Mercury Speciation Analysis: Interaction with Blood Proteins and Spatial Microanalysis in Cells

Basic data of the doctoral examination procedure

Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Period of time01/11/2012 - 31/12/2015
Statuscompleted
CandidateHogeback, Jens
Doctoral subjectChemie
Doctoral degreeDr. rer. nat.
Awarded byDepartment 12 - Chemistry and Pharmacy
SupervisorsKarst, Uwe; Schwerdtle, Tanja

Description

The aim of this thesis is the development and application of analytical methods to better understand the fate and behavior of mercury species in blood as well as the evaluation of the distribution processes on a molecular level. Therefore, methods of speciation analysis using liquid chromatography (LC) complementarily coupled to both electrospray ionization (ESI) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) are employed for the investigation of the interaction of mercury species with different blood fractions and blood proteins. The uptake of mercury into cells is investigated by means of laser ablation (LA) coupled to ICP-MS.

Promovend*in an der Universität Münster

Hogeback, Jens
Professur für Analytische Chemie (Prof. Karst)

Supervision at the University of Münster

Karst, Uwe
Professur für Analytische Chemie (Prof. Karst)
Schwerdtle, Tanja
Institute of Food Chemistry

Publications resulting from doctoral examination procedure

Hogeback J., Schwarzer M., Wehe C., Sperling M., Karst U. (2016)
In: Metallomics, 8(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)