title: Age-dependence of urinary normal and modified nucleosides in childhood as determined by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: Modified nucleosides have been characterized as tumor markers for a number of malignant diseases. In order to use these markers in children, the age-dependence of the nucleoside levels in healthy children has to be established and taken into account in diagnostic decisions. In this study, the levels of 12 normal and modified nucleosides in urine of 166 healthy children and adolescents with an age between 1 day and 19 years are determined by reversed-phase HPLC, and age-dependent reference ranges are defined. The urinary nucleoside concentrations are related to the creatinine concentrations, which allows the use of randomly collected urine samples. All nucleoside levels in urine of children decrease with age, most pronounced during the first 4 years of life, and the age-dependence of the reference values of the individual nucleosides can be approximated by a mathematical function y = b(0) + b(1) (1/x) with the regression coefficients b(0) and b(1,) the nucleoside levels y and the age x between 1 year and 19 years. In the very young children, the shifts in the nucleoside concentrations are more differentiated. Starting with low levels on the first day of life, the concentrations of all studied nucleosides rise up to an age of 1-2 months, when they reach their absolute maximum for all age periods, and then decrease.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Abteilung IV, Zentrallaboratorium, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany. hartmut.liebich@med.uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Liebich
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Müller-Hagedorn
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bacher
authors.forename: H-G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Scheel-Walter
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frickenschmidt
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kammerer
authors.forename: K-R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gérard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000652:urine*; D012737:Sex Factors
chemical_list: D009705:Nucleosides