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As an essential micronutrient, selenium (Se) exerts its biological function as a catalytic entity in a variety of enzymes. From a toxicological perspective, however, Se can become extremely toxic at concentrations slightly above its nutritional levels. Over the last few decades, there has been a growing level of concern worldwide regarding the adverse effects of both inorganic and organic Se compounds on a broad spectrum of neurological functions. A wealth of evidence has shown that exposure to excess Se may compromise the normal functioning of various key proteins, neurotransmitter systems (the glutamatergic, dopaminergic, serotonergic, and cholinergic systems), and signaling molecules involved in the control and regulation of cognitive, behavioral, and neuroendocrine functions. Elevated Se exposure has also been suspected to be a risk factor for the development of several neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. Nonetheless, despite the various deleterious effects of excess Se on the central nervous system (CNS), Se neurotoxicity and negative behavioral outcomes are still disregarded at the expense of its beneficial health effects. This review focuses on the current state of knowledge regarding the neurobehavioral effects of Se and discusses its potential mode of action on different aspects of the central and peripheral nervous systems. This review also provides a brief history of Se discovery and uses, its physicochemical properties, biological roles in the CNS, environmental occurrence, and toxicity. We also review potential links between exposure to different forms of Se compounds and aberrant neurobehavioral functions in humans and animals, and identify key knowledge gaps and hypotheses for future research.Top-down characterization of disulfide-rich peptides and proteins presents many challenges due to the constrained and protected amino acid backbone. Typically, chemical reduction is required to reduce the disulfide bonds and/or enzymatic digestion (bottom-up analysis) is utilized to selectively cleave the amino acid sequence prior to mass spectrometry analysis owing to the challenges associated with intact, top-down analysis of these biomolecules. While extravagant top-down characterization techniques such as ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) or electron capture dissociation (ECD), have demonstrated the ability to break disulfide bonds in top-down workflows, implementation of these technologies and analysis of the resulting fragmentation spectra is not trivial and often inaccessible to many laboratories and users. In the study presented herein, traditional collision induced dissociation (CID) of disulfide-rich peptides is performed to confirm the disulfide bond connectivity and localize chemical modificatiific modifications can also be localized, such as oxidation on the 18th residue in Peptide A. DNA Repair inhibitor Ultimately, this observation and identification of internal and external ions simplifies the experimental process and wet-chemistry required to accurately depict the disulfide connectivity and the sequencing of these traditionally challenging biomolecules. Further consideration to these non-traditional fragment ions should be given during top-down intact peptide and protein analysis, especially when non-linear sequences are involved.The metabolite profiling of plant extracts always represents an exciting challenge, as the chemical diversity of natural products is still far beyond the researchers' imagination, even focusing on a plant that is thought to have already been broadly investigated. Herein UHPLC-HRMS/MS techniques were applied to an alcoholic crude extract from nettle leaves and proved to be a precious tool for the disclosure of secondary metabolites never found before. Hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives were the most representative constituents, with a 2-caffeoilisocitric acid cyclodimer described for the first time, besides four C-glycosylated flavones, bearing a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl function. This deep investigation paves the way for the isolation and full characterization of these molecules by means of spectroscopic techniques. Moreover, based on preliminary cytotoxicity evaluation, further research on the use of this nettle extract as a valuable nutraceutical product is encouraged.Ocean acidification generates a decrease in calcium carbonate availability essential for biomineralization in organisms such as mollusks. This effect was evaluated on Panopea globosa exposing for 7 days umbonate veliger larvae to two pH treatments experimental (pH 7.5) and control (pH 8.0). Exposure to pH 7.5 affected growth, reducing larval shell length from 5.15-13.34% compared to the control group. This size reduction was confirmed with electron microscopy, also showing shell damage. The physiological response showed an increase in oxygen consumption in larvae exposed to low pH with a maximum difference of 1.57 nmol O2 h-1 larvae-1 at day 7. The gene expression analyses reported high expression values for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) dehydrogenase and Perlucin in larvae at pH 7.5, suggesting a higher energetic cost in this larval group to maintain homeostasis. In conclusion, this study showed that acidification affected development of P. globosa umbonate veliger larvae.A comprehensive strategy for manufacturing a novel sorbent based on magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MMIPs) is addressed for selective capture of oxytetracycline from seawater. The novel MMIPs were synthesized by nano-Fe3O4 as sacrificial matrix and adsorption properties of the polymers demonstrate rapid adsorption kinetics, high adsorption capacity, and specificity towards oxytetracycline provided by the core-shell composite structure. After screening the critical parameters by multivariate optimization, a magnetic imprinting solid phase extraction method combined with fluorescence spectrophotometry (MMIP-SPE-FL) was constructed for sensitive determination of oxytetracycline in seawater samples. The results show a good linear response dependence on the spiking concentration of 3-100 μg L-1, and a satisfactory limit of detection of 0.7 μg L-1 after the MMIP-SPE preconcentration. Seven seawater samples from Jiaozhou bay were analyzed to give recoveries in the range of 89.75-107.65% with relative standard deviation values of less than 5.
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