“…Several methods have been developed for the determination of this compound and its degradation by-product in vitro and in vivo. These methods include chromatography (Pereira et al 1998;Verstraeten, Roets, and Hoogmartens 1987;Bevitt, Mather, and Sharman 1984;Fogel, Epstein, and Chen 1984;Reepmer and Kichhoefer 1979;Ali 1976), fluorometry (Karim et al 2006;Miles and Schenk 1970;Lange and Bell 1966), colorimetry (Farid et al 1975;Trinder 1954), absorptiometry (Quinn 1994;Kitamura, Takagi, and Hozumi 1984;Kitamura and Majuna 1983;Fernandez and Klappmeier 1978), and voltammetry and potentiometry (Fernandez et al 1998;Fung and Luk 1989;Hassan and Hamada 1988). However, these methods require prior treatment and time-consuming steps (Pereira, Aniceto, and Fatibello-Filho 1998;Verma and Jain 1986;Juhl and Kichhhofer 1980;Routh et al 1967;Levine 1961;Brodie, Udenfriend, and Coburn 1944) and often involve an indirect determination through the determination of salicylic acid (SA).…”