Buprenorphine detection in biological samples
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Nadia De Giovanni
Abstract
Buprenorphine is a narcotic analgesic used in the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain. In Italy, buprenorphine is now being used as an alternative in the therapeutic treatment of heroin abusers. Even if confirmation methods are needed for identification and quantitation, a rapid and sensitive test, such as an immunoassay, is essential for screening. We evaluated the Buprenorphine One-step ELISA test (designed for serum specimens) for the qualitative determination of buprenorphine in other matrices, such as urine, saliva and hair.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents Volume 43, 2005
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- ProteinChips: the essential tools for proteomic biomarker discovery and future clinical diagnostics
- Protein profiling as a diagnostic tool in clinical chemistry: a review
- Protein biochip systems for the clinical laboratory
- Automation of biochip array technology for quality results
- SELDI-TOF-MS proteomics of breast cancer
- Protein microarrays for the diagnosis of allergic diseases: state-of-the-art and future development
- Separation of human serum proteins using the Beckman-Coulter PF2D™ system: analysis of ion exchange-based first dimension chromatography
- Rapid, accurate genotyping of alcohol dehydrogenase-1B and aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 based on the use of denaturing HPLC
- APOA1 polymorphisms are associated with variations in serum triglyceride concentrations in hypercholesterolemic individuals
- Simple PCR heteroduplex, SSCP mutation screening methods for the detection of novel catalase mutations in Hungarian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Glycogen phosphorylase BB in acute coronary syndromes
- Alteration in serum leptin correlates with alterations in serum N-telopeptide of collagen type I and serum osteocalcin during the progression of osteoporosis in ovariectomized rats
- Glycemic control in diabetes in three Danish counties
- Atorvastatin suppresses homocysteine formation in stimulated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells
- Buprenorphine detection in biological samples
- The effect of thyroid antibody positivity on reference intervals for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and free thyroxine (FT4) in an aged population
- High-affinity antibodies in a new immunoassay for plasma tissue factor: reduction in apparent intra-individual variation
- Physiological matrix metalloproteinase concentrations in serum during childhood and adolescence, using Luminex® Multiplex technology
- Sensitive immunoassays for the autoantibodies reacting against citrullinated carboxy-terminal telopeptides of type I and type II collagens in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Acknowledgement
