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The determination of perfluorooctanoate (PFO) in articles of commerce has become increasingly important to understand if treated products are a possible source of PFO. An LC-MS/MS method for the determination of PFO in paper and textile using a dual labeled 13C-PFOA internal standard was successfully developed and validated. Residues of PFO were determined using an isocratic, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method with an ammonium acetate/methanol buffer. Ions monitored were 413 (parent) and 369 (daughter) for PFO and 415 (parent) and 370 (daughter) for dual labeled 13C-PFOA internal standard. As a precaution against ubiquitous PFO that occasionally occurs in mobile phase or instrument components, two Hypercarb cartridges (4 mm) were placed before the HPLC injector. Any PFO that was captured by the cartridges was removed before each injection by flushing the system with 100% methanol prior to equilibration with the isocratic mobile phase. Overall recovery and standard deviation over a 3 day validation regimen for samples (n=54-55) fortified with PFOA at 5, 50, and 200 ng g(-1) were 114+/-4.9% for textile and 110+/-7.6% for paper. The results also established a limit of detection (LOD) of 1 ng g(-1) in textile and 2 ng g(-1) in paper based upon S/N of the 5.0 ng g(-1) fortification versus the untreated paper and textile.
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PMID:A method for the low-level (ng g(-1)) determination of perfluorooctanoate in paper and textile by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. 1681 6

G protein-coupled receptor 43 (GPR43) has been identified as a receptor for short-chain fatty acids that include acetate and propionate. A potential involvement of GPR43 in immune and inflammatory response has been previously suggested because its expression is highly enriched in immune cells. GPR43 is also expressed in a number of other tissues including adipocytes; however, the functional consequences of GPR43 activation in these other tissues are not clear. In this report, we focus on the potential functions of GPR43 in adipocytes. We show that adipocytes treated with GPR43 natural ligands, acetate and propionate, exhibit a reduction in lipolytic activity. This inhibition of lipolysis is the result of GPR43 activation, because this effect is abolished in adipocytes isolated from GPR43 knockout animals. In a mouse in vivo model, we show that the activation of GPR43 by acetate results in the reduction in plasma free fatty acid levels without inducing the flushing side effect that has been observed by the activation of nicotinic acid receptor, GPR109A. These results suggest a potential role for GPR43 in regulating plasma lipid profiles and perhaps aspects of metabolic syndrome.
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PMID:Activation of G protein-coupled receptor 43 in adipocytes leads to inhibition of lipolysis and suppression of plasma free fatty acids. 1849 55

The dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker lercanidipine and the ACE inhibitor enalapril are frequently used in the treatment of hypertensive patients. In April 2007, a fixed-dose combination of the two drugs was approved in Germany for the treatment of patients not responding to monotherapy. It is expected that the drug will soon be available in the other European Union markets. In this review the present literature is summarized. Two doses will be available with 10 mg lercanidipine each and 10 or 20 mg enalapril. The medication should be taken once daily, optimally =15 minutes before a meal and the consumption of grapefruit juice should be avoided. The fixed-dose combination of the two drugs has a stronger blood pressure-lowering effect than monotherapy with 20 mg enalapril or 10 mg lercanidipine. The combination is well tolerated and few patients stopped the treatment because of side effects. As expected, the most common side effects reported are cough, peripheral edema, flushing, dizziness and vertigo, occurring in 1-5% of patients. This new fixed-dose combination is a useful adjunct to the present treatment and should increase compliance and help reduce hypertension-related costs.
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PMID:Fixed-dose lercanidipine/enalapril for hypertension. 1853 84

Secondary prevention in patients with coronary heart disease includes treatment with platelet inhibitors, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors or AT (1)-blockers, and statins. Initiation of therapy generally does not require a slow gradual dose increase. In treatment naive patients with acute coronary syndromes, administration of a loading dose of aspirin and/or clopidogrel is recommended. To reduce flushing, nicotinic acid should be initiated at low stepwise increasing dosages. beta-blocker therapy should not be stopped acutely in coronary heart disease patients. If beta-blocker therapy has to be terminated, blood pressure should be monitored closely and, if necessary controlled with other medication. Termination of statin therapy in the acute phase after strokes or acute coronary syndromes is associated with increased cardiovascular events and should therefore be avoided.
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PMID:[Coronary heart disease and dyslipdemia - dosing recommendations at beginning and end of treatment]. 1882 18

