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... Hydrogen-peroxide (H₂O₂)-induced growth of small-sized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is often implemented for H₂O₂ sensing and plasmonic immunoassay. In contrast, there is little-to-no information in the literature regarding the application of H₂O₂-inhibited aggregation of citrate-capped AuNPs. This study discloses that benzene-1,4-diboronic acid (BDBA) was effective in driving the aggregation of cit ...
... To evaluate the protective effects of fruit juices against D-galactosamine (GalN)-induced liver injury, lyophilized fruit juices (total 12 kinds) were fed to rats for 7 d, and then we evoked liver injury by injecting GalN. The juice of camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia) significantly suppressed GalN-induced liver injury when the magnitude of liver injury was assessed by plasma alanine aminotransferase an ...
... Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is well known to break glucose homeostasis. However, the effects of PFOA on glucose metabolism are difficult to be evaluated because related metabolites may be synthesized from other nutritional substrates. Here, the relative contribution of glucose to metabolites (e.g., pyruvate and citrate) in the PFOA-treated human liver cells (HepG2) was determined using the ¹³C i ...
... The effect of glucose concentration on glycolytic metabolism under conditions of citric acid accumulation by Aspergillus niger was studied with 13C-labelled glucose. The results show that during cultivation at high glucose (14%, w/v), most of the label in citric acid is in C-2/C-4, and is thus due to the pyruvate carboxylase reaction. However, a significant portion is also present in C-1/C-5, whos ...
... The oleaginous fungus Mucor circinelloides is of industrial interest because it can produce high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acid γ-linolenic acid. M. circinelloides CBS 277.49 is able to accumulate less than 15% of cell dry weight as lipids, while M. circinelloides WJ11 can accumulate lipid up to 36%. In order to better understand the mechanisms behind the differential lipid accumulation in t ...
... Recently, our laboratory has identified that supplementation of 3 cytokines, 40ng mL−1 FGF2, 20ng mL−1 LIF, and 20ng mL−1 IGF1 (termed FLI), to porcine oocyte maturation medium leads to an increase in maturation percentage and embryo development to blastocyst. Similarly, addition of FLI to porcine embryo culture at Day 2 after fertilization increased the number of embryos that became blastocyst. T ...
... Metabonomics is an established strategy in the exploration of the effects of various stimuli on the metabolic fingerprint of biofluids. Here, we present an application of ¹H NMR-based metabonomics on the field of exercise biochemistry. Fourteen men were assigned to either of two training programs, which lasted 8 weeks and involved sets of 80-m maximal runs separated by either 10 s or 1 min of rest ...
... Inter-individual variability in drug metabolism and disposition is common in both preclinical and clinical researches. Losartan and its active metabolite EXP3174 present a high degree of inter-individual differences in blood concentrations that affect drug efficacy and side effect. Pharmacometabolomics has been increasingly applied on predicting the drug responses by analyzing the differences in m ...
... Fossa cheese is a typical Italian cheese characterised by ripening in pits dug in tuffaceous rock. In this work, 1H NMR spectroscopy was applied to characterise the lipid fraction and the metabolite profile of Fossa cheese produced with sheep's milk. Samples were collected before and after ripening in different pit environments. The higher levels of free amino acids (FAAs) found in samples suggest ...
... Chinese Yams (Dioscorea polystachya Turczaninow) are mainly used as functional food and traditional Chinese medicine in China. Adulteration is a major problem in the food and herbal industry and has affected the commercial use of natural products. Here, a ¹H NMR-based metabolomics approach was used for the identification of the distinguishing metabolites between geo-authentic Chinese yam (D. polys ...
biomarkers; citrates; clinical trials; data collection; fluorides; human diseases; humans; kidney diseases; metabolites; metabolomics; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; pH; phosphates; potassium; proteinuria; spectral analysis; statistical analysis; urine
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... Metabolite profiling of urine has seen much advancement in recent years, and its analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has become well established. However, the highly variable nature of human urine still requires improved protocols despite some standardization. In particular, diseases such as kidney disease can have a profound effect on the composition of urine and generate a ...
