Saturday, November 22, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm Chemistry: Organic/Inorganic Oral Presentations 3:00 - Bioinspired CO2 capture: mimicking carbonic anhydrase with a Zn(II)-histidine metal-organic framework First Author Leah Chen Gatton Academy Co-author Bangbo Yan Western Kentucky University Carbonic anhydrase (CA) is an enzyme with remarkable catalytic efficiency in the hydration reaction of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate
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Its primary function, and the reason it's a subject of so much research, is its ability to stimulate melanogenesisthe process that produces melanin, the pigment responsible for skin color
The study in mice also found that treatment with Deltaran significantly decreased total spontaneous tumor incidence (by 2.6-fold), mainly mammary carcinomas and leukemias as compared with the control group
The dose is deliberately high compared to classical peptides (5-10 mg for GLP-1 analogues, 2-5 mg for short regeneratives) because documented GHK-Cu protocols use larger quantities in trichological and cutaneous research (1-3 mg per injection, concentrated topical applications)