1.Food intolerance-related symptoms in 903 individuals
Qiqin JIANG ; He HUANG ; Jing ZHENG ; Xuezhen CHEN ; Hong LI
Chinese Journal of Health Management 2011;05(5):295-298
Objective To investigate the symptoms and affecting factors of food intolerance among 903 adults.Methods Food special antibody(IgG)in human serum were examined by ELISA.Food Intolerance Health Assessment Questionnaire was used to assess positive rate of food intolerance and food intake habits.Chi-square test and Mann-Whitney test were used for data analysis.Results The ratio of food intolerance was 0.33% to 28.13%.Intolerant foods include crab(28.13%),yolk(27.02%),milk (13.07%),soybean(11.96%),shrimp,tomato,corn,beef,rice,chicken,mushroom,wheat,and pork.The symptoms of nervous system(55.89%),digestive system(45.69%)and respiratory system(15.64%)were commonly seen.Prevalence of food intolerance in mental labors was lower than manual labors.Conclusion The most common intolerant food includes crab,yolk and milk.The symptoms of food intolerance are different.Manual labors are more susceptible to food intolerance.
2.Traditional Chinese medicine constitution of individuals with food intolerance in Fuzhou areas
Qiqin JIANG ; Xuezhen CHEN ; Shengxian PAN ; Jing ZHENG ; Zhiqiang ZHANG ; Hong LI
Chinese Journal of Health Management 2012;06(3):158-161
ObjectiveTo investigate clinical symptoms and influencing factors of food intolerance and to identify susceptibility of food intolerance among adults with various Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) constitutions.MethodsA total of 411 individuals were recruited by using simple sampling method.ELISA was used to test serum levels of food intolerance specific IgG antibody.TCM constitution,food intake habit,lifestyle,and biochemical data were collected.Results ( 1 ) The prevalence of food intolerace was 60.1% (247/411).(2) The most commonly seen food intolerance specific IgG were those against egg (44.9% ),crab ( 37.7% ),or cod ( 23.1% ).Intolerance to 1 to 5 kinds of food could be found in single individual.Subhealthy people were more likely to suffer from food intolerance ( P<0.05 ).( 3 ) Those with food intolerance always presented with various symptoms,mainly respiratory system symptoms.(4) The most common types of TCM constitution of the participants were gentleness constitution,qi-insufficiency constitution,yang-deficiencyconstitution,anddampness-heatconstitution.Thoseofnon-bloodstasis constitution were more likely to suffer from crab intolerance ( P<0.05 ).Conclusion The prevalence of food intolerance is relatively high in Fuzhou areas.Subhealthy status,obesity women,and pathological constitutions may be risk factors of food intolerance.
3.Determination of L-norvaline and L-tryptophan in dietary supplements by nano-LC using an O-2-(methacryloyloxy)-ethylcarbamoyl-10,11-dihydroquinidine-silica hybrid monolithic column
Dongsheng XU ; Elena SÁNCHEZ-LÓPEZ ; Qiqin WANG ; Zhengjin JIANG ; Luisa-María MARINA
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 2020;10(1):70-77
An analytical methodology based on an O-[2-(methacryloyloxy)-ethylcarbamoyl]-10,11-dihydroquinidine (MQD)-silica hybrid monolithic column was developed for the enantioseparation of 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (FMOC) derivatized amino acids by nano-liquid chromatography. The mo-bile phase was optimized including the apparent pH, content of ACN, and concentration of the buffer to obtain a satisfactory enantioresolution performance. 27 FMOC derivatized amino acids including 19 protein and 8 non-protein amino acids were tested, and 19 out of them were enantiomerically discriminated obtaining baseline separation for 11 of them. Analytical characteristics of the method were evaluated for norvaline and tryptophan in terms of linearity, precision, accuracy, limits of detection (LOD) and quantitation (LOQ) showing good performance to be applied to the enantiomeric determination of these amino acids in dietary supplements. LOD and LOQ values were 9.3 and 31μM for norvaline en-antiomers and 7.5 and 25μM for tryptophan enantiomers, respectively. The contents of D-norvaline and D-tryptophan were below their respective LODs in all the analyzed samples. Quantitation of L-tryptophan and L-norvaline showed good agreement with the labeled contents except for one sample which did not show presence of L-norvaline, contrary to the label indication.
