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Graves' disease associated with cholestatic jaundice and persistent diarrhea.
As a demonstration, breath-by-breath variation profiles of propofol were obtained via monitoring end-tidal propofol concentration of intraoperative anesthetized patients (n = 7). The analyses were quantitative, corrected for humidity in real-time, without measuring the humidity content of each breath sample during operation, which show potential for the quantitative analysis of other high humidity samples.Secondary electrospray ionization high-resolution mass spectrometry (SESI-HRMS) is an emerging technique for the detection of volatile metabolites. However, sensitivity and reproducibility of SESI-HRMS have limited its applications in untargeted metabolomics profiling. Ion suppression in the SESI source has been considered to be the main cause. Here, we show that besides ion suppression, ion competition in the C-trap of Orbitrap instruments is another important factor that influences sensitivity and reproducibility of SESI-MS. Instead of acquiring the full mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) range, acquisition of consecutive m/z windows to minimize the ion competition effect allows the detection of more features. m/z window ranges are optimized to fill the C-trap either with an equal number of features or an equal cumulative intensity per window. Considering a balance between maximizing scanning speed and minimizing ion competition, splitting the m/z = 50-500 range into 4 windows is selected for measuring human breath and bacterial culture samples on SESI-Orbitrap MS, corresponding to a duty cycle of 2.3 s at a resolution of 140'000. In a small cohort of human subjects, the proposed splitting into 4 windows allows three times more features to be detected compared to the classical full m/z range method.Phenylselenide substituted BOPHY probes (BOPHY-SePh and PhSe-BOPHY-SePh) were synthesized and characterized by NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal XRD. Both the probes selectively detect HOCl in water with high sensitivity over other reactive oxygen species. A fluorescence "turn-on" event was attained due to cease of the PET process through transformation of selenide to selenoxide. Both the probes react with HOCl in less than 1 s. PhSe-BOPHY-SePh probe depicted low background fluorescence due to presence of two phenylselenide groups at BOPHY. PhSe-BOPHY-SePh probe has a low detection limit (0.63 μM) than BOPHY-SePh probe (1.08 μM). The bioimaging studies of both the probes were carried out in MCF 7 cells. Both the probes exhibited a good fluorescence response for HOCl in vitro and in mammalian cells. In addition, the probes showed reversibility with all bio-thiols, which was validated in MCF 7 cells using GSH.An electrochemical sensor was proposed for the detection of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) at room temperature, by using electroactive Cu2O nanocubes (NCs) as an electrochemical beacon. Anacetrapib price Electroactive Cu2O NCs were synthesized on the surface of reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/Fe3O4 nanosheets (NSs) due to the good electronic conductivity and well-responded magnetic responses. The fabricated rGO/Fe3O4/Cu2O NSs not only showed electrochemical oxidization peak at -0.1 V from Cu2O NCs, and could be served as sensitive electrochemical beacon for the simple modification on magnetic electrodes in the applications. The unique redox reaction between Cu2O NCs and H2S enabled the transformation of Cu2O NCs to Cu9S8 NCs, resulting in decreased electroxidation responses at -0.1 V. The constructed electrochemical platform had a limit of detection (LOD) of 230 pM and a detection range of 500 pM-100 μM. The simple and cheap electrochemical sensor developed in this paper showed potential application for H2S detection.Coliform bacteria are well known as informative indicators for bacterial contamination in water. This study presents a novel chemiresistor biosensor using M13 phage-modified reduced graphene oxide (rGO) for detection of Escherichia coli (E. coli), as coliform bacteria. M13 phage, as a biorecognition element, was immobilized on the rGO channel, so that it can bind to negatively charged E. coli bacteria, allowing the gating effect on the biosensor and the change in its resistance. The prepared materials and device were characterized using spectroscopic, microscopic, and electrical measurements. FTIR and XRD results proved the successful fabrication of GO and rGO nanosheets. AFM results showed that the prepared nanosheets were monolayer. The SEM micrographs of the M13-functionalized devices, soaked in two different concentrations of E. coli, confirmed the successful capturing of E. coli and that the signal change is concentration-dependent. As a result, a linear and specific response towards E. coli was observed and the limit of detection was determined to be 45 CFU/mL. Further, the proposed sensor system showed selectivity towards the tested coliforms. These results suggested this sensing system could be a promising tool for detecting coliforms with an economic, accurate, rapid, and directly applicable process.Using a chimeric collision cell mounted on a quadrupole time-of-flight platform, collision induced dissociation (CID) and electron induced dissociation (EID) were investigated for the LC-MS analysis of low molecular weight compounds including drugs and endogenous metabolites. Compared to CID, EID fragmentation of the [M+H]+ species (10-20 eV) from standard compounds resulted in additional specific and informative fragments, mostly due to neutral losses and, in some cases due to ring openings. Some analytes, for example reserpine and vinpocetine, provided characteristic [M+H]•2+ species. For most analytes for sodium and potassium adducts and multimers a radical cation M•+ and electron impact type fragments were observed in the EID spectra, providing the opportunity to use EI libraries to support metabolite identification. EID opens the possibility to get structural information from adduct ions which is often not the case with CID. EID enabled the putative characterization of two metabolites in rat urine as glucuronides of 5,6-dihydroxyindole based on EID fragmentation of the potassium adducts.Bleomycin (BLM) is a broadly used antibiotic to treat different types of cancer. It can be hydrolyzed by bleomycin hydrolase (BLMH), which eventually influences the anti-tumor efficacy of BLM. Therefore, it is particularly important to detect BLM and BLMH. Herein, we demonstrated highly sensitive detection of BLM and BLMH by a simple and convenient liquid crystal (LC)-based sensing platform for the first time. 5CB (a nematic LC) doped with the cationic surfactant OTAB was working as the sensing platform. When the OTAB-laden 5CB interface was in contact with an aqueous solution of ssDNA, LCs displayed a bright image due to disruption of the arrangement of OTAB monolayers by ssDNA, indicating the planar orientation of LCs at the aqueous/LC interface. When BLM·Fe(II) and ssDNA were both present in the aqueous solution, ssDNA underwent irreversible cleavage, which prevented disruption of the arrangement of OTAB monolayers. Accordingly, LCs showed a dark image, suggesting the homeotropic orientation of LCs at the aqueous/LC interface.
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