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Open AccessResearch Progress of Long Non-coding RNAs in Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal cord injury (SCI) can result in a partial or complete loss of motor and sensory function below the injured segment, which has a significant impact on patients' quality of life and places a significant s...
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Mitochondrial FAD shortage in SLC25A32 deficiency affects folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism
The SLC25A32 dysfunction is associated with neural tube defects (NTDs) and exercise intolerance, but very little is known about disease-specific mechanisms due to a paucity of animal models. Here, we generated...
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Performance of atmospheric pressure gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the analysis of organochlorine pesticides in human serum
A novel method of atmospheric pressure gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (APGC-MS/MS) for the analysis of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in human serum was developed. Better sensitivity and selecti...
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Hippocampal metabolomics using ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry reveals neuroinflammation from Alzheimer’s disease in CRND8 mice
In the wake of genomics, metabolomics characterizes the small molecular metabolites revealing the phenotypes induced by gene mutants. To address the metabolic signatures in the hippocampus of the amyloid-beta ...
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Newborn screening of phenylketonuria using direct analysis in real time (DART) mass spectrometry
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is commonly included in the newborn screening panel of most countries, with various techniques being used for quantification of l-phenylalanine (Phe). To diagnose PKU as early as possible in...
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Advances of MALDI-TOF MS in the Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicines
Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) are attracting more and more attention because of their long historical clinical experience and reliable therapeutic efficacy for preventing and/or treating various human d...
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Proteomics investigation on aristolochic acid nephropathy: a case study on rat kidney tissues
Prolonged intake of aristolochic acid (AA) has been shown to be associated with the development of certain renal disorders. Renal tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis are the early symptoms of AA nephropa...
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Site-specific binding of chelerythrine and sanguinarine to single pyrimidine bulges in hairpin DNA
Spectrofluorometric titration, electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometric and UV melting methods were employed to study the binding of chelerythrine and sanguinarine to bulged DNA. The results s...
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Determination of five nitrobenzoic acids in groundwater by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry
A method involving solid-phase extraction (SPE) and reversed-phase liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) has been developed for determination, in groundwater, of nitrobenzoic acids associated with 2,...
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Determination of glucosinolates in traditional Chinese herbs by high-performance liquid chromatography and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
A reversed-phase HPLC method has been developed for determination of twelve intact glucosinolates—glucoiberin, glucocheirolin, progoitrin, sinigrin, epiprogoitrin, glucoraphenin, sinalbin, gluconapin, glucosib...
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Plasma phospholipid metabolic profiling and biomarkers of mouse IgA nephropathy
IgA nephropathy is the most common form of glomerulonephritis (GN) and it could progress to end-stage renal failure within 10 years. Participating in biological processes in various pathways, phospholipids as ...
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Analysis of dinitro- and amino-nitro-toluenesulfonic acids in groundwater by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry
A reversed-phase LC–MS method with quadrupole-time of flight (QTOF) detection has been developed for the determination of four dinitro-toluenesulfonic acids and two amino-nitro-toluenesulfonic acids in groundw...
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Determination of two intact glucosinolates in vegetables and Chinese herbs
A reversed-phase HPLC method was developed for analyzing sinigrin and gluconasturtiin in six vegetable and two Chinese herb samples. A gradient program and mobile phases using methanol and 0.05% trifluoroaceti...
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Purification, Electrophoretic Behavior, and Kinetics of Iron Release of Liver Ferritin of Dasyatis akajei
From the liver of fish Dasyatis akajei, ferritin has been isolated by thermal denaturation and ammonium sulfate fractionation and then further purified by anion exchange chromatography and gel exclusion chromatog...