Lipoperoxides in plasma as measured by liquid-chromatographic separation of malondialdehyde-thiobarbituric acid adduct.

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Abstract
This assay of plasma lipoperoxides involves hydrolysis in dilute H3PO4 at 100.degree.C; complexation of malondialdehyde (MDA), a hydrolysis product, with thiobarbituric acid (TBA); methanol precipitation of plasma proteins; fractionation of the protein-free extract on a C18 column; and spectrophotometric quantification of the MDA-TBA adduct at 532 nm. The detection limit was 0.15 .mu.mol of MDA per liter of plasma. Run-to-run precision (CV) averaged 8 to 13%. Analytical recovery of MDA after addition of tetraethoxypropane standards to 21 specimens of human or rat plasma averaged 98% (SD 7%). Lipoperoxide concentrations (as MDA) averaged 0.60 (SD 0.13) .mu.mol/L in plasma from 41 healthy persons and 1.4 (SD 0.3) .mu.mol/L in plasma specimens from 12 control rats. Mean lipoperoxide concentrations were 1.5 to 2.3 times as great in plasma sampled from rats one to three days after subcutaneous administration of NiCl2 at dosages (250 to 750 .mu.mol per kilogram body wt) previously shown to induce lipid peroxidation in lung, liver, and kidney.

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