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CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE
卷 41, 期 12, 页码 1633-1641出版社
WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2003.247
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bile acids; hepatobiliary disorders; mass spectrometry; HPLC; liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry : LC-MS/MS; routine analysis
Bile acids play a pivotal role in the metabolism of cholesterol and lipids. Their blood concentrations are important prognostic and diagnostic indicators of hepatobiliary and intestinal dysfunction. This class of molecules comprises a heterogeneous group of compounds with a common cholesterol scaffold. Recently, the introduction of liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry methods has revealed an innovative path in the quantisation of specific bile acids in biological specimens. A robust and sensitive method has been developed based on high performance liquid chromatography separation coupled to an electrospray triplequadrupole mass spectrometer. Human plasma samples were analysed on a C18 reversephase column. The elution profiles were monitored in multiple reactionmonitoring mode, quantifying and identifying each analyte by its own unique precursor to product patterns. A linear correlation over a broad range of bile acid concentrations (0.1-100 muM) was observed. The average recovery period for all of the analysed bile acids was 98 +/- 3%. Intraday and interday precision averages were 2% and 5.4%, respectively. The determination was achieved within a single chromatographic run for all unconjugated, glycineand taurineconjugated isomeric forms of bile acids. As a proof of principle this method has been validated on a small subset of cholestatic patients (n = 7) and compared to appropriate clinical controls (n = 10). Based upon our encouraging experimental results, the described HPLC separation coupled to tandem mass spectrometry method for the analysis of bile acids in biological samples is deemed a robust and accurate procedure. Consequently, we propose this technique as a suitable candidate method for the identification and quantitation of bile acids in routine analysis.
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