Determination of urinary glyoxal and methylglyoxal by high-performance liquid chromatography
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Kazuki Akira
Abstract
Carbonyl stress compounds such as glyoxal and methylglyoxal have been recently attracting much attention because of their possible clinical significance in chronic and age-related diseases. A high-performance liquid chromatographic procedure has been developed for the simultaneous quantitation of glyoxal and methylglyoxal in human urine. The assay is based on the reaction of these compounds with 1,2-diamino-4,5-dimethoxybenzene to form fluorescent adducts, which are separated by reversed-phase highperformance liquid chromatography in a total run time of 45 minutes and quantitated fluorometrically using 2,3-pentanedione as an internal standard. Derivatization is performed for diluted urine (100–120 mOsm/kg H2O) under acidic conditions (pH 4.5) at 60°C over a prolonged time (15 h) to maximize the yields. The assay is specific and sensitive enough to analyze urinary levels of glyoxal and methylglyoxal with the within-and between-day relative standard deviations of less than 5%. Urinary levels (mean±standard deviation, n=16) of glyoxal and methylglyoxal in healthy subjects were 4.7±1.35 μg/mg creatinine, 2.2±0.65 μg/mg creatinine, respectively, the former being 2 to 3 times more than the latter in every subject. The glyoxal and methylglyoxal levels positively correlated with each other, which may suggest that the levels reflect the individual activity of glyoxalase by which both compounds are detoxified.
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