Academic literature on the topic '030105 Instrumental Methods (excl. Immunological and Bioassay Methods)'
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(6833102), Kiran S. Iyer. "Microdroplets: Chemistry, Applications and Manipulation Using Ionization Sources and Mass Spectrometry." Thesis, 2019.
Find full text(8755572), Casey J. Smith. "Hardware / Algorithm Integration for Pharmaceutical Analysis." Thesis, 2020.
Find full text(10711971), Alex M. Sherman. "Dynamic Chemical Imaging And Analysis Within Biologically Active Materials." Thesis, 2021.
Find full text(10725291), Priya Prakash. "Characterizing Microglial Response to Amyloid: From New Tools to New Molecules." Thesis, 2021.
Find full textMicroglia are a population of specialized, tissue-resident immune cells that make up around 10% of total cells in our brain. They actively prune neuronal synapses, engulf cellular debris, and misfolded protein aggregates such as the Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)-associated amyloid-beta (Aβ) by the process of phagocytosis. During AD, microglia are unable to phagocytose Aβ, perhaps due to the several disease-associated changes affecting their normal function. Functional molecules such as lipids and metabolites also influence microglial behavior but have primarily remained uncharacterized to date. The overarching question of this work is, How do microglia become dysfunctional in chronic inflammation? To this end, we developed new chemical tools to better understand and investigate the microglial response to Aβ in vitro and in vivo. Specifically, we introduce three new tools. (1) Recombinant human Aβ was developed via a rapid, refined, and robust method for expressing, purifying, and characterizing the protein. (2) A pH-sensitive fluorophore conjugate of Aβ (called AβpH) was developed to identify and separate Aβ-specific phagocytic and non-phagocytic glial cells ex vivo and in vivo. (3) New lysosomal, mitochondrial, and nuclei-targeting pH-activable fluorescent probes (called LysoShine, MitoShine, and NucShine, respectively) to visualize subcellular organelles in live microglia. Next, we asked, What changes occur to the global lipid and metabolite profiles of microglia in the presence of Aβ in vitro and in vivo? We screened 1500 lipids comprising 10 lipid classes and 700 metabolites in microglia exposed to Aβ. We found significant changes in specific lipid classes with acute and prolonged Aβ exposure. We also identified a lipid-related protein that was differentially regulated due to Aβ in vivo. This new lipid reprogramming mechanism “turned on” in the presence of cellular stress was also present in microglia in the brains of the 5xFAD mouse model, suggesting a generic response to inflammation and toxicity. It is well known that activated microglia induce reactive astrocytes during inflammation. Therefore, we asked, What changes in proteins, lipids, and metabolites occur in astrocytes due to their reactive state? We provide a comprehensive characterization of reactive astrocytes comprising 3660 proteins, 1500 lipids, and 700 metabolites. These microglia and astrocytes datasets will be available to the scientific community as a web application. We propose a final model wherein the molecules secreted by reactive astrocytes may also induce lipid-related changes to the microglial cell state in inflammation. In conclusion, this thesis highlights chemical neuroimmunology as the new frontier of neuroscience propelled by the development of new chemical tools and techniques to characterize glial cell states and function in neurodegeneration.
(10701216), Ashur Scott Rael. "Advances in gas chromatography, thermolysis, mass spectrometry, and vacuum ultraviolet spectrometry." Thesis, 2021.
Find full textSuperfine-micropacked capillary (SFµPC) columns may provide an alternative to commercial packed GC columns and WCOT GC columns that combines the benefits of the larger sample capacity of packed columns and the benefits of the excellent separation capabilities and mass spectrometry (MS) flow rate compatibility of WCOT columns. SFµPC columns suffer from high inlet pressure requirements and prior reported work has required specialized instrumentation for their use. Fabrication of and chromatography with SFµPC GC columns was successfully achieved with typical GC-MS instrumentation and within the flow rate limit of a MS. Additionally, the use of higher viscosity carrier gasses was demonstrated to reduce the required inlet pressure for SFµPC GC columns.
Recently, a new vacuum ultraviolet spectrometer (VUV) universal detector has been commercialized for GC. The ability of VUV detectors to acquire absorbance spectra from 125 nm to 430 nm poses a potential alternative to MS. As such, GC-VUV provides an exciting potential alternative approach to achieving excellent quantitative and qualitative analysis across a wide range of analytes. The performance of VUV and MS detectors for forensic analysis in terms of quantitative and qualitative analysis was compared. Analysis of alkylbenzenes in ignitable liquids was explored, which can be important evidence from suspected arson fires and are difficult to differentiate with MS. The VUV detector was found to have superior specificity and comparable sensitivity to the MS detector in scan mode.
Addition of thermolysis (Th) as an orthogonal fragmentation pathway provides the opportunity to increase the differences between MS fragmentation patterns. Fragmentation has been widely established to aid in identification of molecules with MS by providing characteristic fragments at characteristic relative abundances. However, molecules with very similar structures do not result in sizable spectral differences in all cases with typical MS fragmentation techniques. A series of Th units were fabricated and integrated into GC-Th-MS instruments. Th-MS was conducted with the thermally labile nitrate esters across a range of instrumentation and thermal conditions.
(8740413), Chen Li. "ADVANCES OF MID-INFRARED PHOTOTHERMAL MICROSCOPY FOR IMPROVED CHEMICAL IMAGING." Thesis, 2020.
Find full text(9708611), Zackery Ray Roberson. "Advances in Gas Chromatography and Vacuum UV Spectroscopy: Applications to Fire Debris Analysis & Drugs of Abuse." Thesis, 2021.
Find full textThe first route was to decrease separation times for analysis of ignitable liquid residues by using micro-bore wall coated open-tubular columns. Micro-bore columns are much shorter and have higher separation efficiencies than the standard columns used in forensic chemistry, allowing for faster analysis times while maintaining the expected peak separation. Typical separation times for fire debris samples are between thirty minutes and one hour, the micro-bore columns were able to achieve equivalent performance in three minutes. The reduction in analysis time was demonstrated by analysis of ignitable liquid residues from simulated fire debris exemplars.
The second route looked at a relatively new detector for gas chromatography known as a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectrophotometer. The VUV detector uses traditional UV and far-ultraviolet light to probe the pi and sigma bonds of the gas phase analytes as well as Rydberg traditions to produce spectra that are nearly unique to a compound. Thus far, the only spectra that were not discernable were from enantiomers, otherwise even diastereomers have been differentiated. The specificity attained with the VUV detector has achieved differentiation of compounds that mass spectrometry, the most common detection method for chromatography in forensic chemistry labs, has difficulty distinguishing. This specificity has been demonstrated herein by analyzing various classes of drugs of abuse and applicability to “real world” samples has been demonstrated by analysis of de-identified seized samples.
(8713962), James Ulcickas. "LIGHT AND CHEMISTRY AT THE INTERFACE OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT." Thesis, 2020.
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