High-throughput and sensitive analysis of urinary heterocyclic aromatic amines using isotope-dilution liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry and robotic sample preparation system

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• 作者：Li Zhang ; Yang Xia ; Baoyun Xia…
• 关键词：Heterocyclic aromatic amines ; Urine ; Automation ; High throughput ; LC–MS/MS
• 刊名：Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：408
• 期：28
• 页码：8149-8161
• 全文大小：1,665 KB
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chemistry
  Analytical Chemistry
  Food Science
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Physical Chemistry
  Monitoring, Environmental Analysis and Environmental Ecotoxicology
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1618-2650
• 卷排序：408

文摘

Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HCAA) are listed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as harmful or potentially harmful constituents of tobacco smoke. However, quantifying HCAA exposure is challenging. In this study, we developed a sensitive, precise, and accurate isotope dilution, liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) method to quantify urinary HCAAs in smokers and nonsmokers. The high-throughput robotic sample preparation system could handle a throughput of over 300 samples per day, while maintaining intra-day and inter-day imprecision and bias ≤10 %. The limits of detection of carcinogenic HCAAs ranged from 0.31 to 0.83 pg/mL. The validated method was applied to measure HCAAs in urine collected from smokers and non-smokers. This sensitive and efficient analytical method is ideal to support large-scale biomonitoring studies of HCAA exposure.