scholarly journals A high-performance-liquid-chromatographic method for the assay of coproporphyrinogen oxidase activity in rat liver

1986 ◽  
Vol 239 (2) ◽  
pp. 481-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Li ◽  
C K Lim ◽  
T J Peters

An h.p.l.c. method was developed for the assay of coproporphyrinogen oxidase activity in rat liver. The protoporphyrinogen IX formed is completely oxidized to protoporphyrin IX for separation and quantification by reversed-phase chromatography with mesoporphyrin as the internal standard. The Km of coproporphrinogen oxidase is 1.01 +/- 0.23 microM. The activities are 4.07 +/- 0.40 nmol of protoporphyrin IX/h per mg of mitochondrial protein and 224 +/- 19 nmol of protoporphyrin IX/h per g of liver tissue homogenate. The method is sensitive enough for measuring enzyme activity in small amounts of human tissue from needle biopsy.

1987 ◽  
Vol 243 (3) ◽  
pp. 863-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Li ◽  
C K Lim ◽  
T J Peters

An h.p.l.c. method is described for the assay of protoporphyrinogen oxidase activity in rat liver. A relatively pure protoporphyrinogen IX substrate was obtained by selectively removing any protoporphyrin IX unreduced by sodium amalgam on a small disposable cartridge packed with a strong anion-exchanger. The protoporphyrin IX formed was extracted with dimethyl sulphoxide/methanol (3:7, v/v) containing mesoporphyrin as the internal standard for separation and quantification by reversed-phase chromatography. The Km for protoporphyrinogen was 9.5 +/- 1.6 microM, and the enzyme activities were 0.59 +/- 0.11 nmol of protoporphyrin IX produced/min per mg of mitochondrial protein and 33.5 +/- 2.7 nmol protoporphyrin IX produced/min per g of liver tissue homogenate. The method is applicable to the determination of enzyme activity in small amounts of human liver biopsy.


1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
J G Goddard ◽  
G J Kontoghiorghes

Abstract "High-performance" liquid-chromatographic (HPLC) methods have been developed for identifying 1-substituted 2-alkyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one iron chelators in serum and urine. Ion pairing with heptane- or octanesulfonic acid in pH 2.0-2.2 phosphate buffer and reversed-phase chromatography were required to separate these compounds from endogenous compounds in both biological fluids. In both the 2-methyl and 2-ethyl series of 1-substituted compounds (H, methyl, ethyl, or propyl) the elution times increased in accordance with the n-octanol/water partition coefficients (propyl greater than ethyl greater than H greater than methyl). Urine samples were filtered (0.4 microns pore size) and injected either undiluted or after dilution with elution buffer. After the addition of internal standard, the plasma or serum samples were deproteinized by treatment with HCIO4, 0.5 mol/L, centrifuged, and the supernates were injected directly onto the HPLC. Using these procedures, we could identify 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one (L1) in the serum and urine of a thalassemic patient who had received a 3-g dose of the drug and in the urine of other patients who had received the same dose. One or more possible metabolites were also observed in the chromatograms of both urine and serum. The 24-h urinary output of L1 (0.22-2.37 g) and iron (10.6-71.5 mg) varied but there was no correlation between the two with respect to quantity or concentration. Instead, urinary iron output was higher in patients with a greater number of transfused units of erythrocytes. This is the first study in humans to show that L1 is absorbed from the gut, enters the circulation, and is excreted in the urine.


2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Basavaiah ◽  
B. C. Somashekar

A rapid, highly sensitive high performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the determination of finasteride(FNS) in bulk drug and in tablets. FNS was eluted from a ODS C18reversed phase column at laboratory temperature (30 ± 2°C) with a mobile phase consisting of methanol and water (80+20) at a flow rate of 1 mL min-1with UV detection at 225 nm. The retention time was ∼ 6.1 min and each analysis took not more than 10 min. Quantitation was achieved by measurement of peak area without using any internal standard. Calibration graph was linear from 2.0 to 30 μg mL-1with limits of detection (LOD) and quantification (LOQ) being 0.2 and 0.6 μg mL-1, respectively. The method was validated according to the current ICH guidelines. Within-day co efficients of variation (CV) ranged from 0.31 to 0.69% and between-day CV were in the range 1.2-3.2%. Recovery of FNS from the pharmaceutical dosage forms ranged from 97.89 – 102.9 with CV of 1.41-4.13%. The developed method was compared with the official method for FNS determination in its tablet forms.


1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 910-912
Author(s):  
P S Draganac ◽  
S J Steindel ◽  
W G Trawick

Abstract A "high-performance" liquid-chromatographic procedure for 5-hydroxy-3-indoleacetic acid is described and compared with a colorimetric method in which 1-nitroso-2-naphthol is used. The analyte and an internal standard, p-nitrobenzoic acid, were extracted into diethyl ether from urine at pH 4.0 (acidified with HCl) to which sodium chloride had been added, and the ether was back-extracted with acetate buffer, pH 9.2. Aliquots of this extract were injected into a reversed-phase liquid-chromatographic column and eluted with pH 3.5 acetate buffer/methanol (95/5 by vol); the effluent was monitored at 254 nm. The precision (CV) of the method was 11.8% at 1.8 mg/L, 5.5% at 92 mg/L. Analytical recovery averaged 84%. The colorimetric method gave higher values for the analyte than did the chromatographic method for all patients' urines.


