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Este trabalho foi apoiado por subsídios da Fundação Nacional de Ciências Naturais da China (82173991) e do Programa de Ciência e Tecnologia de Sichuan (2022YFS0442).

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Detecção de trimetilamina em medicina derivada de animais por Headspace GC-MS

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Os medicamentos de origem animal provêm de todo o corpo, órgãos ou tecidos, produtos fisiológicos ou patológicos, excreções ou secreções e produtos transformados de animais. A TMA é uma importante fonte de odor de peixe em medicamentos derivados de animais; é uma substância malcheirosa típica com um limiar olfatório muito baixo (0,000032 × 10-6 V/V) e um forte odor de peixe13. Atualmente, o método HS-GC-MS comumente usado não pode detectar TMA em medicamentos derivados ...

An erratum was issued for:&#160;<a href="https://www.jove.com/t/65291">An Improved Technique for Trimethylamine Detection in Animal-Derived Medicine by Headspace Gas Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry</a>. The Authors section was updated from:
Hui Ye1 
Xuemei Liu1 
Haozhou Huang2 
Lin Huang1 
Yang Bao1 
Hongyan Ma1 
Junzhi Lin3 
Xiaoming Bao4 
Dingkun Zhang1 
Runchun Xu1 
1State Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, Pharmacy School, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 
2Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 
3TCM Regulating Metabolic Diseases Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 
4Shimadzu (China) Co., Ltd
to:
Hui Ye1 
Xuemei Liu1 
JiaBao Liao2 
Haozhou Huang3 
Lin Huang1 
Yang Bao1 
Hongyan Ma1 
Junzhi Lin4 
Xiaoming Bao5 
Dingkun Zhang1 
Runchun Xu1 
1State Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, Pharmacy School, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 
2China Resources Sanjiu Modern Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd 
3Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 
4TCM Regulating Metabolic Diseases Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 
5Shimadzu (China) Co., Ltd

An erratum was issued for:&#160;<a href="https://www.jove.com/t/65291">An Improved Technique for Trimethylamine Detection in Animal-Derived Medicine by Headspace Gas Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry</a>. The Authors section was updated.

Erratum: An Improved Technique for Trimethylamine Detection in Animal-Derived Medicine by Headspace Gas Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry

