“…Various antioxidant agents are used to protect the degradation of DHPG throughout analysis [9,19,25,26]. Extraction with cation-exchange columns [27], boronate gels [21,27], C18 matrix [12,13,16,[28][29][30], MFC18 [29] and PLRP-S or OASIS HLB [13,30] have provided good recoveries of NE and other catecholamines from plasma and urine. However, recoveries of other catecholamines and metabolites, such as DHPG and 3,4-dihydroxylalanine (DOPA) in plasma, have not been reported using this method.…”