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Buhas BA, Toma V, Beauval JB, Andras I, Couți R, Muntean LAM, Coman RT, Maghiar TA, Știufiuc RI, Lucaciu CM, Crisan N. Label-Free SERS of Urine Components: A Powerful Tool for Discriminating Renal Cell Carcinoma through Multivariate Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:3891. [PMID: 38612705 PMCID: PMC11011951 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25073891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2024] [Revised: 03/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024] Open
Abstract
The advent of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has enabled the exploration and detection of small molecules, particularly in biological fluids such as serum, blood plasma, urine, saliva, and tears. SERS has been proposed as a simple diagnostic technique for various diseases, including cancer. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) ranks as the sixth most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and is often asymptomatic, with detection occurring incidentally. The onset of symptoms typically aligns with advanced disease, aggressive histology, and unfavorable prognosis, and therefore new methods for an early diagnosis are needed. In this study, we investigated the utility of label-free SERS in urine, coupled with two multivariate analysis approaches: Principal Component Analysis combined with Linear Discriminant Analysis (PCA-LDA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), to discriminate between 50 RCC patients and 44 healthy donors. Employing LDA-PCA, we achieved a discrimination accuracy of 100% using 13 principal components, and an 88% accuracy in discriminating between different RCC stages. The SVM approach yielded a training accuracy of 100%, a validation accuracy of 99% for discriminating between RCC and controls, and an 80% accuracy for discriminating between stages. The comparative analysis of raw and normalized SERS spectral data shows that while raw data disclose relative concentration variations in urine metabolites between the two classes, the normalization of spectral data significantly improves the accuracy of discrimination. Moreover, the selection of principal components with markedly distinct scores between the two classes serves to alleviate overfitting risks and reduces the number of components employed for discrimination. We obtained the accuracy of the discrimination between the RCC patients cases and healthy donors of 90% for three PCs and a linear discrimination function, and a 88% accuracy of discrimination between stages using six PCs, mitigating practically the risk of overfitting and increasing the robustness of our analysis. Our findings underscore the potential of label-free SERS of urine in conjunction with chemometrics for non-invasive and early RCC detection.
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- Bogdan Adrian Buhas
- Department of Urology, La Croix du Sud Hospital, 52 Chemin de Ribaute St., 31130 Quint Fonsegrives, France; (B.A.B.); (J.-B.B.)
- Department of Urology, Clinical Municipal Hospital, 11 Tabacarilor St., 400139 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (I.A.); (N.C.)
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 1 Universitatii St., 410087 Oradea, Romania; (R.C.); (T.A.M.)
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- Department of Nanobiophysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur St., 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Department of Urology, La Croix du Sud Hospital, 52 Chemin de Ribaute St., 31130 Quint Fonsegrives, France; (B.A.B.); (J.-B.B.)
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- Department of Urology, Clinical Municipal Hospital, 11 Tabacarilor St., 400139 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (I.A.); (N.C.)
- Faculty of Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Victor Babes St., 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 1 Universitatii St., 410087 Oradea, Romania; (R.C.); (T.A.M.)
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- Department of Medical Education, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Victor Babes St., 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Faculty of Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Victor Babes St., 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 1 Universitatii St., 410087 Oradea, Romania; (R.C.); (T.A.M.)
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- Department of Nanobiophysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur St., 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics–Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Pasteur St., 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Nanotechnology Laboratory, TRANSCEND Research Center, Regional Institute of Oncology, 700483 Iași, Romania
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics–Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Pasteur St., 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Urology, Clinical Municipal Hospital, 11 Tabacarilor St., 400139 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (I.A.); (N.C.)
