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A Review on the Detection of Dopamine using Various Analytical Methods
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- 1. Department of Studies and Research in Chemistry University College of Science Tumkur University, Tumkur-572103 India
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Dopamine (DA) is an essential neurotransmitter that controls a number of vital processes, such as hormone release, reward systems, motor skills and cognition. In addition to these, dopamine is responsible for the functioning of central nervous system (CNS). Too low or high concentrations of DA are associated with disorders such as Parkinson disease/schizophrenia and even binge-type addictive behaviours. This makes the need to develop accurate and reliable methods of DA measurement an important topic in clinical diagnosis, drug development and research. This chapter provides a comprehensive review of different detection methods such as optical and enzymatic methods to probe dopamine. It also highlights the use of nanomaterials for its detection. Further this review addresses the challenges and explores the prospects for the quantitative and qualitative for the detection of dopamine.
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