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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 36, 797-799, Copyright © 1990 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Rapid and simultaneous determination of lactulose and mannitol in urine, by HPLC with pulsed amperometric detection, for use in studies of intestinal permeability

SC Fleming, MS Kapembwa, MF Laker, GE Levin and GE Griffin
Division of Communicable Diseases, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, U.K.

The lactulose/mannitol dual sugar absorption test is a non-invasive test of intestinal permeability. Its widespread use has been limited by the difficulties of analysis for carbohydrates in urine at low concentrations. We describe a "high-pressure" liquid-chromatographic method for determining lactulose and mannitol in urine, in which anion- exchange chromatography and pulsed amperometric detection are used. Sample preparation is simple and fast, and lactulose and mannitol and the internal standards arabinose and cellobiose are well resolved within 15 min. Analytical response of the method is linear with concentrations to 3 g/L, and one can detect as little as 0.3 mg of lactulose per liter of urine. Analytical recovery was between 90% and 107% for all sugars analyzed, and there was good agreement with results by a gas-chromatographic method (r = 0.993 lactulose, 0.984 mannitol). The method may potentially be applied to the study of other carbohydrates present in biological fluids at low concentrations.


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