- Faculty of Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Victor Babes St., 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Fey JMH, Bikker FJ, Hesse D. Saliva Collection Methods Among Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review. Mol Diagn Ther 2024; 28:15-26. [PMID: 37950136 PMCID: PMC10786738 DOI: 10.1007/s40291-023-00684-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Saliva can be used for screening and diagnostic purposes. Although multiple saliva collection methods are available, their use in children can be limited due to lack of cooperation, developmental stage, and age. The aim of this scoping review was to comprehensively appraise the different methods of saliva collection among both children and adolescents by assessing the available scientific literature. METHODS A literature search was performed using the databases PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science. Eligible studies on saliva collection methods among children and adolescents were included for this review. RESULTS The literature search identified 249 eligible articles, of which 205 had a cross-sectional study design. Four distinct saliva collection methods have surfaced: the drooling method, the absorption method, the spitting method, and the suction method. Among infants or children under the age of 6 years, the suction and absorption methods were most preferred. The drooling and spitting methods were only applicable among children above the age of 3 years. When children were not willing to cooperate, the absorption method was most feasible. In adolescents and older children, no specific method was found to be preferred over another method. CONCLUSION Overall, saliva collection is well tolerated by children and adolescents, with the absorption and suction methods being preferred with young and uncooperative children.
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- Juliette M H Fey
- Department of Paediadtric Dentistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gustav Mahlerlaan 3004, 1081 LA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gustav Mahlerlaan 3004, 1081 LA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Paediadtric Dentistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gustav Mahlerlaan 3004, 1081 LA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Buhas BA, Toma V, Crisan N, Ploussard G, Maghiar TA, Știufiuc RI, Lucaciu CM. High-Accuracy Renal Cell Carcinoma Discrimination through Label-Free SERS of Blood Serum and Multivariate Analysis. BIOSENSORS 2023; 13:813. [PMID: 37622899 PMCID: PMC10452371 DOI: 10.3390/bios13080813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents the sixth most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and is asymptomatic, being detected mostly incidentally. The apparition of symptoms correlates with advanced disease, aggressive histology, and poor outcomes. The development of the Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) technique opened the way for investigating and detecting small molecules, especially in biological liquids such as serum or blood plasma, urine, saliva, and tears, and was proposed as a simple technique for the diagnosis of various diseases, including cancer. In this study, we investigated the use of serum label-free SERS combined with two multivariate analysis tests: Principal Component Analysis combined with Linear Discriminate Analysis (PCA-LDA) and Supported Vector Machine (SVM) for the discrimination of 50 RCC cancer patients from 45 apparently healthy donors. In the case of LDA-PCA, we obtained a discrimination accuracy of 100% using 12 principal components and a quadratic discrimination function. The accuracy of discrimination between RCC stages was 88%. In the case of the SVM approach, we obtained a training accuracy of 100%, a validation accuracy of 92% for the discrimination between RCC and controls, and an accuracy of 81% for the discrimination between stages. We also performed standard statistical tests aimed at improving the assignment of the SERS vibration bands, which, according to our data, are mainly due to purinic metabolites (uric acid and hypoxanthine). Moreover, our results using these assignments and Student's t-test suggest that the main differences in the SERS spectra of RCC patients are due to an increase in the uric acid concentration (a conclusion in agreement with recent literature), while the hypoxanthine concentration is not statistically different between the two groups. Our results demonstrate that label-free SERS combined with chemometrics holds great promise for non-invasive and early detection of RCC. However, more studies are needed to validate this approach, especially when combined with other urological diseases.
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- Bogdan Adrian Buhas
- Department of Urology, La Croix du Sud Hospital, 52 Chemin de Ribaute St., 31130 Quint Fonsegrives, France; (B.A.B.); (G.P.)
- Department of Urology, Clinical Municipal Hospital, 11 Tabacarilor St., 400139 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 1 Universitatii St., 410087 Oradea, Romania;
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- Department of Nanobiophysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur St., 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Department of Urology, Clinical Municipal Hospital, 11 Tabacarilor St., 400139 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
- Department of Urology, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Victor Babes St., 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Urology, La Croix du Sud Hospital, 52 Chemin de Ribaute St., 31130 Quint Fonsegrives, France; (B.A.B.); (G.P.)
