Maryam Abbasi Tarighat

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Persian Gulf University

People today are more concerned about their health and are looking to consume food products that serve both nutritional purposes and help prevent modern life-style diseases. These functional foods can offer, or have the potential to offer, different therapeutic actions treating cancers, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases and diabetes. Edi...

People today are more concerned about their health and are looking to consume food products that serve both nutritional purposes and help prevent modern life-style diseases. These functional foods can offer, or have the potential to offer, different therapeutic actions treating cancers, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases and diabetes. Edi...

PAN-based fiber membranes have attracted significant attention owing to their potential in heavy metal removal. However, they show low selectivity, poor hydrophilicity, and low adsorption efficiency, which limits their performance. In the present investigation, PAN/GO-Tyr hollow fiber (PAN/GO-Tyr HF) membranes were fabricated via the phase inversio...

There are several studies that announce the inhibitory behavior of this sort of substance to strengthen the shield of metals, which is one of the positive benefits of green inhibitors. In the current investigation, Araucaria heterophylla studied as a green corrosion inhibitor to avert the mild steel during the acidic cleaning. The examination of th...

As processed meat products, sausages have been criticized for their short shelf life. In this study, the impact of purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) and chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) leaf extracts on the physicochemical and microbiological quality indices, chemical quality parameters, and antioxidant properties of goat meat sausages (GMSs) was eval...

Single-cell metabolomics has emerged as a powerful tool for dissecting the metabolic heterogeneity within complex biological systems. By analyzing metabolites at the level of individual cells, researchers can uncover subtle variations that are masked in bulk measurements. This approach offers insights into cellular functions, metabolic pathways, an...

Metabolomics is a rapidly advancing field that integrates bioinformatics and high-throughput analytical techniques to analyze metabolites quantitatively and qualitatively. These metabolites serve as intermediaries in metabolic reactions and provide insights into pathological mechanisms, enabling therapeutic intervention options. Metabolomics is par...

Among the most potent analytical techniques accessible today is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. It allows us to examine individual molecules and atoms in a variety of media, both in the solid and solution states, making it an essential tool in scientific research and discovery. Within the dynamically growing domain of metabolomics, o...

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) plays a pivotal role in efficient metabolite purification, a crucial step in metabolite profiling. This review delves into the significance of metabolites, exploring their role as cellular building blocks, fuel sources, and signaling molecules. The concept of the metabolome, a dynamic collection of meta...

The exploration of metabolites and their diverse applications across food, pharmaceuticals, and industrial sectors are broadly discussed in this chapter. The chapter begins by elucidating the pivotal role of metabolites as indicators of an individual’s metabolic status, shaped by genetic predispositions and environmental influences. Emphasizing met...

The book chapter delves into the key role of mass spectrometry (MS) in metabolomics research, offering unparalleled insights into the intricate world of metabolites within biological systems. It highlights the revolutionary impact of MS in metabolite analysis, enabling the precise understanding and estimating of the molecules in complex mixtures th...

Background Rapid utilization of natural resources and other anthropogenic activities intruded heavy metals into the food chain and raised alarming concern for all life forms. The available methods proved insufficient in handling waste and pollutants due to the high cost and generation of toxic residues. Bioremediation strategies have offered sustai...

The study focuses on the green synthesis of Ag@Ag2O nanostructures using Padina algae extract and functionalizing them with L-tryptophan to enhance their properties as a colorimetric sensor for simultaneous detection of ultra-trace levels of thiamin and riboflavin. The nanostructures are characterized using techniques like XRD, FESEM, FTIR, TEM, AF...

Transcriptomics is a fast-growing branch of molecular biology that studies all RNA molecules produced by a cell’s genome. It uses many methods to quantify and analyze the transcriptome, the whole set of RNA transcripts in a cell. Transcriptomics helps biological researchers understand gene expression dynamics and molecular underpinnings of healthy...

The concept of synthetic life, once confined to the realms of science fiction and philosophical discourse, transitioned into a tangible reality with the groundbreaking announcement in 2010 by renowned biologist J. Craig Venter and the team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Their creation of a bacterial cell featuring a chemically synthesized...

Genomic precision has emerged as a hallmark in contemporary genetics, reshaping the landscape of genomics research and applications. Genome editing, with its unparalleled ability to precisely manipulate DNA sequences, stands as a transformative tool driving this revolution. This abstract explores the multifaceted impact of genome editing techniques...