Elvia Becerra-Martínez; Elideth Florentino-Ramos; Nury Pérez-Hernández; L. Gerardo Zepeda-Vallejo; Nemesio Villa-Ruano; Manuel Velázquez-Ponce; Felipe García-Mendoza; Angel E. Bañuelos-Hernández
... Chili pepper (Capsicum annuum) is the most important and emblematic condiment in Mexican food. Serrano pepper is a variety of C. annuum that is traditionally cultivated in Mexico and commercialized in local markets. The aim of this study was to describe the 1H NMR metabolomic profiling of the aqueous phase of serrano peppers harvested from two distinct regions, in the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca ...
... Boneless dry-cured hams were processed by raw material treatment (deboned and tumbled), salting (vacuum packed; 4 °C and 60–70% RH for 3.5 months), resting (vacuum packed; 15 °C and 60–70% RH for 1.5 months) and ripening (vacuum packed; 15 °C and 60–70% RH for 1.5 months). To explore the mechanisms that contributed to the taste of boneless dry-cured hams, ¹H NMR-based metabolomics combined with mu ...
... Organic carrier solvents are used in aquatic toxicity testing to improve chemical solubility and facilitate the exploration of dose-response relationships. Both water- and solvent-control groups are normally included in these scenarios to ensure that the solvent itself has no effect on the test organism, but this fails to consider possible interactive effects between carrier solvents and contamina ...
... Systemic metabolic effects and toxicity mechanisms of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) remain uncertain. In order to investigate the mechanisms in PM2.5 toxicity, we explored the endogenous metabolic changes and possible influenced metabolic pathways in rats after intratracheal instillation of PM2.5 by using a 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics approach. Liver and kidney ...
... Glucocorticoids are widely used in clinical practice for the treatment of many immune-mediated and inflammatory diseases, and glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIO) is the most common type of secondary osteoporosis. Epimedium is one of the most commonly used traditional Chinese medicines for treating osteoporosis. In the present study, we systematically analysed the metabonomic characteristics ...
... Long-term hyperglycemia associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) causes damage to various organs and tissues, including the eyes, kidneys, heart, blood vessels and nerves. Rubus Suavissimus S. Lee (RS), a shrub whose leaves are used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has been shown to exert hypoglycemic effects in DM patients. However, the underlying mechanism is unclear. This was investigated i ...
... BACKGROUND: Camptothecin (CPT) and matrine (MAT) have potential as botanical pesticides against several pest species. However, the mechanisms of metabolic and physiological changes in pests induced by CPT and MAT are unknown. In this study, a toxicological test, an NMR‐based metabolomic study, an enzymatic test, and an RT quantitative PCR (RT‐qPCR) experiment were all conducted to examine the effe ...
Oriental traditional medicine; acetates; alanine; alanine transaminase; alkaline phosphatase; aspartate transaminase; biochemical pathways; cholesterol; cholinesterase; citrates; creatine; dose response; energy metabolism; glutamic acid; hepatotoxicity; histopathology; intestinal microorganisms; lactic acid; liver; low density lipoprotein; males; metabolites; metabolomics; methionine; mice; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; phenylalanine; poisoning; principal component analysis; protein content; pyruvic acid; rats; succinic acid; taurine; urine; very low density lipoprotein
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... Realgar has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. Recently, a number of realgar or realgar-containing medicines poisoning cases have been reported. However, the toxicological mechanism of realgar has not been clearly clarified. In present study, the subchronic hepatotoxicity of realgar on mice was investigated using ¹HNMR-based metabonomic approaches.Twenty-eigh ...
... Reactive species generated by Fe0 oxidation promoted by O2 (catalyzed or not by ligands) are able to degrade contaminant compounds like the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. The degradation of 2,4-D was influenced by the concentrations of zero valent iron (ZVI) and different ligands, as well as by pH. In the absence of ligands, the highest 2,4-D degradation rate was obtained at pH 3, while ...