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- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 1 Universitatii St., 410087 Oradea, Romania;
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- Department of Nanobiophysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur St., 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics–Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Pasteur St., 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics–Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Pasteur St., 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Borșa RM, Toma V, Onaciu A, Moldovan CS, Mărginean R, Cenariu D, Știufiuc GF, Dinu CM, Bran S, Opriș HO, Văcăraș S, Onișor-Gligor F, Sentea D, Băciuț MF, Iuga CA, Știufiuc RI. Developing New Diagnostic Tools Based on SERS Analysis of Filtered Salivary Samples for Oral Cancer Detection. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:12125. [PMID: 37569501 PMCID: PMC10418512 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241512125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
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Cancer still represents one of the biggest challenges in current medical practice. Among different types of cancer, oral cancer has a huge impact on patients due to its great visibility, which is more likely to create social stigma and increased anxiety. New early diagnose methods are still needed to improve treatment efficiency and patients' life quality. Raman/SERS (Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy) spectroscopy has a unique and powerful potential for detecting specific molecules that can become priceless biomarkers in different pathologies, such as oral cancer. In this study, a batch of saliva samples obtained from a group of 17 patients with oro-maxillofacial pathologies compared with saliva samples from 18 healthy donors using the aforementioned methods were evaluated. At the same time, opiorphin, potassium thiocyanate and uric acid were evaluated as potential specific biomarkers for oro-maxillofacial pathologies using multivariate analysis. A careful examination of SERS spectra collected on saliva samples showed that the spectra are dominated by the vibrational bands of opiorphin, potassium thiocyanate and uric acid. Given the fact that all these small molecules are found in very small amounts, we filtrated all the samples to get rid of large molecules and to improve our analysis. By using solid plasmonic substrates, we were able to gain information about molecular concentration and geometry of interaction. On the other hand, the multivariate analysis of the salivary spectra contributed to developing a new detection method for oral cancer.
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- Rareș-Mario Borșa
- Dental Medicine Faculty, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (R.-M.B.); (C.-M.D.); (S.B.); (H.-O.O.); (S.V.); (F.O.-G.); (M.-F.B.)
- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
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- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
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- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
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- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
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- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
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- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
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- Dental Medicine Faculty, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (R.-M.B.); (C.-M.D.); (S.B.); (H.-O.O.); (S.V.); (F.O.-G.); (M.-F.B.)
- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hossu 37, 400029 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- County Emergency Hospital Cluj, Clinicilor 3-5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Dental Medicine Faculty, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (R.-M.B.); (C.-M.D.); (S.B.); (H.-O.O.); (S.V.); (F.O.-G.); (M.-F.B.)
- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hossu 37, 400029 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- County Emergency Hospital Cluj, Clinicilor 3-5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Dental Medicine Faculty, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (R.-M.B.); (C.-M.D.); (S.B.); (H.-O.O.); (S.V.); (F.O.-G.); (M.-F.B.)
- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hossu 37, 400029 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- County Emergency Hospital Cluj, Clinicilor 3-5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Dental Medicine Faculty, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (R.-M.B.); (C.-M.D.); (S.B.); (H.-O.O.); (S.V.); (F.O.-G.); (M.-F.B.)
- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hossu 37, 400029 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- County Emergency Hospital Cluj, Clinicilor 3-5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Dental Medicine Faculty, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (R.-M.B.); (C.-M.D.); (S.B.); (H.-O.O.); (S.V.); (F.O.-G.); (M.-F.B.)
- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hossu 37, 400029 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- County Emergency Hospital Cluj, Clinicilor 3-5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- County Emergency Hospital Cluj, Clinicilor 3-5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Dental Medicine Faculty, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (R.-M.B.); (C.-M.D.); (S.B.); (H.-O.O.); (S.V.); (F.O.-G.); (M.-F.B.)
- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hossu 37, 400029 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- County Emergency Hospital Cluj, Clinicilor 3-5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 6, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Research Center for Advanced Medicine—MedFuture, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 4-6, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (V.T.); (A.O.); (C.-S.M.); (R.M.); (D.C.); (C.-A.I.)
