FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2025
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Wentao Ma,Wei Liu,Chao Yuan,Bo Cui,Yaqi Liu,Li Guo,Bin Yu,Meng Zhao,Feixue Zou
To overcome the limitations of conventional vitamin E (VE) delivery systems, a double-package system comprising κ-carrageenan hydrogels and VE/highly branched cyclodextrin (HBCD) composites was developed and systematically evaluated for structural characteristics and release behavior. The results demonstrated that HBCD encapsulation of VE formed stable composites with high encapsulation efficiency (81.72 %) and thermostability (325.86 °C), which facilitated the ordered alignment and helical aggregation of κ-carrageenan chains to build a continuous and uniform hydrogel network. The 2 % composites within the κ-carrageenan network strengthened hydrogen-bond interaction and generated a secondary micro-network, thereby enhancing structural integrity (758.39 Pa) and freeze–thaw stability (a 30 % reduction in syneresis) of the double-package system. Importantly, the inner–outer network effectively protected VE under gastric conditions and enabled controlled intestinal release (> 60 %). Overall, this study underscores the potential of HBCD as a wall material and provides a strategy for the design of double-package delivery systems.
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FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
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2026
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Siyan Liu,Heyu Pan,Yanchao Mao,Feifei Wang,Na Zhang,Shuyi Li,Zhenzhou Zhu
Chlorella pyrenoidosa is a promising plant-based protein source , whereas the volatile off-flavours derived from lipid oxidation substantially limit consumer acceptance. Selenium (Se) is recognised as a beneficial trace element that can improve flavour characteristics in plants by enhancing antioxidant capacity. This study investigated the effects of Se supplementation (0–2 mg/L) on the volatile profile of C. pyrenoidosa and explored the underlying mechanisms. E-nose analysis revealed significant differences in flavour profile among the treatments. GC–IMS and GC–MS identified 25 and 28 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), respectively. Fifteen key aroma compounds were screened by orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS–DA), random forest (RF) modelling, and odour activity value (OAV) and relative OAV (ROAV) calculations. Notably, 0.50 mg/L Se was identified as the optimal enrichment concentration, as it improved overall flavour quality by reducing aldehyde accumulation, particularly hexanal. This improvement was attributed to Se-mediated reductions in lipid content and enhanced antioxidant capacity, as evidenced by increased glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity, reduced reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, and alleviated lipid peroxidation, alongside decreased lipoxygenase (LOX) and hydroperoxide lyase (HPL) activities by 60.08% and 37.31% respectively, thereby inhibiting the formation of off-flavour VOCs. Overall, this study provides the first evidence that Se modulates the flavour profile of C. pyrenoidosa and preliminarily elucidates the mechanism by which appropriate Se supplementation improves flavour quality through reshaping biochemical composition, maintaining redox homeostasis, and regulating key enzymes involved in aldehyde biosynthesis. These findings offer a theoretical foundation for developing novel functional microalgal-based foods.
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Clinical and Translational Medicine
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2026
·Vol. 16
·期 2
·e70619
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IF 7.9
Yifan Ren,Yuxuan Lu,Qing Cui,Hao Shang,Meng Fan,Yun Sun,Xiali Shi,Rongqian Wu,Hongwei Lu
During AP, MFG‐E8 expression in pancreatic acinar cells is downregulated, resulting in disruption of the ABCE1/MFG‐E8 complex. This impairment leads to defective mitophagy flux, accumulation of lipid peroxides, endoplasmic reticulum stress and ferroptosis, ultimately contributing to pancreatic damage .
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Nutrients
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2024
·Vol. 16
·期 10
·1468
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IF 4.8
Yan Zhang,Hong Huang,Chuanlin Luo,Xinfeng Zhang,Yanjing Chen,Fenfang Yue,Bingqing Xie,Tingtao Chen,Changwei Zou
Cadmium (Cd) is recognized as being linked to several liver diseases. Currently, due to the limited spectrum of drugs available for the treatment of Cd intoxication, developing and designing antidotes with superior detoxification capacity and revealing their underlying mechanisms remains a major challenge. Therefore, we developed the first next-generation probioticE. coli 1917-pSK18a-MT that delivers metallothionein (MT) to overcome Cd-induced liver injury in C57BL/6 mice by utilizing bacterial surface display technology. The results demonstrate thatE. coli 1917-pSK18a-MT could efficiently express MT without altering the growth and probiotic properties of the strain. Moreover, we found thatE. coli 1917-pSK18a-MT ameliorated Cd contamination-induced hepatic steatosis, inflammatory cell infiltration, and liver fibrosis by decreasing the expression of aminotransferases along with inflammatory factors. Activation of the Nrf2-Keap1 signaling pathway also further illustrated the hepatoprotective effects of the engineered bacteria. Finally, we showed thatE. coli 1917-pSK18a-MT improved the colonic barrier function impaired by Cd induction and ameliorated intestinal flora dysbiosis in Cd-poisoned mice by increasing the relative abundance of the Verrucomicrobiota. These data revealed that the combination ofE. coli 1917and MT both alleviated Cd-induced liver injury to a greater extent and restored the integrity of colonic epithelial tissues and bacterial dysbiosis.
