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A Convenient Method for Extraction and Analysis with High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography of Catecholamine Neurotransmitters and Their Metabolites
Published on: March 1, 2018
Catecholamine analysis with strong cation exchange column liquid chromatography-peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence
Makoto Tsunoda1, Takashi Funatsu
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. makotot@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract:
A liquid chromatography-chemiluminescence detection method was developed and validated for the determination of catecholamines (norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine) in mouse brains. Chromatography was performed on a strong cation exchange column (150 × 2.0-mm id) using an isocratic mobile phase of 65 mM potassium acetate/75 mM potassium phosphate (95:5, pH 3.5) at a flow rate of 0.2 mL/min following post-column fluorescence derivatization of catecholamines with ethylenediamine and peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence reaction detection. The recovery of catecholamines added to mouse brain samples was more than 95.0%, while intra- and inter-day precision of the assay were <4.8%. The validated method was used to determine norepinephrine and dopamine concentrations in mouse brains without prior sample purification.
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