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ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 657-662Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2006.10.049
Keywords
ractopamine; immunosensor; electrochemistry; agarose hydrogel; feed
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A novel label-free electrochemical immunosensor for rapid determination of ractopamine was constructed by incorporating ractopamine-bovine thyroglobulin antigen in agarose hydrogel films modified on a glassy carbon electrode. Cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry were employed to investigate the electrochemical character of the immunosensor during different modified stages using a redox probe system of K3Fe(CN)(6)/K4Fe(CN)(6). In the presence of polyclonal antibody against ractopamine, K-3[Fe(CN)(6)] electron transfer is inhibited, presumably due to that antibody in solution could adsorb on the electrode surface modified antigen. A competitive immunoreaction system was applied to determinate the free ractopamine in phosphate buffer solution. The selected polyclonal antibody showed very high sensitivity and specificity for ractopamine, and was used for the detection and quantitative determination of trace amounts of ractopamine in spiked animal feeds. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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