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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
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2024
·Vol. 196
·期 12
·1152
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Alamgir Aamir,Fatima Noor
In the present study, piped water samples from Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town, Karachi, were evaluated for their Health Risk Assessment (HRA) and Water Quality Index (WQI). For this, different physicochemical and microbiological parameters were analyzed, and the results were evaluated according to the guidelines established by the WHO (2011) and the National Standards for Drinking Water Quality (NSDWQ) (2008). With the exception of sulphate, all physicochemical parameters were well within the guideline values. The mean concentrations of the metals in the samples were in the following order: Ca 2+ > Mg 2+ > Zn > Fe > Pb > Ni > Cr > As. More than 70% of the samples tested for Total Coliform Count (TCC), Total Faecal Coliform Count (TFC), Total Feacal Streptococci (TFS), and Total Aerobic Count (TAC) were feacal contaminated. E. coli was also isolated in almost 84.61% of the tested piped water samples. Results from the WQI revealed that 95.6% of samples had good physico-chemical characteristics, and 26% of the piped water samples had good microbiological quality. The WQI readings of all the samples for metals showed that they were unfit for human consumption. The mean Chronic Daily Intake (CDI) and Hazard Quotient (HQ) values, respectively, were in the following order: Zn > Fe > Pb > Ni > Cr > As, and Pb > As > Ni > Cr > Zn > Fe. All HQ values for As and Pb were greater than 1, and 50% of piped water samples had an HQ value for Ni that was greater than 1, indicating that people may suffer serious health issues as a result. All of the piped water samples except the area of block 13 D (S-5), had HQ values of less than 1 in relation to iron, but Zn HQ values of less than 1 indicated only mild health problems. Discharge of untreated sewage and cross-contamination are all potential sources of contamination that could result in diseases that are harmful to the public’s health. Water monitoring and management projects should be implemented in order to improve pipeline infrastructure and reduce sewage leakages.
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公共卫生
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环境科学
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毒理学
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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
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2026
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Mingjie Guo,Weihong Xie,Suling Zhang,Xiaofei Li,Jianwei Zhang,Zhongshi Xu,Ying pan,Dong zhang,Lulu Xu,Ting Lü,Linlin Qiu
Etomidate and its analogs can produce euphoria and addiction, and their recent abuse has led to an increasing number of poisoning and fatal cases. Thus, they are classified as controlled psychotropic drugs. This work proposed small-sized wood aerogel-supported zirconium metal-organic framework (UiO-66) particles for the extraction of trace etomidate and its analogs from urine and e-cigarette samples. Owing to the removal of lignin and hemicellulose, the delignified wood aerogel exhibited enhanced internal pore structures and exposed functional groups, which facilitated the immobilization of more UiO-66 crystals and achieved a high loading efficiency of 61.3 %. The lightweight UiO-66/wood aerogel composite enables facile separation, avoiding UiO-66 powder leakage while retaining its adsorption capacity. The composite was mechanically stable and kept commendable reusability over nine consecutive cycles. Benefiting from its high specific surface area and multiple chemical interactions with target drugs, the extraction method achieved enrichment factors of 22.9–30.0. Key factors influencing extraction—including solution pH, extraction time, the type and volume of desorption solvent, and desorption time—were investigated. Under the optimal conditions, the UiO-66/wood aerogel-based micro-solid phase extraction coupled with GC–MS method showed wide linear ranges and good precision (1.1%–3.2% for intra-day; 3.4%–5.1% for inter-day). The limits of detection and quantification were in the range of 0.02–0.04 μg/L and 0.05–0.1 μg/L, respectively. The recoveries for the urine and e-cigarette oil samples ranged from 86.2%–110.2% and 80.1%–107.9%, respectively. This method is eco-friendly, simple, and sensitive for the determination of new psychotropic drugs in clinical and forensic applications.
