Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by diverse symptoms, where accurate diagnosis remains challenging. Traditional clinical observation methods often result in misdiagnosis, highlighting the need for biomarker-based diagnostic approaches. This study utilizes ultraperformance liquid chromatography coupled to an electrospray ionization source and quadrupole time-of-flight untargeted metabolomics combined with biochemometrics to identify novel serum biomarkers for PD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe introduce a liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry with data-independent acquisition (LC-MS/DIA)-based strategy, specifically tailored to achieve comprehensive and reliable glycosylated flavonoid profiling. This approach facilitates in-depth and simultaneous exploration of all detected precursors and fragments during data processing, employing the widely-used open-source MZmine 3 software. It was applied to a dataset of six plant species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndophytic fungi residing symbiotically in plant tissues are promising sources of bioactive natural products. This study explored the anti-inflammatory potential of an endophytic fungus isolated from the Brazilian medicinal plant (Sibipiruna). The extract from the endophyte FPD13 exhibited potential anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting prostaglandin E (PGE) release by 75.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLiquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry data-independent acquisition (LC-HRMS/DIA), including MSE, enable comprehensive metabolomics analyses though they pose challenges for data processing with automatic annotation and molecular networking (MN) implementation. This motivated the present proposal, in which we introduce DIA-IntOpenStream, a new integrated workflow combining open-source software to streamline MSE data handling. It provides 'in-house' custom database construction, allows the conversion of raw MSE data to a universal format (.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe phytochemical investigation of the stem bark crude extract of (Lauraceae) led to the isolation of undescribed bicyclic [3.2.1] octane neolignans, and , characterized by unusual bicyclic patterns and two other known bicyclic neolignans and .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHops (Humulus lupulus L.) are edible flowers commonly used to add flavour and aroma to beer, besides they have rich chemical diversity and medicinal potential. In this work, an ex vivo anti-inflammatory assay via the LPS-induced signalling pathway and metabolomics approaches were performed to evaluate the ability of hops to inhibit the production of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) inflammatory mediator and analyze which metabolites produced by the nine different hop cultivars are potential anti-inflammatory markers.
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