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... Exposure to endocrine disruptors (EDCs) could disrupt thyroid hormone homeostasis. However, human epidemiological studies reported inconsistent observations, and scarce information on the effect of a mixture of chemicals. The aim of the present study was to examine the associations of multiple chemicals with thyroid hormones among adults from China. We measured serum levels of thyroid hormones and ...
... Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), as the main metabolite, found in aflatoxin contaminated food is highly toxic and strictly controlled in many countries. Aiming to construct a simplified, highly sensitive, and accurate quantitative detection platform of AFB1 in ordinary conditions, a one-step competitive quantum dot-labeled immunosorbent assay (cQLISA) was developed using biocompatible CdSe/ZnS core/shell quan ...
blood; blood sampling; chemical species; chemistry; drugs; metabolites; mice; pharmacokinetics; quantitative analysis; sample size; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Mice are the most frequently used animals in pharmacokinetic studies; however, collecting series of blood samples from mice is difficult because of their small sizes and tiny vessels. In addition, due to the small sample size, it is problematic to perform high required quantification. Thus, present work aims to find an effective strategy for overcoming these challenges using trans-resveratrol as a ...
biphenyl; chemical species; environment; excretion; fire spread; humans; metabolites; organophosphorus compounds; phosphates; rapid methods; risk; urine
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... Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) have been widely used in consumer products to prevent fire spread. However, once released into the atmospheric environment, they may accumulate in humans and undergo metabolic transformation and excretion by urine. In order to clarify the human exposure to OPFRs, a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe method for the simultaneous determination of ...
... Naringin is a dietary flavonoid glycoside with multiple bioactivities. It has been involved in numerous metabolism and excretion studies, and its metabolic properties are clear. However, information concerning the excretion profile of its original metabolites are still scarce, and few methods for simultaneous determination of multiple original metabolites of naringin in biological samples have bee ...
amino acid metabolism; beta oxidation; biomarkers; carnitine; chemical species; derivatization; humans; liquid chromatography; metabolites; mitochondria; patients; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Acylcarnitines are intermediate metabolites of the mitochondria that serve as biomarkers for inherited disorders of fatty acid oxidation and amino acid metabolism. The prevailing clinical method used to quantify acylcarnitines involves flow-injection tandem mass spectrometry, an approach with a number of limitations; foremost the inability to separate and therefore distinguish key isobaric acylcar ...
acetonitrile; ammonium; chemical species; drugs; formates; formic acid; humans; liquid chromatography; liquid-liquid extraction; metabolites; pharmacokinetics; tandem mass spectrometry
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... A simple, specific, selective and accurate bioanalytical method was developed and validated for simultaneous estimation of acalabrutinib and its active metabolite in human plasma using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Deuterated analogs of both the analytes were used as internal standards. The extraction of analytes and internal standards were evaluated from the human pla ...
carbon nitride; chemical species; composite materials; crystal structure; detection limit; electrochemistry; electrodes; fipronil; hot water treatment; metabolites; oxidation; pH; sensors (equipment); titanium dioxide; toxicity; voltammetry
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... For the first time, a simple and sensitive electrochemical sensor based on a screen printed electrode (SPE) modified with titanium dioxide (TiO₂) and polytriazine imide submicrostructured composite (TiO₂-PTI) has been developed for the simultaneous detection of fipronil (FIP) and its toxic metabolite fipronil sulfone (FIP-S). The submicrostructured composite material based on TiO₂ and PTI was obta ...
