The role of dopamine (DA) oxidation in Parkinson's disease makes to investigate the chemical aspects behind this process: in this paper, we applied Design of Experiments and Principal Component Analysis, to model the DA oxidative polymerization, unveiling the effect exerted by pH, ionic strength (I), temperature, and metal ions. Higher pH and T, lower I and Cu over Fe were found to result in faster DA consumption and smaller oligomers formation. We demonstrated that soft modelling strategies provide a valuable approach to deal with complex biochemical phenomena, regardless system complexity.
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