Potential sources of errors in cation-exchange chromatographic measurement of plasma taurine.
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- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Chemistry
- Vol. 26 (3) , 508-510
- https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/26.3.508
Abstract
We examined the potential sources of error in automated cation-exchange chromatographic quantitation of plasma taurine, both in sample preparation and in the analysis. Principal sources of error include: use of serum instead of plasma, which produces gross overestimates; use of tripotassium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) as anticoagulant in systems involving ninhydrin detection (a ninhydrin-positive contaminant of EDTA emerges coincident with taurine); contamination with platelets; and placing volumes exceeding 20 microL on the cartridge used in the Technicon TSM Amino Acid Analyzer. We arrived at a simple technique in which we use EDTA as anticoagulant, micropore filtration to produce platelet-free plasma, and o-phthalaldehyde as the detection reagent for the sensitivity required to measure accurately the low concentration of taurine in plasma.Keywords
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