Journal
TALANTA
Volume 204, Issue -, Pages 663-669Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2019.05.098
Keywords
AD; AMD; ICP-MS; Serum analysis; Trace elements
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- Bill Brown Charitable Trust
- Mercer Fund
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A high-throughput, sensitive and rapid method was developed for the determination of Zn, Cu and Fe in small volumes (30 mu L) of human serum using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The sample preparation procedure employed simple 100-fold dilution of the serum samples with 1.0% butanol, 0.5% v/v ammonia, 0.02% v/v Triton X-100 and 0.01% v/v HNO3. The reliability of the method was evaluated using serum UTAK certified reference material, and the results matched well with the certified values. The method was applied to determine Zn, Cu and Fe in 81 human serum samples from participants in Alzheimer disease (AD) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) studies. No significant differences were found in Zn and Cu levels between age matched controls, AD and AMD patients. Whilst iron levels appeared marginally higher in the AMD group, compared with the AD group, iron showed larger overall variability than the other two elements.
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