... Both luteolin (LUT) and resveratrol (RES) are natural polyphenols that exert therapeutic effects on liver injuries. Extensive glucuronidation by uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferases 1As (UGT1As) results in poor bioavailability of LUT, which limits its clinical application. As an inhibitor of UGT1A1 and UGT1A9, RES may affect the bioavailability of LUT. The purpose of this study was to deve ...
acetic acid; amino acids; analytical chemistry; chemical species; derivatization; mass spectrometry; metabolites; metabolomics; neuroglia; reversed-phase liquid chromatography; yeast extract
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... The vast majority of mass spectrometry (MS)-based metabolomics studies employ reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) to separate analytes prior to MS detection. Highly polar metabolites, such as amino acids (AAs), are poorly retained by RPLC, making quantitation of these key species challenging across the broad concentration ranges typically observed in biological specimens, such as cell extr ...
acetonitrile; analytical chemistry; breast milk; chemical species; enzymatic hydrolysis; esters; exposure assessment; freeze drying; humans; liquid chromatography; metabolites; milk; organophosphorus compounds; solid phase extraction; standard deviation; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Organophosphate esters (OPEs) and their diester metabolites have been frequently found in various environmental matrices and regarded as emerging environmental pollutants, whereas data on their occurrence in foods and human matrices are still limited. In this study, a novel and simple procedure was developed to simultaneously determine 14 OPEs and 6 diester metabolites in dairy products and human ...
ambient temperature; cannabinoids; chemical species; epidemiology; liquid chromatography; metabolites; tandem mass spectrometry; wastewater; China
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... Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) could pose serious health risks to its users. It is necessary to monitor its community consumption. Wastewater-based epidemiology is a potentially useful approach in this regard. However, limited research has been conducted to investigate the occurrence of SCs in wastewater. In this study, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was optimized t ...
... A sensitive method based on liquid chromatography combined with a diode array detector was developed and validated to simultaneously determine tamoxifen, and its active metabolites N‐desmethyltamoxifen, 4‐hydroxytamoxifen, and endoxifen in human plasma samples. The green and sustainable vortex‐assisted dispersive liquid‐phase microextraction technique based on the natural hydrophobic deep eutectic ...
acetochlor; atrazine; bioaccumulation; biotransformation; chemical species; deethylatrazine; fish; liver; metabolites; metolachlor; raw fish; tandem mass spectrometry; China
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... A novel and accurate liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry method was developed to sequentially determine three persistent herbicides (atrazine (ATZ), acetochlor (ACE), and metolachlor (MET)) and seven characteristic metabolites (desethylatrazine (DEA), deisopropylatrazine (DIA), diaminochlorotriazine (DACT), MET–oxanilic acid (MET-OA), MET-ethanesulfonic acid (MET-ESA), ACE-ESA, and ACE- ...
adsorption; analytical chemistry; chemical species; fluorescence microscopy; glass fibers; ionization; mass spectrometry; metabolites; oligonucleotides; paper; quinine; serotonin
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... We tested a paper-based platform (“Aptapaper”) for the upconcentration and analysis of small molecules from complex matrices for two well-characterized aptamers, quinine and serotonin binding aptamers (QBA and SBA, respectively). After incubating the aptapaper under conditions that ensure correct aptamer folding, the aptapaper was used to upconcentrate target analytes from complex matrices. Aptapa ...
... Increased use of pesticides in agriculture requires new advanced techniques to monitor both environmental levels and human exposure of pesticides to avoid potential adverse health outcomes in sensitive populations. Atrazine is widely used to control broadleaf weeds, and here we developed a new sensor capable of detecting diaminochlorotriazine (DACT), the major metabolite and biomarker of atrazine ...
amoxicillin; capillary electrophoresis; cefotaxime; chemical species; ciprofloxacin; clindamycin; diketopiperazines; electrolytes; humans; linezolid; metabolites; metronidazole; pH; sulfoxides; tandem mass spectrometry; temperature; urine
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... In this study, a new analytical method was developed and validated for the simultaneous analysis of antibiotic drugs (amoxicillin, cefotaxime, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, linezolid, metronidazole) and their metabolites (amoxycilloic acid, amoxicillin diketopiperazine, 3‐desacetyl cefotaxime lactone, clindamycin sulfoxide, ciprofloxacin piperazinyl‐N4‐sulfate, linezolid N‐oxide, metronidazole‐OH) i ...
... Thermodynamic acidity constants and limiting ionic mobilities were determined for polyprotic non‐chromophore analytes using capillary electrophoresis with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection. It was not necessary to work with buffers of identical ionic strength as ionic strength effects on effective electrophoretic mobilities were corrected by modeling during data evaluation (s ...
