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ABCA Breath Test
The ABCA2 is the high performance, high sample throughput isotope ratio mass spectrometer for breath analysis.
Features
Application Notes
Medical
Assessing the effect of L-Carnitine on fat oxidation, protein turnover and body composition on slightly overweight people
Mitochondrial Dysfunction as Assessed by an ABCA2 Breath Test and its Relationship to Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Monitoring Gastric Emptying via a Simple Non-invasive Breath Test
Helicobacter Pylori detection with the ABCA2
Software
Technical Notes
UZ Antwerpen
UZ Antwerpen The end of April saw Systems Engineer Henry Cooke spending a couple of days with Machteld Vanderwayden at the Chromatography Lab at UZ Antwerpen. Machteld and his team use an older Sercon ABCA instrument for the purposes of H. Pylori breath testing and...
Biolab Cerballiance Martinique
Biolab Cerballiance Martinique Sercon has a strong installation base around the world, and while remote support forms part of all our service contracts, our team of installation and service engineers get to travel regularly for installations and service visits. While...
CERBA Paris upgrade
CERBA Paris upgrade Service engineer Thomas Iordanidis visited customer CERBA in Paris recently to conduct a pump upgrade on an ABCA2, Sercon’s high performance, high sample throughput isotope ratio mass spectrometer for breath analysis. The successful upgrade went...
Did you know Sercon’s ABCA2 is FDA approved?
Did you know Sercon’s ABCA2 is FDA approved? That’s right, Sercon’s ABCA2 automated breath 13CO2 analyser is the only FDA approved high performance IRMS instrument with large sample throughput to meet the needs of today’s breath testing labs in the medical market Its...
University of Birmingham ABCA2 Installation
University of Birmingham Installation Systems Engineer Tom Iordanidis recently completed an ABCA2 with versa installation for Professor Gareth Wallis from the School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences at Birmingham University. Tom spent five days on...
Southampton General Hospital
Southampton General Hospital Part of Southampton University, the labs at Southampton General Hospital, are home to an old ABCA-G service being used by Dr Paul Afolabi, which he thinks was installed in 2003. The instrument is currently being used to investigate the...
Henry’s ABCA Voyage
Henry’s ABCA Voyage Service engineer Henry Cooke recently undertook a bit of an ‘ABCA voyage’ tour, taking in three locations, all in the medical testing field: Installation of a new rotary pump at CERBA in Frepillon (Paris), for Thomas Le-Picard of the Physical...
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 We’ve just received our renewal of FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 automated breath 13CO2 analyser. MD Mark O’Connor is proud of the achievement: “The ABCA2 is the only FDA approved, high performance IRMS instrument with large sample...
Synlab Belgium
This photo was taken on a recent annual service and maintenance visit undertaken by one of our Service and Installation Engineers Henry Cooke, to SYNLAB Belgium. The ABCA2 and VerSA instruments run by Valery Daubie are operated in the Molecular Biology department,...
Diagnostic Centre Bled
Diagnostic Centre, BledIn a recent two day visit to the medical testing operation run by Diagnostic Centre, Bled, based in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Service and Installation Engineer Henry Cooke worked on ABCA2 and VerSA instruments, which are under the management of...
Oslo Service Visit
Oslo Service Visit For his first service visit in Scandinavia, Service and Installation Engineer Henry Cooke visited the Unger-Vetlesens Research Institute at Lovisenberg Diakonale Sykenhus in Olso. Our customer, Gunn Helen Malmstrøm, is engaged with biomedical...
CERBA Instrument Relocation
Cerba Instrument Relocation Systems Engineer James Hanson recently supported a customer with the relocation and reinstallation of their entire suite of ABCA systems to a new lab space to carry out their very high demand for 13C breath analysis. Cerba’s move to its new...
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 We’ve just received our renewal of FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 automated breath 13CO2 analyser. MD Mark O’Connor is proud of the achievement: “The ABCA2 is the only FDA approved, high performance IRMS instrument with large sample...
ABCA Used for Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Research
Service Engineer James Hanson has just been to Southampton General Hospital and performed a successful dual turbo upgrade and full service on a Sercon ABCA system being used by Dr Paul Afolabi in the Mass Spectrometry Lab. Dr Paul Afolabi will use the Sercon ABCA...
Data bulletin: Sercon ABCA Maintenance and Decontamination
Any breath sample has the potential to include contaminants such as bacteria and viruses Simple precautions can be taken to prevent the build up and spread of these contaminants. Read more in our bulletin > Data Bulletin - Sercon ABCA Maintenance and...
The ABCA2’s role in early detection of liver damage
One of the scientists using Sercon's ABCA2 at Southampton General Hospital is hopeful the technique he has developed will help in the prevention of liver damage and type 2 diabetes in a world where obesity is causing ever more health problems. Dr Paul Afolabi, who...















