Recent advances in immunosensor for narcotic drug detection

Gandhi, Sonu and Suman, Pankaj and Kumar, Ashok and Sharma, Prince and Capalash, Neena and Suri, C. Raman (2016) Recent advances in immunosensor for narcotic drug detection. BioImpacts, 5 (4). pp. 207-213. ISSN 2228-5660

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Abstract

Introduction: Immunosensor for illicit drugs have gained immense interest and have found several applications for drug abuse monitoring. This technology has offered a low cost detection of narcotics; thereby, providing a confirmatory platform to compliment the existing analytical methods.
Methods: In this minireview, we define the basic concept of transducer for immunosensor development that utilizes antibodies and low molecular mass hapten (opiate) molecules.
Results: This article emphasizes on recent advances in immunoanalytical techniques for monitoring of opiate drugs. Our results demonstrate that high quality antibodies can be used for immunosensor development against target analyte with greater sensitivity, specificity and precision than other available analytical methods.
Conclusion: In this review we highlight the fundamentals of different transducer technologies and its applications for immunosensor development currently being developed in our laboratory using rapid screening via immunochromatographic kit, label free optical detection via enzyme, fluorescence, gold nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes based immunosensing for sensitive and specific monitoring of opiates.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Journal Eprints > Medical Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2023 05:55
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2024 04:20
URI: http://repository.journal4submission.com/id/eprint/1700

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