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics-Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pasteur 6, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- TRANSCEND Research Center, Regional Institute of Oncology, 700483 Iasi, Romania
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Averbeck D. Low-Dose Non-Targeted Effects and Mitochondrial Control. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:11460. [PMID: 37511215 PMCID: PMC10380638 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241411460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Non-targeted effects (NTE) have been generally regarded as a low-dose ionizing radiation (IR) phenomenon. Recently, regarding long distant abscopal effects have also been observed at high doses of IR) relevant to antitumor radiation therapy. IR is inducing NTE involving intracellular and extracellular signaling, which may lead to short-ranging bystander effects and distant long-ranging extracellular signaling abscopal effects. Internal and "spontaneous" cellular stress is mostly due to metabolic oxidative stress involving mitochondrial energy production (ATP) through oxidative phosphorylation and/or anaerobic pathways accompanied by the leakage of O2- and other radicals from mitochondria during normal or increased cellular energy requirements or to mitochondrial dysfunction. Among external stressors, ionizing radiation (IR) has been shown to very rapidly perturb mitochondrial functions, leading to increased energy supply demands and to ROS/NOS production. Depending on the dose, this affects all types of cell constituents, including DNA, RNA, amino acids, proteins, and membranes, perturbing normal inner cell organization and function, and forcing cells to reorganize the intracellular metabolism and the network of organelles. The reorganization implies intracellular cytoplasmic-nuclear shuttling of important proteins, activation of autophagy, and mitophagy, as well as induction of cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, apoptosis, and senescence. It also includes reprogramming of mitochondrial metabolism as well as genetic and epigenetic control of the expression of genes and proteins in order to ensure cell and tissue survival. At low doses of IR, directly irradiated cells may already exert non-targeted effects (NTE) involving the release of molecular mediators, such as radicals, cytokines, DNA fragments, small RNAs, and proteins (sometimes in the form of extracellular vehicles or exosomes), which can induce damage of unirradiated neighboring bystander or distant (abscopal) cells as well as immune responses. Such non-targeted effects (NTE) are contributing to low-dose phenomena, such as hormesis, adaptive responses, low-dose hypersensitivity, and genomic instability, and they are also promoting suppression and/or activation of immune cells. All of these are parts of the main defense systems of cells and tissues, including IR-induced innate and adaptive immune responses. The present review is focused on the prominent role of mitochondria in these processes, which are determinants of cell survival and anti-tumor RT.
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- Dietrich Averbeck
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology, PRISME, UMR CNRS 5822/IN2P3, IP2I, Lyon-Sud Medical School, University Lyon 1, 69921 Oullins, France
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Faur CI, Dinu C, Toma V, Jurj A, Mărginean R, Onaciu A, Roman RC, Culic C, Chirilă M, Rotar H, Fălămaș A, Știufiuc GF, Hedeșiu M, Almășan O, Știufiuc RI. A New Detection Method of Oral and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Based on Multivariate Analysis of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra of Salivary Exosomes. J Pers Med 2023; 13:jpm13050762. [PMID: 37240933 DOI: 10.3390/jpm13050762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Raman spectroscopy recently proved a tremendous capacity to identify disease-specific markers in various (bio)samples being a non-invasive, rapid, and reliable method for cancer detection. In this study, we first aimed to record vibrational spectra of salivary exosomes isolated from oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients and healthy controls using surface enhancement Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Then, we assessed this method's capacity to discriminate between malignant and non-malignant samples by means of principal component-linear discriminant analysis (PC-LDA) and we used area under the receiver operating characteristics with illustration as the area under the curve to measure the power of salivary exosomes SERS spectra analysis to identify cancer presence. The vibrational spectra were collected on a solid plasmonic substrate developed in our group, synthesized using tangential flow filtered and concentrated silver nanoparticles, capable of generating very reproducible spectra for a whole range of bioanalytes. SERS examination identified interesting variations in the vibrational bands assigned to thiocyanate, proteins, and nucleic acids between the saliva of cancer and control groups. Chemometric analysis indicated discrimination sensitivity between the two groups up to 79.3%. The sensitivity is influenced by the spectral interval used for the multivariate analysis, being lower (75.9%) when the full-range spectra were used.
