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Heart failure (HF) is an epidemic disease affecting a large population worldwide. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is playing an increasingly important role in the clinical treatment of HF. According to the TCM theory, HF could be classified into Yang deficiency and Qi-yin deficiency; however, there are few objective and biological lines of evidence for differentiation of TCM HF syndromes to date. In this study, data-independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry was applied to comparatively analyze the protein expression in serum samples obtained from 12 Yang deficiency patients, 12 Qi-yin deficiency patients, and 12 healthy volunteers. Compared to the healthy controls, a total of 121 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) (77 upregulated and 44 downregulated proteins) were identified in Yang deficiency samples, while 59 DEPs (49 upregulated and 10 downregulated proteins) were detected in Qi-yin deficiency samples. Enrichment analyses of these DEPs based on the GO and KEGG databases revealed functional clusters associated with the immune system, signal transduction, and infectious disease. Several previously reported HF biomarker proteins were found to be the hub proteins in a protein-protein interaction network analysis. Three novel hub DEPs were identified as potential biomarkers for differentiation between different TCM syndromes of HF. The results provide biological insight into the differences of different TCM HF syndromes and an opportunity for specific biomarker identification for different TCM HF syndromes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is to investigate physicochemical properties of nano‐scaled fish bone (NFB) and micro‐scaled fish bone (MFB) during heating and improve their valorization by promoting their calcium release. For MFB, heating promoted its calcium release (from 0.7% to 2.2%) and solubility (from 4.6% to 11%) mainly by reducing the particle size (from 20.51 to 17.85 μm). However, the FT‐IR and XRD of MFB spectra showed small change during heating. For NFB, heating hardly changed its particle size but further destroyed the crystal and chemical structure of NFB. The solubility was significantly increased from 9.8% to 14.0%. After heating at 90°C, the sharper diffraction peaks of hydroxyapatite were also observed. The calcium release was significantly promoted from 9.0% to 14%. The results showed heating could more effectively promote the calcium release of fish bones when the particle size was reduced to nanoscale. Practical applications: Grass carp is the most productive freshwater fish in China. Fish bones are the main by‐product from fish processing. Fish bones can be added to food as a natural calcium sources. The aims of our research are to improve the calcium release of fish bones and promote application of fish bones in food fields. After the particle size was reduced to the nanoscale using wet ball milling, heating at common cooking temperature could significantly promote the calcium to release from fish bones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]