Abstract
Abstract We are reporting a rapid, high-capacity liquid chromatographic method for quantitative extraction and concentration of hydrophobic compounds from biological fluids and aqueous solutions. Samples are injected into commerically-available cartridges (Sep-Pak C18R) containing a microparticulate, reversed phase packing which retains hydrophobic compounds. Inorganic salts and organic hydrophilic contaminants are removed with a water wash. Hydrophobic compounds are eluted quantitatively with minimal volumes (∼5 ml) of organic solvents. As demonstrated with radiolabeled taurocholate, thin-layer chromatography, enzymatic fluorimetry and capillary gas chromatography, complete recovery of bile salts from large volumes of urine, serum, amniotic fluid and hydrolysis reaction mixtures was achieved at flow rates up to 20 ml/min. A single cartridge concentrated approximately 50 mg of either taurocholate or the more polar bile salt, taurolithocholate sulfate. The technique is simple and applicable to the isolatio...
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