Determination of homoarginine, arginine, NMMA, ADMA, and SDMA in biological samples by HPLC-ESI-mass spectrometry

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 20131-20138

  Servillo, Luigi ^a   Giovane, Alfonso ^a   D'Onofrio, Nunzia ^a   Casale, Rosario ^a   Cautela, Domenico ^b   Castaldo, Domenico ^b   Balestrieri, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Stazione Sperimentale per le Industrie Delle Essenze e Dei Derivati Dagli Agrumi SSEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ADMA; Arginine; Homoarginine; NMMA; SDMA

Indexed keywords

6 N,N' DIMETHYLARGININE; ARGININE; HOMOARGININE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ELUTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

ARGININE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HOMOARGININE; HUMANS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84885349736     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms141020131     Document Type: Article

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