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Duan Y, An Y, Li N, Liu B, Wang Y, Tang H. Multiple univariate data analysis reveals the inulin effects on the high-fat-diet induced metabolic alterations in rat myocardium and testicles in the preobesity state. J Proteome Res 2013; 12:3480-95. [PMID: 23700965 DOI: 10.1021/pr400341f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Obesity is a worldwide epidemic and a well-known risk factor for many diseases affecting billions of people's health and well-being. However, little information is available for metabolic changes associated with the effects of obesity development and interventions on cardiovascular and reproduction systems. Here, we systematically analyzed the effects of high-fat diet (HFD) and inulin intake on the metabolite compositions of myocardium and testicle using NMR spectroscopy. We developed a useful high-throughput method based on multiple univariate data analysis (MUDA) to visualize and efficiently extract information on metabolites significantly affected by an intervention. We found that HFD caused widespread metabolic changes in both rat myocardium and testicles involving fatty acid β-oxidation together with the metabolisms of choline, amino acids, purines and pyrimidines even before HFD caused significant body-weight increases. Inulin intake ameliorated some of the HFD-induced metabolic changes in both myocardium (3-HB, lactate and guanosine) and testicle tissues (3-HB, inosine and betaine). A remarkable elevation of scyllo-inositol was also observable with inulin intake in both tissues. These findings offered essential information for the inulin effects on the HFD-induced metabolic changes and demonstrated this MUDA method as a powerful alternative to traditionally used multivariate data analysis for metabonomics.
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- Yixuan Duan
- Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Li J, Deng Y, Yuan C, Pan L, Chai H, Keller WJ, Kinghorn AD. Antioxidant and quinone reductase-inducing constituents of black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) fruits. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2012; 60:11551-11559. [PMID: 23131110 DOI: 10.1021/jf303712e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Using in vitro hydroxyl radical-scavenging and quinone reductase-inducing assays, bioactivity-guided fractionation of an ethyl acetate-soluble extract of the fruits of the botanical dietary supplement, black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa), led to the isolation of 27 compounds, including a new depside, ethyl 2-[(3,4-dihydroxybenzoyloxy)-4,6-dihydroxyphenyl] acetate (1), along with 26 known compounds (2-27). The structures of the isolated compounds were identified by analysis of their physical and spectroscopic data ([α](D), NMR, IR, UV, and MS). Altogether, 17 compounds (1-4, 9, 15-17, and 19-27) showed significant antioxidant activity in the hydroxyl radical-scavenging assay, with hyperin (24, ED(50) = 0.17 μM) being the most potent. The new compound (1, ED(50) = 0.44 μM) also exhibited potent antioxidant activity in this assay. Three constituents of black chokeberry fruits doubled quinone reductase activity at concentrations <20 μM, namely, protocatechuic acid [9, concentration required to double quinone reductase activity (CD) = 4.3 μM], neochlorogenic acid methyl ester (22, CD = 6.7 μM), and quercetin (23, CD = 3.1 μM).
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- Jie Li
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, 500 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Jiang L, Huang J, Wang Y, Tang H. Eliminating the dication-induced intersample chemical-shift variations for NMR-based biofluid metabonomic analysis. Analyst 2012; 137:4209-19. [PMID: 22858594 DOI: 10.1039/c2an35392j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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NMR-based urinary metabonomic analysis is an essential aspect of systems biology for understanding mammalian physiology and pathophysiology though intersample chemical-shift variations can cause serious problems. Here, we report two optimized and validated methods to eliminate such variations resulting from intersample differences in pH and dication concentration. We found that the Ca(2+) concentration was 7.41 ± 3.48, 1.03 ± 0.34 and 0.87 ± 0.52 mM whereas the Mg(2+) concentration was 3.02 ± 1.41, 2.65 ± 1.20 and 0.80 ± 0.59 mM in rat, mouse and human urine samples, respectively; urinary Ca-EDTA, Mg-EDTA and free EDTA had spin-lattice relaxation time values (600.13 MHz) of 0.38, 0.41 and 0.55 s, respectively. We also found that the combined treatments with potassium fluoride, phosphate buffer and a small amount of K(3)EDTA eliminated intersample chemical-shift variations for all metabolites. EDTA treatment followed with phosphate buffer also achieved similar results although resonances from EDTA and its complexes obscured some metabolite signals. We systematically optimized the amount of additives for rat, mouse and human urine samples taking into consideration the pH control, signal-to-noise ratio and intersample uniformity for metabolite chemical-shifts. Based on thorough validation, we established some optimized procedures for rat, mouse and human urine, respectively. By eliminating both pH and dication effects, these methods enable the reduction of intersample chemical-shift variations to 1.5 Hz for all metabolites. The methods will offer ensured data quality for high-throughput, especially robotic urinary metabonomics studies with no need for peak alignments or corrections.