Thoroughbred; biomarkers; chemical species; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; liquid chromatography; liquids; metabolic studies; metabolism; metabolites; nicotine; risk; smoke; urine
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... Nicotine is classified as a stimulant, and its use is banned in horse racing and equestrian sports by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities and the Fédération Équestre Internationale, respectively. Because nicotine is a major alkaloid of tobacco leaves, there is a potential risk that doping control samples may be contaminated by tobacco cigarettes or smoke during sample collectio ...
chemical species; drugs; intragastric administration; metabolites; pharmacokinetics; rats; spectrometers; stereoselectivity; tandem mass spectrometry; ultrafast liquid chromatography; vasculitis
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... Daphnetin, which has been developed as a drug against obliterative vasculitis, can be rapidly and stereoselectively metabolized to an active 8-O-methylated metabolite, namely daphnetin 8-methyl ether (daphnetin-Me). Herein, a rapid, sensitive and reliable ultrafast liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UFLC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated to simultaneously determine daphnetin a ...
Virginia Rodríguez-Robledo; Alberto Vendrell; Alicia García-Cifuentes; Noemí Villaseca-González; Carmen Guiberteau-Cabanillas; Lydia Luque Martínez; José Julián Garde; María Rocío Fernández-Santos
agriculture; atrazine; bioaccumulation; chemical species; detection limit; electric potential difference; humans; male sterility; metabolites; propazine; seminal plasma; sperm quality; temperature
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... BACKGROUND: The increasing prevalence of male infertility and the declining trend in sperm quality has been associated to compounds known as “endocrine-disruptors”. The proven endocrine-disrupting effects of atrazine and propazine herbicides led us to conduct long-term research based on highly accurate specific analytical methods with a view to confirming the suspected association. Among the propo ...
absorption; chemical species; cooking fats and oils; detection limit; fipronil; food chemistry; gas chromatography; hydrogen bonding; markets; metabolites; particle size; pine pollen; solid phase extraction; sorbents
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... In this study, a convenient and economic method for the determination of fipronil and its three metabolites in edible oil was developed based on pollen grain solid-phase extraction (SPE). As a natural material, pollen grains exhibit well absorption capacity for some polar compounds due to their special functional structures. Their stable composition and appropriate particle size also make them sui ...
acaricides; chemical species; chickens; corn; disulfoton; food safety; liquid chromatography; markets; metabolites; milk; oats; peas; rice; sorbents; spectrometers; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Disulfoton is highly toxic insecticide and acaricide. Food safety requires analysis of disulfoton and its five metabolites (disulfoton-sulfoxide, disulfoton-sulfone, demeton-S, demeton-S-sulfoxide, and demeton-S-sulfone). However, simultaneous determination of disulfoton and its metabolites in agro-products was not established, and the limits of quantification (LOQs) of reported methods could hard ...
apoptosis; biosynthesis; brain; carbohydrates; chemical species; food chemistry; lipid metabolism; metabolites; metabolome; metabolomics; nucleic acids; pyrimidines; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Pyrimidines are critical nutrients and key biomolecules in nucleic acid biosynthesis and carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Here, we proposed the concept of the pyrimidine metabolome, which covers 14 analytes in pyrimidine de novo and salvage synthetic pathways, and established a novel analytical strategy with ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) to efficie ...
acetonitrile; blood; blood sampling; chemical species; fentanyl; forensic sciences; mass spectrometry; metabolites; methanol; narcotics; toxicology
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... Dried Blood Spots (DBS) represents a promising micro-sampling technique in the field of forensic toxicology to carry out minimally invasive blood sample collection. In DBS, cheap, fast and easy sampling is combined with effortless store and transport. These properties aimed us to develop and validate a quick and easy procedure for the detection of a large and diverse range of emerging and alarming ...
