@article{article_305564, title={MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNIQUES IN CLINICAL LABORATORY}, journal={The Turkish Journal Of Occupational / Environmental Medicine and Safety}, volume={Volume 2}, pages={98–98}, year={2017}, author={Ünlü, Ali}, keywords={MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNIQUES IN CLINICAL LABORATORY}, abstract={Development of the mass spectrometry (MS) techniques became an useful tool for the measuring of analytes in clinical chemistry laboratories. It is obvious that there is an increasing trend in the borderline cases due to early diagnostic techniques and development of the health care systems require more sensitive, specific and reliable techniques than routinly used methods. MS techniques provide higher sensitivity and specifity. Because of having unequalled sensitivity, lower detection limits and diversity of its applications MS has an outstanding position among the analytical methods. MS laboratories become a part of clinical chemistry laboratories during the last decade. <o:p> </o:p> MSmain areasare endocrinology, clinical and forensic toxicology, inborn error of metabolism, therapeutic drug monitoring and emerging clinical biomarkers. Steroids measurements are one of the main focus in MS laboratories in endocrinology section. MS analysis recommended hormones are; estradiol in male, prepubertal ages and postmenapausal term, free testosterone, aldosterone, 17-OH progesterone, Deoksicorticosterone, 25-OH vitamin D2 ve D3, 25-OH vitamin D3/3-epi-25-OH vitamin D3, 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 ve 24,25 dihydroxy vitamin D3. MS analysis is also found to be superior against immunassay in the measurement of free tyroxine and tyriodotronine levels. <o:p> </o:p> It has been also demonstrated that MS has several advantages to immunassay in therapeutic drugs analysis. The chemical structures of therapeutic drugs and their metabolites are quite similar to the parent drug, therefore, it is difficult if not impossible to construct an immunoassay that recognizes the parent compound without some degree of cross-reactivity towards one or more of the metabolites. MS based assays have been developed for immunosuppressants and are widely used in clinical practice. <o:p> </o:p> MS has been used for clinical and forensic toxicology for two main reasons. Immunoassays are platforms used as a screening test because they provide faster results and tests are commercially available. Due to the specificity limitations of immunoassays, MS is used to confirm false positive results from the screening immunoassay systems. As such, these MS assays are designed to find particular drugs or their metabolites. MS analysis is also used for comprehensive drug screening. <o:p> </o:p> For the use of inborn errors of metabolism, analyzing for amino, organic, and fatty acids has undergone a series of developments to the technology. Tandem MS is now recognized as one of the most definitive analysis procedures for measuring these analytes. Tandem MSsystem is capable of measuring all of the analytes within a group in a single run. So MS is called a “multiplex” testing. <o:p> </o:p> Development of the MS and chromatographic techniques have lead to great success to quantification and characterisation of proteins. Because of MS, a draft of human proteomics was published in Naturein 2014. The diagnosis of infectious pathogens presents the range of application of MS and its growing potential to contribute to clinical diagnostics. <o:p> </o:p> Main advantages of MS can be classified as; <o:p> </o:p> low solvent volumes, <o:p> </o:p> high throughput, providing clinically stable results with deuterated internal standards, <o:p> </o:p> minimizing the specifity problems, <o:p> </o:p> high analytical range, <o:p> </o:p> improved sensitivity, <o:p> </o:p> multiplex testing in a single run, <o:p> </o:p> cost-effective in long term (after 1-2 years after setup). <o:p> </o:p> Main disadvantages of MS can be classified as; <o:p> </o:p> requirement of experience for method development and procedures, <o:p> </o:p> <p class="MsoNor}, number={İssue 1 (1)}, publisher={Engin TUTKUN}