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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 27, 1268-1271, Copyright © 1981 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Urinary metanephrines as measured by liquid chromatography with an on- line post-column reaction detector

JG Flood and RB McComb

In this method for measuring metanephrine and normetanephrine in urine, they are freed from their conjugates by hydrolysis in acid, neutralized, and isolated on a cation-exchange resin. Both metanephrines are co-eluted with ammoniacal methanol and the eluate is concentrated 10-fold with respect to the original urine volume by evaporation and reconstitution. The recovered metanephrines ae separated by reversed-phase (C18) "high-pressure" liquid chromatography with use of a mobile phase consisting of 10 mmol/L trichloroacetate, pH 2.7, containing 30 mL of acetonitrile per liter. The metanephrines are detected at 365 nm after being converted to vanillin in a post-column reaction with alkaline periodate. Total metanephrine values for most patients were appreciably lower than values obtained by the comparison procedure, that of Pisano (Clin. Chim. Acta 5: 406, 1970); however, results obtained by the two methods for two patients with pheochromocytomas agreed well.




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