Food and Drug Administration; blood serum; chemical species; drugs; epidermal growth factor; humans; liquid chromatography; lung neoplasms; metabolites; tandem mass spectrometry; therapeutics
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... Reports on the therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of second- and third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) in non-small cell lung cancer patients are limited and are required to improve the safety of EGFR-TKI therapy. Some EGFR-TKIs have active metabolites with similar or higher potency compared with the parent compounds; thus, monitoring the parent co ...
antiviral agents; chemical species; chickens; ducks; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; hydrophilic interaction chromatography; influenza; markets; metabolites; methanol; multiresidue analysis; muscles; poultry meat; quails; quantitative analysis; spectrometers; tandem mass spectrometry
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... The objective of this work was to develop a quantitative multi-residue method for analysing antiviral drug residues and their metabolites in poultry meat samples. Antiviral drugs are not licensed for the treatment of influenza in food producing animals. However, there have been some reports indicating their illegal use in poultry. In this study, a method was developed for the analysis of 15 antivi ...
analytical chemistry; animal tissues; chemical species; derivatization; furaltadone; furazolidone; laws and regulations; liquid-liquid extraction; meat; metabolites; microwave treatment; monitoring; nitrofurantoin
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... A rapid analytical method was developed and validated for the analysis of eight bound nitrofurans in animal tissue, shortening laboratory turnaround times from 4 to 2 days. The majority of methodologies for nitrofuran analysis focus on the detection of only four drugs (nitrofurantoin, furazolidone, furaltadone and nitrofurazone), and is time-consuming given the 16-h overnight derivatisation step a ...
... Contezolid is a novel oxazolidinone antibiotic with good antibacterial activity against gram-positive bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. For the purpose to further characterize the pharmacokinetics of contezolid and its major metabolite M2, accurate and rapid ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric assays (UPLC-MS/MS) were developed and valida ...
acetamiprid; bifenthrin; chemical species; chlorpyrifos; chlorpyrifos-methyl; cyfluthrin; cypermethrin; deltamethrin; dicarboxylic acids; environmental monitoring; fipronil; humans; imidacloprid; liquid chromatography; malathion; metabolites; permethrin; pyrethrins; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry; thiacloprid; triazoles; urine; China
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... Pyrethroids, organophosphorus pesticides and fipronil have been listed as priority chemicals in human biomonitoring studies because of their wide use and potential health effects in humans. The determination of 13 pesticides, including pyrethroids (deltamethrin, cypermethrin, permethrin, cyfluthrin, bifenthrin), organophosphorus (chlorpyrifos, chlorpyrifos-methyl, and malathion), fipronil, neonico ...
Kauê de Oliveira Chinaglia; Ana Carolina Furiozo Arantes; Kelly Francisco da Cunha; Eduardo Geraldo de Campos; Júlia Martinelli Magalhães Kahl; Leonardo Costalonga Rodrigues; Jose Luiz Costa
calibration; chemical species; forensic sciences; freezers; liquid chromatography; metabolites; music; quantitative analysis; refrigerators; tandem mass spectrometry; toxicology; Brazil
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... The aim of this study was to develop a quantitative method for the analysis of methylphenidate, the analog ethylphenidate and their metabolite ritalinic acid in oral fluid, using micro-QuEChERS extraction and liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS). Oral fluid samples were collected with Quantisal™ device, extracted by micro-QuEChERS technique and analyzed by LC–MS/MS. The develo ...
... In order to evaluate the interaction of betaine and n-3 PUFA in foods consumed by the dog, six extruded dry foods were formulated. The control food had no specific source of added betaine or n-3 fatty acids, while the test foods were supplemented with betaine, flax or fish oil in a 2 × 3 factorial design (no added n-3 source, added flax, added menhaden fish oil, and all with or without added betai ...
ambient temperature; analytical chemistry; blood; blood sampling; chemical species; cocaine; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; health services; hydrophilicity; hydrophobicity; ionization; liquid chromatography; liquid-liquid extraction; metabolites; paper
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... Dry-state microsampling techniques are convenient and advantageous for sample collection in resource-limited settings, including healthcare systems designed for the underserved population. In this work, a microsampling platform based on an embossed hydrophobic paper substrate is introduced together with three-dimensional (3D) printed cartridges that offer opportunities for rapid (<30 min) drying o ...
Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis; acephate; chemical species; enantiomers; enantioselectivity; metabolites; methamidophos; separation; supercritical fluid chromatography; tandem mass spectrometry; temperature; toxicity
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... Acephate is widely used in crops as racemate. However, the enantioselective dissipation of acephate enantiomers has not been investigated in pakchoi. A sensitive and effective approach was established for determining residues of acephate and its highly toxic metabolite methamidophos enantiomers by supercritical fluid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Baseline separations for their enantiome ...
... Antemortem bodily fluids can serve as an indicator of veterinary medicine exposure prior to food animal slaughter. A multi-residue, rapid screen electrospray ionisation mass spectrometric (RS-ESI-MS) method was developed to analyse 10 veterinary drugs or metabolites (clenbuterol, erythromycin, flunixin, 5-hydroxyflunixin, meloxicam, ractopamine, ractopamine-glucuronide, salbutamol, tylosin, and zi ...
acetamiprid; blood; chemical species; clothianidin; confidence interval; dinotefuran; guanidines; hepatotoxicity; hospitals; human health; humans; imidacloprid; liver neoplasms; metabolites; odds ratio; pest control; research; thiacloprid; thiamethoxam; urea; China
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... Neonicotinoid insecticides (NEOs) are commonly applied for pest control in China and around the world. Previous studies reported that NEOs are hepatotoxic to mammals. However, limited studies have explored the associations between NEOs exposure and liver disease. In the present study, we detected six parent NEOs (p-NEOs), including acetamiprid, thiacloprid, dinotefuran, clothianidin, imidacloprid, ...
... Heterogeneous catalysis has emerged as a promising alternative for the development of new cancer therapies. In addition, regarding the tumor microenvironment as a reactor with very specific chemical features has provided a new perspective in the search for catalytic nanoarchitectures with specific action against chemical species playing a key role in tumor metabolism. One of these species is gluta ...
... Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) can be released during extensive activities associated with the disposal of electronic waste (e-waste), which might pose deleterious health effects on workers. In this study, pollution profiles of BTEX in air and their urinary excretive profiles in occupational workers were investigated in a typical e-waste recycling industrial park. The results sh ...
amoxicillin; cefoperazone; ceftiofur; chemical species; cloxacillin; liquid chromatography; medicine; metabolites; sand; sewage treatment; sludge; solvents; tandem mass spectrometry; wastewater
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... In the last decade, beta-lactams use in veterinary and human medicine increased to represent today about 15% of the overall consumption. Beta-lactams tend to degrade and metabolize in the environment. Therefore, analytical methods must be sensitive enough to quantify low concentrations of the parent molecules and also allow detection of metabolites. This study presents the development of a modifie ...
acetonitrile; chemical species; environmental monitoring; epidemiology; hydroxylation; metabolites; methanol; polymers; quality control; sodium acetate; solid phase extraction; solvents; urine; variance; New York
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... Efficient and reproducible measurements of multiple polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) metabolites in urinary samples are required to evaluate the complex health effects of PAH exposure. Here, we demonstrate a highly practical, automated off-line solid-phase extraction (SPE) of deconjugated hydroxylated PAHs followed by LC-MS/MS to simultaneously measure eight mono-hydroxylated PAH compounds: 1 ...
Escherichia coli; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; acetates; acetyl coenzyme A; bacteriophages; biosensors; catabolism; chemical species; formate dehydrogenase; formates; gas production (biological); leachates; lignocellulose; metabolites; propionic acid; technology
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... Real-time monitoring of key performance indicator analytes such as acetate and propionate within anaerobic digestors (AD) is required for optimum biogas production. In this paper the further refinement of acetate and propionate whole cell (E. coli) exclusion biosensors is reported following an iterative process in which key metabolites that might interfere with O₂-uptake measurements are identifie ...
