Alemany G, Gamundí A, Rosselló C, Rial R
Dept. de Biologia i Ciencies de la Salut, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Biomed Chromatogr. 1996 May-Jun;10(3):144-5. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0801(199605)10:3<144::AID-BMC570>3.0.CO;2-S.
A TLC method for the simultaneous analysis of vanillylmandelic, homovanillic and 5-hydroxyindole-3-acetic acids in urine is described. The sample is cleaned up through a cyano minicolumn and extracted with diethyl ether. The acids are resolved by high-performance TLC, visualized by Folin Ciocalteau reagent and quantificated by densitometry at 600 nm with beta-(4-hydroxy-3-phenyl) acetic acid as the internal standard.