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- Cosmin Ioan Faur
- Department of Oral Radiology, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture-Research Center for Advanced Medicine, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture-Research Center for Advanced Medicine, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture-Research Center for Advanced Medicine, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Odontology, Endodontics, Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Molecular and Biomolecular Physics, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Oral Radiology, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Prosthodontics and Dental Materials, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics & Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Onaciu A, Toma V, Moldovan C, Țigu AB, Cenariu D, Culic C, Borșa RM, David L, Știufiuc GF, Tetean R, Tomuleasa C, Știufiuc RI. Nanoscale Investigation of DNA Demethylation in Leukemia Cells by Means of Ultrasensitive Vibrational Spectroscopy. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 23:346. [PMID: 36616944 PMCID: PMC9823440 DOI: 10.3390/s23010346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic hallmark of cancer development but the experimental methods able to prove nanoscale modifications are very scarce. Over time, Raman and its counterpart, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), became one of the most promising techniques capable to investigate nanoscale modifications of DNA bases. In our study, we employed Raman/SERS to highlight the differences between normal and leukemia DNA samples and to evaluate the effects of a 5-azacytidine treatment on leukemia cells. To obtain spectral information related to DNA base modifications, a DNA incubation step of 4 min at 94 °C, similar to the one performed in the case of RT-PCR experiments, was conducted prior to any measurements. In this way, reproducible Raman/SERS spectra were collected for all genomic DNA samples. Our Raman results allowed discrimination between normal and cancer DNAs based on their different aggregation behavior induced by the distinct methylation landscape present in the DNA samples. On the other hand, the SERS spectra collected on the same DNA samples show a very intense vibrational band located at 1008 cm-1 assigned to a rocking vibration of 5-methyl-cytosine. The intensity of this band strongly decreases in cancer DNA due to the modification of the methylation landscape occurring in cancers. We believe that under controlled experimental conditions, this vibrational band could be used as a powerful marker for demonstrating epigenetic reprogramming in cancer by means of SERS.
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- Anca Onaciu
- MedFuture—Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics & Biophysics, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture—Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture—Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics & Biophysics, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture—Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture—Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Odontology, Endodontics, Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400001 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Dental Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Physics, “Babes-Bolyai” University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture—Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Hematology, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Hematology, “Ion Chiricuta” Clinical Cancer Center, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- MedFuture—Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics & Biophysics, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Revnic RN, Știufiuc GF, Toma V, Onaciu A, Moldovan A, Țigu AB, Fischer-Fodor E, Tetean R, Burzo E, Știufiuc RI. Facile Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Silver Nanostars for Ultrasensitive Detection of Biological Analytes by SERS. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:8830. [PMID: 35955966 PMCID: PMC9369225 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23158830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
We report a very simple, rapid and reproducible method for the fabrication of anisotropic silver nanostars (AgNS) that can be successfully used as highly efficient SERS substrates for different bioanalytes, even in the case of a near-infra-red (NIR) excitation laser. The nanostars have been synthesized using the chemical reduction of Ag+ ions by trisodium citrate. This is the first research reporting the synthesis of AgNS using only trisodium citrate as a reducing and stabilizing agent. The key elements of this original synthesis procedure are rapid hydrothermal synthesis of silver nanostars followed by a cooling down procedure by immersion in a water bath. The synthesis was performed in a sealed bottom flask homogenously heated and brought to a boil in a microwave oven. After 60 s, the colloidal solution was cooled down to room temperature by immersion in a water bath at 35 °C. The as-synthesized AgNS were washed by centrifugation and used for SERS analysis of test molecules (methylene blue) as well as biological analytes: pharmaceutical compounds with various Raman cross sections (doxorubicin, atenolol & metoprolol), cell lysates and amino acids (methionine & cysteine). UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy, (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy ((S)TEM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) have been employed for investigating nanostars' physical properties.
