“…For example, Cys deficiency correlates with slow growth, hair depigmentation, edema, and other body disorders , while Hcy is highly associated with cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease . Currently determination of these thiols can be achieved by gas chromatography with mass spectroscopy (Huang and Chang, 2006;Sass and Endres, 1997), high performance liquid chromatography (Cao et al, 2004;Lu et al, 2007), or capillary electrophoresis Shen et al, 2009) in conjunction with fluorimetric/electrochemical detector. However, these methods suffer from poor reproducibility, requirement of expensive and sophisticated instrumentation or complicated sample preparation.…”