title: Profiling of urinary medium-sized peptides in normal and uremic urine by high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: This report describes the profiling of medium-sized peptides in both normal and uremic urine by ion-pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography using an acetonitrile--heptafluorobutyric acid solvent system as eluent. Several medium-sized peptide peaks could be detected in both normal and uremic urine at low picomole level by using post-column fluorescence derivatization with fluorescamine. Contrary to expectation, uremic urine contained slightly larger amounts of medium-sized peptides compared with normal urine.
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D005450:Fluorescamine; D006801:Humans; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010455:Peptides / Q000652:urine*; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D014511:Uremia / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D005450:Fluorescamine