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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL LABORATORY ANALYSIS
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 1226-1231Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcla.22007
Keywords
high-performance liquid chromatography; microalbuminuria; proteinuria; urine albumin
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- Ministry of Health, Czech Republic [00064203]
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BackgroundA simple high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was developed for the determination of albumin in patients' urine samples without coeluting proteins and was compared with the immunoturbidimetric determination of albumin. Urine albumin is important biomarker in diabetic patients, but part of it is immuno-nonreactive. MethodsAlbumin was determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), UV detection at 280 nm, Zorbax 300SB-C3 column. Immunoturbidimetric analysis was performed using commercial kit on automatic biochemistry analyzer COBAS INTEGRA((R)) 400, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Manheim, Germany. ResultsThe HLPC method was fully validated. No significant interference with other proteins (transferrin, -1-acid glycoprotein, -1-antichymotrypsin, antitrypsin, hemopexin) was found. The results from 301 urine samples were compared with immunochemical determination. We found a statistically significant difference between these methods (P = 0.0001, Mann-Whitney test). ConclusionNew simple HPLC method was developed for the determination of urine albumin without coeluting proteins. Our data indicate that the HPLC method is highly specific and more sensitive than immunoturbidimetry.
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