Micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography and data alignment analysis: A new tool in urine profiling

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Abstract

The complex nature of biofluids demands efficient, sensitive and high-resolution analytical methodologies to examine how the 'metabolic fingerprint' changes during disease. This paper describes how sulphated β-cyclodextrin-modified micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (SβCD-MECC) has been combined with data alignment analysis and may prove a useful new tool in urine profiling, allowing for separation of over 80 urinary analytes in under 25min. The optimised and validated SβCD-MECC methodology combined with data alignment analysis provides rapid identification of 'mismatches' between urine profiles which are not easily detected with the naked eye as well as a 'similarity score' which indicates the total sum of differences between one profile and another. The combination of SβCD-MECC with data alignment software should prove a useful alternative tool in metabonomic studies for rapid comparison of urine profiles.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)203-212
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Chromatography A
Volume1027
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Feb 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cyclodextrins
  • Data alignment
  • Electrokinetic chromatography

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