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Intermittent fasting (IF) and physical exercise (PE) have beneficial psychological and physiological effects, improving memory and anxiety-like behavior. However, the impact of this combination on brain electrophysiological patterns is unknown. We aimed to evaluate the behavior and parameters of a brain excitability-related phenomenon named cortical spreading depression (CSD) in young rats (31–87 days of life) submitted to IF and treadmill PE for eight weeks. Sixty-four male and female Wistar rats aged 24 days were randomized into control, IF, PE, and IF+PE groups. Behavioral tests (open field (OF), object recognition, and elevated plus maze (EPM)) were performed, and the CSD propagation features were recorded. IF caused behavioral responses indicative of anxiety (lower number of entries and time spent in the OF center and EPM open arms). IF also reduced the discrimination index for object recognition memory tests and increased the propagation velocity of CSD. PE rats displayed more entries into the OF center and lowered CSD propagation speed. Data suggest that IF worsens anxiety-like behavior and memory and accelerates CSD in young rats. In contrast, PE reverted the unfavorable effects of IF. The brain effects of IF and PE at younger ages are recommended for study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

8-Hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) is a promising organic molecule for the corrosion protection of aluminum and its alloys in the replacement of chromate salts. On the aluminum surface, the presence of an oxide layer naturally formed can influence the inhibition efficiency which depends on molecule–surface interactions. In the present study, we performed quantum chemical calculations on native 8-HQ, tautomer and 8-Q (deprotonated, H-abstracted or radical) molecules, adsorbed on an oxidized aluminum surface (γ-Al2O3(111)/Al(111)). All species have the ability to interact strongly with the oxidized aluminum surface and can form stable and dense organic films. The bonding strength of different species of 8-HQ on oxidized aluminum surfaces is more favorable for 8-Q and tautomer species than for the native 8-HQ molecule. On the surface, the native 8-HQ molecule is physisorbed, forming H-bonds, in contrast to the tautomer and 8-Q species that show the predominance of chemisorption modes, involving both H-bonds and covalent bonds at the molecule/substrate interface. The dispersion energy significantly contributes to the adsorption mechanism and increases with increasing molecular surface coverage, due to attractive molecule–molecule interactions. Regardless of surface coverage and considered reaction mechanisms, the 8-Q species is able to enhance the stability of all aluminum sites, and thus to slow down the anodic reaction. In contrast, the native molecule and the tautomeric form have no significant effect or even weakened the stability of aluminum surface atoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organic molecules that form self-assembled-monolayers on metal substrates may provide efficient corrosion protection. Herein we study how such self-assembled-monolayers hinder the penetration of Cl- ions from aqueous solution toward the metal substrate. We first elucidate some aspects that are relevant for modeling charged ions near surfaces with slab models that utilize periodic-boundary-conditions, in particular: (i) solvation effects, (ii) inter-ion electrostatics, (iii) depolarization effects, and (iv) effects of periodic-boundary-conditions along lateral directions and, for multi-slab models, also along the surface normal direction. The last two effects are artifacts hence they can be avoided or at least minimized by proper modeling. We further present a simple scheme that describes the activation barrier for Cl- penetration into self-assembled-monolayer as a function of the electrode potential and show that the activation barrier decreases as the electrode potential increases, as would be intuitively expected, however, for thick self-assembled-monolayers the barrier remains sizable even at rather positive potentials, which may be one of the reasons why dense and sufficiently thick self-assembled-monolayers can efficiently inhibit corrosion. By utilizing a simple model where metal substrate, organic layer, and aqueous solvent are described implicitly by dielectric continuum slabs, we analyze two important effects by which self-assembled-monolayers hinder the penetration of Cl- ions toward the metal substrate. The first effect is due to inferior solvation of ions in organic layer compared to that in aqueous solvent and the estimated difference is larger than 1 eV. This effect is independent of the thickness of the organic layer, provided that the layer is sufficiently thick (-10 Å). The second effect is due to electric field at the electrochemical interface and the extent by which it affects the penetration of Cl- depends on the electrode potential and on the thickness of the organic layer. Other effects, such as local deformation of organic layer during Cl- penetration, cannot be described by current simple models and will be considered in our next publication. Finally, calculations indicate that due to stronger solvation of Na+ counter-ions their penetration into organic layer is inferior to that of Cl-. Energetically the most favorable way for Na+ to penetrate is in the form of Na+/Cl- ion-pairs, but it is inferior to penetration of Cl- alone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background We developed a new version of the open source software package Peptrix that can yet compare large numbers of Orbitrap™ LC-MS data. The peptide profiling results for Peptrix on MS1 spectra were compared with