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Experiments that assessed the DPA released from Giorgio-A spores over the course of a 5-min thermal treatment at 108 °C found a significant correlation (R = 0.907; P  less then  0.05) between the log reduction of spores and amount of DPA released. This mixed-mode LC-MS/MS method provides a means for rapid detection of DPA released from C. botulinum spores during thermal processing and has the potential to be used for experiments in the field of food safety that assess the thermal resistance characteristics of various C. botulinum spore types.Sample preparation is an essential step focused on eliminating interfering compounds while pre-concentrating the analytes. However, its multiple steps are laborious, time-consuming, and a source of errors. Currently, automated approaches represent a promising alternative to overcome these drawbacks. Similarly, miniaturisation has been considered an ideal strategy for creating greener analytical workflows. The combination of these concepts is currently highly desired by analytical chemists. However, most automated and miniaturised sample preparation techniques are primarily concerned with liquid samples, while solids are frequently overlooked. We present an approach based on a cartridge packed with solids (soil samples) coupled with a capillary LC-MS, combining sample preparation and analytical steps into a unique platform. As a proof-of-concept, nine pesticides used in sugarcane crops were extracted and analysed by our proposed method. For optimisation, a fractional factorial design (25-1) was performed with the following variables aqueous dilution of the sample (V1), extraction strength (V2), matrix washing time (V3), extraction flow (V4), and analytical flow (V5). After, the most influential ones (V1, V2, and V3) were taken into a central composite design (23) to select their best values. Under optimised conditions, the method reported linear ranges between 10 and 125 ng g-1 with R2 > 0.985. Accuracy and precision were in accordance with the values established by the International Council for Harmonisation (Q2(R1)). Therefore, the proposed approach was effective in extracting and analysing selected pesticides in soil samples. Also, we carried out initial qualitative tests for pesticides in honeybees to see if there is the possibility to apply our method in other solids.Ratiometric electrochemical assays have been demonstrated to be more sensitive and selective in various sensing events, mainly due to their affordable built-in correction and good self-reference capability. But it is known that complicated modification and labeling operations usually are necessary for the construction of ratiometric electrochemical assays, therefore is a hot and important issue needing consideration carefully. We herein report a new yet simple bare electrode-based ratiometric electrochemical bioassay to achieve sensitive and selective analysis of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), using a liquid phase system that contains CoOOH nanozymes and commercially available indicator substrate. This proposed bioassay works based on the ratiometric change of dual electrochemical signals, arising from an exclusive target ALP-triggered hydrolysis of electrochemical substrate p-nitrophenyl phosphate (PNPP). In this design, the two hydrolyzed products of electrochemically active p-nitrophenol (PNP) and electrochemfor simple, convenient, and portable electroanalytical tools in biosensing design and application.Bottom-up proteomics is a powerful method for the functional characterization of mouse gut microbiota. To date, most of the bottom-up proteomics studies of the mouse gut rely on limited amounts of fecal samples. With mass-limited samples, the performance of such analyses is highly dependent on the protein extraction protocols and contaminant removal strategies. Here, protein extraction protocols (using different lysis buffers) and contaminant removal strategies (using different types of filters and beads) were systematically evaluated to maximize quantitative reproducibility and the number of identified proteins. Overall, our results recommend a protein extraction method using a combination of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and urea in Tris-HCl to yield the greatest number of protein identifications. These conditions led to an increase in the number of proteins identified from gram-positive bacteria, such as Firmicutes and Actinobacteria, which is a challenging task. Our analysis further confirmed these conditions led to the extraction of non-abundant bacterial phyla such as Proteobacteria. In addition, we found that, when coupled to our optimized extraction method, suspension trap (S-Trap) outperforms other contaminant removal methods by providing the most reproducible method while producing the greatest number of protein identifications. Overall, our optimized sample preparation workflow is straightforward and fast, and requires minimal sample handling. Furthermore, our approach does not require high amounts of fecal samples, a vital consideration in proteomics studies where mice produce smaller amounts of feces due to a particular physiological condition. Our final method provides efficient digestion of mouse fecal material, is reproducible, and leads to high proteomic coverage for both host and microbiome proteins.

To investigate the association between sex hormones and osteoporosis in type 2 diabetic mellitus (T2DM) patients.

We performed a retrospective study in patients with T2DM. The patients were assigned into three groups (normal bone mineral density, osteopenia, and osteoporosis) in both sexes. The clinical characteristics, bone metabolic markers, and sex hormones were compared. The relationship between the sex hormones and osteoporosis was analyzed by ordinary regression analysis. Angiogenesis inhibitor Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 26.0.

