In vivo detection of cryoprotectants and lipids in overwintering larvae using carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 1260-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Buchanan ◽  
K. B. Storey

Natural abundance carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of intact, acclimated Eurosta solidaginis larvae have been obtained. The spectra show peaks assignable to lipid components and the presence of one major type of monounsaturated fatty acid. Chloroform-soluble extracts of whole larvae support this. The major nonlipid carbon components were the two cryoprotectant polyols glycerol and sorbitol. Carbon-13 NMR is a useful tool for analysis of cryoprotectant molecules in whole, living cold acclimated freezing tolerant insects.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S160-S160
Author(s):  
S Notararigo ◽  
M Martin-Pastor ◽  
J E Dominguez Munoz ◽  
M Barreiro-de Acosta

Abstract Background The deregulation of immune system cell response implies loss of T-cell apoptosis, high rate of proinflammatory cytokines production and subsequent exacerbate activation of TNF-α pathway. The use of biologic antibody decrease inflammation rate and symptoms, but it remains unclear if it has a direct effect on the pathways activation/inactivation on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). The aim of this study is evaluate the role of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) applied to the metabolomic study of serum samples isolated from fresh blood from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients under IFX treatment to understand the activated/inactivated pathways of PBMCs. Methods A case–control study was performed. Inclusion criteria were IBD patients under IFX treatment. Blood samples were obtained in Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) patients before IFX and in healthy controls (CTRL). CD patients were divided into subgroups according to the gut affected, in Ileocolic (IC), ileum and colon. NMR samples of the serum were collected and measured according to Standard Operation Procedures. Three types of NMR spectra were measured for each serum sample (1Hnoepresat, 1Hcpmgpresat and 1HDfilterpresat). The signal in each NMR spectrum was integrated in a series of equidistant little portion of the spectrum called buckets of a constant width of 0.04 ppm, covering the complete 1H NMR spectral window from −5 to 14 ppm. Buckets in regions depleted from signal at the two extremes of the spectrum were discarded as well as those in the proximity of the water peak at ca. 4.7 ppm which was affected by the presaturation. The vectors corresponding to a number of samples of two or more groups can be rapidly analysed using Multivariant Statistical Analysis methods. Results Twenty-two IBD patients (12 CD and nine UC) were included, 10 CTRL were also included. The metabolomic analyses of the NMR spectra of the serum of the different patients and control groups by the fingerprinting and targeting profiling strategies provided OPLS-DA statistical models (Figure 1) that permitted the successful classification of certain groups of samples which are summarised in Table 1. Conclusion The results of this pilot NMR metabolomic study of serum samples of IBD found a series of spectral fingerprints that are able to discriminate between groups of patients CTRL and CD, which underlines its potential use for the diagnosis of the disease.


2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-74
Author(s):  
А.А. Bakibaev ◽  
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М.Zh. Sadvakassova ◽  
V.S. Malkov ◽  
R.Sh. Еrkasov ◽  
...  

A wide variety of acyclic ureas comprising alkyl, arylalkyl, acyl, and aryl functional groups are investigated by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In general, spectral characteristics of more than 130 substances based on acyclic ureas dissolved in deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide at room temperature are studied. The re-sults obtained based on the studies of 1H and 13C NMR spectra of urea and its N-alkyl-, N-arylalkyl-, N-aryl- and 1,3-diaryl derivatives are presented, and the effect of these functional groups on the chemical shifts in carbonyl and amide moieties in acyclic urea derivatives is discussed. An introduction of any type of substitu-ent (electron-withdrawing or electron-donating) into urea molecule is stated to result in a strong upfield shift in 13C NMR spectra relatively to unsubstituted urea. A strong sensitivity of NH protons to the presence of acyl and aryl groups in nuclear magnetic resonance spectra is pointed out. In some cases, qualitative depend-encies between the chemical shifts in the NMR spectra and the structure of the studied acyclic ureas are re-vealed. A summary of the results on chemical shifts in the NMR spectra of the investigated substances allows determining the ranges of chemical shift variations of the key protons and carbon atoms in acyclic ureas. The literature describing the synthesis procedures are provided. The results obtained significantly expand the methods of reliable identification of biologically active acyclic ureas and their metabolites that makes it promising to use NMR spectroscopy both in biochemistry and in clinical practice.


2000 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 2012-2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Deborde ◽  
Patrick Boyaval

ABSTRACT In vivo 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to elucidate the pathways and the regulation of pyruvate metabolism and pyruvate-lactate cometabolism noninvasively in living-cell suspensions of Propionibacterium freudenreichiisubsp. shermanii. The most important result of this work concerns the modification of fluxes of pyruvate metabolism induced by the presence of lactate. Pyruvate was temporarily converted to lactate and alanine; the flux to acetate synthesis was maintained, but the flux to propionate synthesis was increased; and the reverse flux of the first part of the Wood-Werkman cycle, up to acetate synthesis, was decreased. Pyruvate was consumed at apparent initial rates of 148 and 90 μmol · min−1 · g−1 (cell dry weight) when it was the sole substrate or cometabolized with lactate, respectively. Lactate was consumed at an apparent initial rate of 157 μmol · min−1 · g−1when it was cometabolized with pyruvate. P. shermanii used several pathways, namely, the Wood-Werkman cycle, synthesis of acetate and CO2, succinate synthesis, gluconeogenesis, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and alanine synthesis, to manage its pyruvate pool sharply. In both types of experiments, acetate synthesis and the Wood-Werkman cycle were the metabolic pathways used most.


1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (2) ◽  
pp. C318-C322 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Song ◽  
R. S. Hotchkiss ◽  
J. Neil ◽  
P. E. Morris ◽  
C. Y. Hsu ◽  
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Fluorine-19-nuclear magnetic resonance (19F-NMR) spectroscopic detection of the NMR-active Ca2+ indicator 5-fluoro-1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (5F-BAPTA) is one method for measuring cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) and has been used previously to measure [Ca2+]i in isolated cells and perfused organs. The aim of the present investigation was to demonstrate the feasibility of determining [Ca2+]i in vivo and in situ using 19F-NMR and 5F-BAPTA. Experiments were performed on male Sprague-Dawley rats with a surface-coil antenna employed for NMR interrogation. The Ca2+ indicator, 5F-BAPTA, was infused either intravenously (kidney, spleen) or intraventricularly (brain) as a 100 mg/ml solution of the cell-permeant acetoxymethyl ester (5F-BAPTA-AM) in dimethyl sulfoxide. Rats tolerated intravenous infusion without evident change in mean arterial blood pressure. In all tissues examined, kidney, spleen, and brain, [Ca2+]i was approximately 200 nM. To our knowledge, these results represent the first in vivo and in situ determinations of [Ca2+]i employing 19F-NMR.


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