O tratamento de doenças humanas utilizando produtos derivados de partes animais e/ou seus subprodutos (aqui referidos como medicamentos derivados de animais) está recebendo atenção crescente. Eles desempenham um papel importante no tratamento de câncer, doenças cardiovasculares, cirrose hepática, mastite e outras doenças, com as vantagens de um forte efeito, pequena dosagem e eficácia clínica significativa e específica. No entanto, medicamentos de origem animal geralmente apresentam odor proeminente de peixe, o que afeta sobremaneira a adesão dos pacientes, sendo especialmente desfavoráveis para crianças 1,2. O odor de peixe provém principalmente das proteínas, aminoácidos, gorduras e outras substâncias contidas no medicamento, que são decompostas através da oxidação de ácidos graxos, degradação de aminoácidos e outras formas de produzir uma variedade de substâncias com odor de peixe 2,3,4. Dentre eles, a trimetilamina (TMA) é um gás volátil com odor de peixe que existe amplamente em alimentos de origem animal em decomposição ou apodrecidos5.
Até o momento, cromatografia gasosa (CG), cromatografia líquida (CL), cromatografia iônica, espectrofotometria, cromatografia líquida-espectrometria de massas (LC-MS) e métodos sensores têm sido comumente utilizados para detectar TMA no ambiente, alimentos e urina 6,7,8,9. Tendo em vista a baixa contaminação da coluna GC e do sistema de injeção, bem como a alta sensibilidade, reprodutibilidade e baixo limite de detecção (0,1-1 mg/kg), o método de cromatografia gasosa headspace-espectrometria de massas (HS-GC-MS) foi preferido para análise biológica e de alimentos8. Atualmente, apenas a China estabeleceu um padrão nacional para TMA em alimentos, e HS-GC-MS é o primeiro método no padrão GB5009.179-201610. Portanto, o método HS-GC-MS acima foi selecionado para detectar TMA em medicina derivada de animais. No estágio inicial, nosso grupo de pesquisa descobriu que o padrão de detecção de HS-GC-MS para TMA em alimentos poderia detectar o odor de peixe em vários medicamentos derivados de animais. Combinado com os resultados dos estudos11,12, pôde-se provar que a MAT é a substância-chave comum do odor de peixe em medicamentos derivados de animais. No entanto, verificou-se que a reprodutibilidade dos resultados experimentais foi pobre, havendo problemas como escape de ATM e baixa estabilidade, o que não pôde ser verificado pela metodologia. Isso pode ser devido ao fato de que a lixívia foi injetada no frasco do headspace e a rápida reação ácido-base levou ao aumento da pressão no frasco, escapando assim da TMA do poro de injeção, impedindo a detecção estável e precisa da MAT. Portanto, este estudo propôs um método aprimorado de detecção por cromatografia gasosa em headspace-espectrometria de massas quadrupolo em tandem (HS-GC-MS/MS) para resolver esses problemas.
O protocolo melhora o pré-tratamento da amostra separando os reagentes ácido-base no pré-tratamento com a ajuda de parafina sólida, um bom material de mudança de fase sólido-líquido. Como a parafina se liquefez lentamente com o aumento da temperatura do forno termostático, a TMA também foi liberada lentamente no frasco do headspace selado, evitando o aumento de pressão causado pela violenta e rápida reação ácido-base e garantindo uma detecção estável e precisa da TMA. Além disso, a injeção de headspace combinada com os modos de monitoramento de reação múltipla (MRM) em GC-MS/MS efetivamente suprimiu a interferência química da matriz e garantiu a confiabilidade dos resultados. Os resultados da validação metodológica comprovaram que a linearidade, o teste de precisão e a taxa de recuperação do método de detecção aprimorado podem atender aos requisitos, com boa reprodutibilidade e alta sensibilidade.

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an improved technique for trimethylamine detection in animal-derived medicine by headspace gas chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry

Os medicamentos de origem animal têm características distintas e efeitos curativos significativos, mas a maioria deles tem um odor de peixe óbvio, resultando na baixa adesão dos pacientes clínicos. A trimetilamina (TMA) é um dos principais componentes de odor de peixe na medicina de origem animal. É difícil identificar com precisão a TMA usando o método de detecção existente devido ao aumento da pressão no frasco para injetáveis de headspace causado pela rápida reação ácido-base após a adição de lixívia, o que faz com que a TMA escape do frasco para injetáveis de headspace, atrasando o progresso da pesquisa do odor de peixe da medicina derivada de animais. Neste estudo, propusemos um método de detecção controlada que introduziu uma camada de parafina como camada de isolamento entre o ácido e a soda cáustica. A taxa de produção de TMA pode ser efetivamente controlada pela liquefação lenta da camada de parafina através do aquecimento termostático do forno. Este método apresentou linearidade satisfatória, experimentos de precisão e recuperações com boa reprodutibilidade e alta sensibilidade. Prestou apoio técnico para a desodorização de medicamentos derivados de animais.

