Capillary gas-liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric measurement of very long chain (C22 to C26) fatty acids in microliter samples of plasma.

In order to quantify accurately the plasma content of very long chain fatty acids, we have developed a selected ion monitoring gas-liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric micromethod which allows all of these acids (22:0, 24:1, 24:0, 26:1, and 26:0) to be determined simultaneously in the same 0.5-ml plasma sample; 17:0 and 27:0 fatty acids are used as assay internal standards. For plasma samples in the range equivalent to the various very long chain fatty acid physiological concentrations, assay precision was +/- 2%. The present method has been successfully applied to the biological recognition of patients with adrenoleukodystrophy, their heterozygote relatives, and of cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome and neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy.

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