Application of Separations Technologies in Biomedical Analysis
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioanalysis/Clinical Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 3966
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites contributions to the current advances in the development and application of analytical methods for biomedical analysis aimed toward biological fluids or bodily fluids. This liquid class of specimens includes any liquids that can be found within the human body, such as urine, blood, or saliva. Bodily fluids are often extraordinarily complex in nature and mainly consist of salts, proteins, metabolites, and lipids, but they also contain other biomolecules carrying important information about the patient. Separation of these biomolecules prior to any analysis remains one of the most crucial components in today’s biomedical analysis and affects the downstream assay performance used to assess at what levels these molecules are present. Separation of these molecules can be performed at different levels to achieve a reduced complexity, ranging from upfront enrichment using nanoparticles or antibodies to alternative ion-sampling strategies when analyzing the sample using methods such as LC-MS/MS.
The target of this Special Issue is to present state-of-the-art separation methods applied to biological fluids, which enable sensitive detection or robust quantification suitable for clinical applications.
With your rich expertise in the field of biochemical separation, we believe that your contribution to this Special Issue will be of great importance to the scientific community.
Dr. Fredrik Edfors
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Keywords
- Blood plasma/serum
- urine
- saliva
- protein profile
- proteomics
- metabolite profile
- metabolomics
- mass-spectrometry
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