299 IN SITU ANALYSIS OF GLUCOSE IN COSMETIC FORMULATIONS
FUNDING
Authors state no funding involved.
AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS
Georgia Eleni Tsotsou: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology,
Supervision, Validation, Writing, review &editing, Anastasia Kyriaki Tsara: Investigation,
Validation.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
BEF DIL before any dilution
k thousand
[Glu] Glucose concentration
GOD Glucose Oxidase
mPa milliPascal
n number of replicates
NMF Natural Moisturizing Factor
O/W oil-in-water emulsion
POD Peroxidase
QC Quality Control
R2 correlation coefficient
rpm rounds per minute
WR Working Reagent
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