“…SPE has been rapidly developed for pretreatment and extraction because it is more sensitive, environmentally friendly, faster and conserves sample [13]. Several different SPE sorbents have been reported to extract CAs from biological samples, including crown ether-modified polymers [12], calixarene [14], boronate compounds [15,16], ion exchange resin [17,18], C18 matrix [19] and alumina [20,21]. An advanced 96-well microplate extraction method using packed activated aluminum oxide was reported to decrease the plasma catecholamine analysis time and offer higher analytical specificity.…”