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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
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2013
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IF 2.417
Jian Xu,Yan-Yan Jia,Shao-Rui Chen,Jian-Tao Ye,Xian-Zhang Bu,Yun Hu,Yun-Zi Ma,Jin-Lei Guo,Pei-Qing Liu
Flavonoids are a class of compounds that exist in nature with the structure of 2-phenyl-chromone. In Chinese traditional medicine , herbal drugs containing flavonoids are widely used for the treatment of inflammation, cardiovascular disease, tumor and so on. In this study, we investigated the anti-inflammatory effect and related mechanisms of a novel synthetic flavonoid, (E)-1-(4-ethoxyphenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-prop-2-en-1-one (ETH) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulated macrophages. Our results showed that ETH inhibited LPS-induced TNF-α and IL-6 release in a dose-dependent manner, and decreased TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and iNOS mRNA production. LPS-induced expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) was also significantly attenuated by ETH. Pretreatment with ETH reduced the I-κBα phosphorylation, p65 nuclear translocation as well as NF-κB-dependent transcriptional activity. In addition, ETH exhibited a significant protection against LPS-induced inflammatory mortality in mice. Taken together, these findings suggest that ETH can inhibit LPS-induced inflammation via suppressing NF-κB signaling pathway , indicating that ETH may be a potential anti-inflammatory agent.
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免疫学
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医学
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生物化学
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CATALYSIS LETTERS
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2021
·Vol. 151
·期 9
·2527-2536
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IF 3.186
Du Hui-Jun,Luo Wei,Appiah Bright,Zou Zhi-Cheng,Yang Zhong-Hua,Zeng Rong,Luo Li
Abstract The intracellular NADPH insufficient supply is the main bottleneck to the synthesis of chiral alcohols by asymmetric reduction with whole-cell catalysis. Herein, we provide a novel strategy to strengthen intracellular NADPH supply through introducing an NADP + -dependent glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase ( gap B from Bacillus subtilis 168) into the Embden-Meyerhof pathway and a NAD kinase ( yfj B from E. coli MG1655) to further enhance the NADP(H) pool. A recombinant E. coli ( E. coli BL21 (DE3)/pETDuet-1- gap B- yue D&pET28a- yfj B) was constructed to co-express gap B and yfj B with a carbonyl reductase gene yue D together. The result showed that the intracellular NADPH amount increased by 134.4% with the strategy. To the model reaction (asymmetric reduction of acetophenone to S -phenyl ethanol), the yield was 3.7-fold with this strategy compared to the control. This provides a technological route for strengthening the intracellular NADPH supply in E. coli for biocatalysis and biosynthesis. Graphic Abstract
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS
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2017
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Xiaofeng Han,Xuerong Dong,Jing Li,Manyuan Wang,Lei Luo,Zhaoxia Li,Xuran Lu,Rui He,Rongsong Xu,Muxin Gong
The present work seeks to construct a nanovehicle for the efficient suppression of breast cancer metastasis through targeting E-selectin on tumor vascular endothelial cells and hyaluronic acid-receptor on tumor cells. Herein, a new ligand-PEG-lipid conjugate, E-selectin binding peptide-polyethene glycol-1-octadecylamine (Esbp-PEG-OA), was used as the targeting molecule of micelle self-assembled form hyaluronic acid-paclitaxel (HA-PTX) conjugate. When loaded with free PTX, the micelles (Esbp-HA-PTX/PTX) exhibited nanoscale particle size with high drug-loading capacity (up to 31.5%). In vitro release study showed that the conjugated and entrapped PTX released simultaneously. Cellular uptake of micelles confirmed that Esbp-HA-PTX micelles could be specifically and efficiently internalized into E-selectin expressing human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and 4T1 breast cancer cells via receptor-meditated endocytosis. In vitro cytotoxicity assay further revealed that Esbp-HA-PTX/PTX micelles significantly improved the selectivity of PTX for killing the two cell types compared with PTX solution formulation. More importantly, Esbp-HA-PTX micelles raised the accumulation of payload in tumor through targeting two cell types in the tumor microenvironment simultaneously, resulting in marked in vivo inhibition of tumor growth, intratumoral microvessel density and metastasis, and decreased systemic toxicity over solution formulation. Overall, Esbp-HA-PTX/PTX micelle is promising in therapy of breast cancer metastasis.
