Simultaneous Determination of Three Synthetic Glucocorticoids by Differential Pulse Stripping Voltammetry with the Aid of Chemometrics
Simultaneous Determination of Three Synthetic Glucocorticoids by Differential Pulse Stripping Voltammetry with the Aid of Chemometrics
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DOI:
10.1080/00032710802208708
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发表时间:
2008-07
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2
通讯作者:
Y. Ni;Shuzhen Li;S. Kokot
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作者:
Y. Ni;Shuzhen Li;S. Kokot
Abstract A novel voltammetric method for simultaneous determination of the glucocorticoid residues prednisone, prednisolone, and dexamethasone was developed. All three compounds were reduced at a mercury electrode in a Britton–Robinson buffer (pH 3.78), and well-defined voltammetric waves were observed. However, the voltammograms of these three compounds overlapped seriously and showed nonlinear character, and thus, it was difficult to analyze the compounds individually in their mixtures. In this work, two chemometrics methods, principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares (PLS), were applied to resolve the overlapped voltammograms, and the calibration models were established for simultaneous determination of these compounds. Under the optimum experimental conditions, the limits of detection (LOD) were 5.6, 8.3, and 16.8 µg l−1 for prednisone, prednisolone, and dexamethasone, respectively. The proposed method was also applied for the determination of these glucocorticoid residues in the rabbit plasma and human urine samples with satisfactory results.