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Kandár Roman, Mu?áková Vladimíra, egan Alexander
Highly Specific, Simple and Rapid Method for the Determination of Malondialdehyde in Blood Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
A novel, highly specific, simple and rapid method for the determination of malondialdehyde (MDA), the routinely used marker for free radical generation in body fluids has been developed and evaluated. Serum samples from 30 healthy volunteers in heparin and 1,4-dithiothreitol-containing tubes stored at ?80 °C were analyzed. The MDA-thiobarbituric acid complex was separated from interfering substances using HPLC. For the separation, reverse phase column MAC (4 × 250 mm, Biospher SI 120 PSI C18, particle size 7 ?m) was used. The mixture of methanol and 8.3 mmol/l phosphate buffer, pH=7.2, (35:65, v/v) was used as mobile phase. The volume of serum samples injected on the column was 50 ?l. The analyte was detected at 532 nm. Retention time of MDA-thiobarbituric acid complex was 4.9±0.1 min at the flow rate 0.7 ml/min. Excellent linearity was achieved. The intra- and interassay coefficient of variation was 7.3% and 8.8%, respectively. The recovery was 95.6% and the detection limit was 0.1 ?mol/l. The validity of this method was proved by comparison with the spectrophotometric determination of MDA-thiobarbituric acid complex by the method of Yagi at three different wavelengths (485, 532 and 560 nm) with Allen's correction.
Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 40, 10/2002
Pages: 1032 - 1035