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Daniele Lazzaro

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PubMed2003

HPLC analysis of some sulphur compounds in saliva: comparison between healthy subjects and periodontopathic patients.

BACKGROUND: Saliva is an easily available biological material that is not commonly analysed in clinical chemistry, while it could give useful information especially in several oral diseases. METHODS: In this work, the sulphur containing compounds cysteine, cysteinylglycine and glutathione were analysed in saliva of control subjects and periodontopathic subjects by a HPLC method. The detection limit of the method is 0.5, 0.1 and 0.1 micromol/l for cysteine, cysteinylglycine and glutathione, respectively, and it is linear up to 10 mmol/l. RESULTS: the median values for the control group are 1.2 micromol/l for cysteine and glutathione and 0.4 micromol/l for cysteinylglycine while those of periodontopathic patients are significantly increased (4.4, 2.1 and 11.0 micromol/l for cysteine, cysteinylglycine and glutathione, respectively).

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PubMed2002

Comparing different methods for homocysteine determination.

Slightly elevated values of homocysteine are commonly associated with thromboembolic diseases, while high values can be found in patients with congenital metabolic defects or nutritional problems. The clinical use of homocysteine as an independent marker of cardiovascular disease was limited in the past by technical problems with its measurement, the instrumentation (HPLC, radioenzymatic assays, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, etc.) and the necessary skills required. Commercially available immunoassays now permit a simpler and more rapid measurement of homocysteine, that is more suitable for routine clinical laboratories; in this paper we analyze the results obtained by using three fully automated methods for homocysteine determination (Abbott IMx immunoassay, Abbott AxSYM immunoassay and Immulite 2000 homocysteine immunoassay) and their correlation with the widely used HPLC method. The results clearly indicate that all three automated immunochemical methods correlate well with the HPLC method (slope 0.97-1.03; intercept 0.95-1.91 with a recovery above 95% for all three methods).

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