title: Assay of dipyridamole in human serum using cathodic adsorptive square-wave stripping voltammetry.
abstract: A rapid and sensitive square-wave voltammetric procedure was optimized for the determination of dipyridamole after its adsorption preconcentration onto a hanging mercury drop electrode. The peak current of the first of the two peaks developed for this drug in Britton-Robinson buffer at pH 8.0 has been considered for the present analytical study. An accumulation potential of -1.0 V versus Ag/AgCl/KCl(s), pulse amplitude a =100 mV, scan increment Delta E =10 mV, and frequency f =120 Hz were the optimal experimental parameters. Dipyridamole can be determined in the concentration range of 9.0 x 10(-9) to 5.0 x 10(-6) M using accumulation times of 30-300 s. A detection limit of 4.0 x 10(-11) M was achieved after a 300 s accumulation time. Applicability to serum samples was illustrated. The average recoveries for dipyridamole spiked to serum at 0.25-4.50 micro g ml(-1) were 96.0-102.0%, and the higher standard deviation was 2.9%. A detection limit of 0.06 micro g mL(-1) of serum was obtained.
mesh_terms: D004176:Dipyridamole / Q000097:blood*; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D006801:Humans; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D004176:Dipyridamole