High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Assay for the Quantitation of l-Arginine in Human Plasma
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 68 (19), 3520-3523
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac960613n
Abstract
L-Arginine is metabolized to nitric oxide by nitric oxide synthase, and abnormalities in nitric oxide production have been implicated in the pathogenesis of some diseases involving the vasculature. Thus, there has been interest in the effects of pharmacologic doses of l-arginine in patients with cardiovascular and renal diseases. To study the disposition of exogenous doses, an HPLC method was developed to analyze plasma samples for l-arginine. The assay involves precolumn derivatization of arginine with naphthalenedicarboxaldehyde and cyanide followed by HPLC with UV detection. Only a simple deproteinization of the plasma samples was required. The derivatized arginine was stable (less than 5% degradation in 20 h), facilitating batch sample processing and analysis in an autosampler. Calibration curves were generated in Ringer's lactate solution instead of plasma to correct for endogenous plasma l-arginine. Recovery in plasma, compared to Ringer's solution (n = 4), was 103%. Mean intraday assay precision (n = 6), expressed as coefficient of variation, was 3.4%. Interassay precision (n = 6) was 7%. The assay was applied for the quantitation of l-arginine in plasma samples from a normal subject who had been given a single oral (10 g) and a single intravenous dose (30 g) of exogenous l-arginine.Keywords
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