Simple, Sensitive, and Rapid Voltammetric Detection of Alloxan on Glassy Carbon Electrodes.

ABSTRACT: Alloxan is a chemical generally administered to rats to induce diabetes mellitus, and pharmaceutical industries test the efficacy of their diabetic products on these rats. Alloxan is in a redox cycle with dialuric acid; hence, direct estimation of alloxan may not represent the actual concentration of the same in a given matrix. Also, in recent times, alloxan is added to food materials, especially to the all-purpose flour (maida) to bring softness and white color to the flour. Hence, consumption of food items made from such flour could induce diabetic mellitus in individuals, making it imperative to develop an accurate estimation of alloxan in food items. Herein, a voltammetric-based technique is developed to quantify the alloxan in refined wheat flour (maida) using an unmodified glassy car

SUBMITTER: Mahanthappa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8867568 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature