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... Carbon dioxide has been used in traps for more than six decades to monitor mosquito populations and help make informed vector management decisions. CO₂ is sensed by gustatory receptors (GRs) housed in neurons in the maxillary palps. CO₂-sensitive GRs have been identified from the vinegar fly and mosquitoes, but it remains to be resolved whether these receptors respond to CO₂ or bicarbonate. As opp ...
... Recent advances in mass spectrometry have facilitated chemical characterization and profiling of complex environmental mixtures such as oil sand process-affected water (OSPW) and identification of previously unresolved chemicals. However, because OSPW is a complex mixture of salts, metals, suspended particulate matter, and dissolved organics, extraction techniques are required to reduce the effect ...
acidification; chemical species; chloroform; derivatization; enzymatic hydrolysis; humans; hydrochloric acid; isopropyl alcohol; liquid-phase microextraction; metabolism; metabolites; pH; sodium chloride; solvents; stabilizers; tandem mass spectrometry; triazoles; urine
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... The benzotriazole UV stabilizer (BUVS) 2-(5-chloro-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4,6-di-(tert-butyl)phenol (UV-327) is added to plastic materials for UV protection. The compound is known to be ubiquitously distributed in the environment. We developed the first analytical method for the determination of UV-327 and seven metabolites, which were identified in vitro, in urine to be able to investigate the in viv ...
... Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are gut microbiota metabolites recognized for their beneficial effects on the host organism. In this study, a simple and rapid sample preparation method combined to SCFAs analysis by direct injection and gas chromatography coupled with flame ionization detection (GC-FID), for the determination and quantification of eight SCFAs (acetic, propionic, i-butyric, butyric, ...
... Natural water certified reference materials (CRMs) are mostly available in a liquid form, and they are produced starting from suitable environmental samples. Many precautions are usually needed to avoid biological or physical degradation, including filtration, acidification, and sterilization. In this study, the drawbacks associated with liquid-based seawater CRMs were tackled by developing a salt ...
... The impact of mechanical disturbance and oxygen induced acidification on the concentration and size fractionation of the 12 metal(loid)s As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sb, Tl, V and the polyatomic nonmetals C, P and S in the pore water was studied. Using the meso profiling and sampling system (messy) 12 pore water depth profiles were sampled from two incubation experiments undertaken in paral ...
acidification; aquatic environment; chemical species; filtrates; high performance liquid chromatography; isotope labeling; melengestrol; pH; particulates; progesterone; quantitative analysis; runoff; steroid hormones; surface water
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... Hormone contamination of aquatic systems has been shown to have deleterious effects on aquatic biota. However, the assessment of hormone contamination of aquatic environments requires a quantitative evaluation of the potential effects of sample preservation on hormone concentrations. This study investigated the influence of acidification (pH 2) of surface water samples on the partitioning of hormo ...
... Lightning strikes cause nitrogen to dissolve in water and form reactive nitrogen and oxygen species, which form natural fertilizers that can be absorbed through plant roots. Such processes during rainstorm events can be simulated by applying plasma to a solution. Plasma-activated water (PAW) has great potential as a source of various dissolved reactive chemical species. Different mixtures of speci ...
... Pivmecillinam, the ester of biologically active antibiotic mecillinam, is an effective oral preparation to treat urinary tract infections. To study pharmacokinetics in humans, LC‐MS/MS methods were developed to quantify pivmecillinam and mecillinam in human plasma, respectively. Considering cephalexin as internal standard, analytes were separated on UltimateXB‐C18 columns after protein precipitati ...
