Development of a non-separative screening strategy based on mass spectrometry for the semi-quantification of urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites

[EN]A fast and non-separative screening strategy is presented for the analysis of five urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), namely 2-naphthol, 1-acenaphthenol, 2-hydroxyfluorene, 9-phenanthrol and 1-hydroxypyrene. These hydroxylated derivatives (OH-PAHs) were subjected to...

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Autores: Ballester-Caudet, Ana, García García, Samuel, Nogal Sánchez, Miguel del, Rodríguez Gonzalo, Encarnación, Pérez Pavón, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/168602
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/168602
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hydroxylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (OH-PAHs)
Liquid-liquid extraction
Non-separative method
Urinary profiles
Exposure biomarkers
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Sumario:[EN]A fast and non-separative screening strategy is presented for the analysis of five urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), namely 2-naphthol, 1-acenaphthenol, 2-hydroxyfluorene, 9-phenanthrol and 1-hydroxypyrene. These hydroxylated derivatives (OH-PAHs) were subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis and were extracted from urine using a liquid-liquid extraction (LLE). The profile signals were obtained by direct injection of the sample into a programmed temperature vaporizer coupled to a quadrupole mass spectrometer via a deactivated fused silica tubing (PTV-qMS). Semi-quantitative determination was carried out by means of partial least squares regression (PLS1) using urine samples free of the analytes and spiked at several uncorrelated concentration levels. The multivariate calibration models worked satisfactorily, with errors ranging between 30 and 33 % for all the analytes except for 1-acenaphthenol that provided an error of 39 % when external validation set was considered. The repeatability and reproducibility, expressed as relative standard deviation (RSD), were ranged between 8-16 % and 11–18 %, respectively. The proposed method could be a useful tool for semi-quantification purposes of five OH-PAHs in urine samples, identifying positive samples for subsequent further chromatographic separation (confirmation), thus saving time and costs.