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- Title
Electrophoretic Determination of L-Carnosine in Health Supplements Using an Integrated Lab-on-a-Chip Platform with Contactless Conductivity Detection.
- Authors
Pukleš, Iva; Páger, Csilla; Sakač, Nikola; Šarkanj, Bojan; Matasović, Brunislav; Samardžić, Mirela; Budetić, Mateja; Marković, Dean; Jozanović, Marija
- Abstract
The health supplement industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, but there is a lack of suitable analytical methods for the determination of active compounds in health supplements such as peptides. The present work describes an implementation of contactless conductivity detection on microchip technology as a new strategy for the electrophoretic determination of L-carnosine in complex health supplement formulations without pre-concentration and derivatization steps. The best results were obtained in the case of +1.00 kV applied for 20 s for injection and +2.75 kV applied for 260 s for the separation step. Under the selected conditions, a linear detector response of 5 × 10−6 to 5 × 10−5 M was achieved. L-carnosine retention time was 61 s. The excellent reproducibility of both migration time and detector response confirmed the high precision of the method. The applicability of the method was demonstrated by the determination of L-carnosine in three different samples of health supplements. The recoveries ranged from 91 to 105%. Subsequent analysis of the samples by CE-UV-VIS and HPLC-DAD confirmed the accuracy of the obtained results.
- Subjects
LABS on a chip; RF values (Chromatography); ANALYTICAL chemistry; MICROCHIP electrophoresis; INTEGRATED circuits
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 19, p14705
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms241914705