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Determination of selected components in human urine with electrophoresis in short capillary.
Makrlíková, Anna ; Opekar, František (advisor) ; Jelínek, Ivan (referee)
Capillary zone electrophoresis is frequently used in various analyses. In this diploma thesis a hydrodynamic sample introduction method controlled by pressure pulse has been proposed for short-capillary electrophoresis. The base electrolyte flushes sample from the loop of a six-way sampling valve and is carried to the injection end of the capillary. At the time when the sample zone reached the capillary, a short pressure impulse is generated in the electrolyte stream, which provides injection of the sample into the capillary. Then the electrolyte flow is stopped and the separation voltage is turned on. The amount of sample introduced to the capillary is controlled by the duration of the pressure pulse. This new sample introduction method was tested in the determination of ammonia, histidine, creatinine, uric acid and hippuric acid in human urine and for rapid screening of the contents of the inorganic ions in cerebrospinal fluid and blood plasma. The determination was performed in a capillary with an overall length of 10,5 cm and two base electrolytes was tested - 50 mM MES + 5 mM NaOH (pH 5,10) and 1 M acetic acid + 1,5 mM crown ether 18-crown-6 (pH 2,40). Using dual detection techniques contactless conductivity and UV spectrometric detection, anorganic and organic substances in the sample could...
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Determination of Lithium in Mineral Waters Using Electrophoresis in Short Capillary.
Makrlíková, Anna ; Opekar, František (advisor) ; Tůma, Petr (referee)
The aim of this study was determination of lithium ion concentration in mineral waters "Vincentka" and "Bílinská kyselka" using capillary electrophoresis with contactless conductivity detection. A specialized laboratory-made apparatus designed for separations in short capillaries was first tested for separation of model solution of common inorganic cations and then for analysis of mineral water samples. Lithium ion concentration was determined using method of standard addition. The results obtained were compared with those obtained from atomic absorption and emission spectroscopy; standard addition method as well as the method of calibration graph were used in spectroscopic methods. A good agreement was obtained between experimentally determined concentrations of lithium and those declared in the labels on the mineral water bottles. Keywords Capillary electrophoresis, contactless conductivity detection, mineral waters, lithium, atomic absorption spectroscopy, atomic emission spectroscopy
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Capillary electrophoresis with dual optical and contactless conductometric detection.
Kadlecová, Tereza ; Opekar, František (advisor) ; Jelínek, Ivan (referee)
This work deals with dual detection of organic and inorganic analytes after separation by capillary zone electrophoresis. In the first part, two types of hydrodynamic sampling are tested. Standard hydrodynamic sampling most often used in laboratory-made electrophoretic apparatus, based on lifting the vessel with the sample, in which the sampling end of the capillary is immersed, and a new method based on increasing the pressure in the sampling vessel without moving the capillary. This sampling procedure minimizes experimenter activity because it is controlled by software. Experimenter only changes vessel containing the sample solution for one with separation electrolyte. The experimental parameters, the sampling time and pressure, are optimized to achieve maximum separation efficiency and adequate detection sensitivity. In the second part of the work, the developed method is tested for the separation of amino-acids in a biological sample (urine).
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Determination of hyaluronan by electromigration methods
Bártová, Adéla ; Mravcová, Ludmila (referee) ; Řezáčová, Veronika (advisor)
This thesis is focused on description hyaluronic acid, characterization of its behaviour in water solutions, its chemical-physical properties and its using in different industrial sectors. The next part deals with possibilities of its analysis. The following section of the thesis is focused on electromigration techniques with special attention dedicated to capillary electrophoretic methods, especially capillary zone electrophoresis. The aim of this thesis is optimization of the method of determination of hyaluronic acid in water solutions by capillary zone electrophoresis.
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Comparison of gel and capillary electrophoresis of proteins
Krbec, Michal ; Franěk, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kotaška, Karel (referee)
Electrophoresis of serum proteins is one of the methods used in laboratory diagnosis of pathological conditions, but also for research purposes. This is a one-step method, which involves isolation of individual proteins from a mixture (mostly blood proteins) in the electric field in the presence of a suitable buffer and a suitable carrier based on their different mobility, dependent on their surface charge and molecular weight. Originally the carrieer used to be a paper, later cellulose acetate membrane and now it is almost exclusively agarose (purified agar with low endoosmosis) or polyacrylamide (PAA). My task in this work was to analyze a serie of samples by gel electrophoresis and subsequently analyze the same serie by capillary electrophoresis. Results obtained by both methods I worked numerically, compared with each other and statistically evaluated. The output of my work is a comparison of gel and capillary electrophoresis, evaluation of the advantages, disadvantages and especially the differences between these two methods.
