纳米材料在用于癌症诊断的呼出气挥发性有机物检测中的应用

细胞新陈代谢的变化会导致挥发性有机化合物（VOCs）类型及含量发生变化,因此可通过分析某些标志性VOCs简立起多种疾病早期诊断的模型. 人体呼出物中特征VOCs的检测作为一种非侵入性、无损的检测手段,近些年在疾病检测领域已成为世界范围内的研究热点. 其中,纳米材料可用于增强传感器性能,并使传感器便携式小型化,推进检测传感器进入临床. 在这篇综述中,作者将种类繁多的传感器中用到的纳米材料归纳总结为金属、金属氧化物、碳基、复合物和MOFs基纳米材料等几类,并讨论了不同类纳米材料在VOCs检测中的优劣势. 本文所建立起的分析方法及讨论有助于进一步了解检测技术的优越性与局限性. 最后,作者对利用VOCs的检测实现癌症早期筛选的研究及发展提出了个人观点.     

基于呼气中特异性VOCs筛查的肺癌早期诊断与模型评估

采用气相色谱－质谱联用仪（GC－MS）检测了180例受试者的呼出气样品,包括79名肺癌患者和101名健康志愿者。每个受试者采集3个平行样品,以及1个室内空气样品。对所有呼气样品中检测的92种挥发性有机物（VOCs）进行定量分析。结合Mann－Whitney检验和正交偏最小二乘判别分析（OPLS－DA）模型筛选出10种肺癌患者呼气特异性VOCs,包括苯甲醛、顺式-2-丁烯、2-丁酮、萘、乙酸乙烯酯、乙烯、2,2,4-三甲基戊烷、3-甲基戊烷、己醛和2-甲基戊烷。利用统计学方法研究其在不同人群中的代谢差异和可能相关的代谢机制,通过建立机器学习模型验证候选标志物对疾病的诊断性能,结果显示,随机森林模型诊断的准确度、精准率、灵敏度和特异性分别为96.25%、96.21%、95.76%、96.67%,马修斯相关系数（MCC）为0.93,曲线下面积为0.96。上述10种化合物可作为肺癌患者的潜在呼气VOCs标志物,为肺癌的早期诊断提供了丰富的基础数据。     

人体呼出气分析的技术进展及其在非侵入式医学诊断方面的临床应用前景

人体呼出气被视为血液顶空气体,通过肺泡交换排出体外,可在一定程度上反映人体的内源代谢情况。近些年,随着医学诊断无损化的不断发展,呼出气分析由于其无创性,无痛性,便捷性,具有临床疾病早期诊断与大规模筛查的潜力,受到越来越多的关注。研究表明,呼出气中包含的挥发性有机化合物和人体的疾病代谢状态密切相关,如丙酮与糖尿病,醛类物质与乳腺癌,烷烃类与氧化应激水平等。现代分析方法(如气相色谱、质谱、光谱、传感器等)对呼出气中上千种痕量组分的定性定量分析,使得呼出气分析成为可能。此文总结了呼出气分析的技术发展:样品采集手段,预富集技术和定性定量分析技术。评价了呼出气生物标识物在糖尿病,乳腺癌,以及肺癌等疾病中的临床诊断前景。最后讨论了呼出气分析的技术在国内的发展现状及其面临的主要问题。     

热解吸-气相色谱法测定植物源挥发性有机物

以Tenax-TA、Carboxen 1000和Carbosieve SⅢ为采样管填充料,将植物源挥发性有机物吸附于采样管内,样品通过二次热解吸仪解吸后,随载气进入气相色谱仪,采用氢火焰离子化检测器(FID)测定,建立了利用二次热解吸仪与气相色谱联用技术测定植物挥发性有机物的分析方法。载气N2流速为30 mL/min,60℃下吹扫吸附管2 min,然后在250℃下解吸吸附管5 min,冷却1 min后,在275℃下解吸聚焦管3 min,样品经传输线进入气相色谱。气相色谱载气N2压力为190 kPa,FID检测器温度280℃;进样口温度225℃;初始柱温40℃,停留5 min,以2℃/min升温至120℃,保留1 min,然后以20℃/min升温至200℃,保留10 min。方法重现性好,精密度高,线性相关系数大于0.99;检出限均低于9×10-9g/L;解吸效率大于96%,适用于植物源挥发性有机物的测定。     

Membrane Focusing - A New Injection Method For Capillary Gas Chromatography

Abstract

The principles of a new sample focusing technique in capillary gas chromatography are described. A solidsorbent trapped sample is thermally released from the sample tube, transfered to a membrane chamber by a carrier gas and there retained by a gas separation membrane which is highly permeable to the carrier gas. After focusing in the membrane chamber the sample is brane chamber geometry to increase the membrane surface and thereby the carrier gas flow is promising too.

