Food Science & Nutrition
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2025
·Vol. 13
·期 11
·e71153
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IF 3.8
Jinjia Liu,Yuning Zhang,Furong Lv,Chengming Wang,Jixiang Wang,Lijuan Li,Jinqiang Wu,Lina Lai
In this study, we aimed to investigate the hepatoprotective effects of plantagoside (PLA) against D-galactose (D-gal)-induced liver injury in aged mice. PLA treatment significantly alleviated the D-gal-induced body weight loss and the elevated liver index in mice, and effectively reduced oxidative stress, inflammatory response, and liver tissue damage in vivo. Transcriptomic analysis identified 513 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) regulated by PLA, and enrichment analysis revealed that these genes were primarily associated with the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway and purine metabolism. Metabolomic analysis revealed that PLA regulates purine metabolism by modulating key metabolites, such as hypoxanthine and cAMP. Integrated omics analysis suggested that PLA exerts protective effects by regulating purine metabolism, thereby enhancing antioxidant capacity and suppressing inflammation. In conclusion, PLA significantly alleviated D-gal-induced liver injury, reduced oxidative stress, and attenuated inflammation by regulating purine metabolism, thereby demonstrating its potential as an anti-aging and hepatoprotective drug and providing a new theoretical basis for the treatment of age-associated liver diseases.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2025
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IF 13.2
Da-Yuan Wang,Jing Li,Xiao-Han Tian,Siyu Zhang,Yao Chen,Feihe Ma,Henk.J. Busscher,Jing Shen,Linqi Shi
Light-activatable CO-generating molecules such as 3-hydroxyflavone (3-HF) derivates, are water-insoluble, which limits their applicability for infectious biofilm control. Here, a 3-HF-modified type of D-alanine (3-HFD) was coupled with hexadecyltrimethylammonium-bromide (CTAB) to self-assemble into water-suspensible, hydrophilic nanoparticles. Self-assembled 3-HFD nanoparticles did not generate CO upon visible-light irradiation, but dynamically disassembled upon metabolic-incorporation in bacterial cell-wall peptidoglycan of Gram-positive and Gram-negative periodontal pathogens, leaving molecular 3-HFD inside the cell-wall that generated CO upon visible-light irradiation. In vitro , visible-light irradiation of aerobic Staphylococcus aureus and anaerobic Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilms in presence of 3-HFD nanoparticles yielded CO-generation with strong antibiofilm activity under atmospheric oxygen conditions and in a nitrogen atmosphere. 3-HFD nanoparticles were subsequently applied for treatment of ligature-induced periodontitis in specific-pathogen-free rats with P. gingivalis inoculated, periodontal pockets. Irrigation with nanoparticle suspensions and visible-light irradiation of P. gingivalis infected periodontal pockets was demonstrated to yield in-pocket CO-generation. CO-generation improved bone-regeneration, modulated macrophages to attenuate immune-inflammation and reduced P. gingivalis colony-forming-unit counts, while hardly affecting total colony-forming-unit counts. This points to selective elimination of CO-susceptible pathogens and restoration of a healthy periodontal microbiome, as confirmed using 16S rRNA microbiome analyses. Herewith, an effective, non-surgical and non-antibiotic based three-in-one CO-based treatment of periodontitis is proposed.
