The use of an "internal standard" for control of the recovery in microdialysis.

Microdialysis of intravenously injected theophylline in blood and in lung tissue was performed in two rats during anaesthesia. The recovery (dialysate extraction fraction) in blood was greater than the recovery in lung tissue and there was a change in recovery with time both in blood and in lung. The concentrations of theophylline in the dialysates were corrected for the recovery using caffeine as an "internal standard" in the perfusate as well as tritiated water injected into the rats. There was excellent agreement between the two different methods. Furthermore, the corrected concentration of unbound theophylline in the blood was in accordance with the simultaneously measured total concentration of theophylline in plasma when binding to plasma proteins was taken into account. The conclusion is that an "internal standard" for correction of the recovery is a useful method to approach the true concentrations of compounds in the extracellular water. The "internal standard" must be as equal as possible to the substance of interest.

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