JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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2023
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Luoqin Shen,Ping Zhang,Yanyao Lin,Xinting Huang,Siyi Zhang,Zhiheng Li,Zhiguo Fang,Yuezhong Wen,Huijun Liu
Antibiotics and microplastics (MPs) are two emerging pollutants in agroecosystems, however the effects of co-exposure to antibiotics and MPs remain unclear. The toxicity of florfenicol (FF) and polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) on rice seedlings was investigated. FF and PS-MPs caused colloidal agglomeration, which changed the environmental behavior of FF. FF inhibited rice growth and altered antioxidant enzyme (superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, and catalase) activities, leading to membrane lipid peroxidation; impaired photosynthetic systems, decreased photosynthetic pigments (Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll b, and carotene), chlorophyll precursors (Proto IX, Mg-Proto IX, and Pchlide), photosynthetic and respiratory rates. The key photosynthesis related genes ( Psa A, Psa B, Psb A, Psb B, Psb C, and Psb D) were significantly down-regulated. The ultrastructure of mesophyll cells was destroyed with chloroplast swelling, membrane surface blurring, irregular thylakoid lamellar structure, and number of peroxisomes increased. PS-MPs mitigated FF toxicity, and the IBR index values showed that 10 mg∙L −1 PS-MPs were more effective. Metabolomic analysis revealed that the abundance of metabolites and metabolic pathways were altered by FF, was greater than the combined "MPs-FF" contamination. The metabolism of amino acids , sugars, and organic acids were severely interfered. Among these, 15 metabolic pathways were significantly altered, with the most significant effects on phenylalanine metabolism and the citric acid cycle ( p < 0.05).
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PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
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2021
·Vol. 38
·期 12
·2091-2108
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Ding Ning,Zhao Zhiqing,Yin Na,Xu Ying,Yin Tian,Gou Jingxin,He Haibing,Wang Yanjiao,Zhang Yu,Tang Xing
Purpose The intention of the study was to co-delivery gemcitabine and cisplatin with totally different nature by prodrug and micelle strategy to improve its in vivo stability and antitumor effect. Methods A prodrug of gemcitabine (mPEG-PLG-GEM) was synthesized through the covalent conjugation between the primary amino group of gemcitabine and the carboxylic group of poly (L-glutamic acid)-g-methoxy poly (ethylene glycol) (mPEG-PLG). It was prepared into micelles by a solvent diffusion method, and then combined with cisplatin through chelation to prepare gemcitabine and cisplatin co-loaded mPEG-PLG micelles (mPEG-PLG-GEM@CDDP micelles) . Results Gemcitabine and cisplatin in each micelle group were released more slowly than in solutions. In addition, pharmacokinetics behaviors of them were improved after encapsulated in prodrug micelles. T 1/2z of gemcitabine and cisplatin encapsulated in micelles were prolonged to 6.357 h (mPEG-PLG-GEM), 10.490 h (mPEG-PLG@CDDP), 5.463 h and 12.540 h (mPEG-PLG-GEM@CDDP) compared with GEM@CDDP solutions (T 1/2z = 1.445 h and 7.740 h). The ratio of synergy between gemcitabine and cisplatin (3:1 ~ 1:1(n/n)) was guaranteed in the systemic circulation, thus improving its antitumor effect. The results of biochemical analysis showed that GEM@CDDP-Sol was more toxic to kidneys and marrow compared with mPEG-PLG-GEM@CDDP micelles. Conclusions By prodrug strategy, gemcitabine and cisplatin with totally different nature were prepared into micelles and obtained a better pharmacokinetic behavior. And the dual drug delivery system performed a better in vivo stability and antitumor effect compared with each single drug delivery system in the experiment. Graphical abstract
Scheme. Schematic of mPEG-PLG-GEM@CDDP micelles’ formation and action process.
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Food Packaging and Shelf Life
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Lijing Lu,Yingjie Su,Jing Xu,Haoyue Ning,Xueyu cheng,Lixin Lu
In order to inhibit the spoilage of the packaged food , a gas phase controlled-release low-density polyethylene (LDPE) film containing carvacrol loaded with halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) was prepared and studied in this work. HNTs were etched by 4 mol/L hydrochloric acid to obtain HNT-4M, which increased the carvacrol loading capacity. Then, it was characterized before and after loading with carvacrol by transmission electron microscopy , nitrogen adsorption isotherms, and thermogravimetric analysis . A new LDPE film containing carvacrol adsorbed on HNT-4M was prepared by extrusion, and the physical properties were studied. In addition, the release rate of carvacrol in the film was measured, and the antibacterial and antioxidant properties of the film were evaluated. The results showed that the carvacrol load of HNT increased from 6.7% to 24.2% after acid etching. The diffusion coefficient of carvacrol from the active film containing HNT-4 M/carvacrol was 9.546 × 10 -12 cm 2 ·s -1 , which was decreased by 57.3% compared with the films directly adding carvacrol. Moreover, according to the DPPH radical scavenging assay and micro-atmosphere diffusion antibacterial test, it was verified that carvacrol retained its antioxidant activity and antibacterial activity in the new film.