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- Limiao Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Center for Biospectroscopy and Metabonomics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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Ulbricht C, Abrams TR, Brigham A, Ceurvels J, Clubb J, Curtiss W, Kirkwood CD, Giese N, Hoehn K, Iovin R, Isaac R, Rusie E, Serrano JMG, Varghese M, Weissner W, Windsor RC. An evidence-based systematic review of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration. J Diet Suppl 2012; 7:351-413. [PMID: 22432564 DOI: 10.3109/19390211.2010.525049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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An evidence-based systematic review of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), including written and statistical analysis of scientific literature, expert opinion, folkloric precedent, history, pharmacology, kinetics/dynamics, interactions, adverse effects, toxicology, and dosing.
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Ye Y, Wang X, Zhang L, Lu Z, Yan X. Unraveling the concentration-dependent metabolic response of Pseudomonas sp. HF-1 to nicotine stress by ¹H NMR-based metabolomics. ECOTOXICOLOGY (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2012; 21:1314-1324. [PMID: 22437205 DOI: 10.1007/s10646-012-0885-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/07/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Nicotine can cause oxidative damage to organisms; however, some bacteria, for example Pseudomonas sp. HF-1, are resistant to such oxidative stress. In the present study, we analyzed the concentration-dependent metabolic response of Pseudomonas sp. HF-1 to nicotine stress using ¹H NMR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate data analysis. We found that the dominant metabolites in Pseudomonas sp. HF-1 were eight aliphatic organic acids, six amino acids, three sugars and 11 nucleotides. After 18 h of cultivation, 1 g/L nicotine caused significant elevation of sugar (glucose, trehalose and maltose), succinate and nucleic acid metabolites (cytidine, 5'-CMP, guanine 2',3'-cyclic phosphate and adenosine 2',3'-cyclic phosphate), but decrease of glutamate, putrescine, pyrimidine, 2-propanol, diethyl ether and acetamide levels. Similar metabolomic changes were induced by 2 g/L nicotine, except that no significant change in trehalose, 5'-UMP levels and diethyl ether were found. However, 3 g/L nicotine led to a significant elevation in the two sugars (trehalose and maltose) levels and decrease in the levels of glutamate, putrescine, pyrimidine and 2-propanol. Our findings indicated that nicotine resulted in the enhanced nucleotide biosynthesis, decreased glucose catabolism, elevated succinate accumulation, severe disturbance in osmoregulation and complex antioxidant strategy. And a further increase of nicotine level was a critical threshold value that triggered the change of metabolic flow in Pseudomonas sp. HF-1. These findings revealed the comprehensive insights into the metabolic response of nicotine-degrading bacteria to nicotine-induced oxidative toxicity.
