A method for hyphenating surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is presented that employs silver-polymer nanocomposites as an interface. Through the process of conformal blotting, analytes are transferred from TLC plates to nanocomposite films before being imaged via SERS. A procedure leading to maximum blotting efficiency was established by investigating v...

The sensitivities of metallophthalocyanine (MPcs: M = Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and H(2)) chemiresistors to vapor phase electron donors were examined using 50 nm MPc films deposited on interdigitated electrodes. Sensor responses were measured as changes in current at constant voltage. Analytes were chosen to span a broad range of Lewis base and hydrogen bond base strengths. The MPc sensor responses were ...

An analytical method for the simultaneous determination of tetracycline (TC), oxtetracycline (OTC), chlortetracycline (CTC) with their 4-epimers, and doxycycline (DC) in animal tissues has been developed and validated. The extraction of the analytes from biological matrice was carried out with a 0.02 M oxalic acid (pH=4.0). The samples were cleaned up by using a solid phase extraction procedure...

BACKGROUND Recent technologies enable genetic association studies of common clinical analytes on a genomewide basis in populations numbering thousands of individuals. The first publications using these technologies are already revealing novel biological functions for both genic and nongenic loci, and are promising to transform knowledge about the biological networks underlying disease pathophys...

We propose a microneedle coated with silver (Ag) to detect analytes at low concentrations positioned at a depth of more than 700 μm below the surface of a skin phantom with absorbers and scatterers for mimicking the intradermal surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) measurements. The Ag layer in the Ag-coated microneedle-based probe is found to be the key to the effective detection of analyte...

We developed a rapid, simple and sensitive LC/MS/MS method for the simultaneous quantitation of tegafur (FT) and gimeracil (CDHP) in human plasma with a concentration range of 20-5000 and 2-500 ng/mL, respectively. Methanol was chosen as a precipitation agent for sample preparation. Chromatographic separation was performed on an inertsil ODS-3 C18 column using 1.0% formic acid in water and meth...

A device for the m situ collection of an ultrafiltrate of saliva was investigated The collector consists of an osmotic pump that, when placed in the mouth, accumulates a prepurlfied salivary tiltrate wlthm a few mmutes The concentration of testosterone m saliva and m the ultrafdtrate from five male subjects was deternuned by a sohd-phase unmunoassay The ultrafiltrate can be used wthout extracti...