OBJECTIVES The lactulose:mannitol (L:M) diagnostic test is frequently used in field studies of environmental enteropathy (EE); however, heterogeneity in test administration and disaccharide measurement has limited the comparison of results between studies and populations. We aim to assess the agreement between L:M measurement between high-performance liquid chromatography with pulsed amperometr...

BACKGROUND Plasma Citrulline concentration has been correlated to functional enterocyte mass. Dried blood spot (DBS) analysis using LC-MSMS reduces sample amount needed. We optimized DBS elution to increase precision and accuracy of DBS LC-MSMS analysis. METHOD DBS control samples were eluted in varying pH (2.2-7.0) and for varying times (15-75 min) and Cit, Arg and Orn were analyzed using LC...

Lysine-specific chemical crosslinking in combination with mass spectrometry is emerging as a tool for the structural characterization of protein complexes and protein-protein interactions. After tryptic digestion of crosslinked proteins there are thousands of peptides amenable to MSMS, of which only very few are crosslinked peptides of interest. Here we describe how the advantage offered by off...

BACKGROUND Although vitamin D insufficiency is prevalent in the community, only a few population-based studies have measured serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25OHD) levels during pregnancy and in newborns. Maternal vitamin D deficiency has been linked to pregnancy complications, as well as hypocalcaemia and rickets in the newborn. Here, the authors report third-trimester maternal and newborn-serum 2...

background: this study aimed to survey a total five common human and veterinary antibiotics, including ampicillin, oxytetracycline, enrofloxacin, tylosin, and ciprofloxacin based on spe-lc-ms-ms technology in a wastewater treatment plant at central plateau of iran. also two sampling techniques, passive and grab samplings were compared in the detection of selected antibiotics. methods: in februa...

Stir bar sorptive extraction followed by liquid desorption and high performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (SBSE-LD-LC-MSMS) has been developed for the determination of 15 pesticides or selected metabolites from different families (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides) in surface water samples. The optimization of parameters that could influence SBSE-LD efficiency was c...

Orellanine (3,3',4,4'-tetrahydroxy-2,2'-bipyridine-1,1'-dioxide) is a tetrahydroxylated di-N-oxidized bipyridine compound. The toxin, present in certain species of Cortinarius mushrooms, is structurally similar to herbicides Paraquat and Diquat. Cortinarius orellanus and Cortinarius rubellus are the major orellanine-containing mushrooms. Cortinarius mushrooms are widely reported in Europe where...