Journal
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 1221, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2022.340117
Keywords
Magneticsorbent; Bioanalysis; Dispersive-basedmicroextraction; Pipettetip-basedmicroextraction; Salivasample; Testosterone
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI) [PID2020-118924RB-I00]
- Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [RED -2018-102522-T]
- Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Chemical Society
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A novel high-throughput pipette tip microextraction strategy using a magnetic sorbent has been developed, offering satisfactory results with minimal number of aspirating/dispensing cycles, benefiting the ergonomics for the operator. The strategy has been successfully tested for measuring testosterone levels in saliva of volunteers, achieving low limits of detection and quantification, good repeatability, and high relative recoveries. It shows promise for rapid sample analysis and could be further improved with the use of a multichannel pipette.
In this work, a lab-made and affordable high-throughput pipette tip microextraction strategy is presented. In this approach, a magnetic sorbent is quickly dispersed in the sample by means of a disperser solvent and the resulting dispersion is immediately aspirated into a pipette tip containing a small neodymium magnet inside, which en-traps the magnetic sorbent containing the analytes. The sample is then discarded, and the subsequent cleaning and desorption steps are conducted by aspirating/dispensing the suitable solvents. This methodology provides satisfactory results when compared with previous pipette tip extraction strategies (i.e., pipette-tip solid-phase extraction and dispersive pipette extraction). Furthermore, it requires a minimum number of aspirating/ dispensing cycles, thus benefiting the ergonomics for the operator, and it is not commercially dependent. This new approach has been tested by measuring testosterone levels in saliva of volunteers as a proof-of-concept. In this regard, a magnetic composite made of CoFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles embedded in octadecyl bonded silica microparticles was employed as sorbent material. Testosterone was quantified by liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. Under the optimized conditions, low limits of detection and quantification (7.5 ng L-1 and 24.8 ng L-1, respectively), good repeatability (RSD < 9%) and relative recoveries between 82 and 106% were obtained with just one adsorption and two desorption cycles, which requires few seconds per sample. In order to increase even more the sample throughput, a multichannel pipette was also evaluated.
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