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Nanosilver-Decorated Bio-degradable Mesoporous Organosilica Nanoparticles for GSH-Responsive Gentamicin Launch along with Hand in glove Treatments for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.

The results indicated that a non-thermal desorption mechanism might be involved in the LDI process on FEP@SiNWs. Owing to the higher LDI efficiency and low background interference of this novel substrate, the metabolic fingerprint of complex bio-fluids, such as human saliva, can be sensitively and stably acquired. As a proof of concept, FEP@SiNWs chip was successfully used in the detection of salivary metabolites. With the assistance of multivariate analysis, 22 metabolic candidates (p less then 0.05) which can discriminate type 2 diabetes mellitus (2-DM) and healthy volunteers were found and identified. The role of these feature metabolites in the metabolic pathway involved in 2-DM was confirmed by literature mining. This work demonstrates that FEP@SiNWs-based NIMS might be served as an efficient and high throughput platform for metabolic biomarker exploration and clinical diagnosis.Frequent on-line and automated monitoring of multiple protein biomarkers level secreted in the culture media during tissue growth is essential for the successful development of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM) products. link= Entinostat Here, we present a low-cost, rapid, reliable, and integrable anion-exchange membrane-(AEM) based multiplexed sensing platform for this application. Unlike the gold-standard manual ELISA test, incubation/wash steps are optimized for each target and precisely metered in microfluidic chips to enhance selectivity. Unlike optical detection and unreliable visual detection for the ELISA test, which require standardization for every usage, the AEM ion current signal also offers robustness, endowed by the pH and ionic strength control capability of the ion-selective membrane, such that a universal standard curve can be used to calibrate all runs. The electrical signal is enhanced by highly charged silica nanoparticle reporters, which also act as hydrodynamic shear amplifiers to enhance selectivity during wash. This AEM-based sensing platform is tested with vascular protein biomarkers, Endothelin-1 (ET-1), Angiogenin (ANG) and Placental Growth Factor (PlGF). The limit of detection and three-decade dynamic range are comparable to ELISA assay but with a significantly reduced assay time of 1 h vs 7 h, due to the elimination of calibration and blocking steps. Optimized protocol for each target renders the detection highly reliable with more than 98% confidence. The multiplexed detection capability of the platform is also demonstrated by simultaneous detection of ET-1, ANG and PlGF in 40 μl of the vascular endothelial cell culture supernatants using three-membrane AEM sensor and the performance is validated against ELISA.ER stress has close relation with various metabolic diseases including obesity and insulin resistance, and could result in the abnormal production of ROS including O2-. Real-time and in situ detection of endogenous O2- in ER is vitally important for revealing the physiological roles of O2- during ER stress. Herein, we present an ER-specific two-photon probe (ER-Rs) for the detection of endogenous O2- in living cells and zebrafishes. Entinostat The probe ER-Rs employed triflate as the response site for O2-, and used p-methylsulfonamide as the ER-specific moiety. In response to O2-, the triflate group of the probe ER-Rs was transformed to hydroxyl and the turn-on fluorescence was produced. The probe ER-Rs displayed highly sensitive and selective response to O2-, and could be employed as an ER-specific two-photon probe for the visualization of endogenous O2- in live cells, tissues and zebrafishes.A convenient, facile, and mask-free approach assay was developed for single-cell study by using a combination of inkjet printing technology and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchip-assisted processing. The inkjet printing technology resulted in 91% of the single-cell occupancy by individually spraying MCF-7 cells on a hydrophobic substrate and enabled the control over the number of cells with precision by strictly optimizing the printing parameters. Further, the microchip containing a cell chamber and straight channels was attached to the glass slide to explore the real-time performance of the cells. To address the performance attributes, the enzyme kinetics and various parameters of the post-printed MCF-7 cells, such as the levels of cell viability, reactive oxygen species (ROS), cell apoptosis, and proliferation, are monitored in real-time. Interestingly, high activity and proliferation, low level of ROS, and cell apoptosis demonstrated that the developed method provided a new way to the study of single-cell in-depth. Finally, ATP-induced cell proliferation of different cell number were analyzed, and the results would provide another perspective for the diagnosis and medical treatment.Visible-light activated photocatalytic coatings may represent an attractive antimicrobial solution in domains such as food, beverage, pharmaceutical, biomedical and wastewater remediation. Entinostat However, testing methods to determine the antibacterial effects of photocatalytic coatings are limited and require specialist expertise. link2 This paper describes the development of a method that enables rapid screening of coatings for photocatalytic-antibacterial activity. Relying on the ability of viable microorganisms to reduce the dye resazurin from a blue to a pink colour, the method relates the time taken to detect this colour change with number of viable microorganisms. The antibacterial activity of two photocatalytic materials (bismuth oxide and titanium dioxide) were screened against two pathogenic organisms (Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae) that represent potential target microorganisms using traditional testing and enumeration techniques (BS ISO 274472009) and the novel rapid method. Bismuth oxide showed excellent