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amyloid; animal science; apolipoprotein E; blood serum; haptoglobins; immune system; immunoglobulins; lactation; liquid chromatography; prealbumin; protein content; proteomics; tandem mass spectrometry; two-dimensional gel electrophoresis
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... The transition period is the most critical time of the cow’s lactation cycle that is associated with the onset of mastitis. In this study, changes of plasma proteins in cows (n = 12) with or without subclinical mastitis after calving were determined by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE), which detected 18 spots with variations in protein spots abundance. These spots were identified by li ...
vinegars; fermentation; Robinia pseudoacacia; wood products; biomarkers; food composition; chemical composition; liquid chromatography; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; chemical structure; optical properties; flavonols; temporal variation; antioxidant activity; product authenticity
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... The use of acacia wood for the aging of vinegars is increasing because the efficient air transfer through the pores permits a good acetification rate. In this study, vinegars aged in acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) wood barrels were analyzed and found to contain a characteristic compound, which increased during the aging process. This so far unknown compound was isolated by semipreparative LC and st ...
Porifera; alkaloids; cytotoxicity; human cell lines; imidazole; inhibitory concentration 50; liquid chromatography; neoplasm cells; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; spectral analysis
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... LC-DAD/MS-based dereplication of organic extract of a calcareous sponge Leucetta chagosensis afforded one new chiral aminoimidazole-containing alkaloid, (-)-calcaridine B (1), along with one achiral imidazole analog leucettamine E (2) as well as one known imidazole derivative (2E, 9E)-pyronaamidine-9-(N-methylimine) (3). Their structures were elucidated on the basis of NMR spectroscopic analyses, ...
Cornus walteri; bark; cytotoxicity; hypoglycemic agents; insulin receptor substrate proteins; insulin secretion; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; mechanism of action; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; phytochemicals; rats; triterpenoids
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... Phytochemical examination of the MeOH extract from the stems and stem bark of Cornus walteri (Cornaceae) led to the isolation and verification of a tirucallane triterpenoid, (-)-leucophyllone, as a major component. Its structure was elucidated using NMR spectroscopy and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry. The effect of (-)-leucophyllone on insulin secretion in INS-1 cells was investigated. (- ...
... The killer toxin from Pichia membranifaciens CYC 1106, a yeast isolated from fermenting olive brines, binds primarily to the (1 leads to 6)-beta-D-glucan of the cell wall of a sensitive yeast (Candida boidinii IGC 3430). The (1 leads to 6)-beta-D-glucan was purified from cell walls of C. boidinii by alkali and hot-acetic acid extraction, a procedure which solubilizes glucans. The major fraction of ...
Sabine Oettl; Mattia Bosello; Klaus Marschall; Andreas Gallmetzer; Yazmid Reyes-Domínguez; Christoph Kreutz; Martin Tollinger; Peter Robatscher; Michael Oberhuber
Alternaria alternata; Malus domestica; apples; conidia; food chemistry; fractionation; fruit quality; fruits; fungi; host specificity; leaves; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolites; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; pathogenicity; pathotypes; phytotoxins; Italy
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... Alternaria sp. infections on apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) lead to impaired fruit quality and yield losses by leaf blotches and fruit spots, caused by host-specific toxins (HSTs) of the Alternaria apple pathotype like AM-toxins. Fungal isolates were obtained during severe outbreaks on cv. Gala, Golden Delicious, and Cripps Pink⁽ᶜᵒᵛ⁾/Rosy Glow⁽ᶜᵒᵛ⁾ in South Tyrol and other regions in northern It ...