those obtained from a small selection of open source and commercial software packages: msInspect, Sieve™ and Progenesis™. The properties compared in these packages were speed, total number of detected masses, redundancy of masses, reproducibility in numbers and CV of intensity, overlap of masses, and differences in peptide peak intensities. Reproducibility measurements were taken for the different MS1 software applications by measuring in triplicate a complex peptide mixture of immunoglobulin on the Orbitrap™ mass spectrometer. Values of peptide masses detected from the high intensity peaks of the MS1 spectra by peptide profiling were verified with values of the MS2 fragmented and sequenced masses that resulted in protein identifications with a significant score. Findings Peptrix finds about the same number of peptide features as the other packages, but peptide masses are in some cases approximately 5 to 10 times less redundant present in the peptide profile matrix. The Peptrix profile matrix displays the largest overlap when comparing the number of masses in a pair between two software applications. The overlap of peptide masses between software packages of low intensity peaks in the spectra is remarkably low with about 50% of the detected masses in the individual packages. Peptrix does not differ from the other packages in detecting 96% of the masses that relate to highly abundant sequenced proteins. MS1 peak intensities vary between the applications in a non linear way as they are not processed using the same method. Conclusions Peptrix is capable of peptide profiling using Orbitrap™ files and finding differential expressed peptides in body fluid and tissue samples. The number of peptide masses detected in Orbitrap™ files can be increased by using more MS1 peptide profiling applications, including Peptrix, since it appears from the comparison of Peptrix with the other applications that all software packages have likely a high false negative rate of low intensity peptide peaks (missing peptides).

Ni(super II) ion and the CO molecule are used as successive probes of the local structure and reactivity of the silica surface. CO acts not as a chemical reactant but as a molecular probe of the coordination vacancies of the grafted Ni(super II)(sub 3c) ion under conditions that keep the metal oxidation state constant.

The reactivity of coordination vacancies of Ni(super II) ions grafted onto the tridentate silica support (Ni(super II)(Sub 3C) ions) with respect to CO used as a probe molecule is reported. FTIR reveals that whatever the precursor used, the CO probe sees one type of site because the same monocarbonyl complex is formed from Ni(super II)(sub 3C) ions.

The geometries and bonding energies were calculated at B3LYP/3-21G AND B3LYP/DZVP2 levels in a series of [M(eta6-C6H6)](Super n+) where M = Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu. A correlation between the total benzene charge and the frequency shift of the E1 ring vibration was evidenced that allowed interpretation of experimental data.

A persistent sciatic artery is a rare congenital vascular anomaly. The most common complication is aneurysm. Clinical presentation may include symptoms resulting from arterial dilatation and ischemia caused by thrombosis or embolization. There are diverse options for treatment of this rare condition, ranging from ligature of the aneurism to endovascular repair. This report describes the case of a female patient complaining of a pulsating mass in the left buttock. She was referred to a Vascular Service where an angiotomography showed complete bilateral persistence of the sciatic artery, with an aneurysm of the left sciatic artery. The aneurysm was treated with endovascular techniques, via a contralateral approach, with placement of two stent grafts and preservation of distal patency. Patency is particularly important in cases of this anatomical variation in which the persistent sciatic artery is complete. This patient recovered well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adsorption of Pb atoms on the Ni(111), Ni(100), Fe(110), and Cr(110) metallic surfaces was studied theoretically within an ab initio density functional theory approach (DFT). (√3 × √3)R30° super structures for Ni(111), and (2 × 2) for the other surfaces, corresponding to the saturation state, were considered. The preferred adsorption sites are found to be ternary sites for Ni(111), Fe(110), Cr(110) and quaternary sites for Ni(100). Adsorption on Fe and Cr is less exothermic than on Ni, by 0.16 and 0.33 eV/mol respectively. Adsorption on model surfaces of Ni based alloys was also investigated. It was found that the energy of adsorption depends mostly on the chemical composition of the ternary site, and can be described by a linear combination of the energies of adsorption on the pure metals. The nature of the second nearest neighbour of the adsorbed Pb atom has no significant influence on the adsorption energy. Average energies of adsorption were calculated in two cases: the limit of low coverage, and the saturation. The energies of adsorption of Pb at saturation on nickel base alloy surface representative of alloy 600 (Ni-15Cr-8Fe) and alloy 690 (Ni-30Cr-8Fe) were calculated to be 0.07 and 0.11 eV lower than on pure Ni respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We modelled with Density Functional Theory (DFT) an Al-Cu alloy covered with a passive film, with several Cu concentrations (from the limit of the isolated atom to the monolayer) at the interface with the oxide, as well as Guinier-Preston 1 (GP1) zones. At low (respectively high) concentration, Cu segregates in the first (respectively second) metal layer underneath the passive film. The Cu monolayer is the most stable configuration (-0.37 eV/Cu