著者

Keisuke MORITA Emiko KANEKO

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, no.8, pp.1085-1089, 2006 (Released:2006-08-09)

参考文献数

37

被引用文献数

22 48

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In this study, a simple and sensitive method for the determination of arsenic in water samples was developed. The method is based on the formation of micro particles of Ethyl Violet and molybdoarsenate, which gives an apparently homogeneous blue color to the solution. The absorption of the excess dye gradually decreases due to its conversion to a colorless carbinol species under strongly acidic conditions. Consequently, the sufficiently low reagent blank enables the spectrophotometric determination of arsenic with the detection limit of 4 µg l-1. The coefficient of variation for the spectrophotometry at 50 µg l-1 was 3.5% (n = 5). Furthermore, it is possible to detect concentrations as low as 10 µg l-1 of arsenic visually. Our method will be useful as a simple, rapid, and cost-effective field test of arsenic, requiring no complex apparatus or skilled laboratory support.

著者

Yoshimune NONOMURA Hitoshi HATANO Kazuki FUKUDA Hidenari INOUE

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.1, pp.117-119, 1994-02-10 (Released:2006-07-04)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

4 7

著者

Yan ZHANG Xiaoyan HUANG Wenfang LIU Zeneng CHENG Chuanpin CHEN Lihui YIN

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.10, pp.985-990, 2013-10-10 (Released:2013-10-10)

参考文献数

34

被引用文献数

3 24

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Illegal chemicals, which could cause unpredictable side effects, may be added into traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for a rapid healing effect. In this report, a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) analysis method for five kinds of illegally added drugs (rosiglitazone maleate, phenformin hydrochloride, metformin hydrochloride, pioglitazone hydrochloride and sibutramine hydrochloride) in Chinese traditional patent medicine (CTPM) has been demonstrated, including simultaneous detections of drug mixtures with CTPM. Silver colloidal, prepared by a sodium citrate reaction, was used as a SERS substrate. The optimum pH condition for each drug has also been explored because of its combined effect on protonation, surface charge, repulsion of an analyte and nanoparticles. Furthermore, the simultaneous detection of two or three kinds of these chemicals has been carried out. Characteristic peaks are employed for qualitative analysis. This is the first research using SERS for the analysis of drug mixtures in CTPM without any separation process.

著者

Wesley W. HSIAO Hsien-Shun LIAO Hsing-Hung LIN Yueh-Lun LEE Chia-Kwung FAN Chien-Wei LIAO Po-Yen LIN En-Te HWU Chia-Seng CHANG

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.9, pp.885-892, 2013-09-10 (Released:2013-09-10)

参考文献数

29

被引用文献数

4 12

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Toxocarosis is a zoonosis caused by the transmission of the Toxocara canis (T. canis) larvae to humans. Its infectious third-stage larvae can invade the brains of paratenic hosts. The resultant brain damage can result in cerebral toxocarosis (CT). Astrocytes have important neurotrophic and neuroprotective functions in the brain. Substantial studies have shown that astrocyte apoptosis may contribute to the pathogenesis of many acute and chronic neurodegenerative disorders. We propose an alternation detection method, a combination of the astigmatic detection microscopy (ADM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques, to investigate the apoptosis of astrocytes triggered with T. canis larval excretory/secretory (Tc E/S) antigen. The variation in the pathology of a cell’s morphological changes was investigated with ADM and AFM analyses and then confirmed by western blotting. The results showed that the round cells increased as the concentration of Tc E/S antigen and incubated time increased. In addition, the mean height of apoptotic cells was approximately twice that of untreated normal cells, which meant there was correlation between the Tc E/S antigen treatment and cell height. For each cleaved caspase-3 in the cells cocultured with Tc E/S antigen and incubated for 9 h, the corresponding intensities increased about 34-fold (34.4 ± 1.8) compared with those of the control cells. This method can provide researchers with a perspective for understanding the limited information on the mechanism of astroglial injury and death during a T. canis larval invasion in a brain infection.