... This study reports the (poly)phenolic fingerprinting and chemometric discrimination of leaves of eight mulberry clones from Morus alba and Morus nigra cultivated in Spain. UHPLC–MSn (Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry) high-throughput analysis allowed the tentative identification of a total of 31 compounds. The phenolic profile of mulberry leaf was characterized by the ...
ambient temperature; carboxylic acids; derivatization; detection limit; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; humans; ibuprofen; liquid chromatography; monitoring; saliva; tandem mass spectrometry
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... A novel derivatization reagent, (S)-1-(4-dimethylaminophenylcarbonyl)-3-aminopyrrolidine (1-DAPAP), was developed for increasing the detection sensitivity and enantiomeric separation of chiral carboxylic acids by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization–tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS). 1-DAPAP reacted with carboxylic acids at room temperature within 5min in the presence of 4-(4,6-dime ...
cocaine; detection limit; forensic sciences; hairs; illicit drugs; image analysis; liquid chromatography; tandem mass spectrometry; thermal degradation
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... Forensic hair evidence can be used to obtain retrospective timelines of drug use by analysis of hair segments. However, this is a laborious and time-consuming process, and mass spectrometric (MS) imaging techniques, which show great potential for single-hair targeted analysis, are less useful due to differences in hair growth rate between individual hairs. As an alternative, a fast untargeted anal ...
... The interest in metabolomic studies has rapidly increased over the past few years. Changes of endogenous compounds are typically detected in plasma or urine. However, the use of hair allows for long-term monitoring of metabolomic changes and has recently started being applied to metabolomic studies. Within the proposed study, we aimed for a systematical investigation of different pre-analytical pa ...
... The LC performance of a 1x50 mm polymer monolithic column format was demonstrated with high-peak capacity one- (1D) and offline two dimensional (2D) LC separations of intact proteins. After optimizing the RP 1D-LC conditions, including column temperature, flow rate and gradient time, a peak capacity of 475 was achieved within a 2-h analysis. The suitability of the monolithic column was also demons ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; composite polymers; dissociation; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; glucans; glycosylation; liquid chromatography; methylation; models; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Multi-block glucans comprising permethylated and partially methylated blocks are compounds of interest. In order to monitor their formation by transglycosylation of corresponding starting glucans, a method has been developed and applied to model compounds. This method allows determining the average length of the blocks and the progress of incorporation of methyl blocks in partially methylated sequ ...
... Since there are no characteristic morphological findings post mortem diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and identification of diabetic coma need to be confirmed by suitable biomarkers. The postmortem identification of preexisting hyperglycemia or diabetic coma can be difficult if the matrices for the determination of the established biomarkers are not available or the obtained results are close to the ...
... The quality, antioxidant capacities, and organosulfur profile of chives (Allium schoenoprasum L.) treated with 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) during storage were investigated in this study. The 1-MCP treatment (100 μL/L, fumigation 12 h at 20 °C) effectively inhibited tissue respiration and H₂O₂ production, enhanced the ascorbic acid (ASA) and glutathione (GSH) content, and promoted the activity of ...
... In the present study, the potential effect of 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment on phenolics and antioxidant capacity in postharvest peach was assessed. Peach fruit (cv. Xiahui-8) treated with 1-MCP or without treatment was stored in 25 °C for 2, 4, 6, and 8 days. The phenolic composition and change trend were evaluated by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. The reactive oxygen species p ...
... The predicted advantages of superficially porous particles over totally porous particles are decreased eddy dispersion, longitudinal diffusion, and resistance to mass transfer contributions to the theoretical plate height. While sub-2 micron superficially porous particles are commercially available, further improvements in performance are predicted by decreasing the particle diameter and decreasin ...
coatings; drying; liquid chromatography; mass transfer; packaging materials; particle size distribution; silica; surface area; temperature
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... Superficially porous particles are characterized by a non-porous particle core surrounded by a thin porous layer. Superficially porous particles have been shown to have chromatographic advantages over traditional totally porous particles by reducing the resistance to mass transfer and the eddy diffusion contributions to the theoretical plate height, particularly for biomolecule separations. Curren ...
atmospheric pressure; biochemistry; chemistry; liquid chromatography; medicine; spectrometers; tandem mass spectrometry
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... The combination of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC–MS) is a powerful and indispensable analytical tool that is widely applied in many areas of chemistry, medicine, pharmaceutics and biochemistry. In this review recent MS instrumental developments are presented as part of a special issue covering various aspects of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) in clinica ...
