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Dinten O. et al, Lifetime of neutral carrier based liquid membranes in aqueous samples and blood and the lipophilicity of membrane components, Analytical Chemistry 1991 63 596. 

V. Mazel, P. Richardin, D. Debois, D. Touboul, M. Cotte, A. Brunelle, P. Walter and O. Laprevote, Identification of ritual blood in African artifacts using ToF SIMS and synchrotron radiation microspectroscopies, Analytical Chemistry, 79, 9253 9260 (2007). 

Fluorescent pH indicators offer much better sensitivity than the classical dyes such as phenolphthalein, thymol blue, etc., based on color change. They are thus widely used in analytical chemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, cellular biology (for measuring intracellular pH), medicine (for monitoring pH and pCC>2 in blood pCC>2 is determined via the bicarbonate couple). Fluorescence microscopy can provide spatial information on pH. Moreover, remote sensing of pH is possible by means of fiber optic chemical sensors. 

Figure 6.4 Cross-section through a dry reagent slide for use in the Vitros Chemistry System, previously known as the Kodak Ektachem analyser. A range of slides, which vary in the nature, number and composition of the layers, is available for a variety of analytes in blood serum. The sample (approximately 10 /d) is applied to the spreading layer and reactions take place as it permeates through the various layers. Detection is by reflectance photometry.

Ashley DL, Bonin MA, Cardinali FL, et al. 1992. Determining volatile organic compounds in human blood from a large sample population by using purge and trap gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry 64(9) 1021-1029. 

Liu, M., Nicholson, J.K., Parkinson, J.A. and Lindon, J.C. (1997) Measurement of biomolecular diffusion coefficients in blood plasma using two-dimensional H- H diffusion-edited total-correlation NMR spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry, 69, 1504-1509. 

A literature project. Until the 1960s, dinosaurs were thought to be cold-blooded animals, which means they could not regulate their body temperature. Reference 1 describes how the l8O/l60 ratio in dinosaur bones suggests that some species were warm blooded. Find reference 1, preferably at http //pubs.acs.org/ac if your institution has an electronic subscription to Analytical Chemistry. Explain how the 180/l60 ratio implies that an animal is warm or cold blooded. Explain the criteria that were used to determine the likelihood that l80/l60 in bone phosphate was altered after the dinosaur died. Describe how bone samples were prepared for analysis of oxygen isotopes and state the results of the measurements. 

Versieck, J. and L. Vanbalieiibeighe Determination of Tin in Human Blood Semm by Radiochemical Neutron Activation Analysis,1 Analytical Chemistry. 1143 (June... 

ThomeDuret V, Reach G, Gangnerau MN, Lemonnier F, Klein JC, Zhang YN, Hu YB, Wilson GS. Use of a subcutaneous glucose sensor to detect decreases in glucose concentration prior to observation in blood. Analytical Chemistry 1996, 68, 3822-3826. 

Olesberg JT, Liu LZ, Van Zee V, Arnold MA. In vivo near-infrared spectroscopy of rat skin tissue with varying blood glucose levels. Analytical Chemistry 2006, 78, 215-223. 

Amerov AK, Chen J, Small GW, Arnold MA. Scattering and absorption effects in the determination of glucose in whole blood by near-infrared spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry 2005, 77, 4587 1594. 

During the past 40 years there have been numerous exciting extensions of electrochemistry to the field of analytical chemistry. A series of selective-ion potentiometric electrodes have been developed, such that most of the common ionic species can be quantitatively monitored in aqueous solution. A highly effective electrolytic moisture analyzer provides continuous online assays for water in gases. Another practical development has been the voltammetric membrane electrode for dioxygen (02), which responds linearly to the partial pressure of 02, either in the gas phase or in solution. The use of an immobilized enzyme (glucose oxidase) on an electrode sensor to assay glucose in blood is another extension of electrochemistry to practical analysis. 

Marjam Behar, National Institutes of Health I joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, in December 1962 to work with a group of physicians who were doing studies of cerebral blood flow, and they needed a chemist to do their metabolic studies. I didn t have a tenure-track position. As a matter of fact I was not in the faculty track, but as we advanced in the studies (I was there for 17 years), they made me director of the Core Facility for Analytical Chemistry. I had 12 technicians that I supervised and taught. I also taught residents, faculty members, and medical students who needed to learn bioanalytical techniques to pursue their research. 

The rapid advances in analytical chemistry and the detection of ever smaller quantities of material involved in the processes in our bodies mean that our understanding of the metabolic mechanisms and interactions with drugs is becoming more and more sophisticated. The small quantities of carbon monoxide and its presence in the brain, the massive role of nitric oxide and the detection of minute quantities of oxidants and anti-oxidants in the blood and cells are discussed in other chapters. 

The presence of organic fluorine in humans was first reported by Taves in 1968, although analytical methodologies were not adequate at the time for identification of specific PFCs [123]. In the past several years, primarily due to advances in analytical chemistry techniques, PFS As and PFCAs have been measured globally in human whole blood, plasma and serum [105,108,129-133]. Concentrations of PFS As and PFCAs in human populations in North America and worldwide have been reviewed by Lau et al. [23]. 

Electrochemistry is important in other less obvious ways. For example, the corrosion of iron, which has tremendous economic implications, is an electrochemical process. In addition, many important industrial materials such as aluminum, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide are prepared by electrolytic processes. In analytical chemistry, electrochemical techniques use electrodes that are specific for a given molecule or ion, including H+ (pH meters), F, Cl , and many others. These increasingly important methods are used to analyze for trace pollutants in natural waters or for the tiny quantities of chemicals in human blood that may signal the development of a specific disease. 

Horvat M, Stegnar A, Byme R, et al. 1988. A study of trace elements in human placenta, blood, and hair from the Yugoslav central Adriatic. In Braetter P, Schramel P, eds. Trace elements-analytical chemistry in medicine and biology. Berlin W. de Guyter and Co., 243-250. 

Harrison, D.J., Turner, R.B.F., and Baltes, H.P. (1988) Characterization of perfluorosulfonic acid polymer coated enzyme electrodes and a miniaturized integrated potentiostat for glucose analysis in whole blood. Analytical Chemistry, 60, 2002-2007. 

A typical illustration of such an approach is the use of SLM modules in analytical chemistry for sample preparation and enrichment of the analyte. They cannot be too big, since they have to be usable in an analytical laboratory. They also should have the possibihty to connect online into an analytical system. Also, they have to be suited to the volume of the sample and flow rate of the aqueous phase(s). If the sample volume is limited and concentration ot the analyte is low in the sample, for example, blood or plasma, the module has to be designed to give the possibility of a very low flow rate to increase contact time between the feed and membrane phase (Fig. 3.14). 

In this system, the computational chemical analysis targeted the productivity of superoxide from a keto-enol rearrangement to study chemiluminescence intensity in analytical chemistry. Superoxide is toxic in vivo. The partial charge was therefore related to biologic activities, such as toxicity (rat oral LD50), the efficacy of the steroids as an endermic liniment, and the contraction index of blood vessel by steroids. 

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