{"title":"Simultaneous determination of retinol, β-carotene and α-tocopherol in adipose tissue by high-performance liquid chromatography","authors":"S Casal, B Macedo, M.B.P.P Oliveira","doi":"10.1016/S0378-4347(01)00349-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A method is described for evaluation of fat-soluble vitamin in human adipose tissue with the aim to obtain, accurately and within the shortest analysis time, a time-integrated measure of exposure to vitamins from the diet. Fat tissue was deproteinized with ethanol and extracted with <em>n</em>-hexane. Normal-phase HPLC was performed in a Lichrosorb Si60 column with a gradient of <em>n</em>-hexane–2-propanol at 1 ml/min. Detection was accomplished using a diode-array system (for retinol and β-carotene) in series with a fluorescence detector (α-tocopherol). The method was validated and applied to human adipose tissue in a total of 140 subjects. The mean contents found were 0.43, 0.84, 240.3 μg/g for retinol, β-carotene and α-tocopherol, respectively. The method is sensitive enough for detecting the compounds in 1.6 mg of adipose tissue considering the lowest concentration found.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications","volume":"763 1","pages":"Pages 1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0378-4347(01)00349-8","citationCount":"37","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378434701003498","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A method is described for evaluation of fat-soluble vitamin in human adipose tissue with the aim to obtain, accurately and within the shortest analysis time, a time-integrated measure of exposure to vitamins from the diet. Fat tissue was deproteinized with ethanol and extracted with n-hexane. Normal-phase HPLC was performed in a Lichrosorb Si60 column with a gradient of n-hexane–2-propanol at 1 ml/min. Detection was accomplished using a diode-array system (for retinol and β-carotene) in series with a fluorescence detector (α-tocopherol). The method was validated and applied to human adipose tissue in a total of 140 subjects. The mean contents found were 0.43, 0.84, 240.3 μg/g for retinol, β-carotene and α-tocopherol, respectively. The method is sensitive enough for detecting the compounds in 1.6 mg of adipose tissue considering the lowest concentration found.