Endogenous 1-methyl-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydro-6,7-dihydroxyisoquinoline (salsolinol) could be a potential marker involved in the etiology of alcoholism. The amount of salsolinol analyzed previously from plasma and urine by different methods depends on several dietary conditions because nutrition has an important influence on salsolinol excretion. Whereas plasma salsolinol is influenced by the diet the salsolinol from peripheral mononuclear cells should be endogenously formed. Therefore, a method for the quantification of S-and R-salsolinol from lymphocytes by using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was developed. The average amount of salsolinol in 10(6) cells was 1.25 ng corresponding to 2.41 x 10(-5) M and was shown to be much higher than the plasma salsolinol concentration (2.6 x 10(-9) M).
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