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  • Title: Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric determination of leukotriene E4 in human urine using deuterium-labelled leukotriene E4 standards.
    Author: Tsikas D, Fauler J, Gutzki FM, Röder T, Bestmann HJ, Frölich JC.
    Journal: J Chromatogr; 1993 Dec 08; 622(1):1-7. PubMed ID: 8120106.
    Abstract:
    The utility of two deuterium-labelled leukotriene (LT) E4 analogs, e.g. [20,20,20-2H3]LTE4 and [14,15,17,17,18,18-2H6]LTE4, as internal standards for the determination of LTE4 in human urine by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was investigated. 2H-Exchange during hydrogenation occurred both in [20,20,20-2H3]LTE4 and [14,15,17,17,18,18-2H6]LTE4 in an extent of 9.4 +/- 0.5% and 67.3 +/- 0.6% (mean +/- S.D., n = 6), respectively. The lower extent of 2H-exchange in [20,20,20-2H3]LTE4 allowed a more accurate quantitation than the use of [14,15,17,17,18,18-2H6]LTE4. Applying [20,20,20-2H3]LTE4 as internal standard the coefficients of variation for the intra- and inter-assay determination of LTE4 in human urine were 5.7% and 6.2% (n = 4), respectively. The inter-assay coefficient of variation for [14,15,17,17,18,18-2H6]LTE4 was 15%. Using [20,20,20-2H3]LTE4 as internal standard and GC-MS, healthy volunteers were found to excrete 17 +/- 10 nmol LTE4 per mol creatinine (mean +/- S.D., n = 11). Similar excretion rates for LTE4 in urine of healthy volunteers were found using GC-tandem MS with [1,1-18O2]LTE4 as internal standard. Our results demonstrate that [20,20,20(-2)H3]LTE4 is a suitable internal standard for the GC-MS determination of urinary LTE4.
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