Synthetic biology utilizes reductionist principles to manipulate living systems, catering to scientific inquiry and practical applications. Recent advancements in this field, particularly at the intersection of synthetic biology and genomics, are explored. Discussions include leveraging microorganisms for creating composite materials, enhancing mic...

The DNA barcoding methodology, utilizing sequence analysis of standardized gene regions, enables rapid and reliable characterization of species diversity within complex biological communities. This method uses standardized short DNA sequences (~400 to 800 base pairs) as “barcodes” to identify known species and assess biodiversity. The DNA barcoding...

Colorectal cancer, the third most prevalent cancer globally, contributes significantly to mortality rates, with over 1.9 million reported cases and nearly 935,000 fatalities annually. Surgical resection is a primary approach for localized colorectal tumors, with adjunct therapies like chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted/immunotherapy considere...

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have gained much attention due to their unique physical, and chemical properties. Integration of phytochemicals in nanoformulation might have higher applicability in healthcare. Current work demonstrates the synthesis of green AgNPs with O. gratissimum (gr-AgNPs) O. tenuiflorum (te-AgNPs) and O. americanum (am-AgNPs) fo...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionized the field of genomics by enabling high-throughput, cost-effective, and rapid DNA sequencing on an unprecedented scale. This introduction offers a synopsis of NGS and its profound implications across diverse areas of biological research and medical diagnostics. The fundamental princip...

The algae can be used as bioindicators for assessment of water quality and pollution control. They respond rapidly to variations in ecosystem composition and densities. The main goals of this study are (I) synthesis of novel nanocomposite for pre-concentration and determination of heavy metals contents in algal samples, (II) investigating their dis...

Todays, it is essential to evaluate and check the quality of herbal medicines in to protect the public health. As medicinal plants, the extracts of labiate herbs are used directly or indirectly to treat a variety of diseases. Increase in their consumption has led to the fraud in herbal medicines. Hence, modern accurate diagnostic methods must be in...

This research shows the development of a miniaturized solid-phase extraction method with UV-Vis detection for simultaneous determination of dibenzofuran, fluoranthene and phenanthrene using chemometrics approaches. After synthesis of Fe3O4 nanoparticles (Fe3O4 NPs), the surface of the nanoparticles was modified by Triton X100 coating. The influence...

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms that may be found in a wide range of environments, from epiphytic communities to endolytic colonies. Cyanobacteria changed the atmosphere of the earth and can possibly direct life beyond earth. Cyanobacteria’s enormous genetic diversity, as well as the production of ecologically significant natural pr...

Al and many of its current techniques like machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) make a substantial contribution to everyday items and biomolecules. To describe molecular data sources such as genomics (measuring genomic DNA sequences), epigenetics (genome adjustments like methylation that affect genomic activity), DNA-binding protein (e.g. C...

Site-specific modification of DNA/genetic material by insertion, deletion, and replacement of a gene is known as genome editing. Manipulation of the genetic constitution has successfully benefited agriculture, plants, and humans to a large extent by improving varieties and tackling diseases efficiently. The most admitted, well-accepted, and evolved...

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms that may be found in a wide range of environments, from epiphytic communities to endolytic colonies. Cyanobacteria changed the atmosphere of the earth and can possibly direct life beyond earth. Cyanobacteria’s enormous genetic diversity, as well as the production of ecologically significant natural pr...

Polyglutamine diseases are a group of congenital neurodegenerative diseases categorized with genomic abnormalities in the expansion of CAG triplet repeats in coding regions of specific disease-related genes. Protein aggregates are the toxic hallmark for polyQ diseases and initiate neuronal death. Autophagy is a catabolic process that aids in the re...

The aim of this study was to investigate the applicability of UV-Vis and FT-IR fingerprints combined with multivariate statistical tools to classify and authenticate Iranian standard herbs and spices, and their mislabeled and adulterated samples in single and fusion models. The proposed strategy is an alternative, rapid, easy, and economical approa...

A promising plant group that is important in medicine is the seaweed. In this investigation, we have focused on the pharmacological prospects of brown algae (Sargassum sp). Nutraceuticals refer to products that may combine pharmacological and nutrition. We have collected the plant material close to Kunkeeshwar in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra’s western c...

The involvement of melatonin in the regulation of salt stress acclimation has been shown in plants in this present work. We found that the GOAL cultivar of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was the most salt‐tolerant among the investigated cultivars, GOAL, HD‐2967, PBW‐17, PBW‐343, PBW‐550, and WH‐1105 when screened for tolerance to 100 mM NaCl. The app...

