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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 878, Issue 5-6, Pages 603-608Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2010.01.006
Keywords
Kynurenine; Kynurenic acid; Tryptophan; Human plasma; High performance liquid chromatography
Funding
- Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau [2009206]
- Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [30771184]
- National Key Program (973) for Basic Research of China [2009CB521905]
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In the present work we have developed a standard-addition HPLC method using a mobile phase containing low concentration of ZnAc2 to determine physiological level of kynurenine (KYN), kynurenic acid (KYNA) and tryptophan (TRP) in human plasma simultaneously The method greatly improved the sensitivity of KYNA. the resolution of KYNA and TRP, and avoided clotting risk caused by high concentration of ZnAc2 in mobile phase samples were deproteinized by addition of equal volume of 0 6 mol/L HClO4 Analytes in supernatants were separated by an Agilent HC-C18 (2) analytical column; an aqueous mobile phase containing 20 mmol/L NaAc, 3 mmol/L ZnAc2 and 7% acetonitrile at flow rate of 10 mL/min. Detections were performed by a variable wavelength detector at wavelength 365 nm for KYN and a fluorescence detector at wavelengths excitation 344 nm and emission 398 nm for KYNA and TRP Good linear responses were found with r(2) > 0 999 for all analytes within the concentration range of physiological levels. The limit of detection of the developed method was 0.03 mu mol/L. 0 9 nmol/L and 0 4 mu mol/L for KYN, KYNA and TRP respectively. Recoveries from spiked human plasma were 95 4-99 7% for KYN, 98 9-104% for KYNA and 96 5-100.2% for TRP. All CVs for the repeatability and intermediate precision were less than 5%. We conclude that the developed method is helpful for the research investigations in KYN pathway of TRP metabolism. (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved.
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