title: High-performance liquid chromatography with evaporative light-scattering detection for the determination of phospholipid classes in human milk, infant formulas and phospholipid sources of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
abstract: We developed and validated a new high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the separation of phospholipid classes in human milk, infant formulas and phospholipidic sources of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) used in paediatric nutrition. Phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylserine and sphingomyelin were separated in less than 25 min using an Extrasil silica column (150 x 4.0 mm I.D., 3-microm particle size) by isocratic elution with a mixture of isopropanol-hexane-water. Phospholipids were determined by an evaporative light-scattering detector. Several chromatographic conditions were assayed to optimise the method, whose suitability is shown by the detection limits, linearity ranges and precision rates obtained. The main advantages of the proposed method are its speed and the direct determination of the main phospholipids present in human milk, infant formulas and the phospholipid sources of LC-PUFAs used in paediatric nutrition.
authors.affiliation: Dept. Nutrició i Bromatologia, Centre de Referència en Tecnologia dels Aliments (CeRTA), Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avda. Joan XXIII s/n, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sala Vila
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Castellote-Bargalló
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Palmero-Seuma
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: López-Sabater
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000032:analysis*; D008027:Light; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000737:chemistry*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation
chemical_list: D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated; D010743:Phospholipids