A total of 795 T2DM patients (446 men ≥ 50years old and 349 postmenopausal women) were identified and analyzed. The osteoporosis group had the lowest estradiol level in men (P = 0.013) and the highest follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) level in women (P = 0.042). In the multivariate analysis, men with lower estradiol levels (< 87.96pmol/L) had a nearly 1.6-fold increased risk for osteoporosis than those with the higher estradiol levels (> 122.82pmol/L). In addition, women with lower FSH (< 41.17IU/L) had nearly 0.6-fold for osteoporosis compared to those with higher FSH (> 60.83IU/L) after adjusting for age, duration of T2DM, body mass index, pulse pressure, creatinine clearance, glycosylated hemoglobin, fasting C-peptide, and estradiol (in FSH) or FSH (in estradiol).

In T2DM, the estrogen level was negatively correlated with osteoporosis in men, and the FSH level was positively correlated with the osteoporosis in women.

In T2DM, the estrogen level was negatively correlated with osteoporosis in men, and the FSH level was positively correlated with the osteoporosis in women.

Osteoporosis is closely related to iron metabolism. This study aimed to investigate whether hops extract (HLE) and its active component xanthohumol (XAN) could ameliorate bone loss caused by iron overload, and explored its potential mechanism.

Iron overload mice induced by iron dextran (ID) were used in vivo, and were treated with HLE and XAN for 3months. Bone micro-structure and bone morphology parameters were determined by Micro-CT and TRAP staining. Bone metabolism markers and oxidation indexes in serum and bone tissue were evaluated. For in vitro experiment, bone formation indexes were determined. Moreover, the expression of key proteins in protein kinase B (Akt)/glycogen synthetase kinase 3β (GSK3β)/nuclear factor E2-related (Nrf2) pathway was evaluated by Western blotting.

HLE and XAN effectively improved the bone micro-structure of the femur in mice, altered bone metabolism biomarkers, and regulated the expression of proteins related to bone metabolism. Additionally, they significantly promoted cell proliferation, runt-related gene 2 (Runx2) expression, and increased ALP activity in ID-induced osteoblasts. Moreover, HLE and XAN markedly inhibited the increase of oxidative stress caused by iron overload in vivo and in vitro. Further studies showed that they significantly up-regulated the expression of p-Akt, p-GSK3β, nuclear-Nrf2, NAD(P)Hquinoneoxidoreductase 1 (NQO1), and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in ID-induced osteoblasts.

These findings indicated hops and xanthohumol could ameliorate bone loss induced by iron overload via activating Akt/GSK3β/Nrf2 pathway, which brought up a novel sight for senile osteoporosis therapy.

These findings indicated hops and xanthohumol could ameliorate bone loss induced by iron overload via activating Akt/GSK3β/Nrf2 pathway, which brought up a novel sight for senile osteoporosis therapy.This study examined if people with chronic stroke (PwCS) could adapt following non-paretic overground gait-slips and whether such prior exposure to non-paretic slips could improve reactive responses on novel paretic slip. Forty-nine PwCS were randomly assigned to either adaptation group, which received eight unexpected, overground, nonparetic-side gait-slips followed by two paretic-side slips or a control group, which received two paretic-side slips. Slip outcome, recovery strategies, center of mass (CoM) state stability, post-slip stride length and slipping kinematics were analyzed. The adaptation group demonstrated fall-reduction from first to eighth non-paretic slips, along with improved stability, stride length and slipping kinematics (p  0.01). However, there was a rapid improvement on the 2nd slip such that adaptation group demonstrated improved performance from the first to second paretic slip compared to that in the control group (p  less then  0.01). PwCS demonstrated immediate proactive and reactive adaptation with overground, nonparetic-side gait-slips. However, PwCS did not demonstrate any inter-limb performance gain on the paretic-side after prior nonparetic-side adaptation when exposed to a novel paretic-side slip; but they did show significant positive gains with single slip priming on the paretic-side compared to controls without prior adaptation.Clinical registry number NCT03205527.The application of machine learning (ML) to the field of orthopaedic surgery is rapidly increasing, but many surgeons remain unfamiliar with the nuances of this novel technique. With this editorial, we address a fundamental topic-the differences between ML techniques and traditional statistics. By doing so, we aim to further familiarize the reader with the new opportunities available thanks to the ML approach.Identifying linked cases of infection is a critical component of the public health response to viral infectious diseases. In a clinical context, there is a need to make rapid assessments of whether cases of infection have arrived independently onto a ward, or are potentially linked via direct transmission. Viral genome sequence data are of great value in making these assessments, but are often not the only form of data available. Here, we describe A2B-COVID, a method for the rapid identification of potentially linked cases of COVID-19 infection designed for clinical settings. Our method combines knowledge about infection dynamics, data describing the movements of individuals, and evolutionary analysis of genome sequences to assess whether data collected from cases of infection are consistent or inconsistent with linkage via direct transmission. A retrospective analysis of data from two wards at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust during the first wave of the pandemic showed qualitatively different patterns of linkage between cases on designated COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 wards.