Immunoaffinity chromatography is a technique where affinity columns which contain immobilized antibodies or antibody-related agents are used. Moreover, when this technique is used as a part of an HPLC system, it can be named as “high-performance immunoaffinity chromatography” (HPIAC) (Hage, 1999).
During immunoaffinity chromatography and HPIAC applications there is a number of different elution formats that can be used. The step elution mode, shown in Figure 1, is the most widely used. During this mode, the retained target is being eluted by changing the PH conditions on the mobile phase. An alternative way is to add an organic modifier or a chaotropic agent (Hage and Phillips, 2005). Most of the times this mode is used when target compounds are being isolated by immunoaffinity columns before these targets have been analyzed by another method. Additionally, these targets can be detected directly if they exist in sufficient levels in the sample. This mode has been used for the measurement and transferring of different analytes like for example acetylcholinesterase, benzidine, HSA, IgG and insulin. In order to detect these different analytes, methods like absorbance, fluorescence, and mass spectrometry can be used. Some additional detection schemes include pulsed amperometry and radiometric detection (Moser and Hage, 2006).
Flow-based immunoassay or “chromatographic immunoassay” is a potential format that can be also used with immunoaffinity chromatography and HPIAC (Moser and Hage, 2006). There are two different categories on these methods, namely competitive and non-competitive immunoassays. In the first one, there is competition between a target analyte and a labeled analyte analog for particular positions, where they can bind to...
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...and immunodepletion (Cellar, Karnoup, Albers, Langhorst and Young, 2009). To be more specific, off-line immunoextraction has been combined with HPLC, gas chromatography (GC) and other methods for the determination of analytes as α1-anti-trypsin, BSA, chloramphenicol, cortisol, clenbuterol and phenytoin, etc. On the other hand, on-line immunoextraction methods, which combine immunoaffinity columns with GC, mass spectrometry, ion-exchange chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis, have also been useful leading to determination of drugs, proteins and other interesting biomedical compounds. However, most of these on-line methods include immunoextraction and reversed-phase HPLC, which is highly popular in biological separations. This is due to the fact that an immunoaffinity column can relatively easily be coupled with a reversed-phase column (Moser and Hage, 2010).
The transducer in the assay was the Shimadzu UVmini-1240 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer. It is used to measure the absorbance of ferricyanide in solution. Ferricyanide is a yellow species that be measured and compared to the glucose concentration of the sample. Electrochemical glucometers look like the most common type of transducer for commercial use. It utilizes electrodes and flowing current measured by a voltmeter.2
Moreover, the sensitivity and specificity of the western blot (Immunoblotting) enables it a common technique for determining specific protein levels in clinical samples. Since the antibody is specific to the antigen immunospecificity it enables the target protein to be identified. Western blotting can produce quantitative data about that protein, which in this case shows the difference between bands in each of the protein samples. The western blot is an analytical technique used to detect specific proteins in the given sample of tissue homogenate or extract. The proteins are then transferred to a membrane (in this case, nitrocellulose), where they are stained with antibodies specific to the target protein [1] [2].
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Although flow cytometry is a quantitative technique for determining apoptosis, we believe that this simple and rapid DNA ladder Assay will be very useful for numerous labs that routinely study cell death or carry out routine experimental/clinical screening of drugs and chemotherapeutics.
Clinical & Experimental Immunology. 1983. IUSI/WHO Notice: Appropriate Uses of Human Immunoglobulin in Clinical Practice. The Journal of Translational Immunology. V. 52 (2). Pg. 417-422.
Analysis of Aspirin Tablets Aim --- To discover the percentage of acetylsalicylic acid in a sample of aspirin tablets. ----------------------------------------------------------------- In order to do this, the amount of moles that react with the sodium hydroxide must be known. This is achieved by using the method of back titration.
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