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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 37, 864-868, Copyright © 1991 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Five treatment procedures evaluated for the elimination of ascorbate interference in the enzymatic determination of urinary oxalate

KV Inamdar, KG Raghavan and DS Pradhan
Biochemistry Division, LTMM College and Hospital, Sion, Bombay, India.

We evaluated the efficacies of five treatment procedures for eliminating ascorbate interference in the enzymatic determination of urinary oxalate. Aliquots of urine samples, containing different amounts of added ascorbate and oxalate, were individually subjected to ferric chloride, sodium nitrite, sodium periodate, charcoal, or ascorbate oxidase treatment to eliminate ascorbate interference. Oxalate contents of the urine samples were then determined by a banana oxalate oxidase-horseradish peroxidase-linked assay with 3-methyl-2- benzothiazolinone hydrazone and 3-(dimethylamino)benzoic acid as chromogens. Only those urine samples treated with ascorbate oxidase or charcoal consistently gave recovery of oxalate close to 100%. Treatment with other reagents, though improving the recovery of oxalate, gave inconsistent results. On the basis of these data, we describe procedures for simply and reliably assaying oxalate by using banana oxalate oxidase.




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