Cannabis; acetic acid; cannabinoids; derivatization; drug therapy; drugs; humans; ionization; liquid chromatography; methanol; monitoring; pain; quality control; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry; working conditions
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... Currently, ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the analyte quantified for oral fluid cannabinoid monitoring. The potential for false-positive oral fluid cannabinoid results from passive exposure to THC-laden cannabis smoke raises concerns for this promising new monitoring technology. Oral fluid 11-nor-9-carboxy-∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THCCOOH) is proposed as a marker of cannabis intake since it is n ...
NAD (coenzyme); RNA-binding proteins; antioxidant activity; carbon; cattle; cell adhesion; cell communication; cell cycle; cell proliferation; cholesterol; computer software; embryo (animal); endocytosis; endoplasmic reticulum; exosomes; fatty acids; follicular fluid; gene ontology; granulosa cells; liquid chromatography; messenger RNA; metabolism; mitochondria; non-coding RNA; oocytes; peptides; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; protein content; protein folding; protein isoforms; proteolysis; proteome; ribosomal RNA; ribosomal proteins; sodium dodecyl sulfate; tandem mass spectrometry; translation (genetics); transmission electron microscopy; trypsin
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... Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are released from cells and are present in most bodily fluids. Small EVs, 30-150nm in diameter, known as exosomes, transport regulatory noncoding RNA, lipids, and proteins, and thus participate in cell-to-cell communications and signalling. Exosomes from bovine ovarian follicular fluid (FF) can stimulate proliferation of granulosa cells (GCs), cellular uptake, and cumu ...
... Human intestinal permeability prediction is an increasingly important field that helps to explain how efficient the absorption of drugs is. Spirolides, cyclic imines produced by dinoflagellates from the genera Alexandrium, can be accumulated in mollusks usually consumed by humans. These compounds exert neurological symptoms when injected intra-peritoneally in mice, although they seem to be less to ...
... We determined whether ring-2 carbon of histidine is folate-dependently transferred to carbons 8 (C₈) and/or 2 (C₂) in urinary uric acid in humans. Two adults collected each urine void for four days. Aliquots of urine for the first day were used for baseline values; then the subjects ingested 0.7 g (3.3 mmol) of l-[ring-2-13C]histidine and collected urine for three experimental days. Aliquots were ...
absorption; benzoic acid; biomarkers; blood serum; collagen; cranberries; dietary supplements; epigallocatechin gallate; green tea; hay; horses; hydrolysis; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolites; turmeric; veterinary medicine
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... Nutraceuticals are non-nutritive additives aimed at providing health benefits to the horse. Determining the efficacy of these nutraceuticals should start with an understanding of their absorption when administered through feeding. To determine the in vivo absorption of a variety of nutraceutical compounds, a trial was conducted in which various products were fed at increasing concentrations and bl ...
Macrobrachium rosenbergii; capsid; liquid chromatography; mortality; pathogenesis; pathogens; precipitin tests; shrimp; tandem mass spectrometry; viruses
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... Macrobrachium rosenbergii Taihu virus (MrTV) is a fierce pathogen that causes high mortality in M. rosenbergii larvae. Little is known about the pathogenesis of MrTV and host-virus interactions. In this study, a virus overlay protein binding assay (VOPBA), followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis, was carried out to search for novel host molecules that bind wi ...
... Spring viremia of carp virus (SVCV) is a fierce pathogen causing high mortality in the common carp. The glycoprotein (G protein) of SVCV is a pivotal component of the viral structure, located in the surface of the virion, and plays a key role in viral endocytosis. In this study, tandem affinity purification (TAP) followed by mass spectrometry analysis (LC-MS/MS) was carried out to search for novel ...
... The equine oocyte is dense in lipids, which may serve as an energy source for oocyte maturation and later embryonic development. However, the association between lipid content and fertility remains to be determined, as does the extent that diet can modify oocyte lipids. We hypothesised that diet supplementation can alter the oocyte lipid profile and subsequent developmental potential. In Study 1, ...
