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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-0232(02)00075-2
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derivatization, GC; amino acids
The purpose of this study was to develop a simple and accurate analytical method to determine amino acids in urine samples. The developed method involves the employment of an extract derivatization technique together with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Urine samples (300 mul) and an internal standard (10 mul) were placed in a screw tube. Ethylchloroformate (50 mul), methanol-pyridine (500 mul, 4:1, v/v) and chloroform (1 ml) were added to the tube. The organic layer (1 mul) was injected to a GC-MS system. In this proposed method, the amino acids in urine were derivatized during an extraction, and the analytes were then injected to GC-MS without an evaporation of the organic solvent extracted. Sample preparation was only required for ca. 5 min. The 15 amino acids (alanine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, tyrosine, tryptophan, valine) quantitatively determined in this proposed method. However, threonine, serine, asparagine, glutamine, arginine were not derivatized using any tested derivatizing reagent. The calibration curves showed linearity in the range of 1.0-300 mug/ml for each amino acid in urine. The correlation coefficients of the calibration curves of the tested amino acids were from 0.966 to 0.998. The limit of detection in urine was 0.5 mug/ml except for aspartic acid. This proposed method demonstrated substantial accuracy for detection of normal levels. This proposed method was limited for the determination of 15 amino acids in urine. However, the sample preparation was simple and rapid, and this method is suitable for a routine analysis of amino acids in urine. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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