Journal: Drug Testing and Analysis
Article Title: Improvement of EPO Transgene Detection From Polymeric Dried Blood Spots for Antidoping Application
doi: 10.1002/dta.70008
Figure Lengend Snippet: Comparison of EPO transgene detection from Tasso (T), VAMS (V), and Whatman(W) DBS collected with blood spiked at 1500 c/mL RM‐EPO. (A) Initial Testing procedure results using NMI ITP assay for qPCR. Cq values are indicated. NTC (no DNA in the PCR), PTC (160 copies of RM‐EPO in the PCR reaction). Peak of Melting and size of amplified products are shown for A and B samples. (B) Initial Testing procedure results using EPO Taqman assay for qPCR. Size of amplified products are shown for A and B samples. (C) Confirmation analysis results. Using NMI CP assay for qPCR. Cq values are indicated. NTC (no DNA in the PCR), PTC (160 copies of RM‐EPO in the PCR reaction). Size of amplified products are shown.
Article Snippet: EPO primers used for the initial testing procedure (ITP) were the previously validated Taqman 20× Gene Expression Assay for EPO (Hs01071097_m1) (ThermoFisher Scientific) or NMI specific primers for the initial testing procedure (NMI ITP 10×) [ , ] both targeting the exon 3–exon 4 junction from the human EPO gene but with different sizes of amplified products (NMI ITP assay: 64 base pairs (bp) for RM‐EPO; EPO Taqman assay: 123 bp for RM‐EPO).
Techniques: Comparison, Amplification, TaqMan Assay, Ceruloplasmin Assay