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JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH
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Xiao-wei Huang,Yun-chao Feng,Yi Huang,Hai-ling Li
Clove oil and citronella oil from China were selected to evaluate their potential as skin-care ingredients. The gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) results showed that the main component of clove oil was eugenol, while citronellal was the main compound of citronella oil. Clove oil exhibited prominent free radical scavenging activities (ic
50: 58 μg/mL for O2
−· and 8.5 μg/mL for ABTS+·) and strong inhibitory effect on lipid peroxidation, whilst citronella oil showed weaker antioxidative activities (ic
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−· and 500 μg/mL for ABTS+·) and lipid peroxidation inhibitory efficiency. In addition, both oils revealed dose-dependence in protecting bovine serum albumin against UV–TiO2–NO2
− induced protein oxidation and tyrosine nitration injury. This study suggests that both clove oil and citronella oil could be used as new source of skin-care ingredient in the cosmetic industry.
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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
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2023
·Vol. 47
·期 41
·19202-19209
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Xinlei Zhang,Peng Liu,Yuchi Zhang,Bohan Li,Yan Xu
Almost all types of proteins in biology are composed of L-amino acids, and very few contain D-amino acids. Therefore, chiral recognition, especially for the detection of L-amino acids, is of great importance. In this work, luminescent zinc-doped carbon dots (Zn-CDs) were successfully synthesized through a one-step hydrothermal method using [Zn(EDA)3]Cl2 (EDA = ethylenediamine) complex as a precursor, exhibiting superior water stability, low cytotoxicity and good photobleaching stability. It can be used as an “on–off–on” fluorescence probe in aqueous solution to sequentially detect Fe2+ ions and enantiomeric L-Lysine (L-Lys) molecules with the corresponding limit of detection (LOD) of 0.092 and 0.204 μM, respectively. Also, the sequential on–off–on fluorescent changes of Zn-CDs upon the addition of Fe2+ and L-Lys can be applied in living cell imaging, as observed by the contrast of images in confocal microscopy. In addition, two distinct multi-input molecular logic gates, involving distinguishing the effect of L-Lys and D-Lys on the fluorescence of Zn-CDs, and the regulation of fluorescence quenching and recovery of Zn-CDs by Fe2+ ions and L-Lys are established. The Zn-CDs also exhibits a linearly temperature-dependent fluorescence performance with high temperature sensitivity (Sr) of 1.10% °C−1 in 10–90 °C, demonstrating its great potential for biological temperature sensing applications. This work provides a new strategy for exploring novel metal-doped carbon dots with outstanding biocompatibility and multifunctionality in biological applications.
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Food & Function
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2023
·Vol. 14
·期 20
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Yin Qin,Ruyan Fan,Yingxin Liu,Shuyi Qiu,Lu Wang
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), as the commonest chronic liver disease, is accompanied by liver oxidative stress and inflammatory responses. Herein, the extract obtained from Rubus corchorifolius fruits was purified and characterized for its polyphenol composition. The liver protective effect of the purified R. corchorifolius fruit extract (RCE) on mice with high-fat-diet (HFD)-induced NAFLD were investigated, and the potential mechanisms were explored through the integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics. Results showed that the polyphenolic compounds in RCE mainly included (−)-epigallocatechin, procyanidin B2, keracyanin, vanillin, dihydromyricetin, and ellagic acid. In addition, RCE intervention ameliorated liver and mitochondrial damage, which was evidenced by decreased indices of oxidative stress, liver function markers, and lipid profile levels. The liver metabonomics research revealed that RCE intervention affected the metabolic pathways of metabolites, including linoleic acid metabolism, galactose metabolism, alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism, retinol metabolism, glycine, serine and threonine metabolism, tryptophan metabolism, aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis, riboflavin metabolism, starch and sucrose metabolism, and arachidonic acid metabolism. Additionally, liver transcriptomics research indicated that pathways like fatty acid degradation, circadian rhythm, valine, leucine and isoleucine degradation, primary bile acid biosynthesis, cytokine–cytokine receptor interaction, adipocytokine signaling pathway, glutathione metabolism, lipid and atherosclerosis were significantly enriched. The transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis demonstrated that RCE intervention had significant modulatory effects on the metabolic pathways associated with glycolipid metabolism. Moreover, RT-PCR results verified that RCE intervention regulated liver mRNA levels associated with the inflammatory response. Therefore, our findings suggest that the intake of RCE might be an effective strategy to alleviate liver damage.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2020
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Caiyue Zhang,Chenchen Hu,Yanan Sun,Xueying Zhang,Yequn Wang,Hongfei Fu,Xiangwei Chen,Yunyang Wang
Fresh green peas require blanching to terminate enzymatic reaction induced quality deterioration before frozen storage. Radio frequency (RF) heating is a novel way of dry blanching for fruits and vegetables with high processing efficiency. In this study, blanching effects of RF heating on relative activities of lipoxygenase (LOX) and peroxidase (POD), physiochemical properties as well as cellular morphology changes of green peas were investigated. Results showed relative activities of pea LOX and POD reduced to 0.90 ± 0.78% and 1.10 ± 0.71%, respectively at 85 °C by RF heating with an electrode gap 105 mm. Weight loss, color, texture and electrolyte leakage of peas changed significantly with increasing temperature (60–85 °C). Ascorbic acid, chlorophyll and mineral contents had different loss after RF processing and long term heating at 115 mm exacerbated the loss of nutrients. Microstructure features showed the deconstruction of pea cell well and starch granule gelatinization.