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- Yangfang Ye
- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Ningbo 315211, China
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Sample preparation method to minimize chemical shift variability for NMR-based urinary metabonomics of genetically hypertensive rats. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2012; 66:339-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2012.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2012] [Revised: 02/21/2012] [Accepted: 02/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ye Y, Zhang L, Tang H, Yan X. Survey of nutrients and quality assessment of crab paste by 1H NMR spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5119-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Liu XJ, Li ZY, Li ZF, Gao XX, Zhou YZ, Sun HF, Zhang LZ, Guo XQ, Du GH, Qin XM. Urinary metabonomic study using a CUMS rat model of depression. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2012; 50:187-192. [PMID: 22367791 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2011] [Revised: 10/26/2011] [Accepted: 11/08/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) is a well-validated model of depression. In this study, a urinary metabonomics method based on the NMR spectrometry was used to study the metabolic perturbation in CUMS-induced rat depression model. With pattern recognition analysis, a clear separation of CUMS rats and healthy controls was achieved, and nine endogenous metabolites contributing to the separation were identified. CUMS-treated rats were characterized by the increase of glycine, pyruvate, glutamine, and asparagines, as well as the decrease of 2-oxoglutarate, dimethylglycine, citrate, succinate, and acetate. The urinary biochemical changes related to the metabolic disturbance in CUMS induced depression, and the possible correlations with live qi stagnation in traditional Chinese medicine are discussed. The work shows that CUMS is a reliable model for studying depression, and the noninvasive urinary metabolomic method is a valuable tool to investigate the biochemical pertubations in depression as an early diagnostic means.
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- Xiao-Jie Liu
- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine of Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
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Wei F, Furihata K, Koda M, Hu F, Miyakawa T, Tanokura M. Roasting process of coffee beans as studied by nuclear magnetic resonance: time course of changes in composition. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2012; 60:1005-1012. [PMID: 22224944 DOI: 10.1021/jf205315r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In this paper, we report a (1)H and (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based comprehensive analysis of coffee bean extracts of different degrees of roast. The roasting process of coffee bean extracts was chemically characterized using detailed signal assignment information coupled with multivariate data analysis. A total of 30 NMR-visible components of coffee bean extracts were monitored simultaneously as a function of the roasting duration. During roasting, components such as sucrose and chlorogenic acids were degraded and components such as quinic acids, N-methylpyridinium, and water-soluble polysaccharides were formed. Caffeine and myo-inositol were relatively thermally stable. Multivariate data analysis indicated that some components such as sucrose, chlorogenic acids, quinic acids, and polysaccharides could serve as chemical markers during coffee bean roasting. The present composition-based quality analysis provides an excellent holistic method and suggests useful chemical markers to control and characterize the coffee-roasting process.
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- Feifei Wei
- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Liu H, Zheng A, Liu H, Yu H, Wu X, Xiao C, Dai H, Hao F, Zhang L, Wang Y, Tang H. Identification of three novel polyphenolic compounds, origanine A-C, with unique skeleton from Origanum vulgare L. using the hyphenated LC-DAD-SPE-NMR/MS methods. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2012; 60:129-135. [PMID: 22142199 DOI: 10.1021/jf204406u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Identification of new compounds especially those with new skeletons from plant kingdom has long been a vital aspect for understanding phytochemistry, plant metabolisms and discovering new bioactive compounds. In this study, we identified and isolated three novel polyphenolic compounds, origanine A-C, from a well-researched plant Origanum vulgare L. using the hyphenated LC-DAD-SPE-NMR/MS methods. Based on the combined information from UV-visible, accurate mass and 2D NMR spectra together with computational calculations, we found that these compounds all had a novel skeleton of cyclohexenetetracarboxylic acids attached with some well-known bioactive moieties including 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl, 4-(β-d-glucopyranosyloxy)benzyl alcohol (gastrodin), and 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)lactic acid (danshensu) residues. These findings provided crucial information to fill the gaps in our knowledge in terms of the plant secondary metabolism. This study also indicated the necessity for further research in plant secondary metabolism for even well-studied plants and demonstrated the powerfulness of the hyphenated LC-DAD-SPE-NMR/MS methods for comprehensive analysis of plant metabolites in particular for discovering new natural compounds.
