Annibal Pereira Netto

• Professor
• Fluminense Federal University

Benzotriazoles, benzothiazoles, and benzenesulfonamides are emerging pollutants stable in aquatic media emitted by anthropogenic sources. Selected compounds of these classes were evaluated in the impacted urban Jacarepaguá Lagoon System (JLS) located in a tropical coastal region of Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil that has experienced a rapid expansion...

The Jacarepaguá Lagoon System (JLS) receives industrial and domestic waste in an urban area with high population density and intense economic activity. The hydrography of the lagoons favours the sedimentation of particulate material transferred from the drainage basin. Water engineering, such as channel dredging and subsea outfall, did not satisfac...

Formaldehyde has been illegally added to milk to reduce microbial activity and extend the shelf life of the product. In Brazil, the official method for formaldehyde detection in milk consists of a qualitative colorimetric analysis. This work aimed to develop a more sensitive method, based on Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography with Diode Array D...

Isoniazid is a first-line drug for the treatment of tuberculosis, a bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Its terminal amino group is highly reactive, leading to significant metabolic deactivation, drug interactions and hepatotoxicity. It is speculated that the activity of isoniazid derivatives is, in part, related to the cleavage...

Although postharvest coffee fruit fermentation can improve coffee flavour and quality, the mycotoxin ochratoxin A (OTA) can also be a result of microbiological activity, albeit in the later drying step of coffee processing. To evaluate the possible occurrence of OTA contamination in postharvest fruit fermentation, fourteen coffees that entailed two...

Ulva species have potential uses in several industrial sectors as they are rich in proteins, vitamins, fibers, and minerals. They also produce the essential amino acid tryptophan, which can act as an anxiolytic. With the increasing use of bioactive compounds obtained from algal species for commercial purposes, it will be necessary to evaluate the b...

A simple and low-cost multipurpose analytical method using HPLC-UV-DAD was developed and validated, following international guidelines, for the determination of six synthetic food dyes: Tartrazine, Sunset Yellow, Amaranth, Allura Red, Indigotine, and Brilliant Blue. The method required a simple sample preparation step that consisted of dissolution...

In infants, the main cause of blindness is retinopathy of prematurity that stems in a hypoxic-ischemic condition. Caffeine is a psychoactive compound that at low to moderate concentrations, selectively inhibits adenosine A1 and A2A receptors. Caffeine exerts beneficial effects in central nervous system of adult animal models and humans, whereas it...

In this study, we investigated the thermodynamic features of a system based on oppositely charged polyelectrolytes, sodium alginate, and poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) at different pH values. Additionally, a comparison of the effects of the thermodynamic parameters on the growth of the layers based on the same polymers is presente...

Introduction The usual quality control for Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC. barks requires highly specific analytical standards and methods based on high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), which impacts the costs of the analytical process and the final products. Objective To obtain an analytical reference standard of mitraphylline...

Here we report the variation of diterpenes from three populations of the brown alga Dictyota mertensii. The populations were analyzed by 1H NMR and GC-MS techniques. Both chemical GC-MS and 1H NMR profiles of D. mertensii presented diterpenes as major constituents. In all populations, we detected the prenylated guaiane diterpenes, dictyoxide, pachy...

A highly sensitive analytical method was developed and validated, following international guidelines, for the determination of the residues of five macrocyclic lactones (MLs) (abamectin, doramectin, eprinomectin, ivermectin and moxidectin) in cheese. The extracts were concentrated by rotary-evaporation and derivatized; no clean-up was necessary. De...

This work describes a study in which levels of variables that may control the coffee roasting process were set in an experimental matrix that aimed at measuring their relative importance and the interaction between variables. Each control variable was set in two levels and the combination of these levels elicited 32 different roasting procedures. T...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant primary brain tumor and still lacks effective therapeutic strategies. It has already been shown that old drugs like sulfasalazine (SAS) and valproic acid (VPA) present antitumoral activities in glioma cell lines. SAS has also been associated with a decrease of intracellular glutathione...

The interest in charcoal for agricultural use (biochar) has sharply increased in recent years. However, biochar can contain groups of compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are considered persistent pollutants, and are formed concomitantly with biochar during its production by pyrolysis. Soil samples were collected in three...

Fifteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were analyzed in two fractions (< 63 μm and 63–850 μm) of street dust samples collected in different urban areas of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói cities, Brazil. Individual PAH concentrations and total PAH concentrations (∑ PAH) were evaluated considering geographic and particle size distributions, PAH s...

The direct and simultaneous determination of cysteine, histidine, phenylalanine, lysine, tryptophan and arginine in brewery worts by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis (CZE) was applied to evaluate the effects of temperature control and protease supplementation during mashing on the changes of these amino acids (AAs) wort composition. A cation exchange...

“Krokodil” is the street name for a homemade injectable drug that has been used as a cheap substitute for heroin. Codeine is the opioid starting material for krokodil synthesis and desomorphine is the opioid claimed to be the main component of krokodil and the main responsible for its addictive and psychoactive characteristics. However, due to its...

Gamma irradiation as a decontaminating physical agent could be an important tool in the production chain of herbal medicines by improving the microbiological quality of raw materials and the safety of final products. This study was undertaken to investigate the genotoxic potential and eventual chemical modifications of a batch of Mikania glomerata...

A method of high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection (HPLC-UV) was implemented and validated for formaldehyde determination in bovine milk. A formaldehyde derivatization reaction with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine, at pH 4.0, enabled its detection in milk at 360 nm. The clean up treatment of milk samples by liquid-liquid extraction wit...

Background: QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe) is a methodology previously developed to extract pesticides from vegetables and fruits and has been fully applied for different analytical approaches. Objective: In the present study, a rapid and less laborious modified QuEChERS extraction method for the quantification of 13 opio...

Objective: "Krokodil" is the street name for an impure homemade drug mixture used as a cheap substitute for heroin, containing desomorphine as the main opioid. Abscesses, gangrene, thrombophlebitis, limb ulceration and amputations, jaw osteonecrosis, skin discoloration, ulcers, skin infections, and bleeding are some of the typical reported signs i...

Avermectins (AVM) are macrocyclic lactones used in livestock and agriculture. A quantitative method of high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection for the determination of eprinomectin, abamectin, doramectin and ivermectin in rural water samples was developed and validated. The method was employed to study samples collected i...

Selected (2,3,7,8-substituted) PCDD/Fs were determined in Brazilian raw cow milks. • All samples of Brazilian cow milk contained some or all 2,3,7,8-substituted PCDD/Fs at some level. The determination of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in raw cow milks have never been reported in Brazil. Since th...

This study demonstrated, for the first time, Fe(III)/peroximonosulphate (PMS) could be an efficient advanced oxidation process (AOP) for wastewater treatment. Bisphenol A (BPA) was chosen as a model pollutant in the present study. Fe(III)-activated PMS system proved very effective to eliminate 92.18% of BPA (20 mg/L) for 30-min reaction time at 0.5...

The retina is a specialized tissue of the central nervous system (CNS) and it is the only part of the CNS that can be visualized non-invasively. During vertebrate development, the retina originates together with the optic nerve as outgrowths of the developing brain, and in this respect, the avian retina is a very convenient model for neurochemical...

Reliable analytical results are necessary to ensure effective consumer protection and the use of certified reference material (CRM) is an important tool for quality assurance. The Brazilian Metrology Institute (Inmetro) studied the feasibility of the production of a candidate CRM of chloramphenicol (CAP) in milk. CAP is an antibiotic banned for tre...

The data described in this work is the subject of an article in the Forensic Science International, titled: “The harmful chemistry behind “krokodil”: street-like synthesis and product analysis” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.07.042) [1]. The data presented here provides additional description of the chemical profile of “Krokodil”. Phys...

Characterisation and quantification of the carbonaceous polyaromatic structure of pyrogenic carbon (PyC) are of paramount importance to evaluate the role of PyC in soil carbon sequestration. A new method of rapid resolution liquid chromatographic with UV diode array detection (RRLC-UV-DAD) was developed and is proposed to quantify benzene polycarbo...

Atmospheric particulate matter (total suspended particulate – TSP – and inhalable particles – PM10) and gas-phase samples were collected in three periods of seven to nine consecutive days in June and December 2011, and May 2012, in the central area of Niterói City, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. TSP (48.8–214 μg m−3) showed higher concentrations tha...

