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All data suggest that Li2ZnTi3O8Mn4+ phosphor can be a potential application in plant-cultivation.Since the outbreak of anthrax attack in the United States in 2001, much effort has been done to detect anthrax spores. In this paper, a simple and facile lanthanide-containing ratiometric luminescence “turn on” probe is constructed to achieve sensitive and selective detection of anthrax spores biomarker – pyridine-2,6-carboxylic acid (DPA) by simply mixing Tb3+, sodium polyacrylate as well as red internal reference which could exclude some disturbance from the luminescence of biological tissue. Our probe shows remarkable luminescence enhancement upon addition of DPA. The detection limit for DPA is measured as 35.8 nM with a wide work range of 0-66.7 μM. Besides, our probe enables distinguish DPA selectively from numerous interfering materials in aqueous solution. Further test strip experiments demonstrate the potential practical application of our probe in DPA detection.As momentous reactive oxygen species (ROS), it is necessary to develop high-sensitivity and high-specificity fluorescent probes for tracking hypochlorite anion (ClO-) in environmental and biological systems. Herein, a kind of red luminescent carbon dots (NS-dots) was synthesized by one-step solvothermal method to detect ClO- in PBS buffer solution (VPBSVEtOH = 1001, pH = 7.4). FB23-2 The NS-dots has high sensitivity and low detection limit (13.3 μmol/L) for detecting ClO- with linear range from 6.7 × 10-5 mol/L to 26.7 × 10-5 mol/L. Using Rhodamine B (31% at 520 nm in water) as a reference, the NS-dots have a fluorescence quantum yield of 7.2%. Intracellular photostability, mitochondrial targeting properties and the fluorescence imaging towards intracellular ClO- were demonstrated.This work shows an impact of glutaraldehyde (GA) fixation on endothelial cells. Raman spectroscopy imaging was used as a method to monitor biochemical content of the cells due to GA fixation since this is an approach frequently used for studying cells by means of Raman imaging. To get a deeper insight into the changes and to understand them better the measurements of live and fixed cells were performed using two lasers, i.e. 488 and 532 nm. It has been demonstrated that GA fixation affects lipids, proteins, nucleic acid and carbohydrates to small extent. The application of 488 nm laser line seems to be more efficient for live cells due to the small impact of cytochrome resonance on Raman spectra, however 532 nm line is more beneficial for fixed cells due to higher quantum efficiency of the detector, thus leading to higher intensity of Raman bands. Generally, the changes due to fixation are not pronounced but cannot be ignored and the knowledge about them can help in a proper interpretation of data collected for fixed versus live cells.Detecting cancers through testing biological fluids, namely, “liquid biopsy”, is noninvasive and shows great promise in cancer diagnosis, surveillance and screening. Many metabolites that may reflect cancer specificity are concentrated in and excreted through urine. In this study, urine samples were collected from healthy subjects and patients with bladder or prostate cancer. By using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) with silver nanoparticles, urine sample spectra from 500-1800 cm-1 were obtained. The spectra were classified by principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA). The results showed that the classification accuracy of the model for healthy individuals, bladder cancer patients and prostate cancer patients was 91.9%, and the classification accuracy of the test set was 89%, which indicated that SERS combined with the PCA-LDA diagnostic algorithm could be used as a classification and diagnostic tool to detect and distinguish bladder cancer and prostate cancer through testing urine.This paper focuses on the application of non-invasive techniques to study a peculiar object, an alchemical codex completely made of lead stored at the State Archive of Florence.1 The sheets of the codex appeared entirely covered by thick and heterogeneous corrosion patinas for which a restoration was planned for their removal. This activity was supported by analytical investigations to characterise the materials that made up the patinas using non-invasive techniques. The codex pages were initially documented with imaging techniques. Subsequently, spectroscopic data were acquired on each sheet using spot analytical techniques Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (TR FT-IR), Fibre Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS), X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). The identification of deterioration compounds has been extremely useful for the conservator to deal with the removal of dangerous and disfiguring patinas.Some oral manifestations have been observed in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, there is still a question about whether these lesions are due to coronavirus infection or secondary manifestations resulting from the patient’s systemic condition. Thus, this article aims to report an additional case of an oral condition in a patient diagnosed with COVID-19. Our patient, a sixty-seven-year-old Caucasian man, tested positive to coronavirus and presented oral manifestations such as recurrent herpes simplex, candidiasis, and geographic tongue. We support the argument that some oral conditions could be secondary to the deterioration of systemic health or due to treatments for COVID-19. The present case report highlights the importance of including dentists in the intensive care unit multi-professional team to improve oral health in critical patients, not only COVID-19 patients, but also, to contribute to evidence-based and decision-making in managing infectious diseases.Objective To describe the clinical and epidemiological profiles of HIV-infected Omani children before and after the implementation of prevention of maternal-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program. Methods A retrospective review of HIV-infected children seen at a national paediatric HIV unit between 1992 and 2015. Results Ninety-one HIV-infected children were identified; 59 (65%) of whom were ≤ 5 years of age at diagnosis, and 28 (47.5%) of those were less then 1 year old. The average annual incidence of infection per million children (≤14 years old) was 5.7, and the highest (11.6) was in 2010. At diagnosis, 48 (60%) patients had a CD4 count of less then 200 cells/mm3. The median HIV viral load at diagnosis and 12 months after HIV treatment were 81,600 and 5,911 copies/mL, respectively (P=0.015). The median CD4 count was 586 cells/mm3 at diagnosis and 800 cells/mm3 at 12 months after therapy (P=0.004). Compared to those diagnosed by 2009 (n=68), HIV-infected children diagnosed after 2009 (n=22)) were more likely to be asymptomatic at the time of HIV diagnosis [23.
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