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Jan Hessels, Ellen J.M. Snoeyink, Antonius J. Platenkamp, Gerrit Voortman, Jan Steggink, Harry H.M. Eidhof

Assessment of Intestinal Permeability: Enzymatic Determination of Urinary Mannitol, Raffinose, Sucrose and Lactose on Hitachi Analyzer

The sugar absorption test is the usual test for measurement of intestinal permeability. After intestinal absorption of probe sugars the subsequently excreted sugars are measured in urine. We have developed four enzymatic methods for the measurement of the urinary concentration of the probe sugars mannitol, raffinose, lactose and sucrose. Mannitol, lactose and sucrose are directly measured on Hitachi 917 using mannitol dehydrogenase, ?-galactosidase and invertase, respectively, as enzyme reagents. Raffinose measurement needs a three hours preincubation with ?-galactosidase, after which the liberated sucrose is measured. The analytical performances such as within- and between-run precision, linearity, lowest detection limit, interference of other sugars and comparison with a gas chromatographic method are described for the four methods. These methods are accurate an can easily be performed in any clinical laboratory.

Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 41, 01/2003
Pages: 33 - 38

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