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Detection of secondary biomarker of met-eGH as a strategy to screen for somatotropin misuse in horseracing.
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The Analyst [Analyst] 2008 Feb; Vol. 133 (2), pp. 270-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2007 Dec 21. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Since the Australian commercialisation of the recombinant equine growth hormone (reGH) in 1998 (EquiGen-5), Bresagen), this reGH, which differs only from eGH by an additional methionine at the N-terminal end (met-eGH), is worldwide suspected to be administered to racehorses as a doping agent. Indeed, the use of this biological drug is considered as a threat to horseracing since it acts both on growth, development or reproductive functions, and on the improvement of performances. In this work, we describe two reliable techniques based on surface plasmon resonance biosensor immunoassay (SPR-BIA) and solid-phase enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as new, rapid and efficient long-term screening methods applicable to horseracing antidoping analysis. The ELISA and SPR-BIA tests were applied to octanoic acid purified IgGs from serum/plasma samples collected on two thoroughbreds treated with recombinant equine growth hormone for a period of two weeks. The first kinetic study of serum/plasma antibodies raised as a consequence of recombinant equine growth hormone administrations, which allows the detection from eight days up to 200 days after the beginning of the treatment, was performed. In order to trace the occurrence of anti-reGH antibodies in routine analysis and to monitor the animal level exposure to this forbidden molecule, a random population study was conducted on 233 post-race horses.
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- Animals
Antibody Specificity
Biomarkers blood
Biosensing Techniques
Blotting, Western methods
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay methods
Recombinant Proteins immunology
Doping in Sports prevention & control
Growth Hormone immunology
Horses immunology
Immunoglobulin G blood
Methionine immunology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0003-2654
- Volume :
- 133
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Analyst
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 18227952
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b713712e