TOMSK, May 4 – RIA Tomsk. The devices developed in Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) will allow to do fast and cheap analyses on contents of meldonium in an organism of athletes, the press service of the university said on Wednesday.
It is explained that now for similar analyses other ways are used. They demand expensive reactants, special preparation of tests. Also devices on which the analysis is carried out are expensive.
"The postgraduate student of Tomsk Polytechnic University Olga Mezentseva develops an import-substituting method of express determination of contents of meldonium in an organism of athletes, and also as a part of dietary supplements. The portable electrochemical analyzer will be many times cheaper than expensive import analogs", – is said in the message.
The Head of "Trace contaminant" laboratory of TPU, the research supervisor of the project Galina Slepchenko told RIA Tomsk that at the base of the Tomsk device – is an electrochemical method which allows to learn composition of substance after current impact. This technology is used by TPU scientists for a long time, and is suitable for identification of many organic substances, for "reshaping" of devices it is only enough to replace the operating elements – electrodes.
She has specified, that both electrodes, and reactants for the device cost many times cheaper than those that are used now: prime cost of the Tomsk device, allegedly, will be up to 100 thousand rubles – tens times cheaper than analogs.According to the university, because of the compactness the device can be located in any laboratory. Besides, after carrying out the analysis additional data processing isn't required – they will be highlighted on the special screen of the device.
Athletes of the whole world, including Russian, have recently appeared in the center of doping scandal as it found out meldonium in their tests – the substance normalizing energy metabolism of cells. In particular, the preparation with meldonium is applied to treatment of heart troubles, vessels of eyes.