Publications by authors named "Xufang Hu"

Cyberspace is emerging as a critical living environment, significantly influencing sustainable human development. Internet public opinion is a crucial aspect of cyberspace governance, serving as the most important form of expressing popular will. However, perceiving public opinion can be challenging due to its complex and elusive nature.

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Background: Endometriosis (EM) is a hormone-dependent condition marked by progressively severe secondary dysmenorrhea, significantly impacting patients' quality of life and overall health. Wen Jing Tang (WJT), a traditional Chinese medicinal formulation derived from the , has proven to be an effective therapeutic agent for EM. However, the precise molecular mechanisms underlying its efficacy remain unclear.

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Cortisol is a vital glucocorticoid hormone reflecting stress levels and related disease processes. In this study, we report an aptamer-functionalized plasmonic nano-urchin (α-FeOOH@Au-aptamer)-aided cortisol-capturing and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) analysis approach. The designed α-FeOOH@Au-aptamer exhibits a well-patterned plasma structure, which combines the good SERS enhancement ability of reduced nanogaps between the Au plasma and the hot spot-favored structure of anisotropic tips from α-FeOOH urchins, with the high affinity of the aptamer towards cortisol molecules.

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The rural B&B industry is a key component of rural tourism, local economic development, and the wider rural revitalization strategy. Despite the abundance of tourism resources in Yunnan, the B&B sector faces significant challenges. It is therefore imperative to accurately identify the most pressing issues within the current B&B industry and formulate appropriate solutions to advance Yunnan's rural revitalization efforts.

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Acute coronary syndrome (ACS), comprising unstable angina (UA) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI), is the leading cause of death worldwide. Currently, lacking effective strategies for classifying ACS hinders the prognosis improvement of ACS patients. Disclosing the nature of metabolic disorders holds the potential to reflect disease progress and high-throughput mass spectrometry-based metabolic analysis is a promising tool for large-scale screening.

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Unlabelled: Due to inefficient diagnostic methods, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) normally progresses into severe complications including cancer. Highly efficient extraction and identification of metabolic fingerprints are of significance for disease surveillance. In this work, we synthesized a layered titania nanosheet doped with graphitized carbon (2D-GC-mTNS) through a simple one-step assembly process for assisting laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS) for metabolite analysis.

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Molecular diagnosing, typing, and staging have been considered to be the ideal alternatives of imaging-based detection methods in clinics. Designer matrix-based analytical tools, with high speed, throughout, efficiency and low/noninvasiveness, have attracted much attention recently for in vitro metabolite detection. Herein, we develop an advanced metabolic analysis tool based on highly porous metal oxides derived from available metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which elaborately inherit the morphology and porosity of MOFs and newly incorporate laser adsorption capacity of metal oxides.

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High-throughput metabolic analysis based on laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry exhibits broad prospects in the field of large-scale precise medicine, for which the assisted ionization ability of the matrix becomes a determining step. In this work, the gold-decorated hierarchical metal oxide heterojunctions (dubbed Au/HMOHs) are proposed as a matrix for extracting urine metabolic fingerprints (UMFs) of primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS). The hierarchical heterojunctions are simply derived from metal-organic framework (MOF)-on-MOF hybrids, and the native built-in electric field from heterojunctions plus the extra Au decoration provides remarkable ionization efficiency, attaining high-quality UMFs.

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A hydrophilic probe is employed to enrich exosomes from three kinds of cancer cells by TiO2-phosphate interaction and exosomal glycoproteins by hydrophilic interaction in succession. The probe performs efficiently in both the enrichment processes. And the analytical results confirm that unique exosomal glycoproteins can distinguish parent exosomes from others.

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A hydrophilic carbohydrate functionalized magnetic metal organic framework (Mag Zr-MOF@G6P) was synthesized via a facile one-step modification strategy for selective glycopeptide capture in virtue of hydrophilic interaction chromatography technique. The inherently hydrophilic Zr-MOF layer not only provides selective size-sieving pore structures but also offers large specific surface area to afford abundant affinity sites. Hydroxyl-rich glucose-6-phosphate was immobilized onto the Zr-MOF via a straightforward coordination manner to regulate its surface property, for the purpose of enhancing its hydrophilicity.

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For the first time, dual metal ions (Ti-Zr) were successfully modified into the channel of magnetic mesoporous silica to obtain an affinity probe for highly selective capture of endogenous phosphopeptides in biological samples. The newly prepared FeO@mSiO@Ti-Zr composites possessed the advantages of ordered mesoporous channels, superparamagnetism, and enhanced affinity properties of dual metal ions of Ti and Zr. The phosphopeptide enrichment efficiency of the FeO@mSiO@Ti-Zr composite was investigated, and the result indicated an ultrahigh size exclusive ability (weight ratio of β-casein tryptic digests, BSA, and α-casein protein reached up to 1:1000:1000).

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Peptidomics research is of great significance for discovering potential biomarkers and monitoring human diseases. As a kind of common clinical biofluid, saliva known for its noninvasive collection and easy accessibility has been widely used in peptidomics research. In this article, we combined immobilized metal ions affinity chromotography (IMAC) with mesoporous material and proposed the copper ion doped magnetic mesoporous silica material (denoted as FeO@mSiO-Cu) which had a large surface area of 221 m g and pore volume of 0.

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Human serum is a huge bioinformatics database of human physiological and pathological state, many proteins/peptides among which can serve as biomarkers for monitoring human's health condition, thereby being worth exploring. The simple and fast capture of biomarkers from human serum is the first key step to realize their accurate detection. In this work, we developed the aptamer functionalized magnetic metal organic framework nanoprobe, and furtherly combined with mass spectrometry technology to establish an efficient method of identifying biomarkers.

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A facile and mild approach was carried out to synthesize citrate acid-magnetic ferroferric oxide for glycopeptide analysis. The material was synthesized successfully and applied in glycopeptide identification from human saliva, indicating that this method could be a promising tool for glycopeptidome analysis, which also enlightened the simple fabrication of hydrophilic materials in analytical science.

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A mercaptosuccinic acid functionalized hydrophilic magnetic metal-organic framework nanocomposite (denoted as mMOF@Au-MSA) was proposed and synthesized to provide an excellent platform for glycopeptide analysis. The novel nanomaterial integrated favorable advantages such as robust magnetic response from FeO magnetic nanoparticles, large surface area contributed by MOF, abundant ultra-high hydrophilic carboxylic groups from mercaptosuccinic acid, as well as unbiased affinity toward different types of glycopeptides. This nanocomposite was successfully utilized to capture glycopeptides from standard protein digests with the high selectivity and great sensitivity of 0.

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A method for the separation and determination of optical isomers of phenylephrine was developed based on the promoting effect of non-chiral ionic liquid on chiral ligand-exchange capillary electrophoresis after the electrophoretic parameters were optimized systematically. R-phenylephrine and S-phenylephrine can be separated and determined effectively in 20 mmol/L Tris-H3PO4 buffer solution (pH 5.4) composed of 4.

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A capillary zone electrophoresis method (CZE) for the simultaneous determination of loureirin A and loureirin B was developed based on the optimized conditions of the pH, composition and concentration of the running buffer solution. Loureirin A and loureirin B were separated and determined effectively within 15 min in a running buffer solution of 20 mmol/L Na2B4O7 (pH 9.98 adjusted with NaOH solution) containing 10.

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