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JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
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2020
·Vol. 101
·期 6
·2552-2560
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Hengye Chen,Liuna Wei,Xiaoming Guo,Chengying Hai,Lu Xu,Lei Zhang,Wei Lan,Chunsong Zhou,Yuanbin She,Haiyan Fu
BACKGROUND The quality of tea is influenced by numerous factors, especially l- theanine, which is one of the important markers used to evaluate the sweetness and freshness of tea. Sensitive, rapid, and accurate detection of l -theanine is therefore useful to identify the grade and quality of tea. RESULTS A high-sensitivity, paper-based fluorescent sensor combined with chemometrics was established to detect l- theanine in tea water based on CdTe quantum dots / corn carbon dots and nano tetra pyridel-porphine zinc (ZnTPyP). To verify the reliability of this method, fluorescence spectra and fluorescence-visualized paper-based sensors were compared. The fluorescence spectrum method demonstrated a linear range of 1 to 10 000 nmol L −1 and a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.19 nmol L −1 . In the fluorescence-visualized paper-based sensors there was a linear range of 10–1000 nmol L −1 , and the LOD was 10 nmol L −1 . Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA) and partial least squares regression analysis (PLSR) were used successfully to determine l -theanine accurately in tea water with this approach. The accuracy of the PLSDA model was 100% both in the training set and the predicting set, and the correlation coefficient between the actual concentration and the predicted concentration was greater than 0.9997 in the PLSR model. CONCLUSION This fluorescence-visualized paper-based sensor, combined with chemometrics, could be applied efficiently to the practical analysis of tea water samples, which provides a new idea to ensure the flavor and quality of tea. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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Shasha Qi,Peng Wang,Ping Zhan,Honglei Tian
Thyme ( Thymus vulgaris L. ) is widely used as a traditional spice in the cooking of goat meat (mutton) due to its distinctive flavor and the ability to weaken the “goaty flavor”. To investigate the aroma characteristics of stewed mutton with thyme (SMT), four SMT samples prepared using different cooking utensils were analyzed by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry/olfactometry (GC–MS/O). Totally, 26 aroma-active compounds (AACs) were determined by GC–MS/O and further quantified. Among these, 20 AACs exhibited odor activity values (OAV) greater than 1. However, no significant differences existed among the four SMTs, which indicated that different utensils had little effect on the aroma profile of SMTs. Aroma recombination and omission experiments results showed that nonanal, ( E )-2-octenal, and ( E,E )-2,4-decadienal had the greatest contribution to the aroma profile of SMTs. These three compounds, together with dimethyl trisulfide, 3-methyl-butanal, octanal, ( E )-2-decenal, ( E )-2-nonenal, methanethiol, hexanal, ( E )-2-undecenal, and 1-octen-3-ol, were confirmed as the key aroma compounds in SMTs.
