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A method is described for the simultaneous determination of the main urinary acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) metabolites, salicyclic, salicyluric and gentisic acids, based on their native fluorescence. The urine was extracted into diethyl ether in acid medium, and back-extracted with glycine/sodium hydroxide buffer solution at pH 9.4. A comparative study of the results found using the excitation, the emission and the combination of the excitation plus the emission spectral data, as analytical signals, was performed. The data set, composed of the excitation plus the emission spectra, was selected as the analytical signal. The optimum wavelengths to record the excitation (λem=444 nm) and the emission spectra (λex=323 nm) were selected to maximize the contribution from gentisic acid, which is the minor urinary metabolite. Partial least squares (PLS-1) multivariate calibration was then applied for the determination. Recovery values from urine samples spiked with salicyclic, salicyluric and gentisic acids varied from 90.1 to 97.6% (mean 93.6%), from 90.0 to 110% (mean 97.9%) and from 89.9 to 104.7% (mean 98.5%), respectively.
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de la Peña, A.M., Durán-Merás, I., Moreno, M.D. et al. Simultaneous fluorimetric determination of acetylsalicylic acid metabolites in urine by partial least squares multivariate calibration. Fresenius J Anal Chem 353, 211–214 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00322961
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