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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2006
Steven Lewis Ramsay, Igls, AT;
Wolfgang Markus Stoeggl, Innsbruck, AT;
Klaus Michael Weinberger, Mieming, AT;
Armin Graber, Innsbruck, AT;
Wolfgang Guggenbichler, Rum, AT;
Steven Lewis Ramsay, Igls, AT;
Wolfgang Markus Stoeggl, Innsbruck, AT;
Klaus Michael Weinberger, Mieming, AT;
Armin Graber, Innsbruck, AT;
Wolfgang Guggenbichler, Rum, AT;
Biocrates Life Sciences AG, Tirol, AT;
Abstract
An apparatus and method analyzes a metabolic profile in a biological sample. The apparatus includes an input unit for inputting the drugs and/or metabolites to be screened; a controlling unit for determining a parameter set for metabolites preparation and for mass spectrometry analysis depending on the input of the kind of metabolites to be screened; a treatment unit for preparing the metabolites to be screened depending on the determined parameter set; a mass spectrometer for performing mass spectrometry analysis on prepared metabolites depending on the parameter set; a database for storing results of analyzing and parameter sets for metabolite preparation and for mass spectrometry analyses; and an evaluation unit for evaluating the results of mass spectrometry by use of reference results stored in the database to output an analysis of the metabolites profile.