Historical essay of the development of chromatography at the Zaporizhzhia State Medical University.

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyze the chronology and state of development of chromatographic methods at the Zaporizhzhia State Medical University (ZSMU). A historical overview of the use of chromatographic methods at ZSMU is provided. First of all, emphasis is placed on the introduction of high-performance liquid chromatography and gas-liquid chromatography. The main scientific laboratories and groups that worked and are working at the Zaporizhzhia State Medical University in the field of instrumental chromatography are shown. There were groups at the Department of Biological Chemistry, the Department of Faculty Pediatrics, the Department of Physical and Colloidal Chemistry. Currently, the Department of Physical Colloid Chemistry is actively working on a new laboratory of liquid chromato-mass spectrometry of the Department of Experimental Pharmaceutical Research of the training medical-laboratory center. The laboratory performs research for many departments of ZSMU, including the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Faculty of Postgraduate Education, the Faculty of Medicine. The laboratory develops, validates and uses methods to establish the purity and confirm the molecular weight and structure of new biologically active substances synthesized to search for new drugs, research of impurities in drug substances, determination of biologically active substances in extracts of medicinal plant raw materials, determination of residual amounts drugs in poultry meat and eggs, and other livestock and poultry products, determination of concentrations of disease markers, determination of distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs.