CAREER NETWORK World's one of the largest Research Career Network Benefits Academic & Industry jobs Project funding Visiting faculty positions Visiting scientist positions Invited talks and more... Register FREE Chemical Sensors 2011, 1: 17 Research Article Electrochemical analysis of daunorubicin - nucleic acid interaction at disposable electrode Gulsah Congur, Ayfer Caliskan, Arzum Erdem Ege University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Analytical Chemistry Department, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey Abstract Daunorubicin (DNR) is an anticancer drug which is widely used for treatment of acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Disposable electrochemical sensors were used in our study to detect DNR-nucleic acid interactions by differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). For surface confined interaction between DNR and DNA, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was applied and results were compared with those from DPV. Keywords Daunorubicin; Electrochemical; Biosensor; DNA-drug interactions