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- Hongbing Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, PR China
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Koolen HHF, Soares ER, da Silva FMA, Lima de Souza AQ, de Medeiros LS, Filho ER, de Almeida RA, Ribeiro IA, do Ó Pessoa C, de Morais MO, da Costa PM, de Souza ADL. An antimicrobial diketopiperazine alkaloid and co-metabolites from an endophytic strain of Gliocladium isolated from Strychnos cf. toxifera. Nat Prod Res 2011; 26:2013-9. [DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2011.639070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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- Hector Henrique Ferreira Koolen
- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Av. Gal. Rodrigo Otávio, 3000 Mail Box 69077-000, Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Av. Gal. Rodrigo Otávio, 3000 Mail Box 69077-000, Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Av. Gal. Rodrigo Otávio, 3000 Mail Box 69077-000, Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil
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- c Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal de São Carlos , São Carlos , São Paulo , Brazil
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- c Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal de São Carlos , São Carlos , São Paulo , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Av. Gal. Rodrigo Otávio, 3000 Mail Box 69077-000, Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Av. Gal. Rodrigo Otávio, 3000 Mail Box 69077-000, Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil
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- d Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia , Universidade Federal do Ceará , Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil
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- d Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia , Universidade Federal do Ceará , Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil
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- d Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia , Universidade Federal do Ceará , Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Av. Gal. Rodrigo Otávio, 3000 Mail Box 69077-000, Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil
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Bharti SK, Bhatia A, Tewari SK, Sidhu OP, Roy R. Application of HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy for studying chemotype variations of Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2011; 49:659-67. [PMID: 21915899 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2011] [Revised: 06/25/2011] [Accepted: 06/29/2011] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal (Solanaceae), commonly known as Ashwagandha, is one of the most valued Indian medicinal plants with a number of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications. Metabolic profiling has been performed by HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy on fresh leaf and root tissue specimens from four chemotypes of W. somnifera. The HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy of lyophilized defatted leaf tissue specimens clearly distinguishes resonances of medicinally important secondary metabolites (withaferin A and withanone) and its distinctive quantitative variability among the chemotypes. A total of 41 metabolites were identified from both the leaf and root tissues of the chemotypes. The presence of methanol in leaf and root tissues of W. somnifera was detected by HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy. Multivariate principal component analysis (PCA) on HR-MAS (1) H NMR spectra of leaves revealed clear variations in primary metabolites among the chemotypes. The results of the present study demonstrated an efficient method, which can be utilized for metabolite profiling of primary and secondary metabolites in medicinally important plants.
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- S K Bharti
- Centre of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, SGPGIMS (Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences) Campus, Lucknow, UP, India
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Boschi F, Fontanella M, Calderan L, Sbarbati A. Luminescence and fluorescence of essential oils. Fluorescence imaging in vivo of wild chamomile oil. Eur J Histochem 2011; 55:e18. [PMID: 22193298 PMCID: PMC3284154 DOI: 10.4081/ejh.2011.e18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2010] [Revised: 04/27/2011] [Accepted: 05/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Essential oils are currently of great importance to pharmaceutical companies, cosmetics producers and manufacturers of veterinary products. They are found in perfumes, creams, bath products, and household cleaning substances, and are used for flavouring food and drinks. It is well known that some of them act on the respiratory apparatus. The increasing interest in optical imaging techniques and the development of related technologies have made possible the investigation of the optical properties of several compounds. Luminescent properties of essential oils have not been extensively investigated. We evaluated the luminescent and fluorescent emissions of several essential oils, in order to detect them in living organisms by exploiting their optical properties. Some fluorescent emission data were high enough to be detected in dermal treatments. Consequently, we demonstrated how the fluorescent signal can be monitored for at least three hours on the skin of living mice treated with wild chamomile oil. The results encourage development of this technique to investigate the properties of drugs and cosmetics containing essential oils.
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- F Boschi
- Department of Morphological-Biomedical Sciences, Section of Anatomy and Histology, University of Verona, strada Le Grazie 8, 37134 Verona, Italy.
