Comparison of Improvacuter™ tubes with BD Vacutainer™ tubes for various hormones in the aspects of stability and influence of gel separators

Züngün, Cevdet; Yılmaz, Fatma; Boru, Elif Guney; Topçuoğlu, Canan

doi:10.1515/cclm-2014-0583

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“…2,7,8 Conventional methods such as a vacutainer system, ultra-filtration, and commercial kits are used for DNA extraction. [9][10][11][12] Although traditional DNA extraction methods have advantages, they are restricted in their application in point-of-care (POC) diagnostic platforms owing to their high cost, time consumption, and need for a well-trained professional to operate the equipment. Thus, to obtain high-quality DNA for utilization in resourcelimited areas, DNA extraction techniques with portable settings are essential.…”

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Advances in deoxyribonucleic acid extraction techniques and point-of-care molecular diagnosis of foodborne pathogens

Rajamanickam¹,

Lee²

2023

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Advances in deoxyribonucleic acid extraction techniques and point-of-care molecular diagnosis of foodborne pathogens

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2023

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“…comparative tubes) to verify the manufactures claims. This approach has been proven by the constantly growing number of studies in all areas of diagnostic testing [9][10][11][12], including molecular biology [13,14].…”

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EFLM WG-Preanalytical phase opinion paper: local validation of blood collection tubes in clinical laboratories

Lippi

Cornes

Grankvist

et al. 2016

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)

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The selection or procurement of blood collection devices in healthcare facilities is often an underestimated issue. This is probably due to different factors including the lack of knowledge of policymakers, hospital administrators and even laboratory managers about the importance of preanalytical quality and phlebotomy process, as well as to the absence of reliable guidelines or recommendations on how to precisely assess the quality of blood collection devices around the globe. With the awareness that a gap remains between manufacturers' and local validation of blood collection devices, the Working Group for Preanalytical Phase (WG-PRE) of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) has drafted a consensus document aimed to provide a set of essential requisites, technical criteria (e.g. presence of physical defects, malfunctioning, safety problems) and clinical issues for supporting laboratory professionals in organization blood collection tubes tenders and validating new devices before local routine implementation. The laboratory professionals should also make sure that the tenders accurately and strictly define the responsibilities for validation experiments and the potential consequences in the case the validation outcome shows that tubes due not fulfill the expectations.

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“…They concluded that aforementioned materials had not any adverse effect on these analytes. Zungun et al [20] compared the effect of two commercial SST's, named improvacuter and BD vacutainer with SST without gel for various hormones in the aspects of stability and influence of gel separators. They reached to this point that all SST's had more or less the same chemical test results with the exception for two hormones, Estradiol and Testosterone.…”

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A New Formulation for Polymeric Separator Gels for Potential use in Blood Serum Separator Tubes

Babakhani

Movahed

Ghazy

2018

Progress in Rubber, Plastics and Recycling Technology

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Blood serum separator tubes (SST) are used for collecting blood samples for performing clinical chemistry assays. Some SST's have separator gels inside the tube which enable them better separation of the blood serum from packed cells during centrifugation. The cost, weak performance and interaction with blood ingredients are the most concerns of the available commercial gels. A commercial and cheap silicone oil as a polymeric base of the gel was chosen and formulated without and with several fillers. Subsequently, the compounds were crosslinked through a free radical crosslinking mechanism using dicumyl peroxide (DCP). The crosslinking took place in both, an oven and as well as under microwave irradiation in normal and under pressure conditions. The FTIR spectrometer analysis showed that both chain ends of the used silicone oil were terminated with a vinyl group. It also revealed that blood serum separator gel can be produced from selected silicone oil type. Among of different curing apparatus, curing in an oven was preferred due to less curing time and electrical energy consumption. The curing in normal pressure showed better results when compared with curing under pressure. Increasing the filler and DCP with various amounts had positive effect on gel densities. Silica was the most efficient filler among of the studied fillers. The cured compound filled with 10 and 8 phr silica and DCP, respectively, was chosen as appropriate gel for SST due to suitable density and thixotropy. The selected gel was cured in oven under normal pressure for 30 minutes at 160°C.

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Comparison of Improvacuter™ tubes with BD Vacutainer™ tubes for various hormones in the aspects of stability and influence of gel separators

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Advances in deoxyribonucleic acid extraction techniques and point-of-care molecular diagnosis of foodborne pathogens

Advances in deoxyribonucleic acid extraction techniques and point-of-care molecular diagnosis of foodborne pathogens

EFLM WG-Preanalytical phase opinion paper: local validation of blood collection tubes in clinical laboratories

A New Formulation for Polymeric Separator Gels for Potential use in Blood Serum Separator Tubes

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