The first application of charged polymer-protected gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) as semi-permanent capillary coating in CE-MS was presented. Poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDDA) was the only reducing and stabilizing agent for Au NPs preparation. Stable and repeatable coating with good tolerance to 0.1 M HCl, methanol, and ACN was obtained via a simple rinsing procedure. Au NPs enhanced the coating stability toward flushing by methanol, improved the run-to-run and capillary-to-capillary repeatabilities, and improved the separation efficiency of heroin and its basic impurities for tracing geographical origins of illicit samples. Baseline resolution of eight heroin-related alkaloids was achieved on the PDDA-protected Au NPs-coated capillary under the optimum conditions: 120 mM ammonium acetate (pH 5.2) with addition of 13% methanol, separation temperature 20 degrees C, applied voltage -20 kV, and capillary effective length 60.0 cm. CE-MS analysis with run-to-run RSDs (n=5) of migration time in the range of 0.43-0.62% and RSDs (n=5) of peak area in the range of 1.49-4.68% was obtained. The established CE-MS method would offer sensitive detection and confident identification of heroin and related compounds and provide an alternative to LC-MS and GC-MS for illicit drug control.
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PMID:CE-MS analysis of heroin and its basic impurities using a charged polymer-protected gold nanoparticle-coated capillary. 1912 90

Liver alcohol dehydrogenase oxidizes ethanol to acetaldehyde, which is further oxidized to acetate by aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2*1). Individuals who carry a low-activity ALDH2 (ALDH2*2) display high blood acetaldehyde levels after ethanol consumption, which leads to dysphoric effects, such as facial flushing, nausea, dizziness, and headache ("Asian alcohol phenotype"), which result in an aversion to alcohol and protection against alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Mimicking this phenotype may reduce alcohol consumption in alcoholics. RNA interference (RNAi) is a cell process in which a short interfering RNA (siRNA) of 21-25 bp guides the degradation of a complementary target mRNA. Thus, siRNAs may be useful in mimicking the Asian phenotype by inhibiting ALDH2 gene expression. We determined the inhibitory effect of three chemically synthesized siRNAs targeted against rat ALDH2 mRNA in human embryonic kidney cells (HEK-293 cell lines) transfected with a plasmid carrying the rat ALDH2 cDNA. Two of the three siRNAs were active, yielding a 65-75% reduction of ALDH2 activity. Based on the most promising siRNA sequence, three short hairpin RNA (shRNA) genes driven by the human U6 RNA promoter were designed and cloned in a plasmid. After transfection of HEK-293 cells, one of the genes was shown to be active, yielding a 50% reduction of ALDH2 activity. This effect is consistent with a 50% reduction in ALDH2 mRNA, whereas neither beta-actin mRNA nor the interferon-inducible transmembrane protein-1 mRNA levels were affected. This study describes chemically synthesized siRNAs and an endogenously synthesized shRNA, which reduce ALDH2 activity and constitute tools that should be of value for further alcohol research.
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PMID:RNA interference against aldehyde dehydrogenase-2: development of tools for alcohol research. 1925 Nov 11

A new simple and fast noncovalent coating method based on poly(1-vinylpyrrolidone-co-2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) copolymer was developed for CE. Merely 2 min flushing of the capillary with the poly(1-vinylpyrrolidone-co-2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) copolymer was required. The copolymer is adsorbed onto the fused-silica surface by hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. EOF was almost totally suppressed over a wide pH range. The coating conditions (flushing time, copolymer concentration, and the concentration and pH of background electrolyte solution) and the stability of the coating were optimized, and the coated capillary was successfully applied to the fast separation of four basic proteins: lysozyme, cytochrome c, ribonuclease A, and alpha-chymotrypsinogen A. Separation efficiencies were high, ranging from 386 000 to 738 000 plates/m at 40 mM pH 4.0 acetate buffer being comparable to values obtained on classical covalent PVP-coated capillary. The RSD of migration times of basic proteins for 200 times successive runs were all below 1.0% (n=200, 3 days). A successful capillary performance was demonstrated also to the separation of low- and high-density lipoproteins at acidic pH.
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PMID:Noncovalent poly(1-vinylpyrrolidone)-based copolymer coating for the separation of basic proteins and lipoproteins by CE. 1988 86

