The first occurrence of the cyanobacterial alkaloid toxin cylindrospermopsin in the Czech Republic as determined by immunochemical and LC/MS methods

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BLÁHOVÁ Lucie ORAVEC Michal MARŠÁLEK Blahoslav ŠEJNOHOVÁ Lenka ŠIMEK Zdeněk BLÁHA Luděk

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Toxicon
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Faculty of Science

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Field Environment influence on health
Keywords cyanotoxin;cylindrospermopsin;methods of detection
Description We report comparison of the immunochemical ELISA determination with the liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry (LC/MS) method for CYN analyses in the samples from the Czech Republic, Central Europe. Results of the ELISA and LC/MS showed good qualitative agreement. However, concentrations determined by ELISA were systematically higher than concentrations determined by LC/MS. Differences between methods could be attributed to matrix effects (both in ELISA and LC/MS) or ELISA cross-reactivity with other unidentified derivatives of CYN. Our study demonstrates for the first time occurrence of CYN in the Central Europe.
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