... Sperm cryopreservation is essential for assisted reproduction; however, freezing induces biochemical and physical damage to the sperm membrane structures, negatively affecting sperm fertilising ability (Castro et al. 2006 J. Anim. Sci. Biotechnol. 5, 1-9). Metabolomics is the study of small molecules, commonly known as metabolites, which play essential roles in biological systems. Emerging researc ...
World Health Organization; analytical chemistry; detection limit; energy transfer; europium; fluorescent dyes; guidelines; hepatotoxins; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; microcystin-LR; monoclonal antibodies; nodularin; water analysis
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... Simple and rapid methods are required for screening and analysis of water samples to detect cyanobacterial cyclic peptide hepatotoxins: microcystin/nodularin. Previously, we reported a highly sensitive non-competitive heterogeneous assay for microcystin/nodularin utilizing a generic anti-immunocomplex (anti-IC) single-chain fragment of antibody variable domains (scFv) isolated from a synthetic ant ...
... BACKGROUND: Severe mammary tissue damage during acute coliform mastitis in cattle is partially caused by oxidative stress. Although considered a gold standard biomarker in some human conditions, the utility of 15‐F₂ₜ‐Isoprostanes (15‐F₂ₜ‐Isop) in detecting oxidative stress in dairy cattle has not been validated. HYPOTHESIS: Concentrations of 15‐F₂ₜ‐Isop in plasma, urine, and milk correlate with ch ...
Yvonne Gunning; Marianne Defernez; Andrew D. Watson; Niles Beadman; Ian J. Colquhoun; Gwénaëlle Le Gall; Mark Philo; Hollie Garwood; David Williamson; Aaron P. Davis; E. Kate Kemsley
adulterated products; lipophilicity; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; monitoring; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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... High-field and low-field proton NMR spectroscopy were used to analyse lipophilic extracts from ground roast coffees. Using a sample preparation method that produced concentrated extracts, a small marker peak at 3.16 ppm was observed in 30 Arabica coffees of assured origin. This signal has previously been believed absent from Arabicas, and has been used as a marker for detecting adulteration with r ...
... Six 17,17-dialkyltetrabenzo[a,c,g,i]fluorenes (dialkylTBFs) 2–7 (methyl to n-hexyl) were prepared by treatment of 17H-tetrabenzo[a,c,g,i]fluorene (TBF) 1 with n-alkyl halides under basic conditions in moderate yields upon column chromatography and recrystallization. All the compounds show intense blue fluorescence in solutions. On the other hand, in the solid state, the fluorescent spectra and the ...
AMP-activated protein kinase; Western blotting; angiogenesis; beta oxidation; fatty acids; human cell lines; human umbilical vein endothelial cells; humans; interleukin-17; liquid chromatography; lung neoplasms; mass spectrometry; mitochondria; models; neoplasm cells; signal transduction; therapeutics
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... Tumor growth is an angiogenesis-dependent process that requires sustained new vessel growth. Interleukin-17 (IL-17A) is a key cytokine that modulates tumor progression. However, whether IL-17A affects the metabolism of endothelial cells is unknown.A xenograft model was established by implanting H460 (human lung cancer cell line) cells transfected with IL-17A-expressing or control vector. The effec ...
casein; data collection; dissociation; energy; ionization; ions; liquid chromatography; phosphates; phosphopeptides; photolysis; proteome; proteomics; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Advances in liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) have permitted phosphoproteomic analysis on a grand scale, but ongoing challenges specifically associated with confident phosphate localization continue to motivate the development of new fragmentation techniques. In the present study, ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) at 193 nm is evaluated for the characterization of phosph ...
Escherichia coli; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Vibrio cholerae; chemical bonding; dissociation; energy; ions; lipid A; liquid chromatography; photolysis; spectrometers; tandem mass spectrometry; vaccine adjuvants; vaccine development
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... Here we implement ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) in an online liquid chromatographic tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) strategy to support analysis of complex mixtures of lipid A combinatorially modified during development of vaccine adjuvants. UVPD mass spectrometry at 193 nm was utilized to characterize the structures and fragment ion types of lipid A from Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae, ...