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- Radu Nicolae Revnic
- Department of Family Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 2-4 Clinicilor Street, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Physics, “Babes-Bolyai” University, 1 Kogalniceanu Street, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of BioNanoPhysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur Street, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of BioNanoPhysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur Street, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of BioNanoPhysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur Street, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics & Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Pasteur Street, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of BioNanoPhysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur Street, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Translational Medicine, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur Street, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta”, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Physics, “Babes-Bolyai” University, 1 Kogalniceanu Street, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Physics, “Babes-Bolyai” University, 1 Kogalniceanu Street, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of BioNanoPhysics, MedFuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4-6 Pasteur Street, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physics & Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Pasteur Street, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Moldovan R, Vereshchagina E, Milenko K, Iacob BC, Bodoki AE, Falamas A, Tosa N, Muntean CM, Farcău C, Bodoki E. Review on combining surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and electrochemistry for analytical applications. Anal Chim Acta 2022; 1209:339250. [PMID: 35569862 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2021.339250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The discovery of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) from an electrochemical (EC)-SERS experiment is known as a historic breakthrough. Five decades have passed and Raman spectroelectrochemistry (SEC) has developed into a common characterization tool that provides information about the electrode-electrolyte interface. Recently, this technique has been successfully explored for analytical purposes. EC was found to highly improve the performances of SERS sensors, providing, among others, controlled adsorption of analytes and increased reproducibility. In this review, we highlight the potential of EC-SERS sensors to be implemented for point-of-need (PON) analyses as miniaturized devices, and their ability to revolutionize fields like quality control, diagnosis or environmental and food safety. Important developments have been achieved in Raman spectroelectrochemistry, which now represents a promising alternative to conventional analytical methods and interests more and more researchers. The studies included in this review open endless possibilities for real-life EC-SERS analytical applications.
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- Rebeca Moldovan
- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4, Louis Pasteur, 400349, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Microsystems and Nanotechnology (MiNaLab), SINTEF Digital, Gaustadalléen 23C, 0373, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Microsystems and Nanotechnology (MiNaLab), SINTEF Digital, Gaustadalléen 23C, 0373, Oslo, Norway
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4, Louis Pasteur, 400349, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- General and Inorganic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, 12, Ion Creangă, 400010, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat, 400293, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat, 400293, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat, 400293, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat, 400293, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4, Louis Pasteur, 400349, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Low Dose Ionising Radiation-Induced Hormesis: Therapeutic Implications to Human Health. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/app11198909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The concept of radiation-induced hormesis, whereby a low dose is beneficial and a high dose is detrimental, has been gaining attention in the fields of molecular biology, environmental toxicology and radiation biology. There is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of hormetic dose response not only in the radiation field, but also with molecular agents. However, there is continuing debate on the magnitude and mechanism of radiation hormetic dose response, which could make further contributions, as a research tool, to science and perhaps eventually to public health due to potential therapeutic benefits for society. The biological phenomena of low dose ionising radiation (LDIR) includes bystander effects, adaptive response, hypersensitivity, radioresistance and genomic instability. In this review, the beneficial and the detrimental effects of LDIR-induced hormesis are explored, together with an overview of its underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms that may potentially provide an insight to the therapeutic implications to human health in the future.
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Lukose J, M. SP, N. M, Barik AK, Pai KM, Unnikrishnan VK, George SD, Kartha VB, Chidangil S. Photonics of human saliva: potential optical methods for the screening of abnormal health conditions and infections. Biophys Rev 2021; 13:359-385. [PMID: 34093888 PMCID: PMC8170462 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-021-00807-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Human saliva can be treated as a pool of biological markers able to reflect on the state of personal health. Recent years have witnessed an increase in the use of optical devices for the analysis of body fluids. Several groups have carried out studies investigating the potential of saliva as a non-invasive and reliable clinical specimen for use in medical diagnostics. This brief review aims to highlight the optical technologies, mainly surface plasmon resonance (SPR), Raman, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, which are being used for the probing of saliva for diverse biomedical applications. Advances in bio photonics offer the promise of unambiguous, objective and fast detection of abnormal health conditions and viral infections (such as COVID-19) from the analysis of saliva.
