As a liquid (5% concentration), formaldehyde is an effective liquid decontaminant. Its biocidal action is through alkylation of carboxyl, hydroxyl and sulfhydryl groups on proteins and the ring ...

Figure 4. (Left) Two molecules of lipoic acid reacting (Step A) to form a dimer containing a disulfide bond and a free sulfhydryl (SH) group. The sulfhydryl group can then react with a sulfur atom of ...

Among those tested early on were the hydroxamic acid group and the sulfhydryl group, which eventually gave us captopril. All the structural modifications that were studied with captopril confirmed ...

Erdosteine is manufactured by Edmond Pharma (Milan, Italy) and commercialized in 42 countries in Europe and worldwide under different trade names (e.g., Erdotin ®, Erdomed ® and Mucotec ®). The ...

Erdosteine is a multimechanism, mucolytic agent that decreases the sputum viscoelastic properties and bacterial adhesion to the cell membrane, endowed with bronchial anti-inflammatory activity and ...