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Poor water quality exacerbates multidimensional poverty in developing nations. Often centralized treatment facilities generate acceptable water quality, but the water is contaminated during distribution. Methods to assess sources of contamination in water distribution systems are lacking. A case study of two methods, human risk assessment linked to water distribution system sampling was conducted in Hyderabad, Pakistan to determine areas requiring infrastructure rehabilitation. Water samples from source water (i.e., the Indus River), treatment plant effluent and from taps in the water distribution system were analyzed by atomic adsorption spectroscopy for metals and metalloids (As, Cd, Cr, Hg, and Pb) and water quality parameters (dissolved and suspended solids, pH, conductivity, and total organic carbon). Source water exceeded acceptable drinking water levels for As, Cd, total Cr, and Pb, while the treatment plant effluent concentrations were acceptable. Concentrations of all metals and metalloids, except Hgr rehabilitation of the water distribution system in Hyderabad, Pakistan and these methods can be adopted in other developing nations to target limited funds for infrastructure rehabilitation. 2,4-diaminobutyric acid (DAB), a newly identified algal toxins in water, pose a great threat to human health. DAB may react with chlorine or chloramine to produce CX3R-type disinfection by-products (DBPs) during water treatment processes. This study mainly investigated the formation and speciation of DBPs from chlor(am)ination of DAB. The results revealed that haloacetic acids (HAAs), trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetonitriles (HANs) were the main kinds of CX3R-type DBPs generated from DAB during chlor(am)ination, of which dichloroacetic acid yielded the highest. The formation and total toxicity of four CX3R-type DBPs from DAB during chloramination was significantly lower than that during chlorination at each Cl2N molar ratio. However, more formation of Br-THMs and I-THMs were observed during chloramination in the presence of Br-/I-. Futhermore, the effects of chlor(am)ine dosage, solution pH, reaction time, and the concentration of Br- and I- on the formation and speciation of CX3R-type DBPs were also evaluated during chlor(am)ination. The plausible formation pathways of CX3R-type DBPs from DAB were proposed and verified by theoretical calculation. The quantum chemistry calculations indicate that 1N in DAB and 8N in 2,4-diaminochlorobutyric acid (C4H9O2N2Cl) were more likely to be attacked by electrophiles, supporting the proposed pathway schemes. Despite the development of an off-line packed fiber solid phase extraction procedure (PFSPE) for urinary catecholamines, automation remains a challenge. Here, we propose an on-line PFSPE-HPLC procedure for automated sample processing and analysis of urinary catecholamines, with good recovery and precision, to avoid manual operation errors. The on-line PFSPE-HPLC procedure has been thoroughly optimized concerning the gradient, valve switch timing, the effects of complexing reagent and buffer solution, and the stability of the nanofibers. Validation of the developed on-line PFSPE-HPLC protocol in urine yielded satisfactory accuracies of 99.6-104.2%, precision below 7.0%, as well as a linear range from 1 ng/mL to 100 ng/mL with a correlation coefficient of 0.999. The developed protocol is herein presented as a potential technology for automated sample pretreatment for the determination of urinary catecholamines. Flibanserin (FLB) is the first FDA approved drug showed to have significant activity against sexual desire disorder of premenopausal and postmenopausal women. Unfortunately, FLB is used as an adulterant in dietary supplement products as a performance enhancer in sports. Identification of FLB and its metabolites in the biological samples requires an authenticated analytical technique. The aim of this study was to identify N-oxide metabolite of FLB in microsomal and S9 human liver enzyme fractions, rat urine and feces. There are several N-oxide reported as genotoxic impurity or reactive metabolites based on position of N-oxide in piperazine ring. This study also describes the strategy to utilize degradation chemistry for isolation of N-oxide and its step-wise characterization. An LC-MS method has been developed and employed for identifying the N-oxide metabolite of FLB. The targeted N-oxide metabolite in the extracted ion chromatogram of the in vitro and in vivo samples has been confirmed by analyzing the changes in observed mass at m/z 407.1693. Major distinguished abundant ions at m/z 243.1104, 190.0974, 161.0705, 119.0601 confirmed the structure of the metabolite. This study will help to understand the oxidative potential of FLB in toxicokinetic study. The developed method can be useful to identify FLB or its N-oxide metabolite in dope testing in future. This is the first time to report a strategy to utilize degradation chemistry for N-oxide metabolite characterization. In this study, isolated N-oxidative degradation product was used to confirm N-oxide metabolite which was characterized by LC-MS through H/D exchange and structure was ensured by NMR spectroscopy (1H, COSY). Total glucosides of paeony (TGP), an active mixture extracted from paeony root, has anti-inflammatory and immunoregulatory effects and is widely used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. However, the role of TGP in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is still unknown. