Expanding interest in oxytocin, particularly the role of endogenous oxytocin in human social behavior, has created a pressing need for replication of results and verification of assay methods. In this study, we sought to replicate and extend previous results correlating plasma oxytocin with trust and trustworthy behavior. As a necessary first step, the two most commonly used commercial assays w...

We present for the first time an acoustofluidic method to enrich cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EV) from human plasma, enabling rapid access to a biological nano-compartments rich in biomarkers. The system was characterized using polystyrene nanoparticles. Human EVs from cell-free plasma were successfully enriched and analyzed using a FACS. The technique enables EV-recovery from small sam...

A simple and highly efficient technique for the analysis of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) subspecies in human plasma is described. The streamlined sample preparation protocol furnishes the five major LPA subspecies with excellent recoveries. Extensive analysis of the enriched sample reveals only trace levels of other phospholipids. This level of purity not only improves MS analyses, but enables H...

background: dna isolation procedure can significantly influence the quantification of dna by real time pcr specially when cell free dna (cfdna) is the subject. to assess the extraction efficiency, linearity of the extraction yield, presence of co-purified inhibitors and to avoid problems with fragment size relevant to cfdna, development of appropriate external dna control (edc) is challenging. ...

Gangliosides were isolated from human, bovine, and rabbit plasma and were quantified by gas-liquid chromatography. Purification was achieved by sequential use of partitioning in solvents, DEAE-Sephadex chromatography, base treatment, and silicic acid chromatography. Human and bovine plasma yielded slightly more than 1 micro mole of lipid-bound sialic acid/100 ml; for rabbit plasma the value was...

introduction: mcp (membrane cofactor protein or cd46) is a complement regulatory proteins (crps), which is present in most of body cell membranes (except erythrocytes), and also in most biologycal body fliuds. due to the important role of this protein in the complement system, specially in fertility, the aim of this study was to determine and isolate this protein in human seminal plasma. materi...

a simple and sensitive chemiluminescence-based method was established for the determination of rabeprazole.the proposed method was based on the enhancing effect of rabeprazole on ce(iv)-na2so3 -tb(iii) chemiluminescence reaction. a possible mechanism was discussed for chemiluminescence system by studying uv-vis, fluorescence and chemiluminescence spectra. the effects of various chemical paramet...