期刊名称：Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
印刷版ISSN：0301-4800
电子版ISSN：1881-7742
出版年度：2000
卷号：46
期号：5
页码：257-262
DOI：10.3177/jnsv.46.257
出版社：Center for Academic Publications Japan
摘要：We describe a method for the simultaneous assay of retinol and a-tocopherol using normal-phase, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Our normal-phase HPLC method gave better resolution ( Rs ) of retinol ( Rs =1.58) and α-tocopherol ( Rs =1.40) when compared with the Rs values for a-tocopherol and retinol from literature. Also, the α-tocopherol concentrations obtained by our method agreed well with another normal-phase HPLC method that used fluorometric detection ( r =0.951, p <0.001, Sy.x=0.58mg/L). The concentrations of retinol in our method agreed well with those determined by a reversed-phase HPLC procedure, although the correlation ( r =0.646, p <0, 001, Sy.x=62, μg/L) was not as good as the method proposed. Our procedure gave acceptable precision; the within-run CV was 7.7% for α-tocopherol and 5.9% for retinol. The between-day CV was 9.0% for α-tocopherol and 6.8% for retinol. The mean recoveries were 97% for a-tocopherol and 107% for retinol. Our assays were linear for α-tocopherol concentrations from 0.1 to 30mg/L and for retinol concentrations from 20 to 2, 000μg/L. In children ages 7 to 12 y, and in adolescents ages 14 to 16 y, the α-tocopherol and retinol concentrations in the blood were significantly lower than the concentrations in normal adults. Individuals over 70 y old also showed α-tocopherol and retinol values that were lower than those of normal adults between ages 30 and 40 y In female university students, the inter-individual variation of α-tocopherol was reduced by dividing the α-tocopherol results by their total cholesterol or total lipid concentrations; however, this was not obtained for retinol. In cancer patients undergoing surgery, the ratio of retinol to retinol-binding protein (RBP) remained fairly con-stant, although the concentrations of both retinol and RBP decreased to about one-half the preoperative values after surgery. We conclude that our normal-phase HPLC method is a stable and reproducible method for α-tocopherol and retinol, and is an easy-to-use analytical tool.
