GC was performed on an
Agilent 7820 GC (Agilent Technologies) equipped with a thermal conductivity detector (TCD) and a packed molecular sieve column Carboxen 1000, 15 ft × 2.1 mm (RESTEK, Bellefonte, PA, USA); helium was used as the carrier gas. Oven temperature was programed as follows: 35 °C in 5 min, then to 225 °C at a rate of 20 °C/min, and then hold for 5.5 min. TCD detector was set at 125 °C. Calibration curve was generated by injecting a series of varying volumes of pure CO gas taken from a gas sampling bag into a 6-mL head-space vial pre-sealed with 2.8 mL phosphate buffered saline (PBS)/DMSO (1:6,
v:
v) medium, which was the same volume used in the CO release experiment from the prodrug. After incubation at 37 °C overnight, 250 μL of the head-space gas was injected to the GC. The peak area of CO was normalized with the peak area of oxygen as the internal standard (from the air in the head space). The ratio between CO and O
2 was plotted against the injected pure CO molar quantity to give the calibration curve.
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