antibacterial activity under ambient visible light against E. link2 link3 coli, but was less effective against K. pneumoniae. The rapid method showed excellent agreement with existing tests in terms of number of viable cells recovered. Due to advantages such as low cost, high throughput, and less reliance on microbiological expertise, this method is recommended for researchers seeking an inexpensive first-stage screen for putative photocatalytic-antibacterial coatings.A chemical imaging method to mass surveil bacteria cells among plant tissues in situ is reported. Bacteria cells were pre-labeled with 3-mercaptophenylboronic acid for complexation with gold nanoparticles. Surface-enhanced Raman spectra were collated en masse to generate panoramic chemical images of bacteria populations. The approach was successfully employed to study the distribution of mass bacteria populations directly on and in selected plant tissues. This study demonstrates the great potential with which SERS imaging can be utilized for the study of bacterial cells among complex matrices, in some ways that are superior to electron and fluorescent microscopies.We have shown for the first time that it is possible to use a bacteria-based sensory system consisting of the bacterium Pseudomonas putida TSh-18 and an electro-optical sensor to detect ampicillin in the concentration range 0.5-600 μg/mL. Changes in the anisotropy of cell polarizability were detected at 900 and 2100 kHz; these represented the state of the cytoplasm and of the cell membrane, respectively. The changes indicate the quickest cell response to changes in the characteristics of the bacterial culture exposed to ampicillin. We have also shown that it is possible to monitor the ampicillin in the presence of kanamycin. In control experiments, we examined the effects of ampicillin and kanamycin on bacterial cells by phase-contrast microscopy and by standard microbiological tests on solid media. P. putida TSh-18 is recommended as a sensor system for ampicillin detection. Electro-optical analysis ensures detection of ampicillin in aquatic solutions in real-time, takes 10 min, and offers a lower limit of ampicillin detection of 0.5 μg/mL, which is lower than the European Community's maximum residue limit standards for penicillin antibiotics.A sandwich-type electrochemical immunosensor was developed for the detection of CEA where hollow magnetic silica coated nickel/carbon (Ni/C@SiO2) nanocomposites was used as an immobilized carrier and gold nanoparticle-coated PANI microsphere (CPS@PANI@Au) as electrochemical transducer. Magnetic assembly of Ni/C@SiO2 nanocomposites allow easy separation and assembly which eliminates the further modification process. In addition, the prepared CPS@PANI@Au possess good biocompatibility, and electrical conductivity. The fabricated immunosensor show excellent sensing performance including a wide dynamic range from 0.006 to 12.00 ng mL-1 and low detection limit at 1.56 pg mL-1. Moreover, this sensor shows superior selectivity with excellent reliability and reproducibility which might lead into easier implementation in clinical setting.Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), poses extraordinary threats and complex challenges to global public health. Quantitative measurement of SARS-CoV-2 antibody titer plays an important role in understanding the patient-to-patient variability of immune response, assessing the efficacy of vaccines, and identifying donors for blood transfusion therapy. There is an urgent and ever-increasing demand for serological COVID-19 antibody tests that are highly sensitive, quantitative, rapid, simple, minimally invasive, and inexpensive. In this work, we developed a single-step, wash-free immunoassay for rapid and highly sensitive quantitative analysis of serological human IgG against SARS-CoV-2 which requires only a single droplet of serum. By simply incubating 4 μL human serum samples with antibody-functionalized gold nanoparticles, a photonic crystal optical biosensor coated with the recombinant spike protein serves as a sensing platform for the formation of sandwich immunocomplex through specific antigen-antibody interactions, upon which the detected IgG molecules can be counted with digital precision. We demonstrated a single-step 15-min assay capable of detecting as low as 100 pg mL-1 human COVID-19 IgG in serum samples. The calculated limit of detecting (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) is 26.7 ± 7.7 and 32.0 ± 8.9 pg mL-1, respectively. This work represents the first utilization of the Activate Capture + Digital Counting (AC + DC)-based immunoassay for rapid and quantitative analysis of serological COVID-19 antibody, demonstrating a route toward point-of-care testing, using a portable detection instrument. On the basis of the sandwich immunoassay principle, the biosensing platform can be extended for the multiplexed detection of antigens, additional IgGs, cytokines, and other protein biomarkers.Fluorescent probes act as a powerful tool to understand the function of intracellular viscosity, which are closely associated with many functional disorders and diseases. Herein we report a boron-dipyrromethene (4,4-difluoro-4-borata-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene, BODIPY) group based new fluorescent probe (BV-1), which was synthesized facilely by a one-step Knoevenagel-type condensation reaction, to detect viscosity in living cells with high selectivity and sensitivity. DFT calculation demonstrated that the unsaturated moiety at the meso-position of BODIPY suppressed the fluorescence via twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) mechanism in low viscosity media. link3 By restricting the rotation of the molecular rotor, the fluorescence would be enhanced significantly with redshift in emission wavelength in high viscosity conditions. The fluorescence intensity ratio (log (I/I0)) at 570 nm showed a good linearity (R2 = 0.991) with the viscosity (log η) in the range of 2-868 cP. And the limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) for viscosity were calculated to be 0.