Fluorometric determination of d-lactate in biological fluids

The procedure effectively eliminates enzyme activities that may interfere with the D-lactate quantification, resulting in the situation that L-lactate in the sample does not interfere with the determination. Intra- and inter-assay precision, accuracy and recovery of the analyte were investigated and everything suggests that this method will be acceptable for analytical as well as descriptive purposes. The analytical procedure is suitable for a semi-automated large scale set-up in the laboratory.