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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 32, 782-786, Copyright © 1986 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Liquid-chromatographic measurements of inosine, hypoxanthine, and xanthine in studies of fructose-induced degradation of adenine nucleotides in humans and rats

TW Kurtz, PM Kabra, BE Booth, HA Al-Bander, AA Portale, BG Serena, HC Tsai and RC Morris Jr

We applied a sensitive, precise liquid-chromatographic method of analysis for inosine, hypoxanthine, and xanthine to the study of fructose metabolism in humans and in rats. In the rat, intravenous loading with fructose induced, within minutes, substantial increases in the concentrations of inosine, hypoxanthine, and xanthine in plasma and urine. In plasma, these concentrations peaked after 5 min, then practically disappeared within 10 min. As expected, the fructose- induced increase in hypoxanthine was greatly amplified by pretreating the rats with allopurinol, an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase. In a healthy human subject, intravenous administration of fructose also induced prompt, substantial, and rapidly reversing increases in the concentrations of these metabolites of adenine nucleotides in plasma. The finding that fructose induced almost-immediate increases in the plasma concentrations of inosine, hypoxanthine, and xanthine is consistent with previous studies in rats, in which parenteral administration of fructose induced almost-immediate decreases of total adenine nucleotides (ATP + ADP + AMP) in the liver, and increased concentrations of uric acid and allantoin in the plasma.




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