%0 Journal Article %T Development and validation of a method for simultaneous determination of pseudouridine and creatinine in human urine: Evaluation's Index Pseudouridona/Creatinine in smokers and no-smokers %A Montenegro ¨¢lvarez de Tejera %A P. %A Chamorro Merino %A G. %A Cabanes Mariscal %A MaA. %A S¨¢nchez L¨®pez %A P. %A Medina Font %A J. %J Sanidad Militar %D 2012 %I Ministerio de Defensa %R 10.4321/S1887-85712012000100004 %X introduction: the excretion of pseudouridine is increased in inflammatory processes related to a muscle mass loss found in patients with pulmonary involvement. material and methods: a rapid and sensitive method for cuantification and simultaneous determination of pseudouridine, a breakdown product of trna, and creatinine in human urine via hplc was developed and validated. the mobile phase was 0.01 mol phosphate buffer (ph 6.1) containing 3 mmol octanesulphonic acid as ion pairing agent. sample preparation is based on dilution and filtration. a lichros-pher£¿ 100 rp-18 (5 ¦Ìm) lichrocart£¿ 250-4 (merck) column with precolumn lichrospher£¿ 100 rp-18 (5 ¦Ìm) lichrocart£¿ 50-4 (merck) were used, flow rate of 1ml/min. detection wavelength was set at 250 nm. results: the analysis time was 17 min per sample. the calibration range of pseudouridine (psu) and creatinine (crea) were 0.23-22.5 and 11.45-1100 nmol/ml. the linearity of the method was r2 = 0.997 and 0.998 and the lower limit of quantification (lloq) was 0.175 and 8.59 nmol/ml respectively. the average recovery (%) was 95.55 for pseudouridine and 97.82 for creatinine by addition and 93.16 and 89.79 % by dilution. the estimation of the coefficients of variation were < 8% for all levels. conclusions: a positive correlation was found between expected and observed values (pearson correlation coefficient = 0.99 for pseudouridine and 0.99 for creatinine). a correlation was found between recovery of pseudouridine and recovery of creatinine (pearson correlation coefficient = 0.86). this method was used to assess pseudouridine excretion in 30 healthy subjects (18 non-smokers and 12 smokers). there were no statistically differences between non-smokers and smokers. %K pseudouridine %K creatinine %K validation %K rp-hplc %K chromatography. %U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1887-85712012000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en