Publications by authors named "Martha E Garcia-Aguilera"

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  • * The study focused on quantifying seven complexing compounds in wine, revealing that some automated programs underestimated concentrations due to broad signal lines when cations were present, a problem that was lessened when using EDTA to bind these cations.
  • * It suggests that future research should carefully select software and sample preparation techniques for analyzing complexing compounds, and that software should allow for adjustable signal line width to improve accuracy.
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Wine is a temperature, light, and oxygen-sensitive product, so its physicochemical characteristics can be modified by variations in temperature and time when samples are either sampled, transported, and/or analyzed. These changes can alter its metabolomic fingerprinting, impacting further classification tasks and quality/quantitative analyses. For these reasons, the aim of this work is to compare and analyze the information obtained by different chemometric methods used in a complementary form (PCA, ASCA, and PARAFAC) to study H-NMR spectra variations of four red wine samples kept at different temperatures and time lapses.

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Preterm newborns are extremely vulnerable to morbidities, complications, and death. Preterm birth is a global public health problem due to its socioeconomic burden. Nurturing preterm newborns is a critical medical issue because they have limited nutrient stores and it is difficult to establish enteral feeding, which leads to inadequate growth frequently associated with poor neurodevelopmental outcomes.

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The knowledge of the metabolic processes of designed metallodrugs for cancer treatment is an area that has been not profoundly studied. Casiopeina IIgly (CasIIgly), which belongs to the Casiopeínas family, is a copper (II) coordination compound that has shown good biological activity against several cancer cells, low toxicity in normal cells, and antineoplastic activity in murine and xenografted models. In this work we employed a triple-negative highly metastatic breast carcinoma line (MDA-MB-231), which is one of the cancer types with a great mortality index, for H-NMR metabolomic analysis using cisplatin and CasIIgly, in order to quantify the effect of metallodrugs in the metabolic profile of this cell tumor line as a consequence of treatment at different times.

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Introduction: Brain death (BD) is the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a biological liquid that circulates in brain and spine. Metabolomics is able to reveal the response of biological systems to diverse factors in a specific moment or condition.

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The application of H NMR spectroscopy and chemometrics for the analysis of extracts of Lantana camara is described. This approach allowed to predict the leishmanicidal activity of samples obtained at different harvest times from their H NMR spectra. The anti-leishmanial activity of dichloromethane extracts obtained from the aerial parts of L.

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