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Doxorubicin has been extensively used to treat cancers, and there are recent findings that the anticancer activities can be enhanced by curcumin. Although the two compounds have native fluorescence, they can hardly be quantified directly simultaneously using the laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection method. To avoid complex fluorescence derivatization and introduction of interfering components, a highly sensitive double wavelength excitation source LIF (D-W-Ex-LIF) detector composed of a 445-nm and 488-nm commercial laser diode was constructed to detect them simultaneously. Rhodamine 6G was selected as an internal standard, because its fluorescence can be excited at 445 nm and 488 nm. The native fluorescence of doxorubicin and curcumin and their resolution were enhanced by introducing mixed micelles. The optimal electrophoretic separation buffer was 10 mM borate buffer containing 20 mM Triton X-100, 5 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate, and 30% (v/v) methanol at pH 9.00. Therefore, the developed method was specific, accurate, and easily operable. Its limits of detection for doxorubicin and curcumin in human urine samples were 4.00 × 10−3 and 1.00 × 10−2 μg/mL, respectively, and the limits of quantification were 1.00 × 10−2 and 3.00 × 10−2 μg/mL, respectively. The recoveries were 94.9–109.1%.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Grant No. 21005021), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2016A030313740), and Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Project (No. 2016B030303002).
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Yu, X., Yu, W., Han, X. et al. Sensitive analysis of doxorubicin and curcumin by micellar electromagnetic chromatography with a double wavelength excitation source. Anal Bioanal Chem 413, 469–478 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-020-03017-5
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