Published in The Analyst
Body fluids are easily accessible and contain valuable indices for medical diagnosis. Fascinating tools are tumour cells circulating in the peripheral blood of cancer patients. As these cells are extremely rare, they constitute a challenge for clinical diagnostics. In this contribution we present the Raman spectroscopic-based identification of diff...
Published in Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences
Untargeted metabolomics are rapidly becoming an important tool for studying complex biological samples. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is the most widely used analytical technology for metabolomic analysis of compounds that are volatile or can be chemically derivatised into volatile compounds. Unfortunately, data processing and analys...
Published in Analytica Chimica Acta
Published in Drug testing and analysis
Automation of sample preparation procedures in a doping control laboratory is of great interest due to the large number of samples that have to be analyzed, especially in large events where a high throughput protocol is required to process samples over 24 h. The automation of such protocols requires specific equipment capable of carrying out the di...
Published in Luminescence : the journal of biological and chemical luminescence
The electrochemiluminescence (ECL) of tris(2,2-bipyridyl)ruthenium [Ru(bpy)3 ](2+) has received much attention. By immobilizing [Ru(bpy)3 ](2+) on an electrode surface, solid-state ECL has several advantages over solution-phase ECL, such as reduced amounts of costly reagent and a simplified experimental design. Herein, different types of solid-stat...
Published in Analytica chimica acta
The 4-mercapto-4-methylpentan-2-one (4MMP) is a key aroma compound in wines, especially in Sauvignon Blanc ones. Its accurate quantification is quite difficult due to its traces levels and its reactivity in wine conferred by the thiol function. In this paper, we proposed a new method for its quantification in wine without any sample preparation, ba...
Published in Analytica chimica acta
The potential for using serum albumin (SA) as a broadly applicable molecular sensor was explored in an effort to develop a method for rapid analysis of complex metabolite samples. SA is a protein present at high concentration in blood, which transports a diverse set of compounds including fatty acids, hormones, and drugs. The effectiveness of the b...
Published in Analytica chimica acta
The analysis of impurities and degradation products in pharmaceutical preparations are usually performed by chromatographic techniques such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This approach demands extensive analysis time, mostly due to extraction and separation phases. These steps must be carried out in samples in order to adapt them...
Published in Analytica chimica acta
Drug purity and affinity are essential attributes during development and production of therapeutic proteins. In this work, capillary electrophoresis (CE) was used to determine both the affinity and composition of the biotechnologically produced "nanobody" EGa1, the binding fragment of a heavy-chain-only antibody. EGa1 is an antagonist of the epider...
Published in Analytica chimica acta
We report on a disposable microdevice suitable for sandwich-type electrochemiluminescence (ECL) detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA). The method is making use of ZnO quantum dots dotted carbon nanotube ([email protected]) and simply electrochemical reduced Pt/Au alloy. The latter was selected as immunosensing probe to modify screen-printed carbon ele...
