Early identification of isovaleric aciduria using photodiode array detection for liquid chromatographic profiling of urinary carboxylic acids |
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Authors: | D N Buchanan J G Thoene |
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Institution: | Dept. Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109. |
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Abstract: | The 190 nm high performance liquid chromatographic photodiode array profiling of the urinary carboxylic acids of the first urine of a newborn affected with isovaleric aciduria afforded an abnormal peak at 27.8 min. This peak was greatly increased in the carboxylic acid profiling of the 14 h urine sample from the same infant. Isolation of this peak by fraction collecting; solvent extraction of the eluent; trimethylsilyl derivatization of the residue and gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric analysis identified the compound as isovalerylglycine. Correlation of the 190 nm absorbance of isovalerylglycine (y) with concentration (x) afforded a least squares curve: y = 476.4x-13.72 (r = 0.99); run-to-run variation 6.92%; day-to-day variation 8.88% with a minimum detectable concentration of 25 micrograms/ml. |
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