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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 876, Issue 1, Pages 83-88Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2008.10.035
Keywords
Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids; Eicosanoids; Cytochrome P450; Human red blood cells; GC/MS/NICI
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- Ministere de l'Education Nationale
- de la Recherche et de la Technologie
- INSERM
- Brittany Region
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Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) are cytochrome P450 metabolites of arachidonic acid involved in the regulation of vascular tone. Despite the importance of EETs in a variety of physiological effects, few methods have been developed to quantity them in human blood. This led us to develop a method by GC/MS with negative ion chemical ionization. As EETs are primarily located in phospholipids, red blood cells (RBCs) and plasma phospholipids were hydrolyzed with phospholipase A(2) after a solid phase extraction. Then, EETs were derivatized as pentafluorobenzyl esters, and [H-2(8)]-arachidonic acid was used as internal standard for quantification. EETs were found to be at concentrations of 106 +/- 37 ng mL(-1) in plasma and 33.4 +/- 8.5 ng/10(9) RBCs (mean +/- S.D.) in 10 healthy volunteers. Their amount in RBCs was 3-fold that in plasma: both parameters proved to be well correlated. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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