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| Author(s): |
Tellez Soto, Claudio Alberto
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Pereira, Liliane
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dos Santos, Laurita
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Rajasekaran, Ramu
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Favero, Priscila
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Martin, Airton Abrahao
Total Authors: 6
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Journal of Biomedical Optics; v. 21, n. 12 DEC 2016. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 2 |
| Abstract | |
In the confocal Raman spectra of skin dermis, the band area in the spectral region of proline and hydroxyproline varies according to the age and health condition of the volunteers, classified as healthy young women, healthy elderly women, and diabetic elderly women. Another observation refers to the intensity variation and negative Raman shift of the amide I band. To understand these effects, we adopted a model system using the DFT/B3LYP:3-21G procedure, considering the amino acid chain formed by glycine, hydroxyproline, proline, and alanine, which interacts with two and six water molecules. Through these systems, polarizability variations were analyzed to correlate its values with the observed Raman intensities of the three groups of volunteers and to assign the vibrational spectra of the skin dermis. As a way to correlate other experimental trends, we propose a model of chemical reaction of water interchange between the bonding amino acids, in which water molecules are attached with glucose by hydrogen bonds. The theoretical results are in accordance with the observed experimental trends. (C) 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/21904-2 - Study of biomedical system by vibrational spectroscopy |
| Grantee: | Syed Mehmood Ali |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |