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标题：Validation of a new procedure to determine plasma fatty acid concentration and isotopic enrichment
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作者：Bruce W. Patterson ; Guohong Zhao ; Nizar Elias 等
期刊名称：JLR Papers In Press
印刷版ISSN：0022-2275
电子版ISSN：1539-7262
出版年度：1999
卷号：40
期号：11
页码：2118-2124
语种：English
出版社：American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要：Assessment of free fatty acid (FFA) concentration and isotopic enrichment is useful for studies of FFA kinetics in vivo. A new procedure to recover the major FFA from plasma for concentration and isotopic enrichment measurements is described and validated. The procedure involves extraction of plasma lipids with hexane, methylation with iodomethane (CH₃I) to form fatty acid methyl esters (FAME), and subsequent purification of FAME by solid phase extraction (SPE) chromatography. The new method was compared with a traditional method using thin-layer chromatography (TLC) to recover plasma FFA, with subsequent methylation by BF₃/methanol. The TLC method was found to be less reliable than the new CH₃I method because of contamination with extraneous fatty acids, chemical fractionation of FFA species, and incomplete recovery of FFA associated with TLC. In contrast, the CH₃I/SPE method was free of contamination, did not exhibit chemical fractionation, and had higher recovery. The iodomethane reaction was specific for free fatty acids; no FAME were formed when esterified fatty acids (triglycerides, cholesteryl esters, phospholipids) were subjected to the methylation reaction. We conclude that the CH₃I/SPE method provides rapid and convenient recovery of plasma fatty acids for quantification or GC/MS analysis as methyl esters, and is not subject to the problems of contamination, reduced recovery, and chemical fractionation associated with recovery of FFA by TLC.— Patterson, B. W., G. Zhao, N. Elias, D. L. Hachey, and S. Klein. Validation of a new procedure to determine plasma fatty acid concentration and isotopic enrichment. J. Lipid Res. 1999. 40: 2118–2124.
关键词：fatty acid methyl esters ; quantitative analysis ; GC/MS ; thin-layer chromatography ; solid phase extraction ; stable isotopes