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The aims of this work were to investigate drug stability prior to, during and after blood spot sampling, using procaine, prulofloxacine, esmolol, and acetylsalisylic acid as examples of drug compounds with limited stability and to compare conventional DBS sampling procedure with DBS sampling including heat stabilization.

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) is an omega-3 fatty acid, which has been documented to be important in biochemical and physiological processes including inflammatory response, blood clotting and the immune system. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) appears in different forms in the blood including triglyceride, ethyl ester, or free acid. In this work we presented an LC/MS/MS method to quantitate the total eicosapentaenoic acid in rat plasma with a 96-well plate format.

A workflow has been described enabling the automated selection of the most suitable extraction conditions (type of fiber, extraction time and temperature) for the GC/MS analysis of a number of contaminants in oil and water samples.
Applying the automated workflow described above the total time to identify the most suitable fiber and then optimize conditions was 4.5 days. Compared to performing the experiments manually which is estimated at 15 days this represents of time saving of 10 days.

Following the regional Be Clear on Cancer campaign, the Department of Health launched a national bowel cancer awareness campaign from 30 January 2012. The campaign ran until the end of March.

Our objective was to review the five major gynaecologic cancers (cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar) and demonstrate the role of FDG PET/CT in diagnosis, surveillance, FIGO staging and treatment strategy.

Advantages and disadvantages of using saliva as a diagnostic source of information.

Separation and determination of the vitamins was achieved by RP-LC. For most vitamins, quantitative results close to the label claim are determined. The stability of the vitamin extracts and potential interference by co- extracted sugar are being investigated to improve these results prior to validation of the final method.

This poster describes how molecular testing at the point-of-care can increase time to results and yield rather specific information, concentrating on PCR on a chip layout which proves to be fast and robust.

This study reviews the causes of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the associated risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

The presented work explores the use of ampliPHOX, a rapid, cost-effective, field-amenable colorimetric detection method, combined with the FluChip low-density microarray for screening and surveillance of influenza viruses, particularly in resource-limited settings. Analysis of microarray data from over 100 influenza samples confirmed the ability to easily distinguish influenza A and B and produce unique array patterns for a wide variety of influenza A subtypes.