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Electrochemical Biosensor Technology: Application to Pesticide Detection

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Biosensors and Biodetection

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology™ ((MIMB,volume 504))

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In recent years, electrochemical sensors and biosensors are becoming an accepted part of analytical chemistry since they satisfy the expanding need for rapid and reliable measurements.

An area in which electrochemical biosensors perhaps show the greatest diversity and potential for development involves the measurement of environmentally significant parameters. The increasing number of pollutants in the environment calls for fast and cost-effective analytical requirements. In this context, biosensors appear as suitable alternative or complementary analytical tools.

The aim of this chapter is to review some basic concept concerning the electrochemical biosensors and to illustrate a protocol for the detection of environmental organic pollutants on the basis of electrochemical biosensors. In particular, a method based on the inhibition of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) for the detection of organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides will be described in detail.

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  1. Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Ilaria Palchetti, Serena Laschi & Marco Mascini

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  1. FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Silver Spring, MD, USA

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  2. National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Avraham Rasooly

  3. Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

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Palchetti, I., Laschi, S., Mascini, M. (2009). Electrochemical Biosensor Technology: Application to Pesticide Detection. In: Rasooly, A., Herold, K.E. (eds) Biosensors and Biodetection. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 504. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-569-9_8

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