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Analysis of water-soluble vitamins in biopharma raw materials by electrophoresis micro-chips with contactless conductivity detection
Detailed information concerning the composition of the raw materials employed in the production
of biologics is important for the efficient control and optimization of bioprocesses. The analytical
methods used in these applications must be simple and fast as well as be easily transferable from
one site to another. In that context, microchip‐based electrophoresis represents a promising tool
for application in the analysis of raw materials in biologics. Using electrophoresis micro‐chips,
analysis times can be reduced to seconds and high separation efficiencies can be achieved using
extremely low volume samples, minimal reagent consumption and waste generation, low
cost/disposability, portability and ease of mass‐production [1].
Additionally the use of Capacitively Coupled Contactless Conductivity Detection (C4D) offers a
rather simple and yet sensitive method for detection of ionic species. Recently, C4D has gained
much popularity as on‐chip detection in electrophoresis micro‐chips [2]. The main reason for this
is that there is no physical contact of the detection electrodes with the electrolyte solution.
Therefore, the integration of this detection mode within the analytical system is rather simple.
Furthermore, the background noise is significantly reduced leading to lower detection limits than
the conventional contact conductivity detection.
Vitamins are present at very low concentrations in biopharma raw materials and are usually
determined using HPLC and CE methods [3]. Electrophoresis micro‐chips are a very good
alternative to these techniques due to the shorter analysis time and yet very good resolution,
among others.
In this paper, we present the application of electrophoresis micro‐chips with C4D detection to the
analysis of water‐soluble vitamins in raw materials used for the production of biologics in
bioreactors. For that purpose, hybrid PDMS/glass chips were fabricated by using standard
photolithographic techniques (Figure 1). The chip structure contains an extremely long channel of
101 mm (50 x 50 μm width x depth). Figure 2 shows the setup used for vitamins detection
Solutions of the divergence and Korn inequalities on domains with an external cusp
This paper deals with solutions of the divergence for domains with external
cusps. It is known that the classic results in standard Sobolev spaces, which
are basic in the variational analysis of the Stokes equations, are not valid
for this class of domains.
For some bounded domains presenting power type
cusps of integer dimension , we prove the existence of solutions of
the equation in weighted Sobolev spaces, where the weights are
powers of the distance to the cusp. The results obtained are optimal in the
sense that the powers cannot be improved.
As an application, we prove existence and uniqueness of solutions of the
Stokes equations in appropriate spaces for cuspidal domains. Also, we obtain
weighted Korn type inequalities for this class of domains
On the weighted fractional Poincare-type inequalities
Weighted fractional Poincare-type inequalities are proved on John domains whenever the weights defined on the domain depend on the distance to the boundary and to an arbitrary compact set in the boundary of the domain.Peer reviewe
Analysis of biopharma raw materials by electrophoresis microchips with contactless conductivity detection
Detailed information concerning the composition of the raw materials employed in the production of biologics is important for the efficient control and optimization of bioprocesses. We demonstrate the application of electrophoresis microchips with capacitively-coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D) to the analysis of wa-ter-soluble vitamins and metal cations in raw material solutions that are subse-quently fed into bioreactors for the production of biologics
FRECUENCIA DE MALFORMACIONES Y COMPLICACIONES ASOCIADAS A ATRESIA DE ESÓFAGO, EN EL HOSPITAL PARA EL NIÑO DEL IMIEM EN EL PERIODO COMPRENDIDO DE ENERO 2006 A DICIEMBRE 2010
SDN-AAA: Towards the standard management of AAA infrastructures
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a widely deployed technology enabling
the agile and flexible management of networks and services. This paradigm
represents an appropriate candidate to address the dynamic and secure
management of large and complex Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
(AAA) infrastructures. In those infrastructures, there are several nodes which
must exchange information securely to interconnect different realms. This
article describes a novel SDN-based framework with a data model-driven approach
following the standard YANG, named SDN-AAA, which can be used to dynamically
manage routing and security configuration in AAA scenarios.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Exceso de mortalidad, esperanza de vida y años de vida perdidos por COVID en España
Se presenta el estudio sobre cuál ha sido el impacto de la Covid-19 en la población española, analizando tres indicadores: mortalidad, esperanza de vida y años perdidos. Las conclusiones del estudio son: 1. La COVID-19 tuvo efectos directos e indirectos sobre el exceso de mortalidad y sobre la mortalidad prematura; 2. Los métodos del exceso de muertes y la mortalidad prematura por grupos de edad, sexos y regiones, junto con las tendencias de periodo y estacionales, ayudan a conocer el impacto en la salud de factores que afectan a la salud pública; 3. Las diferencias de impacto de la COVID-19 entre comunidades autónomas han de suponer un primer paso para evaluar las políticas sanitariasN
Propuestas para un real decreto de comités de ética de la investigación
Propuestas para un real decreto de comités de ética de la investigación, Fernando García López. Centro Nacional de Epidemiología. Presidente del CEI del Instituto de Salud Carlos III.N
Pautas éticas en vigilancia epidemiológica y en brotes epidémicos infecciosos
Definición de vigilancia de la salud pública. El estudio de sífilis de Tuskegee. Hitos en la ética de la investgación en seres humanos. Consideraciones éticas fundamentales para la vigilancia en salud pública. Las pautas de la OMS sobre la ética en la vigilancia de la salud pública. Cuestiones éticas en los brotes infecciosos principios éticos más relevantes. Las obligaciones de los gobiernos y de la comunidad internacional. Obligación de asegurar la protección y los derechos de los participantes. Intercambio
de datos, almacenamiento de muestras y propuestas.N
Dietary micronutrients intake and plasma fibrinogen levels in the general adult population.
Plasma fibrinogen predicts cardiovascular and nonvascular mortality. However, there is limited population-based evidence on the association between fibrinogen levels and dietary intakes of micronutrients possibly associated with inflammation status. Data were taken from the ENRICA study, conducted with 10,808 individuals representative of the population of Spain aged ≥ 18 years. Nutrient intake (vitamin A, carotenoids, vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, magnesium, selenium, zinc and iron) was estimated with a validated diet history, and plasma fibrinogen was measured under appropriate quality checks. Statistical analyses were performed with linear regression and adjusted for main confounders. The geometric means of fibrinogen (g/L) across increasing quintiles of nutrient intake were 3.22, 3.22, 3.22, 3.16, and 3.19 (p-trend = 0.030) for vitamin E; 3.23, 3.22, 3.20, 3.19, and 3.19 (p-trend = 0.047) for magnesium; and 3.24, 3.22, 3.19, 3.21, and 3.19 (p-trend = 0.050) for iron. These inverse associations were more marked in participants with abdominal obesity and aged ≥ 60 years, but lost statistical significance after adjustment for other nutrients. Although dietary intakes of vitamin E, magnesium and iron were inversely associated with fibrinogen levels, clinical implications of these findings are uncertain since these results were of very small magnitude and mostly explained by intake levels of other nutrients.This work has been funded by State Secretary of R + D + I and FEDER/FSE FIS grants (F.R.A., grant 16/609 and 19/319; E.L.G., grant 16/1512); and the JPI HDHL-SALAMANDER project (F.R.A., grant APCIN 2016-145). The funders had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this workS
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