Chapter title |
Quantification of Metanephrine and Normetanephrine in Urine Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
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Chapter number | 17 |
Book title |
Clinical Applications of Mass Spectrometry in Biomolecular Analysis
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-3182-8_17 |
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Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-3181-1, 978-1-4939-3182-8
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Authors |
Jessica Gabler, Sihe Wang |
Abstract |
Measuring urinary metanephrines aides in the diagnosis of pheochromocytomas-catecholamine producing tumors. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) allows for greater sensitivity and simpler sample preparation as compared with other techniques. Here we describe a simple LC-MS/MS method for measuring metanephrines in urine. Each urine sample was treated with diphenylboronic acid to create boronate complexes, and then applied to a Bond-Elut Plexa cartridge. After solid phase extraction, samples were concentrated and analyzed on an Atlantis T3 column with chromatographic run time totaling 8.5 min. MS/MS was set in positive electrospray ionization mode with multiple reaction monitoring for data collection. The assay was linear from 0.2 to 27.4 μmol/L and 0.3 to 14.6 μmol/L for metanephrine and normetanephrine, respectively. Intra-assay and total precision at three concentration levels over 10 days were <5 % for metanephrine and <10 % for normetanephrine. |
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