Poster: Improving a high sensitivity assay for the quanitification of Teriparatide in human plasma using IonKeys/MS (Waters)
Teriparatide (FORTEO®), is a recombinant form of a fragment of human parathyroid hormone, used in the treatment of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is responsible for 1.5 million bone fractures a year and teriparatide is the first treatment that stimulates new bone formation. It is an anabolic drug that acts to build up bones and has the potential to improve skeletal micro architecture and increase bone density. Teriparatide is the first 34 amino acids (the biologically active region) of the 84-amino acid human parathyroid hormone (PTH), and is also referred to as, rhPTH (1-34).1