title: Quantification of phospholipids classes in human milk.
abstract: Phospholipids are integral constituents of the milk fat globule membranes and they play a central role in infants' immune and inflammatory responses. A methodology employing liquid chromatography coupled with evaporative light scattering detector has been optimized and validated to quantify the major phospholipids classes in human milk. Phospholipids were extracted using chloroform and methanol and separated on C18 column. Repeatability, intermediate reproducibility, and recovery values were calculated and a large sample set of human milk analyzed. In human milk, phospholipid classes were quantified at concentrations of 0.6 mg/100 g for phosphatidylinositol; 4.2 mg/100 g for phosphatidylethanolamine, 0.4 mg/100 g for phosphatidylserine, 2.8 mg/100 g for phosphatidylcholine, and 4.6 mg/100 g for sphingomyelin. Their relative standard deviation of repeatability and intermediate reproducibility values ranging between 0.8 and 13.4 % and between 2.4 and 25.7 %, respectively. The recovery values ranged between 67 and 112 %. Finally, the validated method was used to quantify phospholipid classes in human milk collected from 50 volunteers 4 weeks postpartum providing absolute content of these lipids in a relatively large cohort. The average content of total phospholipids was 23.8 mg/100 g that corresponds to an estimated mean intake of 140 mg phospholipids/day in a 4-week old infant when exclusively breast-fed.
authors: Nestlé Product Technology Centre, Konolfingen, Switzerland, francesca.giuffrida@rdls.nestle.com.
authors: Francesca
authors: F
authors: Giuffrida
authors: Cristina
authors: C
authors: Cruz-Hernandez
authors: Brigitte
authors: B
authors: Flück
authors: Isabelle
authors: I
authors: Tavazzi
authors: Sagar K
authors: SK
authors: Thakkar
authors: Frédéric
authors: F
authors: Destaillats
authors: Marcel
authors: M
authors: Braun
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002623:Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / Q000379:methods*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D057230:Limit of Detection; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000737:chemistry*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D012542:Scattering, Radiation
chemical_list: D010743:Phospholipids
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