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Two discriminant functions with the discriminant rate near 100 % were constructed. Additionally, neomangiferin, mangiferin, kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside, isoquercitrin and quercetin were found to be the key compounds in quality evaluation of MLs varieties. Pearson correlation coefficient analysis results confirmed that these key compounds directly contributed to the antioxidant activity and α-glucosidase inhibitory ability of MLs. Importantly, the possible inhibitory mechanisms of these key compounds against α-glucosidase were preliminary clarified by in silico analysis, and the analysis results provide a theoretical basis for future development and utilization of mango leaves byproducts.The orthogonal heart-cutting liquid chromatography (LC) modes coupled to high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (HRMS/MS) provide a number of possibilities to enhance selectivity and sensitivity for the determination of targeted compounds in complex biological matricies. Here we report the development of a new fast 2D-LC-(HRMS/MS) method and its successful application for quantitative determination of the level of plasma and brain N,N-dimethyltriptamine (DMT) using α-methyltryptamine (AMT) as internal standard in an experimental model of cerebral ischemia/reperfusion using DMT administration. The 2D-LC separation was carried out by a combination of hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) in the first dimension followed by second-dimensional reversed-phase (RP) chromatography within a total run time of 10 min. The enrichment of HILIC effluent of interest containing DMT was performed using a C18 trapping column. During method development several parameters of sample preparation procedures, chromatographic separation and mass spectrometric detection were optimised to achieve high DMT recovery (plasma 90 %, brain 88 %) and sensitivity (plasma 0.108 ng/mL of LOD, brain 0.212 ng/g of LOD) applying targeted analytical method with strict LC and HRMSMS confirmatory criteria. Concerning rat plasma sample, the concentration of DMT before hypoxia (49.3-114.3 ng/mL plasma) was generally higher than that after hypoxia (10.6-96.1 ng/mL plasma). After treatment, the concentration of DMT in brain was elevated up to the range of 2-6.1 ng/g. Overall, our analytical approach is suitable to detect and confirm the presence of DMT administered to experimental animals with therapeutic purpose in a reliable manner.Roots´ bark extract of Brosimum gaudichaudii Trécul (EBGT) is traditionally used for photochemotherapy of vitiligo due to the presence of furanocoumarins psoralen (PSO) and 5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP) as major compounds. Though plant extracts may provide additional highly permeable psoralens-like substances which may act synergically on vitiligo's therapy. Thus, the aim of this work was to develop an LC-MS/MS method for screening new highly permeable furanocoumarins from B. gaudichaudii and to compare biomarkers permeability and solubility provided as single compounds or as crude extract, according to BCS. An optimized LC-MS/MS method showed twelve permeable and bioactive compounds, among which 9 furanocoumarins, 2 pyranocoumarins and 1 dihydrocinnamic acid derivative were detected in EBGT samples. Solubility of PSO and 5-MOP was found to be, respectively, six- and eleven-fold higher in crude extract than as pure compounds. Permeability (Papp) of PSO and 5-MOP in EBGT were higher than metoprolol, the low/high BCS permeability class boundary reference compound. Hence, both biomarkers were considered as highly permeable (BCS2) compounds. Their permeability were concentration-dependent displaying values from 30.26 ± 5.13-8.21 ± 2.16 × 10-6 cm/s and 10.72 ± 1.73-6.07 ± 1.27 × 10-6 cm/s, respectively, over a wide range (2.3-200.0 mg mL-1). Thus, a carrier-mediated absorption process is suggested as the main mechanism. Accordingly, all additional permeated coumarins, identified by LC-MS/MS, showed to be at comparable amount of biomarkers in the permeated samples inferring similar high permeability rate. Moreover, biomarkers and other highly absorbable and bioactive linear furanocoumarins from EBGT may be used for vitiligo´s photochemotherapy. Taken together, these findings bring additional evidences for using crude plant extract when aiming synergistic effects of bioactive compounds on melanogenic therapies.Nucleic acid is a collective term of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), and it is an essential substance in all known life forms. As numerous of studies have shown that nucleic acids can be used as therapeutic agents and the abnormality of various nucleic acid and its modification level has been proven to be closely bound up with changes in diseases such as cancer, the development of analytical methods for the nucleic acid and its modification has become one of the research hotspots in the field of life sciences. Compared with classical nucleic acid detection methods such as Northern blotting, Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), novel analytical methods based on nanomaterials, nucleic acid amplification strategies and biosensors can better satisfy the needs for sensitivity and simplicity in current clinical diagnosis. Herein, the progress and trends of analysis of nucleic acid and its modification is discussed, aiming to provide guidance for the detection of nucleic acid and its modification in medical basic research and clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.Comparison of Salvia miltiorrhiza polysaccharides (SMPs) from different geographical origins in China (Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan, Shaanxi) was performed using high performance size exclusion chromatography coupled with multi-angle laser light scattering and refractive index detector (HPSEC-MALLS-RID), saccharide mapping based on polysaccharide analysis by using carbohydrate gel electrophoresis (PACE) and combined with principal component analysis (PCA) and orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA). Based on the results of HPSEC-MALLS/RI, the relative content of SMPs showed a significant difference between different geographical origins, however, the molecular weight of SMPs showed almost no significance. SMPs can be discriminated as five regions after PACE coupled with OPLS-DA models analysis of endo-1,5-α-arabinanase hydrolysates. Prexasertib Moreover, all the PACE fingerprint indicated that 1,4-β-D-Galp, 1,5-α-Araf, 1,4-α-D-GalAp and 1,4-β-D-Glcp linkages existed in SMPs.
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