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He Q, Ren P, Kong X, Xu W, Tang H, Yin Y, Wang Y. Intrauterine growth restriction alters the metabonome of the serum and jejunum in piglets. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:2147-55. [PMID: 21584308 DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05024a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is not only an underlying factor for stunted postnatal growth and newborn deaths, but also associated with disease prevalence, such as hypertension and diabetes, in both adult humans and animals. To investigate the metabolic status of IUGR, the differences in serum and jejunal tissue metabonome were examined in IUGR and normal weight 21 day old piglets. IUGR piglets had a significantly lower birth weight (785 ± 42 g vs. 1451 ± 124 g), weaned weight (3053 ± 375 g vs. 6489 ± 545 g) and average daily gain (108 ± 16 g vs. 240 ± 21 g) than normal weight piglets (p < 0.05). IUGR piglets also had a shorter villus height and smaller villus height to crypt depth ratio (p < 0.05) in jejunum. An NMR-based metabonomic study found that serum levels of glycoprotein, albumin and threonine were higher in IUGR than in normal weight piglets, while serum levels of HDL, lipids, unsaturated lipids, glycerophosphorylcholine, myo-inositol, citrate, glutamine and tyrosine were lower in IUGR piglets (p < 0.05). In addition, marked changes in jejunal metabolites, including elevated levels of lipids and unsaturated lipids, and decreased levels of valine, alanine, glutamine, glutamate, choline, glycerophosphorylcholine, trimethylamine-N-oxide, scyllo-inositol, lactate, creatine, glucose, galactose, phenylalanine, tyrosine, glutathione, inosine and taurine were observed in IUGR piglets (p < 0.05). These novel findings indicate that IUGR piglets have a distinctive metabolic status compared to normal weight piglets, including changes in lipogenesis, lipid oxidation, energy supply and utilization, amino acid and protein metabolism, and antioxidant ability; these changes could contribute to impaired growth and jejunal function.
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- Qinghua He
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R. China
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He Q, Ren P, Kong X, Wu Y, Wu G, Li P, Hao F, Tang H, Blachier F, Yin Y. Comparison of serum metabolite compositions between obese and lean growing pigs using an NMR-based metabonomic approach. J Nutr Biochem 2011; 23:133-9. [PMID: 21429726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2010.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2010] [Revised: 11/06/2010] [Accepted: 11/09/2010] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Childhood obesity has become a prevalent risk to health of children and teenagers. To develop biomarkers in serum for altered lipid metabolism, genetically obese (Ningxiang strain) and lean (Duroc×Landrace×Large Yorkshire strain) growing pigs were used as models to identify potential differences in the serum metabonome between the two strains of pigs after consuming the same diet for 46 days. At the end of the study, pigs were euthanized for analysis of the serum metabonome and determination of body composition. Obese pigs had higher fat mass (42.3±8.8% vs. 21.9±4.5%) and lower muscle mass (35.4±4.5% vs. 58.9±2.5%) than lean pigs (P<.01). Serum concentrations of insulin and glucagon were higher (P<.02) in obese than in lean pigs. With the use of an NMR-based metabonomic technology, orthogonal projection to latent structure with discriminant analysis showed that serum HDL, VLDL, lipids, unsaturated lipids, glycoprotein, myo-inositol, pyruvate, threonine, tyrosine and creatine were higher in obese than in lean pigs (P<.05), while serum glucose and urea were lower in obese pigs (P<.05). In addition, changes in gut microbiota-related metabolites, including trimethylamine-N-oxide and choline, were observed in sera of obese pigs relatively to lean pigs (P<.05). These novel findings indicate that obese pigs have distinct metabolism, including lipogenesis, lipid oxidation, energy utilization and partition, protein and amino acid metabolism, and fermentation of gastrointestinal microbes, compared with lean pigs. The obese Ningxiang pig may be a useful model for childhood obesity research.
