Profiling of esterified fatty acids as biomarkers in the blood of dengue fever patients using a microliter‐scale extraction followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry

An improved gas chromatography with mass spectrometry procedure was developed to highlight the esterified fatty acids in 100 μL blood of dengue fever patients in the early febrile phase versus healthy volunteers. 24 adult patients and 24 healthy volunteers were included in this study. The recoveries of targeted esterified fatty acids content were in the range of 92.10–101.00% using methanol/dichloromethane (2:1, v/v) as the extraction solvent. An efficient chromatographic separation of targeted 17 esterified fatty acid methyl esters was obtained. The limits of detection and quantification were within the range of 16–131 and 53–430 ng/mL, respectively. The relative standard deviation of intraday and interday precision values ranged from 0.4 to 5.0%. The statistical data treatment showed a significant decrease of the content of four saturated fatty acids, C14:0, C15:0, C16:0, and C18:0 (P value < 0.05), and also showed a decrease of the content of eight unsaturated fatty acids, C16:1, C18:3n6, C18:2n6, C18:1n9, C20:3n3, C20:4n6, C20:2, and C22:6n3 (P value < 0.05) in dengue fever patients. Moreover, the amount of three omega‐6 fatty acids including C18:3n6, C18:2n6, and C20:4n6 was dramatically decreased in the blood of dengue fever patients to a limit of 50 ± 10%.     

Facile Access to Benzothiazole‐Containing Pyrrolo[1,2‐a]quinolines and Pyrrolo[2,1‐a]isoquinolines via Nitrogen Ylides

Quinoline and isoquinoline react with 2‐(bromoacetyl)benzothiazole ( 1 ) in dry benzene to give the corresponding quinolinium and isoquinolinium salts 2 and 10 which undergo base‐mediated [3+2] 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition with some acetylene and ethylene derivatives to give the corresponding benzothiazole‐containing pyrrolo[1,2‐a]quinoline and pyrrolo[2,1‐a]isoquinoline derivatives.     

Investigation of the thermal stability of the antihypertensive drug nebivolol under different conditions: Experimental and computational analysis

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The thermal decomposition of the third-generation beta-blocker nebivolol (NEB) was investigated using thermogravimetric analysis (TG) under isothermal...