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of TGP in autoimmune liver disease (AILD) patients and in concanavalin A (Con A)-induced experimental autoimmune hepatitis (EAH). Changes in biochemical parameters of AILD patients showed that treatment with TGP exerts significant protective effects on liver function, as reflected by decreased levels of serum alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, γ-glutamyl transpeptidase and total bilirubin. In EAH mice, we found that pretreatment with TGP reduced the levels of serum liver enzyme levels, histopathological damage and hepatocyte apoptosis. Importantly, flow cytometry analysis showed that pretreatment with TGP reduced the infiltration of mature dendritic cells in the liver. In vitro, TGP pretreatment ameliorated the Con A-induced mitochondrial membrane potential decline, reactive oxygen species increase, and apoptosis increase in hepatocytes. In addition, the levels of Bax, Cleaved Caspase-3 and cytoplasmic Cytochrome C decreased during this process, whereas those of Bcl-2 and mitochondrial Cytochrome C increased. Therefore, TGP might decrease hepatocyte apoptosis through the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. Moreover, the maturation of bone marrow dendritic cells was also inhibited by TGP treatment. In conclusion, TGP treatment ameliorates AIH by regulating hepatocyte apoptosis and DC maturation. TGP is a potential compound for AIH treatment. Intestinal mucositis causes great suffering to cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Owing to the uncertain side effects of anticancer drugs to attenuate patients' intestinal mucositis, many studies focused on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). DMH1 Patchouli alcohol (PA) is an active compound extracted from Pogostemon cablin, and has potent gastrointestinal protective effect. However, whether PA has an effect on intestinal mucositis is still unknown. Therefore, we established a rat model of intestinal mucositis via intraperitoneal injection of 5-fluorouracil, and intragastrically administrated PA (10, 20, and 40 mg/kg) to evaluate the effect of PA on intestinal mucositis. The routine observation (body weight, food intake, and diarrhea) in rats was used to detect whether PA had an effect on intestinal mucositis. Levels of inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10, and MPO), mucosal barrier proteins (zonula occludens -1 (ZO-1), claudin-1, occludin, myosin light chain (MLC), and mucin-2) and intestinal microbiota were determined to elucidate the underlying mechanism of PA action on intestinal mucositis in rats. The results showed that PA could effectively improve body weight, food intake, and diarrhea in intestinal mucositis rats, preliminary confirming PA efficacy. Further experiments revealed that PA not only decreased the levels of TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, and MPO but also increased the level of IL-10 significantly. In addition, the expression of mucosal barrier proteins and microbiota community were also improved after PA treatment in diseased rats. Hence, PA may prevent the development and progression of intestinal mucositis by improving inflammation, protecting mucosal barrier, and regulating intestinal microbiota. link2 For further development of successors of Agomelatine through modulation of its pharmacokinetic properties, we report herein the design, synthesis and pharmacological results of a new family of melatonin receptor ligands. Issued from the introduction of quinazoline and phthalazine scaffolds carrying an ethyl amide lateral chain and a methoxy group as bioisosteric ligands analogues of previously developed Agomelatine. The biological activity of the prepared analogues was compared with that of Agomelatine. Quinazoline and phthalazine rings proved to be a versatile scaffold for easy feasible MT1 and MT2 ligands. Potent agonists with sub-micromolar binding affinity were obtained. However, the presence of two nitrogen atoms resulted in compounds with lower affinity for both MT1 and MT2, in comparison with the parent compound, balanced by the exhibition of good pharmacokinetic properties. From an aqueous decoction of the traditional Chinese medicine "ban lan gen" (the Isatis indigotica root), an antiviral natural product CI - 39 was isolated as an NNRTI (non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor) (EC50 = 3.40 μM). Its novel structure was determined as methyl (1-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)acetamidobenzoate by spectroscopic data and confirmed by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Through synthesis and structure-activity relationship (SAR) investigation of CI - 39 and 57 new derivatives (24 with EC50 values of 0.06-8.55 μM), two optimized derivatives 10f and 10i (EC50 0.06 μM and 0.06 μM) having activity comparable to that of NVP (EC50 = 0.03 μM) were obtained. Further evaluation verified that 10f and 10i were RT DNA polymerase inhibitors and exhibited better activities and drug resistance folds compared to NVP against seven NNRTI-resistant strains carrying different mutations. link3 Especially, 10i (EC50 = 0.43 μM) was more active to the L100I/K103N double-mutant strain as compared to both NVP (EC50 = 0.76 μM) and EFV (EC50 = 1.08 μM). The molecular docking demonstrated a possible binding pattern between 10i and RT and revealed activity mechanism of 10i against the NNRTI-resistant strains. INTRODUCTION Gallium-68 is an important radionuclide for positron emission tomography (PET) with steadily increasing applications of 68Ga-based radiopharmaceuticals for clinical use. Current 68Ga sources are primarily 68Ge/68Ga-generators, along with successful attempts of 68Ga production using a cyclotron. This study evaluated cyclotron 68Ga production and automated separation using expeditiously manufactured solid targets, demonstrates an order of magnitude improvement in yield compared to 68Ge/68Ga generators, and presents a convenient alternative to existing cyclotron production processes. A comparison of radiolabeling and preclinical PET imaging was performed with both cyclotron and generator produced 68Ga. METHODS 100 mg enriched 68Zn (99.3% 68Zn, 0.48% 67Zn, 0.1% 66Zn) pellets pressed on silver discs were bombarded for 20-75 min using 12.5 MeV proton beam energies and 10-30 μA currents. 68Ga was separated using an automated TRASIS AllinOne synthesizer employing AG 50W-X8 and UTEVA resins. Post-separation recovery of the 68Zn by electrolysis yielded 76.
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