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- Qinghua He
- Key Laboratory for Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 410125 Hunan, People's Republic of China
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Chen F, Zhang J, Song X, Yang J, Li H, Tang H, Liao YC. Combined Metabonomic and Quantitative Real-Time PCR Analyses Reveal Systems Metabolic Changes of Fusarium graminearum Induced by Tri5 Gene Deletion. J Proteome Res 2011; 10:2273-85. [DOI: 10.1021/pr101095t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Fangfang Chen
- Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory of Triticeae Crops, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R. China
- Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory of Triticeae Crops, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R. China
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- Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory of Triticeae Crops, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R. China
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- Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory of Triticeae Crops, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R. China
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- Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory of Triticeae Crops, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R. China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R. China
- National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Wuhan 430070, P.R. China
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Wang X, Sun H, Zhang A, Sun W, Wang P, Wang Z. Potential role of metabolomics apporoaches in the area of traditional Chinese medicine: as pillars of the bridge between Chinese and Western medicine. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2011; 55:859-68. [PMID: 21353755 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2011.01.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2010] [Revised: 01/27/2011] [Accepted: 01/31/2011] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a holistic approach to health that attempts to bring the body, mind and spirit into harmony. Entering 21st century, TCM is getting more and more popular in the whole world for improving health condition of human beings and preventing or healing diseases, especially shows great advantages in early intervention, combination therapies and personalized medicine, etc. However, like almost all other ethnopharmacology, TCM also faces severe challenges and suffers from insufficient modern research owing to lack of scientific and technologic approaches, restricts the development of TCM in the world. Fortunately, a novel analytical technique, metabolomics (or metabonomics), adopts a 'top-down' strategy to reflect the function of organisms from terminal symptoms of metabolic network and understand metabolic changes of a complete system caused by interventions in holistic context. Its property consists with the holistic thinking of TCM, may beneficially provide an opportunity to scientifically express the meaning of evidence-based Chinese medicine, such as Chinese medicine syndromes (CMS), preventive treatment, action of Chinese medicine, Chinese medical formulae (CMF) and acupuncture efficacy. This review summarizes potential applications of robust metabolomics apporoaches in the area of traditional oriental medicine, and highlights the key role of metabolomics to resolve special TCM issues.
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- Xijun Wang
- National TCM Key Lab of Serum Pharmacochemistry, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Heping Road 24, Harbin 150040, China.
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Integrated Development of Metabonomics and Its New Progress. CHINESE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2040(09)60057-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Dai H, Xiao C, Liu H, Hao F, Tang H. Combined NMR and LC−DAD-MS Analysis Reveals Comprehensive Metabonomic Variations for Three Phenotypic Cultivars of Salvia Miltiorrhiza Bunge. J Proteome Res 2010; 9:1565-78. [DOI: 10.1021/pr901045c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Hui Dai
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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Dai H, Xiao C, Liu H, Tang H. Combined NMR and LC-MS Analysis Reveals the Metabonomic Changes in Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge Induced by Water Depletion. J Proteome Res 2010; 9:1460-75. [DOI: 10.1021/pr900995m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Hui Dai
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P.R.China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, P.R. China, and Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China
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Tang H, Xiao C, Wang Y. Important roles of the hyphenated HPLC-DAD-MS-SPE-NMR technique in metabonomics. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2009; 47 Suppl 1:S157-S162. [PMID: 19757407 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Metabolite identification is a key step for metabonomics study. A fully automated hyphenation of HPLC-diode-array detector (DAD) mass spectrometry (MS) solid phase extraction (SPE)-NMR spectroscopy (HPLC-DAD-MS-SPE-NMR) is one of the most efficient methods to determine the structure of a given unknown metabolite in a complex mixture (metabonome) and hence represents one of the most important analytical techniques for the further development of metabonomics. In this review, some recent applications of this technique in identifying novel and trace metabolites in plant extracts and drug metabolism have been discussed. Modification of this hyphenated technique, enabling multiple trappings of strong polar metabolites for biofluids, needs further development.