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Nutrients
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2025
·Vol. 17
·期 20
·3298
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IF 5
Bingsi Li,Yuxuan Gu,Libing Zhou,Rui Chen,Yiwei Liu,Zexuan Wan,Ziyi Liang,Yukang Wang,Renlei Ji,Zhian Liu
Background/Objective: Cellular senescence is increasingly recognized as a key mechanism underlying sarcopenia, an age-related muscle disorder with no effective therapeutic. 6,4′-Dihydroxy-7-methoxyflavanone (DMF), a flavonoid isolated from Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen, has shown anti-senescence potential. This study aimed to investigate the protective effects of DMF against myoblasts senescence and elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms. Method: A cellular model of senescence was established in C2C12 myoblasts using D-galactose (D-gal). The effects of DMF pretreatment were evaluated by assessing senescence phenotypes, myogenic differentiation, and mitochondrial function. The role of Sirtuin3 (SIRT3) was confirmed using siRNA-mediated knockdown. Results: DMF Pre-treatment effectively attenuated D-gal-induced senescence, as indicated by restored proliferation, reduced senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity, decreased DNA damage, and the downregulation of p53, p21Cip1/WAF1and p16INK4a. Furthermore, DMF rescued myogenic differentiation capacity, enhancing the expression of Myoblast determination protein 1, Myogenin, Myosin heavy chain and Muscle-specific regulatory factor 4, and promoting myotube formation. Mechanistically, DMF was identified as a SIRT3 activator. It enhanced SIRT3 expression and activity, leading to the deacetylation and activation of the mitochondrial antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase 2. This consequently reduced mitochondrial reactive oxygen species, improved mitochondrial membrane potential and ATP production, and suppressed the NF-κB pathway by inhibiting IκBα phosphorylation and p65 acetylation/nuclear translocation. Crucially, all the beneficial effects of DMF—including oxidative stress reduction, mitochondrial functional recovery, anti-inflammatory action, and ultimately, the attenuation of senescence and improvement of myogenesis—were abolished upon SIRT3 knockdown. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that DMF alleviates myoblasts senescence and promotes myogenic differentiation by activating the SIRT3-SOD2 pathway, thereby reducing oxidative stress and NF-κB-driven inflammation responses. DMF emerges as a promising therapeutic candidate for sarcopenia.
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ChemSusChem
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2025
·Vol. 18
·期 16
·e202500950
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IF 6.6
Shuai Wang,Yihu Ke,Fei Jin,Youji Li,Zhiliang Jin
Noble metal nanoparticle co-catalysts offer high photocatalytic activity but are costly and scarce, driving the search for efficient, economical alternatives. We constructed a FeCo 2 O 4 /ZnCdS composite catalyst using electrostatic self-assembly. Optimizing the FeCo 2 O 4 loading to 10 wt% achieved a remarkable hydrogen production rate of 9080 μmol g −1 h −1 −3.49 times higher than pristine ZnCdS and exceeding precious metal co-catalysts like Au. Kelvin probe force microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal an S-scheme heterojunction forms between FeCo 2 O 4 and ZnCdS. The resulting internal electric field efficiently drives directional charge migration and significantly suppresses electron-hole recombination. DFT further shows the interface electric field shifts the d-band center, optimizing reactant molecule adsorption. This avoids catalyst deactivation from strong adsorption while overcoming the energy barrier from weak adsorption, creating an ideal moderate-strength activated state. This work deepens understanding of S-scheme mechanisms and provides a new strategy for economical photocatalytic hydrogen production. Graphical The built-in electric field in FeCo 2 O 4 /ZnCdS heterojunctions regulates the d-band center to optimize hydrogen adsorption energy. An S-scheme charge transfer mechanism achieves a photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate of 9080 μmol g − 1 h − 1 , surpassing noble-metal cocatalysts. Density functional theory and Kelvin probe force microscope studies confirm that interfacial electric field engineering enhances carrier separation and reaction kinetics, providing an efficient noble-metal-free strategy.
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JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
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2015
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IF 2.871
Xia Yi,Peng Zhang,Jiaoe Sun,Yi Tu,Qiuqiang Gao,Jian Zhang,Jie Bao
Pediococcus acidilactici TY112 producing l -lactic acid and P. acidilactici ZP26 producing d -lactic acid, were engineered from the wild-type P. acidilactici DQ2 by ldhD or ldh gene disruption , and the robustness of the wild-type strain to the inhibitors derived from lignocellulose pretreatment was maintained well. In simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF), 77.66 g L −1 of l -lactic acid and 76.76 g L −1 of d -lactic acid were obtained at 25% (w/w) solids content of dry dilute acid pretreated and biodetoxified corn stover feedstock. l - and d -Lactic acid yield and productivity were highly dependent on the inhibitor removal extent due to the significant down-regulation on the expressions of ldh and ldhD encoding lactate dehydrogenase by inhibitor, especially syringaldehyde and vanillin at the low concentrations. This study provided a prototype of industrial process for high titer l - and d -lactic acid production from lignocellulose feedstock.
