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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2001
Ko Nakamura, Hyogo, JP;
Katsumi Kawano, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a highly sensitive and practical method for the determination of and the separation of 5-hydroxycreatinine from a sample of bodily fluid. The method of the present invention is useful as a method for the testing of renal dysfunction, such as uremia, chronic nephritis and closure of the urinary tract, etc. A separation solvent of pH 4.1 to 4.6 is used in a high performance liquid chromatography step that is carried out using a strongly acidic cation-exchange resin, such as a styrene-divinylbenzene resin. The determination sensitivity is a concentration of only about 0.02 &mgr;M, whereby 5-hydroxycreatinine in blood of healthy persons can be determined for the first time. Moreover, only one separation solvent, such as a citrate, need be used and the cycle time for analysis is only about 14 minutes per measurement. Thus, a practitioner using one set of HPLC equipment is able to carry out about 100 determinations per day.
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