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- Huiru Tang
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Molecular and Atomic Physics, Wuhan Magnetic Resonance Centre, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, PR China
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Ko BK, Ahn HJ, van den Berg F, Lee CH, Hong YS. Metabolomic insight into soy sauce through (1)H NMR spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2009; 57:6862-6870. [PMID: 19591484 DOI: 10.1021/jf901454j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Soy sauce, a well-known seasoning in Asia and throughout the world, consists of many metabolites that are produced during fermentation or aging and that have various health benefits. However, their comprehensive assessment has been limited due to targeted or instrumentally specific analysis. This paper presents for the first time a metabolic characterization of soy sauce, especially that aged up to 12 years, to obtain a global understanding of the metabolic variations through (1)H NMR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate pattern recognition techniques. Elevated amino acids and organic acids and the consumption of carbohydrate were associated with continuous involvement of microflora in aging for 12 years. In particular, continuous increases in the levels of betaine were found during aging for up to 12 years, demonstrating that microbial- or enzyme-related metabolites were also coupled with osmotolerant or halophilic bacteria present during aging. This work provides global insights into soy sauce through a (1)H NMR-based metabolomic approach that enhances the current understanding of the holistic metabolome and allows assessment of soy sauce quality.
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- Bong-Kuk Ko
- School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Korea University, 5-1 Anam-dong, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Republic of Korea
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Xiao C, Hao F, Qin X, Wang Y, Tang H. An optimized buffer system for NMR-based urinary metabonomics with effective pH control, chemical shift consistency and dilution minimization. Analyst 2009; 134:916-25. [PMID: 19381385 DOI: 10.1039/b818802e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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NMR-based metabonomics has been widely employed to understand the stressor-induced perturbations to mammalian metabolism. However, inter-sample chemical shift variations for metabolites remain an outstanding problem for effective data mining. In this work, we systematically investigated the effects of pH and ionic strength on the chemical shifts for a mixture of 9 urinary metabolites. We found that the chemical shifts were decreased with the rise of pH but increased with the increase of ionic strength, which probably resulted from the pH- and ionic strength-induced alteration to the ionization equilibrium for the function groups. We also found that the chemical shift variations for most metabolites were reduced to less than 0.004 ppm when the pH was 7.1-7.7 and the salt concentration was less than 0.15 M. Based on subsequent optimization to minimize chemical shift variation, sample dilution and maximize the signal-to-noise ratio, we proposed a new buffer system consisting of K(2)HPO(4) and NaH(2)PO(4) (pH 7.4, 1.5 M) with buffer-urine volume ratio of 1 : 10 for human urinary metabonomic studies; we suggest that the chemical shifts for the proton signals of citrate and aromatic signals of histidine be corrected prior to multivariate data analysis especially when high resolution data were employed. Based on these, an optimized sample preparation method has been developed for NMR-based urinary metabonomic studies.
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- Chaoni Xiao
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, PR China
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Supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of antioxidants from rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) and sage (Salvia officinalis L.). JOURNAL OF THE SERBIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 2009. [DOI: 10.2298/jsc0907717i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to isolate and characterize antioxidant extracts obtained from dried leaves of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) and sage (Salvia officinalis L.), originating from the southern Balkan Region. The antioxidant fraction was isolated from the plant material by supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) fractional extraction under a pressure of 30 MPa and at temperatures of 40 and 100?C. In the present study, kinetic data and yields of antioxidant extracts obtained from dried leaves of rosemary and sage under different conditions were determined. Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy assay on the ability of the extracts to scavenge stable 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radicals and reactive hydroxyl radicals during the Fenton reaction trapped by 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO) showed that the investigated extracts had antioxidant activity comparable to that of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and commercial rosemary extract. The antioxidant fractions isolated at the higher temperature had higher antioxidant activities. A tentative analysis of the chemical composition of the antioxidant fractions obtained at the higher temperature was accomplished by LC-DAD and LC-MS analytical methods. Abietane-type diterpenoids, flavonoids and fatty acids were identified in the SC-CO2 extract of rosemary and sage.
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