Elenilson G. Alves Filho; Lorena Mara A. Silva; Paulo R.V. Ribeiro; Edy S. de Brito; Guilherme J. Zocolo; Patrícia C. Souza-Leão; Aline T.B. Marques; Amanda L. Quintela; Flemming H. Larsen; Kirley M. Canuto
... São Francisco River Valley (SFRV) is a wine-producing semi-arid region in Brazil. Therefore, we used a 1H NMR and UPLC-MS-based metabolomic approach coupled to chemometrics to evaluate the variability in Chenin Blanc and Syrah wines for two harvest seasons, two vine training system and six rootstocks. Overall, the secondary metabolites were influenced by the three factors studied, whereas the prim ...
chemometrics; discriminant analysis; distillation; fermentation; least squares; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolomics; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; prediction; principal component analysis; raw materials; rum
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... ¹H NMR spectroscopy combined with chemometrics was applied for the first time for golden rum classification based on several factors as fermentation barrel, raw material, distillation method and aging. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to assess the overall structure, and partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) was carried out for the analytical discrimination of rums. Additi ...
... 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 ...
Japan; ethanol; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; liquid chromatography; metabolome; metabolomics; models; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; principal component analysis; rice; sake
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... Six categories of Japanese sake have been established by the National Tax Agency of Japan. In this system, the rice polishing ratio and the addition of alcohol are the main criteria for classification. The most common nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry method is ¹H-NMR, and has higher throughput than gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) or liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry ...
Leng Wei Khoo; Audrey Siew Foong Kow; Maulidiani Maulidiani; May Yen Ang; Won Yin Chew; Ming Tatt Lee; Chin Ping Tan; Khozirah Shaari; Chau Ling Tham; Faridah Abas
Clinacanthus nutans; air drying; amino acids; anti-inflammatory activity; biosynthesis; chemical composition; flavones; glucosides; herbal medicines; inhibitory concentration 50; least squares; leaves; liquid chromatography; macrophages; metabolites; metabolomics; nitric oxide; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; phytosterols; protective effect; shrubs; solvents; sonication; sulfur; tandem mass spectrometry; triterpenoids
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... INTRODUCTION: Clinacanthus nutans, a small shrub that is native to Southeast Asia, is commonly used in traditional herbal medicine and as a food source. Its anti‐inflammation properties is influenced by the metabolites composition, which can be determined by different binary extraction solvent ratio and extraction methods used during plant post‐harvesting stage. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the relationshi ...
Arthrobacter citreus; Bacillus pumilus; antibiotics; bacteria; bioactive properties; gas chromatography; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; pasteurization
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... We report the detection by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry analyses of the secreted 2,5-diketopiperazines (DKPs) cyclo(-Ala-Pro), cyclo(-Gly-Pro), cyclo(-Val-Pro), cyclo(-Ile-Pro), cyclo(-Leu-Pro), cyclo(-Pro-Pro), cyclo(-HyP-Pro), cyclo(-Met-Pro), and cyclo(-Phe-Pro) produced by Bacillus pumilus. The study focuses on a marine isolate and a laborato ...
Candida albicans; Erwinia amylovora; Pantoea agglomerans; Pseudomonas syringae; Serratia plymuthica; anion exchange; apples; biological control; biological control agents; epiphytes; fractionation; human growth; hydrophobicity; ionization; leaves; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; peptide antibiotics; plant pathogenic bacteria; soybeans
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... The epiphyte Pantoea agglomerans 48b/90, which has been isolated from soybean leaves, belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae, as does the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora, which causes fire blight on rosaceous plants such as apples and leads to severe economic losses. Since P. agglomerans efficiently antagonizes phytopathogenic bacteria, the P. agglomerans strain C9-1 is used as a biocontrol agent (Bli ...
acylglycerol lipase; arachidonic acid; horses; humans; hydrolysis; ionization; liquid chromatography; monitoring; pH; serine; tandem mass spectrometry
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... 2-Arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) is a component of the endocannabinoid receptor pathway and is primarily hydrolyzed by monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) in vivo. We found that the non-specific serine esterase, butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), can hydrolyze 2-AG with reasonable affinity and may present a new compensatory mechanism for endocannabinoid regulation. In vitro hydrolysis reactions of 2-AG with eq ...