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Analysis of pterine derivatives by capillary zone electrophoresis
Krajíček, Jan ; Bosáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Čabala, Radomír (referee)
Pterins belong to an important group of compounds, acting as inhibitors, sensiziters, enzymes, coenzymes, pigments etc. and together with carotenoids and anthraquinones are responsible for characteristic coloration of bugs. This work was focused on the development of a capillary electrophoretic separation method for the analysis of six pterine derivatives, namely biopterine, neopterine, isoxanthopterine, leukopterine, xanthopterine and erythropterine and on their identification in the real samples. Separation was conducted in an uncoated fused-silica capillary termostated at 30 řC. Separation electrolyte contained boric acid, tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane and disodium salt of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. The effects of buffer pH, concentration of electrolyte components, separation voltage and wavelength of UV detection on electromigration behavior and detection sensitivity were studied. Under the optimized separation conditions, organic extracts of the three forms of Graphosoma semipunctatum bugs were analyzed.
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Electrophoretic separations of saccharides in short capillary.
Vochyánová, Blanka ; Opekar, František (advisor) ; Jelínek, Ivan (referee)
A new laboratory system has been developed for rapid electrophoretic separations and determinations of inorganic and organic ions. The instrument employs short fused silica capillary in combination with contactless conductivity detection. The basic functions of the apparatus have been tested using mixture of inorganic ions. It has further been applied to separations of neutral mono- and disaccharides. The model mixture contains five saccharides (sucrose, lactose, glucose, fructose and ribose). The technique developed has been used to determine sucrose, glucose and fructose in high-energy drinks.
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Applications of capillary electrophoresis in life sciences
Křížek, Tomáš ; Coufal, Pavel (advisor) ; Pacáková, Věra (referee) ; Tůma, Petr (referee)
Tomáš Křížek: Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis in Life Sciences (Dissertation thesis) ABSTRACT This thesis is focused on the applications of capillary electrophoresis in two important areas of life sciences, proteomics and enzyme assays. In the first part, Pluronic F-127 copolymer was studied as a sieving matrix for proteomic applications of capillary gel electrophoresis. The effect of thermoassociation of Pluronic F-127 on the separation selectivity was investigated and no difference in selectivity of the separation below, inside and above the thermoassociation temperature region was observed. The performance of Pluronic F-127 in capillary gel electrophoresis was compared with dextran as a commonly used sieving matrix. The results showed, that Pluronic F-127 offers superior performance for low-molecular-mass proteins because it provides higher separation power than dextran with significantly lower viscosity of the background electrolyte. The lower viscosity makes the polymer easier to replace after each analysis, which leads to remarkably higher repeatability of the experiments. On the other hand, dextran, due to its higher viscosity, was shown to be more convenient for separations of protein digests, where extremely high separation efficiency is required. The second part focuses on...
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Enantioselective separation systems in capillary electrophoresis
Svobodová, Jana ; Gaš, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Foret, František (referee) ; Kenndler, Ernst (referee)
Chiral separation systems in capillary electrophoresis are in the scope of interest of many research groups all over the world. Therefore, the need to develop reliable theoretical models, which would help to explain phenomena connected with chiral separations or optimization of separation conditions, is obvious. In this thesis several mathematical models and approaches that can fulfill these requirements are presented. First part of the thesis deals with the determination of rate constants of interconversion of enantiomers by means of dynamic capillary electrophoresis. We focused on mixtures of chiral selectors and formulated a mathematical model, which enables to determine rate constants of interconversion in such systems. Mixtures of chiral selectors are very popular in separation practice due to their enhanced enantioselectivity. The theoretical model established in the thesis is able to explain the separation mechanisms of multi-chiral selector systems and to propose and verify possible ways of their optimization. In addition, the separation mechanism in systems with simultaneous cyclodextrin and borate complexation was revealed. Finally we present the complete mathematical model of electromigration in systems with complexation agents. The model is implemented into our simulation tool Simul 5...
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