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Improvements In Microdialysis Sampling Extraction Efficiency Using Recycled Flow, Justin Cole Deaton
Improvements In Microdialysis Sampling Extraction Efficiency Using Recycled Flow, Justin Cole Deaton
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Incomplete recovery during microdialysis sampling is hindering important research in neurology, proteomics, and immunology. Although the current generalized solution, decreasing volumetric flow rates (Q), has been and will remain to be a useful strategy it has reached it's a physical limitation due to evaporation at the collection site. Consequently, many important signaling molecules, such as signaling proteins, remain difficult to study. It is more fundamental to consider relative recovery as a function of the interaction time between the perfusate and the environment surrounding the probe.
In this work an increase in relative recovery was predicted by a mathematical model. Using …