atom). GP1 zones were modelled, with a three-copper atom cluster in the alloy. The GP1 zone is slightly favoured with respect to the Cu monolayer under the oxide film. A low (respectively high) Cu concentration induces an electronic workfunction increase (respectively decrease) by 0.3 eV (respectively -0.4 to -0.6 eV) as compared to pure Al. In contrast, without oxide, Cu segregation at the Al surface induces no workfunction change at low concentration and an increase of 0.3 eV of the workfunction at high concentration. Thus, the presence of oxide modifies the expected tendency of workfunction increase by adding a more noble metal. For the studied models, no spontaneous electron transfer occurs to the O2 molecule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Correction for 'Insight at the atomic scale of corrosion inhibition: DFT study of 8-hydroxyquinoline on oxidized aluminum surfaces' by Fatah Chiter et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cp04626a. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Catalysts based on combinations of copper and cerium oxides are interesting alternatives to noble metal ones for processes involved in the production/purification of hydrogen produced from hydrocarbons or biomass like the water–gas shift or the preferential oxidation of CO reactions. Active sites for such processes have been proposed to correspond to reduced species formed at the interface between both oxides. The present work provides direct evidence of reduced copper species located at the interface and observed during the course of near-ambient XPS experiments performed over samples of copper oxide supported on ceria nanospheres and nanocubes subjected to interaction with CO at different temperatures. The analysis of XPS results is based on DFT+U calculations employed as a complementary method for the analysis of redox properties of the catalysts and core-level shifts produced upon such redox changes. Differences observed in interfacial redox properties as a function of the ceria support morphology appear to be most useful to explain catalytic properties of this type of system for mentioned processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Late diagnosis of lung cancer is still the main reason for high mortality rates in lung cancer. Lung cancer is a heterogeneous disease which induces an immune response to different tumor antigens. Several methods for searching autoantibodies have been described that are based on known purified antigen panels. The aim of our study is to find evidence that parts of the antigen-binding-domain of antibodies are shared among lung cancer patients. This was investigated by a novel approach based on sequencing antigen-binding-fragments (Fab) of immunoglobulins using proteomic techniques without the need of previously known antigen panels. From serum of 93 participants of the NELSON trial IgG was isolated and subsequently digested into Fab and Fc. Fab was purified from the digested mixture by SDS-PAGE. The Fab containing gel-bands were excised, tryptic digested and measured on a nano-LC-Orbitrap-Mass-spectrometry system. Multivariate analysis of the mass spectrometry data by linear canonical discriminant analysis combined with stepwise logistic regression resulted in a 12-antibody-peptide model which was able to distinguish lung cancer patients from controls in a high risk population with a sensitivity of 84% and specificity of 90%. With our Fab-purification combined Orbitrap-mass-spectrometry approach, we found peptides from the variable-parts of antibodies which are shared among lung cancer patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epoxy-amines are used as structural adhesives deposited on Ti. The amine adhesion to a Ti surface depends highly on the surface state (oxidation, hydroxylation). Amines may adsorb above preadsorbed water molecules or substitute them to bind directly to surface Ti4+ Lewis acid sites. The adsorption of a model amine molecule, diaminoethane (DAE), on a model surface, hydrated TiO2-anatase (101) surface, is investigated using Density Functional Theory including Dispersive forces (DFT-D) calculations. DAE adsorption and water substitution by DAE are exothermic processes and turn nearly isoenergetic at high coverage with adsorption–substitution energies around −0.3 eV (including dispersion forces and ZPE). Complementary ab initio molecular dynamics studies also suggest that the formation of an amine–water interaction induces water desorption from the surface at room temperature, a preliminary step towards the amine–Ti bond formation. An atomistic thermodynamic approach is developed to evaluate the interfacial free energy balance of both processes (adsorption and substitution). The main contributions to the energetic balance are dispersive interactions between molecules and the surface on the exergonic side, translational and rotational entropic contributions on the endergonic one. The substitution process is stabilized by 0.55 eV versus the adsorption one when free solvation, rotational and vibrational energies are considered. The main contribution to this free energy gain is due to water solvation. The calculations suggest that in toluene solvent with a water concentration of 10−4 M or less, a full DAE layer replaces a preadsorbed water layer for a threshold concentration of DAE ≥ 0.1 M. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a study which explains the characteristics of solid surfaces and their role in the adsorption of biomolecules. It states that several methods are being used for adsorption which includes vibrational spectroscopies, X-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. It also discusses the interaction of amino acids, peptides and natural production with biomolecules.

