Recent Developments in Electrochemical Sensors for the Detection of Neurotransmitters for Applications in Biomedicine

Analytical Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1044-1069

  Özel, Rıfat Emrah ^a,b   Hayat, Akhtar ^a,c   Andreescu, Silvana ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Electrochemical sensors; Microbiosensors; Neurotransmitters; Review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923291124     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2014.976867     Document Type: Article

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