Improvements in both liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS)
instrumentation have greatly enhanced proteomic and small molecule metabolomic analysis …

Gelatin is a water-soluble protein obtained from the collagen of various animal origins
(porcine, bovine, fish, donkey, horse, and deer hide) and has diverse applications in the …

In recent years, food fraud is a global issue that has raised wide public concern. Mass
spectrometry techniques have a significant advantage of qualitatively and quantitatively …

Biomarkers are compounds that could be detected and used as indicators of normal and/or
abnormal functioning of different biological systems, including animal tissues and food …

Atlantic salmon is often adulterated or substituted by rainbow trout with much lower price
and quality. However, it is extremely difficult to distinguish Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout …

Gelatins are important and frequently-used food additives, but the quality control of gelatins
is always an intractable problem in routine analysis. In this work, a new strategy for …

In this study, a novel pseudo-targeted peptidomics strategy, integrating the transition list
generated by an in-house software (Pep-MRMer) and the retention time transfer by high …

Increasing accounts of fraud and persistent labeling problems have brought the authenticity
of leather products into question. In this study, we developed an extremely simplified …

Biomedicine is developing rapidly in the 21st century. Among them, the qualitative and
quantitative analysis of peptide biomarkers is of considerable importance for the diagnosis …

Abstract Pheretima, also called “earthworms”, is a well-known animal-derived traditional
Chinese medicine that is extensively used in over 50 Chinese patent medicines (CPMs) in …