Facile fabrication of carbon nanotube hollow microspheres as a fiber coating for ultrasensitive solid-phase microextraction of phthalic acid esters in tea beverages.

The efficient extraction of phthalic acid esters (PAEs) is challenging due to their extremely low concentration, complicated matrices and hydrophilicity. Herein, hollow microspheres, as an ideal coating, possess significant potential for solid-phase microextraction (SPME) due to their fascinating properties. In this study, multiwalled carbon nanotube hollow microspheres (MWCNT-HMs) were utilized as a fiber coating for the SPME of PAEs from tea beverages.

[Determination of trace perfluorinated compounds in environmental water samples by dispersive solid- phase extraction-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry using carbon nanotube composite materials].

In this work, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on silica rod (SiO) composite materials were prepared to extract six perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in real environmental water samples by high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). The as-synthesized sorbents, hereafter referred to as CNT@SiO, were employed for dispersive solid-phase extraction (d-SPE). Perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), and perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) were selected as target analytes.

Study on the mechanism of HIF1a-SOX9 in glucose-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy.

A major cause of morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular disease is pathological cardiac hypertrophy. With an increase in the cellular surface area and upregulation of the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) gene, cardiac hypertrophy is a prominent feature of diabetic cardiomyopathy. ANP is a hypertrophic marker.

Polyhydroxylated steroids from the South China Sea soft coral Sarcophyton sp. and their cytotoxic and antiviral activities.

Chemical investigation on the soft coral Sarcophyton sp. collected from the South China Sea yielded three new polyhydroxylated steroids, compounds (1-3), together with seven known ones (4-10). Their structures were established by extensive spectroscopic methods and comparison of their data with those of the related known compounds.

Cytotoxic 9,11-secosteroids from the South China Sea gorgonian Subergorgia suberosa.

Ten new 9,11-secosteroids, subergorgols A-J (1-10), including two pairs of epimers (3/4, and 6/7), along with three known analogues (11-13) were isolated from the South China Sea gorgonian Subergorgia suberosa. The structures of these compounds were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses and comparison with the literature data. The cytotoxicities in vitro against three selected human tumor cell lines for all the compounds were evaluated.