Abstract
A detailed procedure of a gas chromatographic mass spectrometric assay for beta-phenylethylamine in biological samples, after its reaction with carbon disulphide to form the isothiocyanate derivative, is presented. Our method has advantages over the previous methods with the pentafluoropropionic derivative of beta-phenylethylamine in that the isothiocyanate derivative of beta-phenylethylamine is much more stable than the pentafluoropropionic derivative and that the background in selected ion monitoring is very low. Using the present method, the levels of beta-phenylethylamine in human urine, untreated and pargyline-treated rat brain were found to be 15.3 micrograms 24 h-1, 1.4 and 160 ng g-1 wet weight, respectively.
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