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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 23, 1268-1274, Copyright © 1977 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry
RE Shoup and PT Kissinger
We describe a sensitive procedure for measuring the basic catecholamine metabolites--normetanephrine, metanephrine, and 3-methoxytyramine--in urine by use of liquid chromatography, with electrochemical detection. These substances are isolated from hydrolyzed urine by passage through small ion-exchange columns and then pre-concentrated by a rapid set of solvent extractions before being injected onto the liquid- chromatographic column. Concentration and instrumental response are linearly related to 2.0 mg/liter for all three compounds, and practical lower detection limits are about 20 micrograms/liter for actual urine samples. The high selectivity that accrues from the combination of the extraction procedure, high-performance liquid chromatography, and electrochemical detection makes this procedure suitable for quantitative studies of catecholamine metabolism. A set of six samples can be taken through the extraction procedure in parallel in less than 2 h; once prepared, the extracts can be analyzed at a rate of three per hour.
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