... Optimization of every step in a bottom-up urinary proteomics approach was studied with respect to maximize the protein recovery and making the downstream steps in the workflow fully compatible without compromising on the amount of information obtained. Sample enrichment and desalting using centrifugal filtration (5 kDa cut-off) yielded protein recoveries up to 97% when 8 M urea was used. Although ...
consumer demand; leaves; liquid chromatography; mixing; oolong tea; profits and margins; proteins; support vector machines; tandem mass spectrometry; two-dimensional gel electrophoresis; Taiwan
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... Taiwan is known for its high quality oolong tea. Because of high consumer demand, some tea manufactures mix lower quality leaves with genuine Taiwan oolong tea in order to increase profits. Robust scientific methods are, therefore, needed to verify the origin and quality of tea leaves. In this study, we investigated whether two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and nanoscale liquid chromatogr ...
acids; aerosols; alpha-pinene; data collection; derivatization; dissociation; gas chromatography; isomers; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; photooxidation
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... An oxygenated MW 188 compound is commonly observed in substantial abundance in atmospheric aerosol samples and was proposed in previous studies as an α-pinene-related marker compound that is associated with aging processes. Owing to difficulties in producing this compound in sufficient amounts in laboratory studies and the occurrence of isobaric isomers, a complete assignment for individual MW 188 ...
... 2-O-β-d-Glucopyranosyl l-ascorbic acid (AA-2βG) is a stable, bioavailable vitamin C (AA) derivative. We report the distribution and seasonal variation of AA-2βG in apples and its occurrence in other domesticated crops and in wild harvested Ma̅ori foods. Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry analyses showed high AA-2βG concentrations in crab apples (Malus sylvestris) but low concentrations in dom ...
Ascaris lumbricoides; biomarkers; clinical trials; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolites; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; urine
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... ᅟ: Previous reports suggest that the 2-methyl butyramide and 2-methyl valeramide metabolites of Ascaris lumbricoides in urine of infected individuals could be considered as urinary biomarkers for active infection. We have developed an LC-MS method with a detection limit of 10 ng/mL using synthetic chemicals as reference material. Urine samples (n = 21) of infected individuals were analyzed for the ...
European Union; acaricide residues; calibration; chemical species; cost effectiveness; egg contamination; eggs; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; farms; fipronil; freezing; liquid chromatography; markets; metabolites; poultry; primary productivity; standard deviation; tandem mass spectrometry; Greece
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... In 2017, an outbreak regarding the release to the market of contaminated eggs with fipronil, alerted all EU authorities as to monitor and take relevant measures. In Greece, a total of 40 samples of poultry fat and eggs taken from the primary production (poultry farms) were analyzed, as to investigate the occurrence of fipronil residues. For the analysis of the samples, a simple and cost effective ...
... In the equine industry, horse breeders aim to produce one foal per mare per year. Thus, mares are bred while nursing. In high-yielding dairy cattle, concurrent lactation and conception may affect embryo quality, but effects on uterine fluid (UF) quality are unknown. No data are available in horses. The aim of our study was to analyse the effect of nursing on protein, metabolite and fatty acid (FA) ...
... The pathway of communication between endocrine hormones and ribosome biogenesis critical for physiological adaptation is largely unknown. Nucleolar essential protein 1 (Nep1) is an essential gene for ribosome biogenesis and is functionally conserved in many in vertebrate and invertebrate species. In this study, we cloned Bombyx mori Nep1 (BmNep1) due to its high expression in silk glands of silkwo ...