Treating human diseases by utilizing products derived from animal parts and/or their by-products (referred to here as animal-derived medicines) is receiving increased attention. They play an important role in treating cancer, cardiovascular disease, liver cirrhosis, mastitis, and other diseases, with the advantages of a strong effect, small dosage, and significant and specific clinical efficacy. However, animal-derived medicines generally have a prominent fishy odor, which greatly affects patients&#39; compliance, and are especially unfavorable for children1,2. The fishy odor mainly comes from the proteins, amino acids, fats, and other substances contained in the medicine, which are decomposed through fatty acid oxidation, amino acid degradation, and other ways to produce a variety of substances with a fishy odor2,3,4. Among them, trimethylamine (TMA) is a volatile gas with a fishy odor that widely exists in rotting or rotten animal-derived foods5.
Until now, gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography (LC), ion chromatography, spectrophotometry, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), and sensor methods have commonly been used to detect TMA in the environment, food, and urine6,7,8,9. In view of the low contamination of the GC column and injection system, as well as the high sensitivity, reproducibility, and low detection limit (0.1-1 mg/kg), the headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-GC-MS) method was preferred for food and biological analysis8. At present, only China has established a national standard for TMA in food, and HS-GC-MS is the first method in the GB5009.179-2016 standard10. Therefore, the above HS-GC-MS method was selected to detect TMA in animal-derived medicine. In the early stage, our research group found that the HS-GC-MS detection standard for TMA in food could detect the fishy odor in several animal-derived medicines. Combined with the results of the studies11,12, it could be proved that TMA is the common key substance of fishy odor in animal-derived medicines. However, it was found that the reproducibility of the experimental results was poor, and there were problems such as TMA escape and poor stability, which could not be verified by the methodology. This could be due to the fact that the lye was injected into the headspace vial and the rapid acid-base reaction led to increased pressure in the vial, thus TMA escaped from the injection pore, preventing the stable and accurate detection of TMA. Therefore, this study proposed an improved headspace gas chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (HS-GC-MS/MS) detection method to address these problems.
The protocol improves the sample pretreatment by separating the acid-base reactants in the pretreatment with the help of solid paraffin, a good solid-liquid phase change material. As the paraffin slowly liquefied with the temperature rise of the thermostatic furnace, TMA was also slowly released in the sealed headspace vial, avoiding the pressure increase caused by the violent and rapid acid-base reaction and ensuring stable and accurate TMA detection. Further, the headspace injection combined with multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) modes) in GC-MS/MS effectively suppressed matrix chemical interference and ensured the reliability of the results. The results of the methodological validation proved that the linearity, precision test, and recovery rate of the improved detection method could meet the requirements, with good reproducibility and high sensitivity.

Autor em destaque: Uma técnica aprimorada para detecção de trimetilamina em medicina derivada de animais por cromatografia gasosa headspace-espectrometria de massa quadrupolo em tandem  

Uma Técnica Aprimorada para Detecção de Trimetilamina em Medicina Derivada de Animais por Cromatografia Gasosa Headspace-Espectrometria de Massas em Tandem Quadrupolo

The scope of our research is a material basis in the variation of fish odor in animal medicine. This protocol provides a simple pretreatment method and accurate detection of trimethylamine in animal medicines. The simple pretreatment methods and the programmed parameters of HS-GC mass/mass of this protocol, need to be further optimized, and we still have a lot of work to do.Our protocol adopts the multi-direction monitoring mode of GC mass/mass, combined with a unique, simple pretreatment, which is not only the first pretreatment for trimethylamine analysis, but also the first analytical mode to be used.

Diagramas esquemáticos do princípio de pré-processamento e operação deste protocolo são mostrados na Figura 1 e na Figura 2, respectivamente. O tempo de pico da MAT foi de 2,3 min, com forma acentuada do pico e sem interferência de outras impurezas (Figura 3). Medindo-se a faixa linear de 0,1-10 μg/mL de solução padrão de TMA, com concentração de TMA como abscissa e área de pico como ordenada, uma curva padrão foi tra...

Watch this Scientific Journal Video about An Improved Technique for Trimethylamine Detection in Animal-Derived Medicine by Headspace Gas Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry at JoVE.com

Aqui, um método de cromatografia gasosa headspace-espectrometria de massas quadrupolo em tandem (HS-GC-MS/MS) adequado para a determinação de trimetilamina (TMA) em medicamentos derivados de animais é descrito. O protocolo inclui pré-tratamento da amostra, tratamento com headspace, condições de análise, validação metodológica e determinação de TMA em medicamentos derivados de animais.

Animal-derived medicines have distinctive characteristics and significant curative effects, but most of them have an obvious fishy odor, resulting in the ...

O escopo de nossa pesquisa é uma base material na variação do odor de peixe na medicina animal. Este protocolo fornece um método simples de pré-tratamento e detecção precisa de trimetilamina em medicamentos animais. Os métodos simples de pré-tratamento e os parâmetros programados de massa/massa HS-GC deste protocolo, precisam ser ainda mais otimizados, e ainda temos muito trabalho a fazer.Nosso protocolo adota o modo de monitoramento multidirecional de massa/massa de GC, combinado com um pré-tratamento único e simples, que não é apenas o primeiro pré-tratamento para análise de trimetilamina, mas também o primeiro modo analítico a ser usado.

