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Measurement of free and total hydroxyproline by automated flow injection of serum or urine samples from maintenance hemodialysis patients with renal osteodystrophy

✍ Scribed by Dr. Yoshinori Uji; Arthur Karmen; Hiroaki Okabe; Keishi Hata; Masakazu Miura; Kazuyuki Ozaki; Mitsuo Minamizaki; Tetsushi Shibata; Seiichi Inayama


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
369 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
0887-8013

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✦ Synopsis


An automated measurement of total and free hydroxyproline in serum or urine is presented that uses flow injection analysis. After exclusion of nonspecific substances, hydroxyproline was oxidized by chloramine-T and L-cysteine with Ehrlich's reagent.

The linearity obtained was from 3.8kmole/ L to 1.22 mmole/L with good precision (CV <3%). Comparison of the proposed method with HPLC yielded ~0 . 9 3 9 as the correlation coefficient.

Reference intervals of free and total hydroxyproline are 1.4-9.7 kmole/L, 3.8-27.2 pmole/L for serum, and 10.0-72.5 p,mole/L, 25.2-303.6 ,umole/L for urine, respectively. Serum free and total hydroxyproline levels in renal osteodystrophy patients on maintenance hemodialysis (N=71) were significantly higher than in controls (P<O.OOOl). This method is superior to the use of HPLC with regard to stability of the color reaction. The measurement of serum free and total hydroxyproline is a useful marker for therapeutic observation of renal osteodystrophy patients.