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生物化学工程
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POLYMER SCIENCE SERIES A
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2021
·Vol. 63
·期 3
·267-274
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IF 1.206
Jun Shao,Tang Juan,Pu Shouzhi,Hou Haoqing
Abstract Blending of poly( L -lactic acid)/poly( D -lactic acid) (PLLA/PDLA) leads to the formation of poly(lactide) stereocomplexation (PLA SC), which exhibits higher melting temperature and faster crystallization rate. The crystallization behavior of PLA homochiral crystallization (HC) under the existence of PLA SC was also widely investigated. During the variable processing, the SC with different morphologies would produce, and these SC could exert different influences on the subsequent formation of HC. However, the effects of SC developed in various conditions on the formation of HC are not compared yet and are also not clear until now, and which is important for the application of PLLA/PDLA blends. In this paper, the PDLAs with different molecular weights were blended with PLLA at a weight ratio of PLLA/PDLA 90/10, and the crystallization behaviors of PLLA HC from different conditions were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Results indicated that, incorporating a small amount of PDLA accelerated the formation of PLLA HC significantly regardless of the SC developed from the solution evaporation or the melt. The higher crystallization rate of HC was received in the PLLA/PDLA specimens with lower molecular weight of PDLA. For the specimens crystallized from the partially melting (most of SC developed during solution evaporation), the crystallization rate was higher than that corresponding specimens crystallized from the completely melting state (the SC were produced from the melt). This discrepancy would be due to variable SC morphologies produced during diverse processing.
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高分子材料学
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材料科学
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CRYSTENGCOMM
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2021
·Vol. 23
·期 22
·3989-3994
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IF 3.545
Anqi Li,Xiaofan Ma,Jie Ma,Qingyi Yuan,Jun Zhang,Xiaopeng Xuan
Herein we reported a simple and economical method for fabricating a portable separation device based on exfoliated 2D-metal–organic framework (2D-MOF) nanosheets. This device is composed of a layered Cu-MOF as a filter and a syringe filter as the holder. Benefiting from the structural characteristic of the 2D-MOF nanosheets, the separation experiment reveals that this strategy can exhibit high efficiency and selectivity for dyes with different sizes. This device can be used disposably for a special purpose due to the low cost, simple manufacturing process in an emergency.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2012
·Vol. 42
·期 10
·3402-3409
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IF 3.838
Bo Chai,Tianyou Peng,Xiaohu Zhang,Jing Mao,Kan Li,Xungao Zhang
A novel nanostructured carbon/TiO2 nanocomposite photocatalyst is firstly fabricated via a facile hydrothermal process by using fullerene (C60) decorated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) as carbon source, which is denoted as C60-d-CNTs. The obtained nanostructured carbon/TiO2 nanocomposites are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS), Raman spectra, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and photoluminescence spectra (PL), and then are used as catalysts for photocatalytic hydrogen production. It is found that the kinds and contents of various carbon nanostructured materials (such as SWCNTs, C60 and C60-d-CNTs) coupled with TiO2 can significantly enhance the photoactivity for hydrogen production, and the 5 wt% C60-d-CNTs/TiO2 nanocomposite exhibits the best performance. Experimental results suggest that the C60-d-CNTs as a novel carbon nanostructured material could be more beneficial for the photogenerated carrier separation than SWCNTs and C60 when these carbon nanostructured materials are coupled with TiO2.
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纳米技术
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光催化
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氢能
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
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2021
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Haixia Wu,Yuze Chen,Xunli Ling,Weiwei Yuan,Bowen Li,Zhan Zhou
In order to explore the application of D-π-A molecules in bio-imaging, two novel D-π-A and ICT type molecules ( SE and PE ) are designed and synthesized by the adjustment of the π conjugation bridge. Because of strong intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) effect between the carbazole and pyrimidine unit, SE and PE exhibit weak fluorescence emission in the aqueous solution system. Interestingly, SE shows the enhanced fluorescence detection performance for hypochlorite due to “D-π-A" structure and suitable ICT effect after the oxidative cleavage of alkene unit by hypochlorite. Importantly, the cell membrane permeable SE can be used for the exogenous and endogenous ClO − in living cells and zebrafishes without apparent toxicity before and after treating with ClO − . Our study indicates that regulating “D-π-A" structure and suitable ICT effect of the organic fluorescence probes is a powerful method to enhance their detection performance for the target analyte.
