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Feb 16, 2021
Israeli researchers developed the first method of its kind to easily monitor the effect of anti-psychotic drugs used to treat schizophrenia.
By TPS
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a novel method for instantly and accurately monitoring blood levels of the anti-psychotic drug, clozapine, using a blood drop from a finger prick.
The method, developed by Dr. Hadar Ben-Yoav, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, BGU, is based on an electrochemical microsensor which enables, for the first time, clozapine detection in one drop of finger-pricked whole blood samples of schizophrenia patients without using any pretreatment steps.