Metabolic inhibition of Clostridium thermocellum, when grown in a high solids environment, was investigated by comparing submerged fermentation (SmF), solid-substrate cultivation (SSC) and solid-substrate cultivation with media replacement by periodic flushing (FSSC). Cellulose conversion extent and end-product concentrations were measured over time. SmF converted approximately 65% of the cellulose in 240 h (10 days), whereas SSC converted <8% in the same period. FSSC converted approximately 25% and 47% of initial substrate after 240 h; 45% and 71% of initial substrate after 25 days, with media replacement every 24 and 12h, respectively. The SSC experienced higher initial production rates for all fermentation products, but could not sustain production rates. When acetate concentrations reached a critical point, the acetate decreased the intracellular volume of C. thermocellum cell suspensions at pH values similar to those observed in SSC. Acids produced by fermentation exacerbated the already unfavorable osmotic condition of SSC, resulting in metabolic inhibition. Consistent with this finding, approximately constant amounts of ethanol, acetate and lactate were produced during each flush of the FSSC. Flushed solid-substrate cultivation maintained favorable growth conditions for C. thermocellum even up to 25 days, allowing more total product to be formed than in the other cultivation methods.
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PMID:Investigation of the metabolic inhibition observed in solid-substrate cultivation of Clostridium thermocellum on cellulose. 2036 36

Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) carries Candidatus liberibacter spp., the putative causal agents of Huanglongbing. D. citri reproduces and develops only on the flushing shoots of its rutaceous host plants. Here we examined whether D. citri is attracted to host plant odors and a mixture of synthetic terpenes. Tests conducted in a vertically oriented Y-tube olfactometer showed that both males and females preferentially entered the Y-tube arm containing the odor from the young shoots of Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack and Citrus limon L. Burm. f. cultivar Eureka. Only males exhibited a preference for the odor of C. sinensis L., whereas the odor of C. x paradisi MacFadyen cultivar Rio Red was not attractive to both sexes. The volatiles emitted by young shoots of grapefruit cultivar Rio Red, Meyer lemon (Citrus x limon L. Burm.f.), and M. paniculata were analyzed by gas chromatograph-mass spectrometry. The samples were comprised of monoterpenes, monoterpene esters, and sesquiterpenes. The number of compounds present varied from 2 to 17, whereas the total amount of sample collected over 6 h ranged from 5.6 to 119.8 ng. The quantitatively dominant constituents were (E)-beta-ocimene, linalool, linalyl acetate, and beta-caryophyllene. The attractiveness of a mixture of synthetic terpenes, modeled on the volatiles collected from M. paniculata, was evaluated in screened cages in a no-choice test. At three observation intervals, significantly more individuals were trapped on white targets scented with the mixture than on unscented targets. These results indicate the feasibility of developing D. citri attractants patterned on actual host plant volatiles.
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PMID:Responses of the Asian citrus psyllid to volatiles emitted by the flushing shoots of its rutaceous host plants. 2038 95

Spermine-graft-dextran (Spe-g-Dex) copolymer was synthesized and used as a non-covalent coating for the separation of proteins and neurotransmitters by capillary electrophoresis. The coating was obtained via flushing the capillary with 1.0% Spe-g-Dex copolymer solution for 2min. Electroosmotic flow (EOF) was strongly suppressed, ranging from -1.60x10(-9) to 3.65x10(-9)m(2)V(-1)s(-1). Effect of experimental conditions, such as the copolymer concentration, the concentration and pH of the background electrolyte (BGE), on the Spe-g-Dex coating was investigated. Separation of lysozyme, cytochrome c, ribonuclease A and alpha-chymotrypsinogen yielded high separation efficiencies ranging from 141000 to 303000plates/m and recoveries from 85.4% to 98.3% at pH 4.0 (284.0mM sodium acetate-acetic acid buffer, I=50mM). Run-to-run repeatabilities and day-to-day, and capillary-to-capillary reproducibilities were all below 1.7%. In addition, Spe-g-Dex coating allowed the successful separation of five neurotransmitters, 5-hydroxytryptamine, dopamine, epinephrine, isoprenaline, dobuamine at pH 4.0 with high separation efficiencies of 290000-449000plates/m.
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PMID:Spermine-graft-dextran non-covalent copolymer as coating material in separation of basic proteins and neurotransmitters by capillary electrophoresis. 2059 36


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