title: [Determination of acrylamide metabolite, mercapturic acid by high-performance liquid chromatography].
abstract: A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Assay was developed to identify and measure the metabolite of acrylamide, mercapturic acid, N-Acetyl-s-(propionamide) cysteine (APC) in urine. O-phthalaldehyde (OPA) was utilized as a pre-column derivative agent in the assay. This derivative was isolated with a good selectivity by ODS columns. The quantitation of the mercapturic acid derivative was reproducible and with a detection limit of 1 pmol. The average coefficient of variation for the runs carried out on the same day was approximately 4.6% at the range of 80-160 mumol/L of APC, and the mean analytical recovery from urine samples was 94%. The metabolite of urine of workers exposed to acrylamide was identified as APC by HPLC and fluorescence scan and HPLC-Mass spectra. All results were identical with the authentic synthesized compound.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Occupational Medicine, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing.
authors.forename: Y Q
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000111:Acetylcysteine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000652:urine; D000178:Acrylamides / Q000378:metabolism*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D009764:o-Phthalaldehyde
chemical_list: D000178:Acrylamides; D009764:o-Phthalaldehyde; C085597:N-acetyl-S-(propionamide)cysteine; D000111:Acetylcysteine