scholarly journals A Novel Electrochemical Sensor Based on MnO2/Sepiolite Nanocomposite for the Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide in Human Serum Samples

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
AbduRahman Hosseinifar ◽  
Masoud Ghanei-Motlagh ◽  
Maryam Fayazi

Background: The reliable and easy-to-operate detection of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has attracted extensive attention in the fields of biomedicine, food security, and environmental analysis. Objectives: In this work, a novel electrochemical method was proposed for H2O2 monitoring using a carbon paste electrode (CPE) modified with MnO2/sepiolite nanocomposite. Methods: MnO2/sepiolite material was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique. The modified CPE was employed for the amperometric monitoring of H2O2 in human serum samples. Results: Electrochemical data showed that the MnO2/sepiolite-CPE displays a high peak current towards H2O2 oxidation. A linear range from 5 to 700 μM and a low detection limit of 0.8 μM for H2O2 were obtained with the proposed sensor. Besides, the electrode depicted excellent reproducibility and anti-interferant ability, promising the applicability of this electrochemical method in practical analyses. Conclusions: This work introduced a new and effective enzyme-less H2O2 sensor based on the MnO2/sepiolite nanocomposite modified CPE. The suggested sensor showed good sensitivity for the rapid detection of H2O2 in a wide linear range with a low detection limit and satisfactory reproducibility, which made it practical for the analysis of hydrogen H2O2 in real samples.

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 2552-2558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tayyebeh Madrakian ◽  
Hojjat Ghasemi ◽  
Abbas Afkhami ◽  
Esmaeel Haghshenas

Terazosin (TR) is used for the treatment of symptoms of an enlarged prostate.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (23) ◽  
pp. 17372-17378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Liu ◽  
Jiansheng Li ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Junwen Qi ◽  
Wenhong Fan ◽  
...  

A novel nonenzymatic H2O2 sensor is fabricated based on Ag@SiO2 yolk–shell nanoparticles (YSNs) via a sequential impregnation–reduction approach. These exhibit outstanding H2O2 reduction, with a fast amperometric response, a low detection limit and a wide linear range.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 678-684
Author(s):  
Biljana Nigović ◽  
Jakov Vlak

Background: High uric acid serum level, hyperuricemia, is now associated with many diseases such as gout, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, coronary artery disease and diabetes. Febuxostat is a novel selective xanthine oxidase inhibitor approved for the treatment of hyperuricemia. Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a first analytical method for the simultaneous determination of febuxostat and uric acid. Methods: An unmodified boron-doped diamond electrode provided concurrent quantitation of drug at low levels and uric acid, which has clinical significance in the diagnosis and therapy of hyperuricemia, at relatively high concentrations. The direct square-wave voltammetric method was applied to the analysis of both analytes in human serum samples. Results: Under the optimized conditions, the linear response of peak current on febuxostat concentration was achieved in the range from 7.5 × 10-7 to 3 × 10-5 M, while uric acid showed two linear ranges of 5 × 10-6 - 5 × 10-5 M and 5 × 10-5 - 2 × 10-4 M. The method was successfully utilised for quantification of both analytes in human serum samples. Good recoveries were obtained without interference from common inorganic cations and anions as well as glucose, dopamine, ascorbic and folic acids at concentrations expected in physiological conditions. Conclusion: The great benefits of developed method are fast analysis (only 7.5 s for run), low cost and simplicity of performance.


1990 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Thakur ◽  
R. Coles ◽  
A. Sesay ◽  
B. Earley ◽  
H. S. Jacobs ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT A previously described in-vitro rat granulosa cell plasminogen activator bioassay for FSH has been modified and applied in the assay of human serum. This modified method consists of exposing the diethylstilboestrol-stimulated granulosa cells from 25- to 26-day-old rats to FSH or test substance for 3·5 h in wells coated with 125I-labelled fibrinogen and treated with thrombin. Following stimulation with FSH, the dose-related production of plasminogen activator was measured as the degree of 125I-labelled fibrinolysis in the presence of added plasminogen. Using the urinary FSH/LH bioassay reference preparation as the assay standard, the useful range of the assay was 0·3–15IU/l, with an assay sensitivity of 0·3 IU/l. As determined using purified glycoprotein hormone preparations, the assay was highly specific for FSH. The minor degree of FSH bioactivity measured in some of the hormone preparations was accounted for by the amount of FSH contamination in these preparations. To abolish interference caused by unknown serum factors, we heat-treated the serum samples for 15 min at 56 °C before the assay. The results indicated that neither immunoreactivity nor bioactivity was affected by this treatment. Furthermore, heat-treated human sera gave responses parallel to the standard curve at the three dose levels (2, 4 and 8 μl) studied. We used this bioassay to estimate the FSH-like bioactivity in 15 human serum samples. The estimates of immunoreactive FSH in these samples correlated well with the corresponding FSH bioactivity (r = 0·745, n = 15 and P < 0·05). The results indicate that with this sensitive and rapid (completed within 24 h) bioassay, it should be possible to measure FSH bioactivity in heat-treated human serum samples. Journal of Endocrinology (1990) 126, 159–168


2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 232-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M Mendes do Nascimento ◽  
S. Colombo ◽  
T.K. Nagasse-Sugahara ◽  
R.N. Angerami ◽  
M.R. Resende ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Marcelo Granero ◽  
Gastón Darío Pierini ◽  
Sebastián Noel Robledo ◽  
María Susana Di Nezio ◽  
Héctor Fernández ◽  
...  

mSphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory R. Wiedman ◽  
Yanan Zhao ◽  
David S. Perlin

ABSTRACT Clinicians need a better way to accurately monitor the concentration of antimicrobials in patient samples. In this report, we describe a novel, low-sample-volume method to monitor the azole-class antifungal drug posaconazole, as well as certain other long-chain azole-class antifungal drugs in human serum samples. Posaconazole represents an important target for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) due to its widespread use in treating invasive fungal infections and well-recognized variability of pharmacokinetics. The current “gold standard” requires trough and peak monitoring through high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) or liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS). Other methods include bioassays that use highly susceptible strains of fungi in culture plates or 96-well formats to monitor concentrations. Currently, no method exists that is both highly accurate in detecting free drug concentrations and is also rapid. Herein, we describe a new method using reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and a fluorescently labeled aptamer, which can accurately assess clinically relevant concentrations of posaconazole and other long-chain azole-class drugs in little more than 1 h in a total volume of 100 µl. IMPORTANCE This work describes an effective assay for TDM of long-chain azole-class antifungal drugs that can be used in diluted human serum samples. This assay will provide a quick, cost-effective method for monitoring concentrations of drugs such as posaconazole that exhibit well-documented pharmacokinetic variability. Our rGO-aptamer assay has the potential to improve health care for those struggling to treat fungal infections in rural or resource-limited setting.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L'Homme ◽  
J.-F. Focant

Human exposure to POPs is of concern and typical biomonitoring studies require large amounts of blood (5–75 mL) from participants. As a proof of concept, we developed a miniaturized method based on MEPS and CZC applied to GC-HRTOFMS for the measurement of markers of exposure (PCB-153, DDE) in 20 μL human serum samples.


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