AL Mulla, Ismael and Lowry, John P. and Serra, Pier A. and O'Neill, Robert D. (2009) Development of a voltammetric technique for monitoring brain dopamine metabolism: compensation for interference caused by DOPAC electrogenerated during homovanillic acid detection. Analyst, 134. pp. 893-898. ISSN 0003-2654

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Abstract

The established stability of carbon-paste electrodes (CPEs) in brain extracellular fluid was exploited to develop a voltammetric technique to monitor the dopamine metabolite, homovanillic acid (HVA), at 10 s intervals. At the scan rates needed for this time resolution, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC), electrogenerated as a result of HVA oxidation, was observed in the cyclic staircase voltammograms, and this interfered with the straightforward reliable quantification of HVA. However, correction of the HVA signal, recorded in mixtures, with currents from the DOPAC and ascorbate regions of the voltammogram allowed the reproducible construction of well behaved HVA calibration plots. These showed good linearity, LOD values, selectivity and stability during six days of continuous CPE exposure to a lipid medium, which served as an in-vitro model of CPE implantation in brain tissue for future applications.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	voltammetric technique; brain dopamine metabolism; DOPAC; homovanillic acid detection;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Chemistry
Item ID:	2062
Depositing User:	John Lowry
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2010 14:12
Journal or Publication Title:	Analyst
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/a...
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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