Calibrationless Determination of Creatinine and Ammonia by Coulometric Flow Titration
β Scribed by Z.K. He; B. Fuhrmann; U. Spohn
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 87 KB
- Volume
- 283
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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β¦ Synopsis
A precise and sensitive working microflow titration procedure was developed to determine creatinine and ammonia in urine samples. This procedure is based on enzymatic conversion of creatinine, gas diffusional membrane separation of the released ammonia into an acid acceptor stream, and coulometric titration of ammonia with hypobromite. The hypobromite is formed after the electrogeneration of bromine in an electrolyte containing 1.0 M NaBr and 0.1 M sodium borate adjusted to pH 8.5. The electrolysis current follows a triangle-programmed current-time course. An amperometric flow detector records the resulting mirror symmetrical titration curves, which show two equivalence points. The analyte concentration is calculated from the time difference between the equivalence points. For quantitative conversion of creatinine and quantitative separation of present and released ammonia no calibration is necessary to get accurate results. Both ammonia/ammonium and creatinine were determined in the range between 2 M and 2 mM with relative standard deviations between 3.0 and 1.0% (n β«Ψβ¬ 5). High recoveries were obtained for the analysis of diluted urine samples for both creatinine and ammonia.
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