4.Association of arteriosclerosis with mild cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetics
Gang CHEN ; Shali YANG ; Jiahe LIU ; Hong LI ; Jin YAO ; Feihuan FU ; Jixing LIANG ; Huibin HUANG ; Liantao LI ; Qiqin JIANG ; Lixiang LIN
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2010;26(11):971-972
Montreal cognitive assessment(MoCA, Beijing Version) was chosen as cognition assessment implement. 63 patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were chosen to form a research group, and 27 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and normal cognitive function served as a control group. It was found that atherosclerosis played an important role in the pathogenesis of MCI in type 2diabetes, therefore, early prevention and management of atherosclerosis may help to improve the cognitive function.
5.Rapid fabrication of zwitterionic sulfobetaine vinylimidazole-based monoliths via photoinitiated copolymerization for hydrophilic interaction chromatography
Qiqin WANG ; Lingjue SUN ; Huihui WU ; Ning DENG ; Xianglong ZHAO ; Jingwei ZHOU ; Tingting ZHANG ; Hai HAN ; Zhengjin JIANG
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 2022;12(5):783-790
Zwitterionic sulfobetaine-based monolithic stationary phases have attracted increasing attention for their use in hydrophilic interaction chromatography.In this study,a novel hydrophilic polymeric monolith was fabricated through photo-initiated copolymerization of 3-(3-vinyl-1-imidazolio)-l-propanesulfonate(SBVI)with pentaerythritol triacrylate using methanol and tetrahydrofuran as the porogenic system.Notably,the duration for the preparation of this novel monolith was as little as 5 min,which was significantly shorter than that required for previously reported sulfobetaine-based monoliths prepared via conventional thermally initiated copolymerization.Moreover,these monoliths showed good morphology,permeability,porosity(62.4%),mechanical strength(over 15 MPa),column efficiency(51,230 plates/m),and reproducibility(relative standard deviations for all analytes were lower than 4.6%).Mechanistic studies indicated that strong hydrophilic and negative electrostatic interactions might be responsible for the retention of polar analytes on the zwitterionic SBVI-based monolith.In particular,the resulting monolith exhibited good anti-protein adhesion ability and low nonspecific protein adsorption.These excellent features seem to favor its application in bioanalysis.Therefore,the novel zwitterionic sulfobetaine-based monolith was successfully employed for the highly selective separation of small bioactive compounds and the efficient enrichment of N-glycopeptides from complex samples.In this study,we prepared a novel zwitterionic sulfobetaine-based monolith with good performance and developed a simpler and faster method for preparation of zwitterionic monoliths.
6.Phosphatidylethanolamine functionalized biomimetic monolith for immobilized artificial membrane chromatography
Peijie ZHU ; Weijia CHEN ; Qiqin WANG ; Huihui WU ; Meng RUAN ; Hongwu WANG ; Zhengjin JIANG
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 2022;12(2):332-338
In this research,a new phospholipid based monolith was fabricated by in situ co-polymerization of 1-dodecanoyl-2-(11-methacrylamidoundecanoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine and ethylene dimethacrylate to mimick bio-membrane environment.Excellent physicochemical properties of this novel monolith that were achieved included column efficiency,stability,and permeability.Moreover,the biomimetic monolith showed outstanding separation capability for a series of intact proteins and small molecules.In particular,it exhibited good potential as an alternative to the commercial immobilized artificial membrane(IAM)column(IAM.PC.DD2)for studying drug-membrane interactions.This study not only enriched the types of IAM stationary phases,but also provided a simple model for the prediction of phosphatidylethanolamine related properties of drug candidates.