The major advantage of a membrane focusing system as compared to the cryofocusing technique would be no need for a cooling agent. Such a system would be favourable for hydrocarbon analyses at remote sites.     

室内空气中总挥发性有机物(TVOC)检验方法的探索

使用TVOC混合标准溶液对气相色谱法检测室内空气样品中总挥发有机物的方法进行了探索.改进后的色谱分析时间为26.1 min,比GB/T 18883 - 2002方法(52 min)缩短了25.9 min,TVOC各物质峰分离度高于99％,检测精密度相对标准偏差在1.05％至2.89％之间,回收率在95％到102％之间,检出限为0.020 μg.     

Oral malodor,assessed by closed-loop,gas chromatography,and ion-trap technology

A method is described for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in saliva and tongue coating samples. The techniue is based on an off-line preconcentration step by means of a closed-loop trapping system followed by gas chromatography-ion trap detection. With the closed-loop technique, the volatile organic compounds(VOCs) are released from the matrix and trapped on an adsorbent without interference of water. The VOCs are released from the adsorbent into the gas chromatograph by thermdesorption. After separation, identification of the compounds is performed by ion trap technology. By this technique 82 compounds could be demonstrated in saliva and tongue coating samples. The technique is also used to demonstrate the formation of volatile bacterial fermentation compounds when a protein substrate is added to tongue coating samples. It is considered a very promising tool in further research on oral malodor.     

Rapid Simultaneous Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in Mattress Fabric by Headspace–Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry

An analytical method for simultaneously determining 32 volatile organic compounds in mattress fabrics based on static headspace coupled to gas chromatography and mass spectrometry detection was established. Samples were cut into 5?×?5?mm small pieces and placed in a 20?mL headspace vial at 90° for 30?min. To achieve the optimum conditions for the analysis, several parameters including the heating temperature, heating time, sample weight, and injection time were investigated. The results demonstrated that the most important parameter influencing the sensitivity of the analysis was the heating temperature. The optimum method showed good linearities with correlation coefficients ranged from 0.9944 to 0.9998. The limits of detection and quantification for the target compounds were in the ranges of 0.004–0.032 and 0.013–0.099?µg/?g, respectively. The method was successfully applied to determine the volatile organic compounds in six categories of mattress fabrics. The results showed that some volatile organic compounds were found, such as naphthalene, hexadecane, and 1,4-diisopropylbenzene. Moreover, the concentrations of 32 volatile organic compounds decreased following the order of jute, terylene, polyester, velboa, nylon, and cotton samples in the study. These results indicated that the method is fast, accurate, and successful for determining volatile organic compounds in mattress fabrics.     

冷凝收集-离子色谱法测定呼出气中的有机酸和阴离子

建立了一种非侵入式冷凝收集-离子色谱方法测定人体呼出气中乳酸、甲酸、乙酸、丙酮酸、Cl^-、NO₂^-、NO₃^-、SO₄^2-。搭建自制呼出气冷凝装置,该装置包括吹气口、与吹气口相连的单向阀和流量计、置于半导体冷凝装置中的冷阱以及一次性冷凝收集管。通过呼出气冷凝装置对人体呼出气进行收集,利用离子色谱对冷凝液（EBC）中有机酸和阴离子的含量进行检测。优化采集冷阱温度和采集流量,得到冷阱最佳冷凝温度为-15℃,呼气流量为15 L/min。采用1.5 mmol/L碳酸钠和3 mmol/L碳酸氢钠混合溶液作为流动相,泵流速为0.8 mL/min,分析柱为IC-SA3 （250 mm×4.0 mm）,柱温为45℃。8种有机酸和阴离子的线性范围均为0.1～10.0 mg/L,相关系数均≥0.999 3。在进样量为100μL时,方法的检出限为0.001 7～0.015 0 mg/L（S/N=3）,定量限为0.005 7～0.050 0 mg/L（S/N=10）。方法的日内和日间精密度均≤7.50%（n=5）。采用该方法对5位健康受试者呼出气中的有机酸和阴离子进行检测,得到8种有机酸和阴离子的含量为0.18～42.3 ng/L。在10 km的长跑运动过程中,除了一位受试者代谢异常,其余受试者呼出气中的有机酸和阴离子含量总体变化趋势为先增加后减小。本方法采样过程简单,精密度好,且没有副作用,受试者不会产生任何明显不适或风险,可为日后人体代谢物的研究提供实验思路和理论依据。