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- Jijo Lukose
- Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Centre for Applied Nanoscience, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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- Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India
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Falamas A, Faur CI, Ciupe S, Chirila M, Rotaru H, Hedesiu M, Cinta Pinzaru S. Rapid and noninvasive diagnosis of oral and oropharyngeal cancer based on micro-Raman and FT-IR spectra of saliva. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2021; 252:119477. [PMID: 33545509 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.119477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Fast, sensitive, and noninvasive techniques are needed for better health care management, particularly when traditional biopsies could be replaced with appropriate analyses of body fluids, such as saliva. Here is presented a proof-of-concept study, which aims to test a recently developed saliva samples preparation method, for oral and oropharyngeal cancer diagnosis, using micro-Raman and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopic techniques. The detected biomarker bands and the cancer classification rates are compared and discussed. Saliva samples were collected from healthy donors and pathologically confirmed oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients. Principal components analysis (PCA) and principal components analysis-linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA) chemometric methods were applied to build discrimination models for the test and control groups. Based on the differences between salivary spectra of healthy and cancer patients, several biomarker bands were identified. Noteworthy, a significant vibrational biomarker band at 2064 cm-1, assigned to thiocyanate, was observed in both the FT-IR and Raman data-set. Other cancer characteristic Raman bands were 754 cm-1 (tryptophan), 530 and 927 cm-1 (lysozyme), 1001 cm-1 (phenylalanine), while the FT-IR biomarker band was located at 1075 cm-1 (phosphodiester bonds stretching in DNA, RNA). The oral and oropharyngeal cancer was classified with an accuracy of 90% based on the micro-Raman data and 82% based on the FT-IR data set, respectively. The study showed that oral and oropharyngeal cancer can be differentiated from control saliva samples based on their respective micro-Raman and FT-IR spectral signatures, due to the biomolecular modifications induced by the disease.
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- A Falamas
- Molecular and Biomolecular Physics, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Radiology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Molecular and Biomolecular Physics, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of ENT, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Radiology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Radiology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Biomolecular Physics Department, Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Velička M, Zacharovas E, Adomavičiūtė S, Šablinskas V. Detection of caffeine intake by means of EC-SERS spectroscopy of human saliva. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2021; 246:118956. [PMID: 32992239 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This work presents the application of EC-SERS spectroscopy for the detection of caffeine consumption from human saliva. Caffeine and paraxanthine as the major metabolite of caffeine were tested. Model samples of saliva spiked with caffeine were investigated, and detection of caffeine in real-life saliva samples was tested in order to ensure the viability of the method for clinical applications. Two doses of caffeine (2 mg/kg and 3.5 mg/kg) were ingested by volunteers, and their saliva samples were taken at different time periods ranging from 1 h to 10 h after the consumption. Density functional theory calculations of caffeine and paraxanthine adsorbed on the silver surface were performed in order to better understand the adsorption of the investigated molecules and to make a correct assignment of the experimental spectral bands of the EC-SERS spectra. It was determined that a low dose caffeine consumption can be detected by the appearance of the SERS spectral marker band of caffeine and paraxanthine at 692 cm-1. The intensity of this band is mostly reasoned by the paraxanthine concentration since the intensity changes of the band over time correlates to the concentration changes of paraxanthine determined by the pharmacokinetic studies of paraxanthine and caffeine in the human saliva. It was found that the limit of detection paraxanthine in saliva by means of EC-SERS is as low as 15 μM and can be further improved.
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- Martynas Velička
- Institute of Chemical Physics, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania.
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- Institute of Chemical Physics, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Chemical Physics, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Chemical Physics, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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