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Sensitive Determination of Amlodipine Besylate Using Bare/Unmodified and DNA-Modified Screen-Printed Electrodes in Tablets and Biological Fluids

Research Abstract
The screen-printed technique is widely used as an efficient tool for electrochemical analysis in environment, clinical and agri-food areas. Significantly, it has the ability to transfer electrochemical laboratory experiments into the field. In the present work, we report a highly sensitive, simple, low-cost protocol for determination of amlodipine (AML) using bare/unmodified and DNA-modified screen-printed electrodes (SPEs). The immobilization of DNA molecules onto SPE offers promising robust and chemically stable molecular wires, which provides a unique opportunity for charge transfer processes. Consequently, the electroanalytical sensing of AML was explored at bare/unmodified and DNA-modified SPEs in a linear range between 0.066–1.0 µM and 0.066–2.0 µM with the detection limit (3) found to be 20.70 nM and14.94 nM, whilst corresponding sensitivities of: 0.43 A L mol-1 and 4.23 A L mol-1 respectively. Although, the superior electrochemical signature of bare SPEs is evident, the immobilization of DNA onto SPEs enhances the sensitivity 10-times more than the bare SPEs. Furthermore, the optimized electroanalytical protocol using the unmodified SPEs, which requires no pre-treatment and electrode modification step, was then further applied to the determination of AML in real samples.
Research Authors
Mohamed Khairy, Ahmed A. Khorshed, Farouk A. Rashwan, Gamal A. Salah, Hanaa M. Abdel-Wadood, Craig E. Banks
Research Journal
Sensors and Actuators B
Research Member
Research Publisher
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Research Rank
1
Research Vol
Vol. 239
Research Website
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2016.07.165
Research Year
2017