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P Frutos1, S Torrado, M E Perez-Lorenzo, G Frutos.
Abstract
A colorimetric procedure was developed for the quantification of gentamicin. The method was based on the ninhydrin reaction with primary and secondary amines present in the gentamicin. This reaction produces a purple colour. The effects of several factors including pH, ninhydrin concentration and reaction time were investigated to optimize the assay method. Using the assay protocol, the absorption of the gentamicin-ninhydrin mixtures at 400 nm had a linear relationship with the gentamicin concentration ranging from 30 to 120 microg/ml. The colorimetric gentamicin assay reported herein is of great practical value because it is reproducible, sensitive, simple and extremely inexpensive.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10708399 DOI: 10.1016/s0731-7085(99)00192-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pharm Biomed Anal ISSN: 0731-7085 Impact factor: 3.935