@article{
author = "Stanković, Dalibor and Stanković, Vesna and Đurđić, Slađana Z. and Vlahović, Filip and Manojlović, Dragan D. and Ognjanović, Miloš and Mijajlović, Aleksandar",
year = "2023",
abstract = "There are ten million people in the world who have Parkinson’s disease. The most potent
medicine for Parkinson’s disease is levodopa (L-DOPA). However, long-term consumption of L-DOPA
leads to the appearance of side effects, as a result of which the control and monitoring of its concentrations are of great importance. In this work, we have designed a new electrochemical sensor for
detecting L-DOPA using a carbon paste electrode (CPE) modified with Eu2O3@Cr2O3 composite
nanoparticles. Rare earth elements, including Eu, are increasingly used to design new electrode
nanocomposites with enhanced electrocatalytic properties. Europium has been considered a significant lanthanide element with greater redox reaction behavior. We conducted a hydrothermal
synthesis of Eu2O3@Cr2O3 and, for the first time, the acquired nanoparticles were used to modify
CPE. The proposed Eu2O3@Cr2O3/CPE electrode was investigated in terms of its electrocatalytic
properties and then used to develop an analytical method for detecting and quantifying L-DOPA.
The proposed sensor offers a wide linear range (1–100 µM), high sensitivity (1.38 µA µM−1
cm−2
) and
a low detection limit (0.72 µM). The practical application of the proposed sensor was investigated by
analyzing commercially available pharmaceutical tablets of L-DOPA. The corresponding results indicate
the excellent potential of the Eu2O3@Cr2O3/CPE sensor for application in real-time L-DOPA detection",
publisher = "MDPI",
journal = "Biosensors",
title = "Eu2O3@Cr2O3 Nanoparticles-Modified Carbon Paste Electrode for Efficient Electrochemical Sensing of Neurotransmitters Precursor L-DOPA",
volume = "13",
number = "2",
pages = "201",
doi = "10.3390/bios13020201"
}