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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 785, Issue 1, Pages 57-63Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-0232(02)00850-4
Keywords
uric acid
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The aim of the present study is to establish a highly sensitive method for the determination of uric acid (UA) in human saliva. The monitoring of UA levels in less invasive biological samples such as saliva is suggested for the diagnosis and therapy of gout, hyperuricemia, and the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, and for detecting such conditions as alcohol dependence, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and heart disease. Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection (HPLC-ED) was employed for the determination of UA obtained by solid-phase extraction from saliva. To quantify UA, we compared the ED efficiencies of an amperometric ED (Ampero-ED) with a single electrode and a coulometric ED (Coulo-ED) with a multiple electrode array. The results showed that the detection limits (S/N = 3) were 3 nM for Ampero-ED and 6 nM for Coulo-ED, and the linearity of the calibration curves of 60 6000 nM had correlation coefficients exceeding 0.999. In addition, the total analytical time was 10 min. In the sample preparation of UA in saliva, an Oasis MAX solid-phase cartridge was used. The recoveries of UA spiked at 0.6 and 3 muM in saliva were above 95% with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of less than 15%. Therefore, the present method may be used in the routine and diagnostic determination of UA in human saliva. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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