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- Title
Determination of Vanillylmandelic, 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic and Homovanillic Acid in Urine by Isocratic Liquid Chromatography.
- Authors
Bonfigli, Anna Rita; Coppa, Gilberto; Testa, Roberto; Testa, Ivano; De Sio, Giuseppina
- Abstract
A new isocratic HPLC method, employing electrochemical detection, is described for the determination of urinary vanillylmandelic acid, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid and homovanillic acid. The main advantages of this technique are: simplicity, simultaneous determination of all analytes, the absence of an extraction procedure, isocratic elution and low cost. The diluted urine is injected onto a CIS reversed phase column. The mobile phase is potassium dihydrogenphosphate buffer containing 1- heptanesulphonic acid, methanol and acetonitrile. The calibration curves are linear from 0.1 to 50 mg/1; the precision data show CV less than 2.36% for within-day assay and less than 2.72% for day-to-day assays. The mean recoveries for supplemented samples are 98.2 to 102.0% for vanillylmandelic acid, 99.6 to 103.9% for 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid and 98.7 to 102.0% for homovanillic acid. In comparisons of the present method with Radjaipur's extraction method (Radjaipur M. et al., Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem 1994; 32:609-13) the slopes for the three analytes were nearly 1, and the confidence region of the intercepts was close to 0. In conclusion the technique seems to be suitable for routine determination of the three analytes, especially for mass screening purposes.
- Publication
Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, 1997, Vol 35, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
1434-6621
- Publication type
Article