, together with a favourable redox status, which might be a further advantage in the management of diabetes and its proatherogenic comorbidities.

TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis and spectroscopic characterisation of representative N-alkylsubstituted quaternary ammonium salts derived from benzothiazole, benzoxazoles, benzoselenazole, indole and quinoline are described.

TL;DR: In this article, the quantum yields for singlet oxygen generation of several squarylium cyanine dyes derived from benzothiazole, benzoselenazole and quinoline, displaying absorption within the so-called phototherapeutic window, were determined, envisioning their potential usefulness for photodynamic therapy (PDT).

TL;DR: Several symmetrical N-methylamino and N,N-diethylaminosquarylium cyanine dyes bearing benzothiazole, benzoselenazole and quinoline nuclei, displaying strong absorption within the phototherapeutic window, were investigated for the efficiency of singlet oxygen production, aiming their potential sensitising ability for photodynamic therapy as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Several (multiply) iodinated squarylium cyanine dyes of type 1 and 8 were synthesized as potential new photosensitizers, with absorptions in the 700-nm region as discussed by the authors.