Determination of short-chain fatty acids in serum by hollow fiber supported liquid membrane extraction coupled with gas chromatography
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Summary, in English
A method based on hollow fiber supported liquid membrane extraction coupled with a gas chromatograph equipped with flame ionization detector (GC-FID) was developed for the determination of six short-chain fatty acids including acetic acid, propionic acid, i-butyric acid, n-butyric acid, i-valeric acid and n-valeric acid in serum. Hollow fiber supported liquid membrane extraction was employed for preconcentration and clean-up of the samples. The fatty acids were extracted from the acidic donor (diluted serum) into a liquid membrane formed in the wall of the hollow fiber with 10% tri-n-octylphoshphine oxide (TOPO) in di-n-hexyl ether, and then extracted back into a basic acceptor solution filled in the lumen of the hollow fiber. After being acidified with HCl, the acceptor was directly analyzed by GC-FID. The acceptor concentration, donor pH, membrane liquid and extracting time were optimized giving an enrichment factor up to 155 times. The good linearity (r2 > 0.980), reasonable recovery (87.2-121%), and satisfactory intra-assay (8.2-11.5%) and inter-assay (6.1-11.6%) precision illustrated the good performance of the present method. Limits of detection (LOD) ranged from 0.04 to 0.24 μM and limits of quantification (LOQ) varied from 0.13 to 0.80 μM.
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
202-208
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Chromatography. B
Volym
846
Issue
1-2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Analytical Chemistry
Nyckelord
- Quantitative analysis
- Gas chromatography
- Short chain
- Determination
- Fatty acids
- Lipids
- Biological fluid
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1873-376X