著者

Ildikó V. TÓTH Inês C. SANTOS Cláudia F. M. AZEVEDO Jorge F. S. FERNANDES Ricardo N. M. J. PÁSCOA Raquel B. R. MESQUITA António O. S. S. RANGEL

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.5, pp.563-570, 2013-05-10 (Released:2013-05-10)

参考文献数

30

被引用文献数

3 5

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In this work, aiming to develop a simple, inexpensive method for the determination of low bromate levels in water samples, a liquid waveguide capillary cell (LWCC) was coupled to a FIA system. The long optical path (100 cm) of the LWCC was used to improve the sensitivity and the limit of detection without resorting to any off-line or in-line preconcentration processes. The spectrophotometric determination was based on the oxidation of chlorpromazine by bromate in an acidic medium, resulting in the formation of a colored radical product. Sulfamic acid was added to the reagent for minimizing the interference of nitrite, and a chelating ion exchange resin was used to remove major cationic interferences. The developed system allowed the determination of bromate within the range between 1 – 20 μg L−1 with a detection limit of 0.2 μg L−1.

著者

Tomoko FUKUUCHI Makoto YASUDA Katsunori INAZAWA Tatsuhiro OTA Noriko YAMAOKA Ken-ichi MAWATARI Kazuya NAKAGOMI Kiyoko KANEKO

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.5, pp.511-517, 2013-05-10 (Released:2013-05-10)

参考文献数

31

被引用文献数

6 25

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Several methods for quantifying the purine content in food and drink have been described using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). We have developed an improved HPLC method that is based on a method reported by Kaneko et al. and that is more sensitive yet simple, and suitable for determining the purine content of beer and beer-like alcoholic beverages. Quantitative HPLC separation was performed on a Shodex Asahi Pak GS-320HQ column with an isocratic elution of 150 mmol/L sodium phosphate buffer (H3PO4/NaH2PO4 = 20:100 (v/v)). The retention times for the four analytes, namely, adenine, guanine, hypoxanthine and xanthine, were 19.9, 25.0, 29.3 and 43.0 min, respectively. The resolution was good, and there was no excessive interference from the other compounds in the beverages at these retention times. Furthermore, the detection limit for all the analytes was improved to less than 0.0075 mg/L, and all the calibration curves showed good linearity (r2 > 0.999) between 0.013 and 10 mg/L for adenine and guanine, and between 0.025 and 10 mg/L for hypoxanthine and xanthine. The pretreatment was simplified by removing some procedures and optimizing the perchloric acid hydrolysis and the enzymatic peak-shift assay. We reduced the sample dilution rate by almost 50%, and the time spent on pretreatment from 4 days to only 180 min. The recovery of the analytes from spiked samples was 94.8 – 103.8%. This method may be useful for evaluating quantitative and qualitative differences in the purine content of beer and beer-like alcoholic beverages.

著者

Hideo TAKEUCHI

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.11, pp.1077-1077, 2011-11-10 (Released:2011-11-10)

参考文献数

59

被引用文献数

14 55

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UV Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating the structures and interactions of the aromatic side chains of Phe, Tyr, Trp, and His in proteins. This is because Raman bands of aromatic ring vibrations are selectively enhanced with UV excitation, and intensities and wavenumbers of Raman bands sensitively reflect structures and interactions. Interpretation of protein Raman spectra is greatly assisted by using empirical correlations between spectra and structure. Many Raman bands of aromatic side chains have been proposed to be useful as markers of structures and interactions on the basis of empirical correlations. This article reviews the usefulness and limitations of the Raman markers for protonation/deprotonation, conformation, metal coordination, environmental polarity, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interaction, and cation-π interaction of the aromatic side chains. The utility of Raman markers is demonstrated through an application to the structural analysis of a membrane-bound proton channel protein.

著者

Elizabeth L. HOMMEL Gang MA Heather C. ALLE

出版者

(社)日本分析化学会

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, no.11, pp.1325-1329, 2001 (Released:2005-04-20)

参考文献数

32

被引用文献数

22 45

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An important advance in surface science has been the evolution of sum frequency generation to the application of studying surface structure and chemistry of liquid surfaces at the molecular-level by probing the vibrational signatures of surface molecules. Recently, broad-bandwidth sum frequency generation (BBSFG) spectroscopy has become an important tool for investigating gas-solid interfaces. BBSFG spectroscopy allows, theoretically, a surface sum frequency spectrum to be acquired within one pulse of the laser. In this paper, the viability of BBSFG to study inherently small nonlinear response interfaces and the time-resolving capability of this surface-selective technology are demonstrated. Presented here are the first published accounts of spectra from a liquid surface utilizing the broad-bandwidth sum frequency technology with acquisition times as low as 500 milliseconds.