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An Improved Technique for Trimethylamine Detection in Animal-Derived Medicine by Headspace Gas Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry

Animal-derived medicines have distinctive characteristics and significant curative effects, but most of them have an obvious fishy odor, resulting in the poor compliance of clinical patients. Trimethylamine (TMA) is one of the key fishy odor components in animal-derived medicine. It is difficult to identify TMA accurately using the existing detection method due to the increased pressure in the headspace vial caused by the rapid acid-base reaction after the addition of lye, which causes TMA to escape from the headspace vial, stalling the research progress of the fishy odor of animal-derived medicine. In this study, we proposed a controlled detection method that introduced a paraffin layer as an isolation layer between acid and lye. The rate of TMA production could be effectively controlled by slowly liquefying the paraffin layer through thermostatic furnace heating. This method showed satisfactory linearity, precision experiments, and recoveries with good reproducibility and high sensitivity. It provided technical support for the deodorization of animal-derived medicine.

Here, a headspace gas chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (HS-GC-MS/MS) method suitable for the determination of trimethylamine (TMA) in animal-derived medicines is described. The protocol includes sample pretreatment, headspace treatment, analysis conditions, methodological validation, and the determination of TMA in animal-derived medicines.

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Trimethylamine Detection in Animal-Derived Medicine by Headspace GC-MS

To begin, crush the medicinal materials Pheretima, Periplaneta americana, and Hirudo with an herbal grinder. Sift the medicinal powder through standard drug sieves of number two and number four. Collect the powder between the two sieves to obtain the required sample powder.Take one gram of the powder in a 50 milliliter plastic centrifuge tube. Add 20 milliliters of 5%trichloroacetic acid solution and homogenize at 1, 000 RPM for one minute with a high speed dispersion homogenizer. After homogenization, centrifuge the homogenate at 1, 717 G for five minutes at room temperature and filter the supernatant through an absorbent cotton-dipped glass funnel into a 50 milliliter volumetric flask.After repeating the extraction process twice with 15 and 10 milliliters of 5%trichloroacetic acid solution, combine the filtrates and make up the volume to 50 milliliters with 5%trichloroacetic acid solution. Next, accurately add two milliliters of sodium hydroxide solution and 0.5 grams of solid paraffin in 20 milliliter headspace vials. Then place them in an oven at 70 degrees Celsius for about 30 minutes.Take the vials out and let them cool down to room temperature so that the paraffin solidifies. To process the sample headspace, add two milliliters of each sample extraction solution to the solidified paraffin containing vials. Press the cap and seal the vial.Put the sealed headspace vials on the GCMS for measurement. To obtain the standard curve, aspirate a series of two milliliters of trimethylamine standard solution on top of the solidified paraffin layer. Put the sealed headspace vials on the machine for trimethylamine measurement.To perform the precision test, aspirate two milliliters of 0.1 micrograms per milliliter trimethylamine standard solution on top of the solidified paraffin layer. Carry out six parallel tests in the machine following the manufacturer's instructions. For the recovery rate experiment, bake several batches of the sample powder in an oven until no triethylamine is detected in GCMS as demonstrated previously.Next, take each one gram of oven baked and fineable powder into separate 50 milliliter plastic centrifuge tubes. Add 50 microliters of trimethylamine standard solution to all the tubes and extract with 5%trichloroacetic acid solution as demonstrated previously. The retention time of trimethylamine was found to be 2.3 minutes with a sharp peak and no interference from other impurities.Pheretima, Periplaneta americana, and Hirudo samples subjected to spiked recovery tests by drying to reduce triethylamine in the herbs showed average recovery rates of 84.49, 94.66, and 85.67%respectively. Triethylamine was detected in nine batches of herbs with concentrations ranging from 13.23 to 271.63 milligrams per kilogram.