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  • Title: Catecholamine sulfates as internal standards in HPLC determinations of sulfoconjugated catecholamines in plasma and urine.
    Author: Strobel G, Weicker H.
    Journal: Clin Chem; 1991 Feb; 37(2):196-9. PubMed ID: 1993323.
    Abstract:
    A method is described to measure catecholamine sulfates from human plasma and urine by isocratic reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection. For this measurement we use catecholamine 3-sulfate isomers as internal standards and determine the sulfoconjugates only after eliminating the catecholamines. Catecholamines that have previously been used as internal standards are shown to cause a significant overestimation (P less than 0.05) of the catecholamine sulfates--by 10% to 25% and 20% to 42% in human plasma and urine, respectively. The detection limits (signal-to-noise ratio greater than 3) in plasma and urine samples were about 80 pmol/L for each analyte. The intra-assay and interassay CVs were less than 4.0% and 10.6% in human plasma and less than 6.6% and 12.8% in human urine, respectively. The calibration curves for all catecholamine sulfates in human plasma and urine were linear (r greater than 0.96; P less than 0.001) over the respective concentration ranges of 0.1-100 nmol/L and 5-1000 nmol/L.
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