Chloramphenicol (CAP) is an antibiotic banned for treatment of food-producing animals. The minimum required performance limit (MRPL) for analytical methods of 0.3 μg kg-1 was set by the European Community for the detection of its residues in different matrices, including milk. A highly sensitive analytical method using isotope-dilution liquid chrom...

Macrocyclic lactones (ML) are commonly used in drug formulations for the treatment of parasites in cattle. In Brazil, except for drugs (or formulations) with long-term (half-life) effects, ML are registered for use in bovines. Indiscriminate use of ML may result in the presence of residues in milk and dairy products due to their lipophilic properti...

A method based on capillary zone electrophoresis for the determination of glutamic acid, glycine and alanine in a biopharmaceutical formulation containing recombinant human erythropoietin was developed. The separation was achieved within less than 5 min, using a fused-silica capillary column (55 cm × 50 μm id) and 30 mmol/L phosphate buffer at pH 1...

"Krokodil" is the street name for the homemade injectable mixture that has been used as a cheap substitute for heroin. Its use begun in Russia and Ukraine and nowadays is being spread over several other countries. Desomorphine is the semi-synthetic opioid claimed to be the main component of krokodil and considered to be responsible for its psychoac...

This study describes the determination of 30 carbonyl compounds (CCs) in three areas (bus boarding platform, passenger circulation area, and a pastry shop) of the Presidente João Goulart Bus Terminal, located at Niterói City, RJ, Brazil, and in an open area 700 m distant from the terminal. Samples were collected using SEP-PAK cartridges impregnated...

Aldehydes and ketones are volatile organic compounds (VOC) emitted into the atmosphere by a large number of natural and anthropogenic sources. Carbonyl compounds (CC) are atmospheric pollutants with known damaging effects for the human's health. In this work, the separation of 31 carbonyl compounds (CC) in their 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazones form was...

This paper presents the results of the determination of the concentrations of atmospheric particulate matter ≤ 10 μm (PM10), collected simultaneously by six PM10 high volume samplers from two different manufacturers installed in the same location. Fifteen samples of 24 h were obtained with each equipment at a selected urban area of Rio de Janeiro c...

Strontium ranelate is the active agent of a medicine developed for postmenopausal osteoporosis treatment. According to the literature, there are no reports of analytical methods for the determination of strontium in this matrix. Low doses of strontium have important pharmacological effects on bone; however, high doses of this element may cause toxi...

A simple, accurate, precise, rapid and sensitive capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) method was developed, optimized and validated for the simultaneous determination of strontium ranelate (antiosteoporetic drug) and aspartame (sweetener excipient) in pharmaceutical formulation for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. The final optimized c...

Intense fluorescence from amitriptyline (AMT) was achieved after photochemical derivatization in an acidic aqueous medium (60 min of UV irradiation of solutions containing 0.027 mol L−1 HCl). After the reaction, fluorescence was significantly enhanced enabling the indirect fluorimetric determination of AMT in drugs and in a pharmacopoeia reference...

Ultraviolet radiation corresponds to a fraction of electromagnetic radiation, covering wavelengths between 1 and 400 nm. Methods based on UV irradiation have become popular because it is possible to treat samples simply by applying energy, avoiding procedures that require the use of toxic substances, thus contributing to the development of Green Ch...

The metabolomic techniques are powerful tools to explain and predict phenotypes in biological systems. In this area, chemometric methods are employed in order to extract information from complex analytical data. Among the instrumental methods that allow obtaining analytical and chemometric methods, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) and par...

The Kjeldahl method and four classic spectrophotometric methods (Biuret, Lowry, Bradford and Markwell) were applied to evaluate the protein content of samples of UHT whole milk deliberately adulterated with melamine, ammonium sulphate or urea, which can be used to defraud milk protein and whey contents. Compared with the Kjeldahl method, the respon...

The term conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to a group of fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms and two conjugated double bonds that is naturally present in animal products such as milk and meat. In the last years, this nutrient has received great attention from researchers because of the biological activities assigned to it, especially the propertie...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined in water samples collected in two streams and a lake located at Niteroi City, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil between October 2008 and September 2009. Samples were extracted using liquid-liquid extraction and analyzed using high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection. The l...

