Year
1980
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Department of Chemistry
Recommended Citation
Pullin, Christopher John, The analysis of biological fluids for the antenatal and perinatal diagnosis of metabolic disease, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, 1980. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/1194
Abstract
Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry profiling methods for the identification and accurate quantitation of organic acid metabolites in urine, amniotic fluid and serum have been developed. These methods allow quantitation of organic acids in body fluid samples with a lower limit of detection of 0.3 yg/ml and a precision of 0.1 yg/ml, with less than 4% variation between duplicate samples. An isotope dilution method was developed to validate the profiling method for methylmalonic acid.
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.