Imad A. Haidar Ahmad; Alaina Kiffer; Rodell C. Barrientos; Gioacchino Luca Losacco; Andrew Singh; Vladimir Shchurik; Heather Wang; Ian Mangion; Erik L. Regalado
... Tandem column liquid chromatography (LC) is a convenient, cost-effective approach to resolve multicomponent mixtures by serially coupling columns on readily available one-dimensional separation systems without specialized user training. Yet, adoption of this technique remains limited, mainly due to the difficulty in identifying optimal selectivity out of many possible tandem column combinations. A ...
animal models; antimalarials; blood; chemical species; half life; humans; immunomodulation; liquid chromatography; metabolites; pharmacokinetics; rats; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was originally used as an antimalarial and immunomodulation drug. We developed and validated a simple and sensitive ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method for simultaneous quantitation of HCQ and its three metabolites in rat blood, and reported their pharmacokinetic parameters. The chromatographic separation and detection ...
ammonium acetate; chemical species; high performance liquid chromatography; hindlimbs; mass spectrometry; metabolites; mice; phosphates; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... ATP and its degradation products are essential metabolic and signaling molecules. Traditionally, they have been quantified via high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV-Vis detection while utilizing phosphate buffer mobile phase, but this approach is incompatible with modern mass detection. The goal of this study was to develop an ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) method f ...
acetonitrile; ambient temperature; blood sampling; cancer therapy; chemical species; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; fluorouracil; formic acid; health services; isotope labeling; liquid chromatography; metabolites; pharmacokinetics; toxicity
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... 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and its oral formulation, capecitabine, are widely used in treating a range of malignancies, either alone or in combination with other antineoplastic drugs. Body surface area-based dosing is used for these agents, despite this approach leading to substantial variability in drug exposure and often resulting in either toxicity or treatment failure. Tailoring therapeutic regimen ...
Thiobacillus; bioprocessing; chemical species; human health; hydrogen; metabolites; methane; mixed culture; oxidation; selenates; selenites; selenium; sulfur
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... Elevated selenium levels in the environment, with soluble selenate [Se(VI)] as the common chemical species, pose a severe threat to human health. Anaerobic Se(VI) bioreduction is a promising approach for selenium detoxification, and various organic/inorganic electron donors have proved effective in supporting this bioprocess. Nevertheless, autotrophic Se(VI) bioreduction driven by solid inorganic ...
Piaractus mesopotamicus; algorithms; automation; chemical species; comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography; derivatization; farmed fish; metabolites; metabolome; rice; variance; Argentina
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... Integration of rice and fish farming, eg., pacu fish in Argentina, has raised concern that herbicides used for rice paddies may adversely affect the fish metabolome. To study this issue, tile-based Fisher ratio (F-ratio) analysis was applied to comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC × GC-TOFMS) data of pacu fish raised in an integrated rice-fish ...
bioimaging; biosensors; chemical species; detection limit; energy transfer; fluorescence; glycolysis; metabolites; nanotubes; neoplasms; peptides; water solubility; wavelengths
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... Methylglyoxal (MGO), a glycolysis metabolite with high reactivity, can nonenzymatically modify proteins, lipids and nucleic acids etc., and it is closely related to the development of tumors. The accurate detection and high-performance optical imaging of MGO from deep tumor issues is of great significance for understanding their roles in tumor initiation and progression. Herein, we have presented ...
... Targeted metabolomics with absolute quantification is widely applied in biomarker identification and drug screening. However, due to the complexity of biological matrix and trace amount of metabolites in plasma, simultaneous quantification of highly polar metabolites in plasma with broad coverage in short time is still challenging. Herein, we proposed a nanoconfined liquid phase nanoextraction (NL ...
... Nitrous oxide (N₂O) toxicity is a concern common to several medical fields. Here, retrospective study of four N₂O abuses with neurological signs in the emergency practice provides a preliminary basis for a metabolic Discussion/Review. This latter highlights N₂O abuse as pathology of DNA/RNA/protein methylations, for instance consistent with impairments of protein arginine methyltransferases involv ...