In vivo determination of the monoamine neurotransmitters in rat brain by liquid chromatography with a thioctic acid/iridium oxide-palladium modified electrode

  • Wen Zhang
  • , Xuni Cao
  • , Fangli Wan
  • , Song Zhang
  • , Litong Jin*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The fabrication and application of a electrochemical detector (ED) with the thioctic acid (TA)/iridium oxide (IrO2)-palladium (Pd) chemically modified electrode (CME) for liquid chromatography (LC) were described. The electrochemical behavior of dopamine (DA) and ascorbic acid (AA) at the TA/IrO2-Pd CME were investigated by differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). It was found that the CME could be permselective to DA cations and exile the AA anions, which could be used to determine the monoamine neurotransmitters and avoid the interference of AA in LC. In liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection (LC-ED), DA, norepinephrine (NE), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), epinephrine (E) and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylactic acid (DOPAC) were determined at the CME. The linear ranges of five analytes were over three orders magnitude and the limits of detection were 0.05pmol for DA, 0.05pmol for NE, 0.05pmol for E, 0.10pmol for 5-HT and 1.00pmol for DOPAC. The application of this method coupled with microdialysis sampling for the in vivo determination of the monoamines in rat brain was also investigated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)27-35
Number of pages9
JournalAnalytica Chimica Acta
Volume472
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Nov 2002

Keywords

  • LC-ED
  • Microdialysis sampling
  • Neurotransmitter
  • Thioctic acid/iridium oxide-palladium modified electrode

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