PMID- 28482546 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180220 LR - 20181202 IS - 1873-0191 (Electronic) IS - 0928-4931 (Linking) VI - 76 DP - 2017 Jul 1 TI - A simple and sensitive methodology for voltammetric determination of valproic acid in human blood plasma samples using 3-aminopropyletriethoxy silane coated magnetic nanoparticles modified pencil graphite electrode. PG - 425-430 LID - S0928-4931(16)31874-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.msec.2017.02.140 [doi] AB - In this work, we have prepared a nano-material modified pencil graphite electrode for the sensing of valproic acid (VA) by immobilization 3-aminopropyletriethoxy silane coated magnetic nanoparticles (APTES-MNPs) on the pencil graphite surface (PGE). Electrochemical studies indicated that the APTES-MNPs efficiently increased the electron transfer kinetics between VA and the electrode and the free NH(2) groups of the APTES on the outer surface of magnetic nanoparticles can interact with carboxyl groups of VA. Based on this, we have proposed a sensitive, rapid and convenient electrochemical method for VA determination. Under the optimized conditions, the reduction peak current of VA is found to be proportional to its concentration in the range of 1.0 (+/-0.2) to 100.0 (+/-0.3) ppm with a detection limit of 0.4 (+/-0.1) ppm. The whole sensor fabrication process was characterized by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) methods with using [Fe(CN)(6)](3-/4-)as an electrochemical redox indicator. The prepared modified electrode showed several advantages such as high sensitivity, selectivity, ease of preparation and good repeatability, reproducibility and stability. The proposed method was applied to determination of valproic acid in blood plasma samples and the obtained results were satisfactory accurate. CI - Copyright (c) 2017. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Zabardasti, Abedin AU - Zabardasti A AD - Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran. Electronic address: zabardasti.a@lu.ac.ir. FAU - Afrouzi, Hossein AU - Afrouzi H AD - Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran. FAU - Talemi, Rasoul Pourtaghavi AU - Talemi RP AD - Faculty of Chemistry, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170227 PL - Netherlands TA - Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl JT - Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications JID - 101484109 RN - 0 (Magnetite Nanoparticles) RN - 0 (Silanes) RN - 614OI1Z5WI (Valproic Acid) RN - 7782-42-5 (Graphite) SB - IM MH - Electrodes MH - Graphite MH - Humans MH - *Magnetite Nanoparticles MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Silanes MH - Valproic Acid OTO - NOTNLM OT - Differential pulse voltammetry OT - Electrochemicalimpedance spectroscopy OT - Magnetic nanoparticles OT - Pencil graphite electrode OT - Plasma OT - Valproicacid EDAT- 2017/05/10 06:00 MHDA- 2018/02/21 06:00 CRDT- 2017/05/10 06:00 PHST- 2016/10/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/12/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/02/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/05/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/05/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/02/21 06:00 [medline] AID - S0928-4931(16)31874-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.msec.2017.02.140 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2017 Jul 1;76:425-430. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2017.02.140. Epub 2017 Feb 27.