The doramectin (DOR), which belongs to the avermectins group (AVM), has a high antiparasitic activity and so it has been widely used in food-producing animals. The DOR shows low fluorescence quantum efficiency and as a consequence, chemical derivatization reactions are necessary to produce derivatives with improved luminescent properties before its...

BACKGROUND, AIMS, AND SCOPE: Formaldehyde (FA) is a harmful chemical, which is classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Solutions of FA that are used to preserve cadavers in research and education morphological institutes represent a risk to occupational health of professionals and students....

Four sediment cores were collected in Suruí Mangrove. Cores 0.30-m long were sliced into small cores corresponding to 0-0.03, 0.05-0.10, 0.10-0.15, 0.15-0.20, 0.20-0.25, and 0.25-0.30-m depths. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, total organic carbon (TOC), and total sulfur (TS) were determined. Total organic carbon varied between 0.8% and 7.8%, with...

Two methods for the determination of Ivermectin in veterinarian medications were developed and compared. One of the methods was based on UV spectrometry and the other on HPLC-UV. The former method was shown to be positively biased regarding the nominal concentrations of Ivermectin in different medications. The method of standard addition was unable...

Benzalkonium chloride (BAC), chlorhexidine digluconate (CD) and triclosan (TR) are widely used antimicrobial agents since they are antiseptics and disinfectants depending on the used concentration. The objective of this work was the development of methodology for the fast and simultaneous determination of CD, TR and the BAC homologues (C12, C14 and...

This present work reports a multivariate optimization of a spectrophotometric method for copper determination in sugar-cane spirits, exploring the reaction of Cu(II) with phenylfluorone (PF) in the presence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) and Triton X-100. The optimization strategy was based on the application of a two-level full factorial design...

In this present work, the concentration of 31 carbonyl compounds (CC) were determined in the atmosphere of Niterói City, RJ, Brazil, between January 9th and 14th, 2010, in 7 periods of two hours in each day. Rapid Resolution Liquid Chromatography with UV detection of the corresponding hydrazones was employed. Formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and acetone...

The production and distribution of toasted mate tea in Brazil has increased, which has resulted in its greater consumption. Mate tea is obtained by roasting non-fermented erva-mate in order to produce toasted erva-mate or toasted mate tea. However, although the product is much appreciated, studies of its chemical composition and the concentration o...

The present work describes a detailed study about the adsorption of malachite green (MG) by a polyether-type polyurethane foam (PUF) using sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) as a carrier. The adsorption process was based on the formation of a hydrophobic ionic-pair between the MG cationic dye and the dodecylsulfate anion, which presented high affinity for...

The distribution of selected aromatic compounds and microbiology were assessed in superficial sediments from Suruí Mangrove, Guanabara Bay. Samples were collected at 23 stations, and particle size, organic matter, aromatic compounds, microbiology activity, biopolymers, and topography were determined. The concentration of aromatic compounds was dist...

The aim of this work was to quantify the biopolymers associated to esterase enzymes and identify bacterial respiratory activity in four cores collected in Suruí Mangrove, Guanabara Bay - RJ. Biopolymer concentration was 1000 times lower than previously reported in the literature, indicating the need for creating and establishing eutrophication indi...

Triacylglycerols (TAGs) are the main constituents of vegetable oils where they occur in complex mixtures with characteristic distributions. Mass spectrometry using an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization interface (APCI-MS) run in positive mode and an Ion Trap mass analyser were applied in the study of olive and soybean oils and their mixtures....

Analytical conditions for the analysis of 15 carbonyl-DNPH derivatives were optimized and compared by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and rapid resolution liquid chromatography (RRLC). Binary, ternary and quaternary mixtures of acetonitrile, isopropanol, methanol, tetrahydrofuran and water were evaluated under RRLC conditions employin...

Epidemiological studies have shown that the exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) increases the risk of several kinds of human cancers. In this way the use of biomarkers to evaluate PAH exposure is of interest. Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene (1-OHPy) that is the major metabolite of pyrene has been considered as a suitable biomarker of exposu...