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PLoS One
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2021
·Vol. 16
·期 9
·e0257236
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Zong He Zhu,Abdul Sami,Qing Qing Xu,Ling Ling Wu,Wen Yin Zheng,Zhi Peng Chen,Xue Zhi Jin,Hong Zhang,Yong Li,Yan Yu,Ke Jin Zhou
The present study was performed to evaluate the effects of seed priming. This was done by soaking the seeds of two rapeseed cultivars, namely, ZY15 (tolerant to low temperature and drought) and HY49 (sensitive to low temperature and drought), for 12 h in varying solutions: distilled water, 138 mg/L salicylic acid (SA), 300 mg/L gibberellic acid (GA), 89.4 mg/L sodium nitroprusside (SNP), 3000 mg/L calcium chloride (CaCl 2 ), and 30 mg/L abscisic acid (ABA). Primed and non-primed seeds were left to germinate at 15°C and -0.15 MPa (T 15 W 15 ) and at 25°C and 0 MPa (T 25 W 0 ), respectively. The results showed that SA, GA, SNP, CaCl 2 , and ABA significantly improved the germination potential (GP), germination rate (GR), germination index (GI), stem fresh weight (SFW), stem dry weight (SDW), root length (RL), stem length (SL), and seed vigor index (SVI) under T 15 W 15 . For ZY15 seeds under T 25 W 0 , GA, SNP, CaCl 2 , and ABA priming reduced the average germination time (96% after 5 days) compared to that of the control (88% after 5 days). For ZY15 seeds under T 15 W 15 , SA, SNP, CaCl 2 , and ABA priming, with respect to the control and water-treated groups, shortened the average germination time (92% after 5 days) compared to that of the control (80% after 5 days). For HY49 seeds under T 25 W 0 , GA, SNP, CaCl 2 , and ABA priming reduced the average germination time (92% after 5 days) compared to that of the control (85% after 5 days). Similarly, for HY49 seeds under T 15 W 15 , GA priming shortened the average germination time (89% after 5 days) compared to that of the control (83% after 5 days). These priming agents increased the net photosynthesis, stomatal conductivity, and transpiration rate of rape seedlings under conditions of low temperature and drought stress, while also decreasing intercellular carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentrations. Additionally, SA, GA, SNP, CaCl 2 , and ABA increased superoxide dismutase concentrations (SOD) and ascorbic peroxidase (APX) activities of rape seedlings under stress conditions, while decreasing catalase (CAT) and peroxidase (POD) activities in ZY15 seedlings. In HY49, which is sensitive to low temperature and drought, all priming solutions, except for SNP, led to an increase in SOD activity levels and a decrease in CAT activity levels. Overall, SA, GA, SNP, and CaCl 2 increased the concentrations of indoleacetic acid (IAA), GA, ABA, and cytokinin (CTK) in seedlings under stress conditions. Moreover, compared to SA, CaCl 2 , and ABA, GA (300 mg/L) and SNP (300 mol/L) showed improved priming effects for ZY15 and HY49 under stress conditions.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2019
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Muhammad Saqib,Shahida Bashir,Haijuan Li,Chuanping Li,Shanshan Wang,Yongdong Jin
Developing rapid, specific, and low-cost electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) systems remains a compelling goal for many applications including environmental analysis, clinical diagnostics, and food safety. In this study, N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) esters, especially N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide (NHSS), was exploited for the first time as an efficient coreactant for anodic Ru(bpy)32+ ECL in neutral medium. Among the three tested NHS esters (NHS, NHSS, NHPI), the NHSS exhibited much higher ECL intensity and stability than the sulfonate-free esters, suggesting the essential role of both the N-hydroxy (NOH) and sulfonate (SO3H) moieties in the developed Ru(bpy)32+ ECL system. The ECL generation process is rather straightforward, not requiring time-consuming fabrication/modification steps of electrodes. The anodic Ru(bpy)32+–NHSS system achieved ECL detections with high selectivity and sensitivity toward l-proline (LOD = 50 nM) and Hg2+ (LOD = 10 nM), with a linear range of 0.5–200 μM and 0.1–25 μM, respectively. The method showed good recoveries (95.2–104.8%) for l-proline and Hg2+ detection in real samples. This study is a successful step toward the development of new coreactants and may open new avenues for the applications of N-hydroxy compounds in ECL sensing.
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2019
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Kui Chen,Weixia Qing,Weiping Hu,Minghua Lu,Yong Wang,Xiuhua Liu
In this work, we reported an economical plant-based hydrothermal method for one-pot green synthesis of water-soluble carbon dots (Tea-CDs) by using waste tea extract as a carbon source. The synthesized Tea-CDs were characterized by UV–visible, fluorescence, FT-IR, TEM, XPS and XRD. The Tea-CDs were found to remove hydroxyl and superoxide anion radical in vitro. In addition, the Tea-CDs exhibited bright blue fluorescence under UV-light (λ ex = 365 nm), and the fluorescence could be effectively quenched by CrO 4 2− and Fe 3+ ions. Meanwhile, the fluorescence of Tea-CDs-CrO 4 2− and Tea-CDs-Fe 3+ systems could be again easily recovered by ascorbic acid (AA) and L-cysteine (L-Cys). As an on-off-on fluorescent nano-sensor of the Tea-CDs, the sensitive detection of CrO 4 2− , Fe 3+ , AA and L-Cys were all performed, showing that the good linear relationships between fluorescence intensity of Tea-CDs and concentration of all testing samples. Finally, the sensors successfully detected CrO 4 2− , Fe 3+ , AA and L-Cys in commercially available real samples with satisfactory recovery ranges. The prepared sensors offer distinct advantages including low cost, simple handling, good sensitivity and high selectivity.
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