In the present study, a rapid, practical, selective and sensitive method was proposed for simultaneous determination of dopamine (DA) and uric acid (UA). Kinetic profiles of analytes were recorded and transformed by different mother wavelets. The contribution of ascorbic acid was neglected using mean centering of data before transformation. The con...

In the present study, multivariate chemometric techniques have been employed for discrimination of Persian Gulf seaweeds according to their species and area using FTIR and UV-Vis spectra. Based on the findings, this work could be differentiated diversity of algae species without time consuming sample preparation steps, measuring cell content and la...

Colorimetric sensors have a number of advantages, including easy fabrication, rapid quantification, great sensitivity and selectivity, and naked-eye detection. Using Fe3O4 nanoparticles, we present a simple and effective nano-sensor array for colorimetric detection of arginine and ascorbic acid. When utilized in biodetection, however, changes in th...

Need for the use of molecular technique in Bamboo is very useful for better resolution of phylogenetic studies. In this study the present investigator has used (ITS1, 5.8S rRNA and ITS2) region of Bamboo species to construct the phylogenetic tree of 18 tropical bamboo species. Ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences are commonly used...

Spectroscopy methods, as the basic analytical instrumentation methods, are employed in different sciences. They have a wide range of applications in chemistry. Small spectrometers are divided into laboratory portable instruments, field analyzers, and process analyzers. Miniaturized spectroscopic instruments are one class of portable spectrometers....

Separation instruments including gas chromatography, high pressure/performance liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and ion chromatography have become a part of most of the analytical laboratories. These methods are primarily used for the separation of complex samples and quantitation of a target analyte in the sample. Some of these in...

Metal oxide semiconductor sensor have a drawback of similar gas sensing response to homogeneous gases. Taking H2 and CO with similar properties (reducing gases), these sensors cannot detect the concentrations of both gases, because the MOS sensors have cross-sensitive behavior to H2 and CO. In this paper, SnO2-Mn3O4 nanocomposites are prepared by s...

The binding of curcumin on the surface of AgNPs-sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-multi-walled carbon nanotubes–glassy carbon electrode (CM/AgNPs/SDS/MWCNTs) was reported for simultaneous electrochemical determination of dopamine (DA), uric acid (UA) and guanine (GU). Morphological properties of modified electrodes surfaces were characterized using diff...

In the original version of this article unfortunately the first author’s family name change has been missed to update. Instead of Motahhareh Haghnegahdar, it should be Negar Haghnegahdar. This has been corrected by publishing this correction article.

A Schiff base (E)-2((3-methylbenzilidene) amino) phenol (EMBAP)/multi-walled carbon nanotube modified carbon paste electrode was applied to the selective and accurate determination of Hg²⁺ and Pb²⁺ ions by voltammetric methods. The morphology of electrodes surface was characterized, and a density functional theory (DFT) based on the interaction of...

The metal ions constituents of plants is reliable for determination of their medicinal, nutritional and toxicity properties. A novel, simple and accurate spectrophotometric method was developed for the simultaneous determination of Ag⁺, Cu²⁺ and Ni²⁺ ions in different medicinal plants without prior separation steps. This method was based on the dif...

A new micelle-mediated extraction method for the pre-concentration of trace amounts of Cu2+ and Zn2+ as a prior step to their simultaneous spectrophotometric determination has been developed in various samples. The analytes were complexed with new synthesized ligand 4,4′-((4-chlorophenyl)methylene)bis(1,3-diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-5-ol) (CPBMPY) and Trit...

Simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of a mixture of overlapped complexes of Fe(3+), Mn(2+), Cu(2+), and Zn(2+) ions with 2-(3-hydroxy-1-phenyl-but-2-enylideneamino) pyridine-3-ol(HPEP) by orthogonal projection approach-feed forward neural network (OPA-FFNN) and continuous wavelet transform-feed forward neural network (CWT-FFNN) is discuss...

Continuous wavelet transform together with zero-crossing technique was applied to the overlapping visible spectra, as a very simple and accurate method, for the simultaneous determination of phosphate and silicate without any prior separation steps. Daubechies-4, Symlet 8, and Meyer continuous wavelet transforms for signal treatments were found to...

New complexes of Cu(2+), Hg(2+), and Cd(2+) with a recently synthesized Schiff base derived from 2-(3-hydroxy-1-methylbut-2-enylideneamino)pyridine-3-ol were applied for their simultaneous determination with artificial neural networks. A new analytical method using principal component-feed forward neural networks (PC-FFNNs) and principal component-...