This paper reports the determination of twelve polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in total suspended particulate (TSP) collected in Niterói City, RJ, Brazil. Bimonthly 24 h TSP samples were collected between June/2005 and May/2006 in the Campus of Federal Fluminense University that is located in a mixed residential and commercial neighbourhood...

This paper reports the determination of 15 EPA-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and benzo[e]pyrene in water samples collected in Tripuí River, Ouro Preto City, MG, Brazil. Samples were collected between September 2006 (dry season) and November 2006 (wet season) in the neighborhood of an aluminum smelter. Detection limits and quantification l...

A relatively fast method was developed and applied to the determination of selected synthetic food dyes (Sunset Yellow, Tartrazine, Amaranth, Brilliant Blue and Red-40) in three different kinds of foodstuffs: solid juice powders, solid jelly powders and soft drinks. High performance liquid chromatography with UV-DAD detection was employed. The deve...

This paper reports the multivariate optimization of a liquid-liquid extraction procedure for the determination of 15 EPA-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection. A Doehlert design was used to find optimum conditions for the procedure through Response Surface Methodology. Three va...

PAHs and BTEX were studied in groundwater from monitoring wells of gasoline stations of Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil during 2003 and 2004. Total PAH concentration ranged from 0.05 to 84.9 microg/L. Total BTEX concentration varied between not-detected to 3.6 x 10(3) microg/L. Some samples exceeded the maximum concentration limit of Brazilian regulati...

This work presents a detailed study about the adsorption of iron(III)-thiocyanate complexes onto unloaded polyether-type polyurethane foam (PUF). A novel strategy was employed for this purpose, utilizing the adjustment of the plug cylinder of PUF to the arm of an overhead stirrer. The system was characterized in relation to equilibrium and kinetic...

A method for determination of nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs) in diesel soot by high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) and detection by ion-trap following ultrasonic extraction is described. The determination of 1-nitropyrene that it is the predominant NPAH in...

The levels of 21 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with molecular weights between 128 Da (naphthalene) and 300 Da (coronene) were determined in Terminalia catappa L. (Combretaceae) bark. Tree bark samples were collected in the campus of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a green area located in a very intensive traffic area of Rio de Janeiro City, Braz...

This paper reports the development of a microwave-assisted procedure for leaching of copper, iron, manganese, and zinc from multivitamin/multimineral supplements by use of dilute acid before determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). A Doehlert design was used to find optimum conditions for the procedure by use of response-surfac...

This work presents the development of a methodology for the determination of Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn in samples of multivitamin/multimineral tablets, by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS), after extraction of the analytes with diluted hydrochloric acid solution. Several parameters that could influence the extraction process such as acid extracti...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were studied in street dust (SD) samples collected in the center of Niterói, a tropical city located in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the margins of Guanabara Bay. Sampling was carried out monthly during the year of 2002 in order to evaluate seasonal variation of PAH concentrations. Samples were ext...

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In this work, the atmospheric concentration of selected trace elements (Cd, Fe, Mn, Pb, V and Zn) was determined in total suspended material (TSP) from three sampling sites located at Niterói, an urban medium city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. TSP samples were collected with a high volume air sampler and glass fibber filters. The determinations of Cd,...

Proper solid waste disposal is important to avoid human and environmental contamination. The NBR 10,004 Waste Classification lists several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and indicates that the presence of at least one PAH in a waste sample is enough to classify it as hazardous. The aim of this study was a preliminary evaluation of PAHs in...

A disposição adequada dos resíduos sólidos é importante para evitar que os mesmos se transformem em fonte de contaminação ambiental e humana. A NBR 10.004 - Classificação de Resíduos - lista vários hidrocarbonetos policíclicos aromáticos (HPAs) e indica que, a presença de pelo menos um deles na massa bruta do resíduo é suficiente para classificá-lo...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their nitroderivatives (NPAHs) are ubiquitous in the environment and they are produced in several industrial and combustion processes. Some of these compounds are potent carcinogen/mutagens and their determination in biological samples is an important step for exposure control. A review of the analytical...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocabons (PAHs) and their nitroderivatives (NPAHs) are ubiquitous in the environment and they are produced in several industrial and combustion processes. Some of these compounds are potent carcinogens/mutagens and their determination in biological samples is an important step for exposure control. A review of the analytical...