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纳米技术
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生物医学工程
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Foods
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2026
·Vol. 15
·期 8
·1391
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Luyang Zhao,Yang Song,Guoyang Xie,Hengyi Xu
Sensitive detection ofEscherichia coliO157:H7 (E. coliO157:H7) in food matrices remains an important analytical challenge. Here, a colorimetric biosensor was constructed based on a bimetal oxide nanozyme composed of Ce-Fe oxide. This biosensor achieved sensitive detection ofE. coliO157:H7. The Ce-Fe oxide synthesized on the basis of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) had the advantages of low solvent consumption and short preparation time. By regulating the two key factors of metal valence and oxygen vacancy content, the peroxidase (POD) activity of the nanozyme was significantly improved. Compared with the single-metal oxide nanozyme Fe oxide, the addition of Ce increased the Fe2+/Fe3+ratio from 0.37 to 0.49, implying a possible enhancement of electron transfer between Fe2+and Fe3+. The detection limits (LODs) of the biosensor based on Fe oxide and that based on Ce-Fe oxide were 102CFU/mL and 101CFU/mL, respectively, comparable to existing validated methods. Moreover, these two biosensors achieved satisfactory recovery rates (91–104%) and RSDs (1.2–8.8%) in the spiked lake water, juice, and lettuce samples ofE. coliO157:H7, indicating their high potential for application in spiked sample detection. In summary, the method proposed in this study for improving the POD activity of nanozymes through electron transfer in DES solutions is beneficial to the development of metal oxide nanozymes.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2023
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Hualing He,Yi Qin,Jinru Liu,Yushu Wang,Jinfeng Wang,Yuhang Zhao,Zhenyu Zhu,Qing Jiang,Yuhang Wan,Xueru Qu,Zhicai Yu
Firefighting clothing is an essential equipment that can provide safety personal protective from all kinds of thermal hazards and prevent burn injuries for firefighters. However, it is still a challenge to develop high fire safety firefighting clothing with an early fire alarm response before protective clothing malfunctional in extreme fire conditions. Herein, a wearable self-powered early fire warning e-textile (MAA e-textile) enabled by Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene/silver nanowires (Ag NWs)/aramid nanofibers (ANFs) aerogel fiber was fabricated via wet spinning technique. The resulting self-powered fire warning MAA e-textile can be integrated into firefighting clothing to achieve wide-range temperature sensing at 100–400 °C based on a linear relationship between thermoelectric voltage and temperature due to thermoelectric characteristic of MXene, which could alert firefighters to evacuate timely before protective clothing was damaged. The bridging connection between Ag NWs and MXene nanosheets enable 30 wt% MAA e-textile to possess rapidly and repeatedly fire warning performance in 1.6 s when being burned. Meanwhile, because of the synergistic carbonization between MXene and ANFs, 30 wt% MAA e-textile exhibited excellent flame retardancy, whose peak heat release rate was significantly decreased by 80 % compared with ANFs aerogel fiber. Moreover, a self-powered rescue location system enabled by MAA e-textile-based triboelectric nanogenerator is further assembled to rescue trapped firefighters by providing correct escape routes. This work provided a facile approach into the fabrication and application of wearable self-powered early fire warning e-textile in firefighting clothing to ensure the operation safety of firefighters during firefighting process.
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BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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Shuping Zou,Zhentao Jiang,Heng Tang,Feng Cheng,Yaping Xue,Yuguo Zheng
The enzymatic asymmetric synthesis of L -phosphinothricin ( L -PPT) from 2-carboxyl-4-(hydroxymethylphosporyl) butyric acid (PPO) is a green and efficient method. In our previous works, we constructed a glutamate dehydrogenase (GluDH) and glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) co-expression strain, Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3)/pETDuet- gludh-gdh , which can asymmetrically reduce PPO to L -PPT. To improve the stability and recyclability of the biocatalyst , we developed a novel method for whole-cell immobilization with cross-linked cell aggregates (CLCAs) and employed immobilized cells in L -PPT production. Montmorillonite was used as a carrier, and dextran polyaldehyde (DPA) was developed as a new cross-linker for cell immobilization . The highest activity recovery (79.2%) was obtained under the following conditions: 20 g/L cell concentration, 0.9% montmorillonite concentration, 1.2% polyethyleneimine (PEI) concentration, and 1.2% DPA concentration. The half-lives of CLCAs were 169.10 h (35 °C), 17.39 h (45 °C), and 10.65 h (55 °C), which were 1.87-, 3.70-, and 10.78-fold than that of free cells, respectively. The CLCAs showed good reusability, retaining over 85% of their initial activities after 10 cycles of utilization. The total yield of L -PPT reached 667 mmol/g cells, and the enantiomeric excess value was more than 99%. The immobilized whole-cell in the form of CLCAs is a valuable biocatalyst for industrial applications.
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