PMID- 21953953 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120106 LR - 20151119 IS - 1097-0231 (Electronic) IS - 0951-4198 (Linking) VI - 25 IP - 20 DP - 2011 Oct 30 TI - The role of liquid chromatography and flow injection analyses coupled to isotope ratio mass spectrometry for studying human in vivo glucose metabolism. PG - 2989-94 LID - 10.1002/rcm.5179 [doi] AB - Under most physiological conditions, glucose, or carbohydrate (CHO), homeostasis is tightly regulated. In order to mechanistically appraise the origin of circulating glucose (e.g. via either gluconeogenesis, glycogenolysis or oral glucose intake), and its regulation and oxidation, the use of stable isotope tracers is now a well-accepted analytical technique. Methodologically, liquid chromatography coupled to isotope ratio mass spectrometry (LC/IRMS) can replace gas chromatography coupled to combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC/C/IRMS) for carrying out compound-specific (13)C isotopic analysis. The LC/IRMS approach is well suited for studying glucose metabolism, since the plasma glucose concentration is relatively high and the glucose can readily undergo chromatography in an aqueous mobile phase. Herewith, we report two main methodological approaches in a single instrument: (1) the ability to measure the isotopic enrichment of plasma glucose to assess the efficacy of CHO-based treatment (cocoa-enriched) during cycling exercise with healthy subjects, and (2) the capacity to carry out bulk isotopic analysis of labeled solutions, which is generally performed with an elemental analyzer coupled to IRMS. For plasma samples measured by LC/IRMS the data show a isotopic precision SD(delta(13)C) and SD(APE) of 0.7 per thousand and 0.001, respectively, with delta(13)C and APE values of -25.48 per thousand and 0.06, respectively, being generated before and after tracer administration. For bulk isotopic measurements, the data show that the presence of organic compounds in the blank slightly affects the delta(13)C values. Despite some analytical limitations, we clearly demonstrate the usefulness of the LC/IRMS especially when (13)C-glucose is required during whole-body human nutritional studies. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. FAU - Godin, Jean-Philippe AU - Godin JP AD - Nestle Research Center, Nestec, Ltd., Lausanne, Switzerland. jean-philippe.godin@rdls.nestle.com FAU - Stellingwerff, Trent AU - Stellingwerff T FAU - Actis-Goretta, Lucas AU - Actis-Goretta L FAU - Mermoud, Anne-France AU - Mermoud AF FAU - Kochhar, Sunil AU - Kochhar S FAU - Rezzi, Serge AU - Rezzi S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom JT - Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM JID - 8802365 RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Carbon Isotopes) RN - AR09D82C7G (Deuterium) RN - IY9XDZ35W2 (Glucose) SB - IM MH - Blood Glucose/*metabolism MH - Breath Tests MH - Carbon Isotopes MH - Chromatography, Liquid/*methods MH - Deuterium MH - Exercise MH - Flow Injection Analysis/*methods MH - Glucose/administration & dosage/*metabolism MH - Humans MH - Kinetics MH - Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Reproducibility of Results EDAT- 2011/09/29 06:00 MHDA- 2012/01/10 06:00 CRDT- 2011/09/29 06:00 PHST- 2011/09/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/09/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/01/10 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/rcm.5179 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2011 Oct 30;25(20):2989-94. doi: 10.1002/rcm.5179.