期刊
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
卷 707, 期 1, 页码 197-203出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2011.09.015
关键词
Solid-phase microextraction; Ionic liquid column; Fast GC; Sarcosine; Prostate cancer
A fully automated, non invasive, rapid and high-throughput method for the direct determination of sarcosine and N-ethylglycine in urine and urinary sediments using hexyl chloroformate derivatization followed by direct immersion solid-phase micro extraction and fast gas chromatography-mass spectrometric analysis was developed and validated. The use of a new ionic liquid narrow bore column, as well as the automation and miniaturization of the preparation procedure by a customized configuration of the utilized XYZ robotic system, allowed a friendly use of the GC apparatus achieving a quantitation limit of 0.06 mu g L-1 for sarcosine, good repeatability with CV always lower than 7% and reduced analysis times useful for point-of-care testing. The method was then applied for the analysis of 56 samples of urine and urinary sediments in healthy subjects, in those with benign prostatic hypertrophy and in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer. The results obtained showed that the medians of sarcosine/creatinine in urine were 103,137 and 267 mu g g(-1) respectively, thus assessing the potential use of sarcosine as urinary biomarker for prostate cancer detection. The highest values of sensitivity (79%) and specificity (87%) were obtained in correspondence of a cut-off value of 179 mu g sarcosine (g creatinine)(-1), thus by using this cut-off threshold, sarcosine was significantly associated with the presence of cancer (p < 0.0001). Finally, ROC analyses proved that the discrimination between clinically localized prostate cancer and patients without evidence of tumor is significantly correlated with sarcosine. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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