Rebecca A. Crouch; Jared C. Smith; Bobbi S. Stromer; Christian T. Hubley; Samuel Beal; Guilherme R. Lotufo; Afrachanna D. Butler; Michelle T. Wynter; Amber L. Russell; Jessica G. Coleman; Katrinka M. Wayne; Jay L. Clausen; Anthony J. Bednar
2,4-dinitrophenol; acidification; benzoic acids; chemical species; environmental protection; high performance liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; p-nitrophenol; sediments; soil types; solid phase extraction; solvents
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... Currently, no standard method exists for analyzing insensitive munition (IM) compounds in environmental matrices, with or without concurrent legacy munition compounds, resulting in potentially inaccurate determinations. The primary objective of this work was to develop new methods of extraction, pre-concentration, and analytical separation/quantitation of 17 legacy munition compounds along with se ...
absorbance; absorption; acidification; air quality; atmospheric pressure; carcinogenicity; chemical composition; chemical species; climate; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; formic acid; human health; ionization; pollutants; quantitative analysis; solar radiation; wavelengths
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... Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are common pollutants present in atmospheric aerosols and other environmental mixtures. They are of particular air quality and human health concerns as many of them are carcinogenic toxins. They also affect absorption of solar radiation by aerosols, therefore contributing to the radiative forcing of climate. For environmental chemistry studies, it is advanta ...
acidification; chemical species; climate change; ecology; glaciers; hydrochemistry; lakes; marine pollution; mineral content; riparian areas; sediments; Antarctica
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... This study covers water and sediment chemical characteristics by the western shore of Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) in 2016. Chemical processes between sediment and water have been described based on the determination of ions, metals, non-metals, and TOC concentrations. Rock weathering is an important source of Fe, Ni, Co, Al in the seashore area. The PCA shows the impact of acidi ...
... Careful extraction and analysis of porewater from sediment cores are critical for the investigation of small-scale biogeochemical processes. Firstly, small sample volumes and high spatial resolution are required. Secondly, several chemical species in the anaerobic porewater are sensitive to oxidation when brought in contact with ambient air. Here we present the combination of a special sampling te ...
acidification; calibration; chemical species; chlortetracycline; graphs; high performance liquid chromatography; hydrophilicity; hydrophobicity; liquid-phase microextraction; medium chain fatty acids; oxytetracycline; porosity; regression analysis; separation; solvents; surface area; tetracycline; water solubility
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... A novel approach for stir membrane liquid phase microextraction of tetracyclines from biological fluids was developed. The microextraction procedure assumed in situ formation of microdroplets of a hydrophobic medium-chain fatty acid (extraction solvent) from homogeneous sample solution containing water-soluble medium-chain fatty acid salt by acidification and simultaneous analytes extraction and o ...
acidification; alkaline hydrolysis; chemical species; food chemistry; hydrophobicity; liquid-phase microextraction; menthol; milk; solvents; water solubility
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... In this paper, a stir membrane liquid-phase microextraction approach based on milk fats hydrolysis and in situ deep eutectic solvent formation was developed for the first time. The approach was applied to clean-up and preconcentrate bisphenols from milk samples. The procedure assumed alkaline hydrolysis of samples fats to obtain water-soluble salts of fatty acids that acted as precursors for the d ...
... Due to geochemical processes, peat soils often have elevated concentrations of trace elements, which are gradually released following drainage for agriculture. Our objectives were to use incubation temperatures to vary microbial activity in two metalliferous peats (M7 acidic peat and M3 neutral peat) from the Elba, New York region, and to use periodic leaching to assess the extent of trace element ...
G-proteins; acidification; bicarbonates; blood serum; chemical species; citrates; drugs; electron transfer; energy transfer; lanthanides; ligands; luminescence; mechanism of action; moieties; pH; reactive oxygen species; temperature
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... The principles of the design of responsive luminescent probes and sensors based on lanthanide emission are summarised, based on a mechanistic understanding of their mode of action. Competing kinetic pathways for deactivation of the excited states that occur are described, highlighting the need to consider each of the salient quenching processes. Such an analysis dictates the choice of both the lig ...
... Introduction: Flow cytometry is a powerful and sensitive technique able to characterize single cells within a heterogeneous population. Different fluorescent dyes can be combined and used together to analyze a great variety of parameters simultaneously. In particular, flow-cytometry allows to measure viability and vitality of probiotics measuring their metabolic activity, fermentation capacity, ac ...