Interactions between biomolecules and inorganic surfaces play an important role in natural environments and in industry, including a wide variety of conditions: marine environment, ship hulls (fouling), water treatment, heat exchange, membrane separation, soils, mineral particles at the earth's surface, hospitals (hygiene), art and buildings (degradation and biocorrosion), paper industry (fouling) and more. To better control the first steps leading to adsorption of a biomolecule on an inorganic surface, it is mandatory to understand the adsorption mechanisms of biomolecules of several sizes at the atomic scale, that is, the nature of the chemical interaction between the biomolecule and the surface and the resulting biomolecule conformations once adsorbed at the surface. This remains a challenging and unsolved problem. Here, we review the state of art in experimental and theoretical approaches. We focus on metallic biomaterial surfaces such as TiO2 and stainless steel, mentioning some remarkable results on hydroxyapatite. Experimental techniques include atomic force microscopy, surface plasmon resonance, quartz crystal microbalance, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy, sum frequency generation and time of flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy. Theoretical models range from detailed quantum mechanical representations to classical forcefield-based approaches. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A, 2013. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The reactivity of the (0001)-Cr–Cr2O3 surface towards water was studied by means of periodic DFT+ U. Several water coverages were studied, from 1.2H2O/nm2 to 14.1H2O/nm2, corresponding to ¼, 1, 2 and 3 water/Cr at the (0001)-Cr2O3 surface, respectively. With increasing coverage, water gradually completes the coordination sphere of the surface Cr atoms from 3 (dry surface) to 4 (1.2 and 4.7H2O/nm2), 5 (9.4H2O/nm2) and 6 (14.1H2O/nm2). For all studied coverages, water replaces an O atom from the missing above plane. At coverages 1.2 and 4.7H2O/nm2, the Cr–Os (surface oxygen) acid–base character and bond directionality govern the water adsorption. The adsorption is molecular at the lowest coverage. At 4.7H2O/nm2, molecular and dissociative states are isoenergetic. The activation energy barrier between the two states being as low as 12kJ/mol, allowing protons exchanges between the OH groups, as evidenced by ab inito molecular dynamics at room temperature. At coverages of 9.4 and 14.1H2O/nm2, 1D- (respectively, 2D-) water networks are formed. The resulting surface terminations are –Cr(OH)2 and –Cr(OH)3– like, respectively. The increased stability of those terminations as compared to the previous ones are due to the stabilization of the adsorbed phase through a H-bond network and to the increase in the Cr coordination number, stabilizing the Cr (t 2 g ) orbitals in the valence band. An atomistic thermodynamic approach allows us to specify the temperature and water pressure domains of prevalence for each surface termination. It is found that the –Cr(OH)3-like, –Cr(OH)2 and anhydrous surfaces may be stabilized depending on (T, P) conditions. Calculated energies of adsorption and OH frequencies are in good agreement with published experimental data and support the full hydroxylation model, where the Cr achieves a 6-fold coordination, at saturation. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The interaction of glycine with SiOH silanols, which cover the surface of amorphous silica are modeled and investigated by means of the DFT B3LYP/6-31++G** method. The neutral and zwitterion form of glycine are considered. Cooperative hydrogen bonding, with one or several silanol groups, are studied. Different scenarii are modeled: adsorption from the gas phase at 0 and 430K and adsorption of the microsolvated glycine. It is shown that hydroxylated silica does not act to stabilize the zwitterion form of glycine and thus cannot be considered as a “solid solvent”: glycine remains more stable in the neutral state when bonded up to 3 silanols. In contrast, if water molecules are adsorbed on the silanols, they act as co-stabilizors of the zwitterionic state. Two distinct domains exist in the (T,P) phase diagram: in the first one, glycine is stabilized on silanols and in the second, glycine is more stable in the gas phase. Vibration frequencies are calculated and compared with experimental ones. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]