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有机化学
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荧光传感
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化学生物学
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分析化学
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Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination
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2018
·Vol. 9
·期 1
·18-30
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IF 0.688
Wen Yue,Zhang Xingran,Chen Mei,Wu Zhichao,Wang Zhiwei
In this study, we systematically evaluated the antibiofouling behavior of quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) blended polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) combined with flow cytometry (FCM) and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) measurements. QCM-D tests showed that the introduction of QAC reduced bacterial attachment due to the biocidal functions of QAC. FCM indicated that cell integrity of the bacteria in the suspension flowing along QAC-modified membrane surfaces during the QCM-D test was severely affected. CLSM confirmed the significantly lower attachment of bacteria and higher dead/live cell ratio onto the surface of modified membranes after the washing step in QCM-D tests. Both FCM and CLSM results validated the antibacterial behavior of QAC-modified membranes by a contact-killing mechanism, which is in agreement with that of QCM-D tests. In addition, the bacterial cells accumulated on modified membrane surface exhibited higher reversibility compared to the control membrane, indicating ease of membrane cleaning. The results highlight that the combined use of QCM-D, FCM, and CLSM can comprehensively characterize the antibiofouling behavior of membranes.
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环境工程
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膜技术
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微生物学
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表面化学
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Chemical & Biomedical Imaging
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2023
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Baoling Li,E Pang,Shaojing Zhao,Guowei Deng,Shuodong Wang,Benhua Wang,Jieyun Wu,Guangle Niu,Xiangzhi Song,Minhuan Lan
Near-infrared (NIR)-II fluorescence and photoacoustic (PA) dual-model imaging-guided photothermal therapy (PTT) can precisely diagnose and treat tumors and evaluate the therapeutic efficacy in real-time. Herein, we utilized a donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) structured hemicyanine dye (named M1) with a large conjugated structure and strong intramolecular charge transfer effect and demonstrated that the aggregation of M1 could significantly enhance its photophysical performance by improving its photostability and photothermal conversion capability as compared with M1 in a single molecular state. Furthermore, we prepared water-dispersible NIR-II fluorescent nanoparticles (M1 NPs) by wrapping M1 with DSPE-PEG2000-NH2. The obtained M1 NPs exhibit strong NIR-I absorption and NIR-II fluorescence with their maxima at 734 and 1040 nm, respectively, with a fluorescence quantum yield of 2.84%. Moreover, M1 NPs also exhibit excellent biocompatibility, good photostability, and high photothermal conversion efficiency of 77.5%. In vitro and in vivo experiments reveal that M1 NPs can effectively image tumors through NIR-II fluorescence and PA signals, inhibit DNA replication, trigger cytoskeleton collapse, and eventually induce tumor cell apoptosis under 808 nm laser irradiation. Based on these outstanding properties, the application of M1 NPs in PA and NIR-II fluorescence imaging-guided PTT of tumors is demonstrated.
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肿瘤学
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药理学
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材料科学
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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Zuyang Luo,Qimin Peng,Zhiyang Huang,Lixia Wang,Yuting Yang,Jiaxin Dong,Tayirjan Taylor Isimjan,Xiulin Yang
Developing high-activity, long-durability, and noble metal-free oxygen evolution (OER) and hydrogen evolution (HER) cocatalysts are the bottlenecks for efficient overall water splitting (OWS). Here, novel cobalt vanadium oxides doped by nitrogen were synthesized by nitriding Co 2 V 2 O 7 @NF precursor at 300–450 °C for OER and HER reactions. N-Co 2 V 2 O 7 @NF (350 °C) and N-Co 2 VO 4 /VO 2 @NF (400 °C) show remarkable OER and HER performance with overpotentials of 310 mV and 224 mV at high current density (100 mA cm −2 ). Besides, they also revealed long-term solid stability even after 170 h and 700 h of continuous performance. Furthermore, the N-Co 2 V 2 O 7 @NF (+) ||N-Co 2 VO 4 /VO 2 @NF (–) OWS device possesses a cell voltage of 1.93 V at 500 mA cm −2 better than RuO 2 @NF (+) ||Pt/C@NF (–) (2.02 V) and can operate for 60 h with almost no degradation. This extraordinary performance can be attributed to the nanosheet structure, which can maximize the exposure of active sites and accelerate the mass transfer. Moreover, density functional theory (DFT) calculations suggest that N -doping can fine-tune the d-band center and band gap to facilitate intermediate adsorption and electron motion. The method presented here can be applied in other novel N -doped electrocatalysts for the energy field.
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电化学
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