title: Determination of dimethylated arginines in human plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: Using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with multigradient elution, N(G),N(G)-dimethyl-L-arginine (asymmetric-DMA, ADMA) and N(G),N'(G)-dimethyl-L-arginine (symmetric-DMA, SDMA) can be separated from human plasma samples. The dimethylarginine compounds in plasma, after extraction with a cation-exchange column, are converted to fluorescent derivatives with o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA) in an alkaline medium and the derivatives are separated simultaneously within 50 min on a reversed-phase column (Ultracarb 3 ODS(20)). The recoveries of ADMA and SDMA are over 80% and the method permits quantitative determination of dimethylated arginines at concentrations as low as 0.1 micromol/l in human plasma.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology, Sahlgrens University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pettersson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Uggla
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Backman
mesh_terms: D001120:Arginine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood / Q000737:chemistry; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007536:Isomerism; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: C018524:N,N-dimethylarginine; D001120:Arginine