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Proteins, Expression, Isolation and Analysis> | … Fer from EMD Millipore (Billerica, MA), LF from Sigma (St. Louis, MO), P1 and P2 from Biomatik (Wilmington, DE), CRF and FITC-labeled P1 from GenScript (Piscataway, NJ), and TNF from ProSpec (East Brunswick, NJ). All solutions were made with deionized water … | Get A Quote |
Preterm birth (PTB) is responsible for over one million infant deaths annually worldwide. Often, the first and only indication of PTB risk is the onset of early labor. Thus, there is an urgent need for an early PTB risk diagnostic that is inexpensive, reliable, and robust. Here, we describe the development of a microchip electrophoresis (μCE) method for separating a mixture of six PTB protein and peptide biomarkers present in maternal blood serum. μCE devices were photografted with a poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate surface coating to regulate EOF and reduce nonspecific analyte adsorption. Separation conditions including buffer pH, buffer concentration, and applied electric field were varied to ... More