Sensitive and Selective Colorimetric Visualization of Cerebral Dopamine Based on Double Molecular Recognition
Sensitive and Selective Colorimetric Visualization of Cerebral Dopamine Based on Double Molecular Recognition
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基于双分子识别的大脑多巴胺的灵敏选择性比色可视化
DOI:
10.1002/anie.201007071
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Shi, Guoyue
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作者:
Kong, Biao;Zhu, Anwei;Shi, Guoyue
The development of direct, selective, and sensitive assay methods for the detection of physiologically important species involved in the brain function has drawn much attention, because the analytical methods are still the bottleneck for progress in understanding the role of neurotransmitters on neural activity, animal behavior, and so on.[1] Dopamine (DA) is one of the most important neurotransmitters, because it plays a central role in brain functions such as reward-related behavior, movement, and mood.[2] Alternations in neuronal release and uptake of DA have been implicated in psychiatric disorders, addiction, and Parkinson s disease.[3] In the past 30 years, a large number of elegant methods, including electrochemical strategies, spectroscopic approaches, chromatography, and so on, have been employed for DA detection.[1c, 3b, 4, 5] However, the complexity of cerebral systems presents a great challenge to these existing methods to provide theoretically and technically simple DA detection in cerebral systems.Herein, we first report a direct, selective, and sensitive strategy for the colorimetric visualization of cerebral DA at nanomolar levels using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), with theoretical simplicity and low technical demands. Colorimetric methods, which take advantage of the color change that arises from the interparticle plasmon coupling during the aggregation of AuNPs or the redispersion of AuNP aggregates, have been applied for the detection of a large variety of targets, including nucleic acids, proteins, small molecules, and metal ions.[6]