title: Fluorometric determination of pantothenic acid in human urine by isocratic reversed-phase ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography with post-column derivatization.
abstract: We describe here a method for the determination of pantothenic acid, vitamin B(5), in human urine by isocratic reversed-phase ion-pair HPLC with post-column derivatization. Pantothenic acid in urine was separated using a Tosoh ODS-80Ts (4.6 i.d. x 250 mm) column with phosphate-sodium hydroxide buffer (pH 7.0) containing dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride. Following the isolation of pantothenic acid it was decomposed to pantoic acid and beta-alanine by alkali treatment. The product beta-alanine was post-derivatized to the fluorescent 1-alkylthio-2-alkylisoindole with orthophthaldialdehyde in the presence of 3-mercaptopropionic acid. In the proposed method, a urine sample can be directly injected into a HPLC system without any pre-clean up treatment. The limit of detection was 3 pmol (ca. 650 pg) per 20 microL of urine at a signal-to-noise ratio of 5:1 and the limit of quantification was 5 pmol (ca. 1000 pg) per 20 microL of urine, which was sufficiently sensitive for the determination of pantothenic acid in human urine. The total time required for the analysis was ca. 25 min. The proposed method can be used to assess the pantothenic acid content of human urine as an alternative to the standard microbioassay for pantothenic acid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Human Cultures, The University of Shiga Prefecture, 2500 Hassaka, Hikone, Shiga 522-8533, Japan.
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukuwatari
authors.forename: Katsumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibata
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005470:Fluorometry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010205:Pantothenic Acid / Q000652:urine*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D010205:Pantothenic Acid