title: High-performance capillary zone electrophoretic assay for markers of diabetic nephropathy in plasma and urine.
abstract: A new high-performance capillary zone electrophoretic assay for creatine (Cr), creatinine (Cn), urea (U) and uric acid (Ua), markers of human diabetic nephropathy, both in plasma and urine has been developed with UV detection at 200 nm. The plasma sample was deproteinized with trichloroacetic acid and centrifuged at 10 000 rpm for 10 min. The urine sample was diluted 20-fold with buffer before analysis. The optimum separation conditions for the markers was investigated with respect to the concentration of the buffer, the pH, the voltage and the capillary temperature. Baseline separation was achieved in 25 mmol/L phosphate buffer (pH 3.45) using a 21 cm x 75 microm I.D. fused-silica capillary at 40 degrees C with an electric field of 1190 V/cm. The calibration curves showed good linearity in the range 3.5-1000, 0.18-700, 500-5000 and 2-800 microM (r2 min > 0.998) for Cr, Cn, U and Ua, respectively. The proposed method also has a high reproducibility (peak area RSD max < 3%) and has been successfully applied to the determination of clinical samples.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Zhichao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ruyu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood* / Q000652:urine*; D002021:Buffers; D002138:Calibration; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000652:urine; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D002021:Buffers