A new and simple strategy is applied to resolve kinetic profile for the reaction of an analyte in unknown matrices, using standard addition method (SAM). The proposed method uses kinetic spectrophotometric data obtained by standard addition of analyte into unknown mixtures followed by the reaction of analyte with a proper reagent. The proposed meth...

BACKGROUNDA simple, selective and sensitive multi-component method for the simultaneous determination of Zn2+, Mn2+ and Fe3+ based on complex formation with 2-benzylspiro[isoindoline-1,5′-oxazolidine]-2′,3,4′-trione using artificial neural networks is proposed.RESULTSThe analytical data showed that metal-to-ligand ratios in Zn2+ and Fe3+ complexes...

A multicomponent analysis method for the simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of the Cd2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+ based on complexe formation with dimethyl-spiro[isobenzofurane-1, 6'-pyrorolo[2, 3-d] pyrimidine]-2', 3, 4, 5'(1'H,3'H,7'H) tetraone using wavelet transformation- feed forward neural network is proposed. The analytical data showed that...

A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method to the simultaneous determination of Mn(2+) and Fe(3+) in foods, vegetable and water sample with the aid of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is described. It relies on the complexation of analytes with recently synthesised bis pyrazol base ligand as 4,4'[(4-cholorophenyl)methylene] bis(3-methyl-1-ph...

The present work examine the capability of standard addition method to correct the matrix effect and the advantages of the curve isolation of data using H-point standard addition method (HPSAM) and H-point curve iso- lation method (HPCIM) for determination in unknown mixtures. By a suc- cessive standard addition of the analyte was performed. The av...

Oxyhydroxy cobalt CoO(OH) nanoparticles (Co-NPs) were prepared in horse spleen apoferritin (HsAFr) cavity. Transmission electron microscopy revealed the particle size was 5.5-6 nm. Mineralization effect on HsAFr was investigated by fluorescence and far-UV circular dichroism (far-UV CD) spectroscopies. The far-UV CD experiments indicated an increase...

Ratio spectra-continuous wavelet transformation was used for the simultaneous determination of ternary mixtures of copper, cobalt and nickel without prior separation steps. The method is based on the complexation reaction of these cations with 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (PAN) in triton X-100 micellar media at pH 8.0. The results showed that Cu(II)...

This work presents a simple, rapid, and novel method for simultaneous determination of binary mixtures of some surfactants using continuous wavelet transformation. The method is based on the difference in the effect of surfactants Cetyltrimethylammoniumbromide (CTAB), dodecyl trimethylammonium bromide (DTAB), cetylpyridinium bromide (CPB) and Trito...

Wavelet transformation of kinetic profiles as a new and simple method was developed for the simultaneous determination of binary mixtures without prior separation steps. The mathematical explanation of the procedure is illustrated. Daubechies (db), symlet (sym) and discrete meyer wavelet (meyr) from the family of wavelet transforms were selected an...

New complexes of Co(2+), Ni(2+), Cu(2+) and Zn(2+) with a recently synthesized Schiff base derived from 3,6-bis((aminoethyl)thio)pyridazine were applied for their simultaneous determination with artificial neural networks. The analytical data show the ratio of metal to ligand in all metal complexes is 1:1. The absorption spectra were evaluated with...

This work presents novel and very simple spectrophotometric methods by ratio spectra–continuous wavelet transformation for the simultaneous determination of ternary mixtures of calcium, magnesium and zinc without prior separation steps. The methods are based on the complexation reaction of these elements with bromopyrogallo red (BPR) at pH 9.4. The...

In the present study, chemometric analysis of visible spectral data of phospho-and silico-molybdenum blue complexes was used to develop artificial neural networks (ANNs) for the simultaneous determination of the phosphate and silicate. Combinations of principal component analysis (PCA) with feed-forward neural networks (FFNNs) and radial basis func...

This work presents a new and simple strategy for solving matrix effects using combination of H-point curve isolation method (HPCIM) and H-point standard addition method (HPSAM). The method uses spectrophotometric multivariate calibration data constructed by successive standard addition of an analyte into an unknown matrix. By successive standard ad...

In this work feed-forward neural networks and radial basis function networks were used for the determination of enantiomeric composition of alpha-phenylglycine using UV spectra of cyclodextrin host-guest complexes and the data provided by two techniques were compared. Wavelet transformation (WT) and principal component analysis (PCA) were used for...