“…Alternative approaches to glutamate monitoring involve, e.g., the use of capillary biosensors combined with¯uoroscence-based detection [14], dialysis electrodes utilizing an integrated unit of dialysis sampling and electrochemical detection [25,26], enzyme reactors combined with amperometric detection [16, 27±29], thinlayer spectroelectrochemistry [30], chemiluminescence [31,32],¯u orometric detection [33], or capillary electrophoresis with laser induced¯uorescence [34]. All these methods, however, require sophisticated and expensive instruments, often a HPLC separation step, and quali®ed personnel.…”