1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 1874-1878 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Lopez-Anaya ◽  
M Mayersohn

Abstract We describe a "high-performance" liquid-chromatographic method for separating and quantifying ascorbic acid (AA) and dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) in plasma and urine. We used a reversed-phase C18 column with an ion-pair reagent and detected the analytes by post-column reaction with 4,5-dimethyl-o-phenylenediamine to form a fluorescent derivative (measured at excitation and emission wavelengths of 365 and 440 nm, respectively). Isoascorbic acid (IA) is the internal standard. Retention times for DHA, AA, and IA are 5.6, 15.5, and 19.9 min, respectively. Between-day CVs for AA in plasma in concentrations of 8 and 20 mg/L were 9% and 7%, respectively. The limit of detection is 10 and 4 ng for AA and DHA, respectively. Results by the present method and the methoxyaniline colorimetric method for AA are comparably accurate.


1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
D R Uges ◽  
P Bouma

Abstract We have developed "high-performance" liquid-chromatographic methods for determining 4-aminopyridine, an acetylcholine-releasing drug, in serum, saliva, and urine. As little as 1 microgram/L can be detected by extracting the alkalinized sample plus the internal standard (3,4-diaminopyridine) into dichloromethane, mixing the organic phase with 1-pentanol, evaporating the dichloromethane, and injecting the residue onto a reversed-phase column, where it is eluted with acetonitrile/methanol/aqueous ammonium carbonate, with detection at 245 nm. Analytical recoveries from serum averaged 86.7%. The CV at 50 micrograms/L was 2.9% (n = 8). For urine samples containing very high concentrations of 4-aminopyridine, we mixed urine and potassium carbonate in an automatic injector vial, extracted the drug into dichloromethane, centrifuged, and injected an aliquot of the extract into the chromatograph. Analytical recoveries averaged 92%, and the CV was about 2% for drug concentrations of 0.1-8 mg/L of urine.


1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 724-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Hariharan ◽  
T VanNoord ◽  
J F Greden

Abstract We describe a rapid, sensitive method for the routine simultaneous determination of nicotine and cotinine in 1 mL of plasma. Extraction in 10-mL screw-capped Teflon tubes with methylene chloride after deproteinization with trichloroacetic acid eliminated emulsion formation. The extract, after evaporation and reconstitution in 30 microL of mobile phase, is injected into a reversed-phase C-18 ion-pair column of an isocratic high-performance liquid-chromatographic unit. Absorbance is monitored at 256 nm. The mobile phase is a citrate-phosphate (30 mmol each per liter) buffer mixture containing 50 mL of acetonitrile and 1 mmol of sodium heptanesulfonate per liter. 2-Phenylimidazole is the internal standard. The detection limit is 1 microgram/L for nicotine and 3 micrograms/L for cotinine. The standard curve is linear from 0 to 700 micrograms/L for both compounds. The average CV for nicotine in the concentration range 0-100 micrograms/L is 6.5%, and that for cotinine in the concentration range 50-700 micrograms/L is 4%.


1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 1342-1347 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Flanagan ◽  
M Ruprah

Abstract A simple high-performance liquid-chromatographic assay for eight chlorophenoxy (2,4-D and related compounds) and two benzonitrile (bromoxynil and ioxynil) herbicides has been developed to aid in the diagnosis of acute poisoning. Sample (whole blood, plasma/serum, urine, or tissue homogenate) or standard (100 microL) is vortex-mixed (ca. 5 s) with 20 microL of internal standard solution [1.00 g/L 2,4,5-TP in 0.02 mol/L Tris buffer, pH 9.6:methanol (1 + 1)]. Dilute (0.2 mL/L) hydrochloric acid in methanol, 200 microL, is added and the mixture is again vortex-mixed (30 s). After centrifugation (9950 X g, 2 min) a 10-20 microL portion of the supernate is analyzed on a 250 X 5 mm (i.d.) Spherisorb S5 Phenyl column, with aqueous potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate (50 mmol/L, pH 3.5) and acetonitrile (3 to 1 by vol) at a flow-rate of 1.8 mL/min as eluent. The method is capable of resolving the chlorophenoxy/benzonitrile mixtures (2,4-D/MCPP, 2,4-D/DCPP, 2,4-D/ioxynil, 2,4-D/MCPP/DCPP, 2,4-D/2,4,5-T, and MCPP/ioxynil) encountered in the U.K. The limit of detection (at 240 nm) is 20 mg/L (10 mg/L for bromoxynil and ioxynil). Intra-assay and interassay CVs were less than 5% and less than 8%, respectively, for all analytes. Plasma:whole blood distribution ratios ranged from ca. 1.7 for 2,4-DB to ca. 2.0 for 2,4-D, emphasizing that results of whole-blood measurements must be multiplied by a factor of ca. 2 for comparison with plasma/serum data.


1978 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1740-1743 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Hengen ◽  
V Seiberth ◽  
M Hengen

Abstract We report a liquid-chromatographic procedure for determining free nicotinic acid and a metabolite, nicotinuric acid, in plasma and urine. Five-tenths milliliter of urine or deproteinized plasma is evaporated and the residue analyzed isocratically by reversed-phase ion-pair chromatography, with measurement of the eluted nicotinic acid and nicotinuric acid at 254 nm. Nicotinic acid, nicotinuric acid, and the internal standard (isonicotinic acid) have retention times of 7.8, 8.4, and 6.8 min, respectively, in plasma, and 12.3, 13.1, and 10.8 min in urine, because of double column length. Day-to-day reproducibilities (CV) for nicotinic acid and nicotinuric acid within 7.5% are attainable for the concentration ranges 0.1--20 mg/liter, equivalent to 0.81--162 micromol of nicotinic acid and 0.55--11 micromol of nicotinuric acid per liter for plasma; in urine for the range 0.5--100 mg/liter, equivalent to 4--810 micromol of nicotinic acid and 2.8--555 micromol of nicotinuric acid per liter. Metabolites of nicotinic acid such as nicotinamide, N-methylnicotinamide, 2-hydroxypyridine-5-carboxylic acid, and other structurally related substances do not interfere.


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