Abstract
An improved gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method has been applied to the quantitation of both in vitro and in vivo products of lipid peroxidation in rat liver stimulated with carbon tetrachloride. The method avoids problems of autoxidation of unsaturated fatty acids during sample preparation, and the sensitivity permits assays on as little as 1 mg of tissue. This permits small samples of tissue to be obtained by biopsy from the same organ, thus making it possible to perform in vivo time studies on a single animal. Lipids from whole tissue or cell preparations are simultaneously extracted and reduced by catalytic hydrogenation and then saponified and derivatized to their pentafluorobenzyl esters and trimethylsilyl ethers. Quantitation is accomplished by negative ion chemical ionization gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, using either deuterated compounds or naturally occurring fatty acid metabolites as internal standards. Hydroxy fatty acids which result from reduction of the hydroperoxides of arachidonic and docosapentaenoic acids are found to increase within 20 min after exposure of liver or hepatocyte suspensions to carbon tetrachloride.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 353-358 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Analytical Biochemistry |
Volume | 206 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1 1992 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:i This manuscript is the second in a series describing methods for the detection and quantification of hydroxy and the applications of these methods to in uiuo biochemical problems. ’ This work was partially supported by Grant EY05910-06 National Eye Institute to R. J. Stephens. 3 To whom correspondence should be addressed.