Urinary Uric Acid Determination by Reversed-Phase High Pressure Liquid Chromatography

Abstract

Reversed-phase high pressure liquid chromatography with UV detection was proven to be a powerful method for the separation and quantitation of urinary uric acid. We have compared three different treatments for urine samples previous chromatographic injection: alkaline methanol extraction, ethylacetate extraction and centrifugation. It was also studied storage conditions for urine samples.

Our findings show that the method has high specificity and reproducibility for urinary uric acid. Samples are stables and require only centrifugation previous injection to the chromatograph.