Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1527, Issue -, Pages 43-52Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2017.10.053
Keywords
Fat-soluble vitamins; Fat-soluble antioxidants; Carotenoids; Reversed-phase HPLC; Serum; Seminal plasma
Funding
- research fund of the Catholic University of Rome
- research fund of the University of Catania
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Fat-solublevitamins and antioxidants are of relevance in health and disease. Current methods to extract these compounds from biological fluids mainly need use of multi-steps and multi organic solvents. They are time-consuming and difficult to apply to treat simultaneously large sample number. We here describe a single-step, one solvent extraction of fat-soluble vitamins and antioxidants from biological fluids, and the chromatographic separation of all-trans-retinoic acid, 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, all-trans-retinol, astaxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, trans-beta-apo-8'-carotenal, gamma-tocopherol, beta-cryptoxanthin, alpha-tocopherol, phylloquinone, lycopene, alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and coenzyme Q(10). Extraction is obtained by adding one volume of biological fluid to two acetonitrile volumes, vortexing for 60s and incubating for 60min at 37 degrees C under agitation. HPLC separation occurs in 30 min using Hypersil Cl 8,100 x 4.6 mm, 5 mu m particle size column, gradient from 70% methanol+30% H2O to 100% acetonitrile, flow rate of 1.0 ml/min and 37 degrees C column temperature. Compounds are revealed using highly sensitive UV-VIS diode array detector. The HPLC method suitability was assessed in terms of sensitivity, reproducibility and recovery. Using the present extraction and chromatographic conditions we obtained values of the fat-soluble vitamins and antioxidants in serum from 50 healthy controls similar to those found in literature. Additionally, the profile of these compounds was also measured in seminal plasma from 20 healthy fertile donors. Results indicate-that this simple, rapid and low cost sample processing is suitable to extract fat-soluble vitamins and antioxidants from biological fluids and can be applied in clinical and nutritional studies. (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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