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The issue of HPLC determination of endogenous lipoic acid in human plasma.
Biomedical Chromatography : BMC 2018 May
Lipoic acid (LA) is used extensively as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of various diseases. Many methods have been reported for the determination of LA plasma levels and its metabolites after its supplementation, but available information concerning endogenous plasma levels is still scarce. Studies which directly focused on determining the endogenous plasma levels provided highly controversial results, <4.9 nmol/L or 143.7-197.0 nmol/L. The main aim of this study was to verify the levels of free LA in the plasma of 40 individuals (17 women, 23 men). This group was nonsupplemented with LA and met the conditions for incorporation into the blood donors register. We measured the levels of LA using an HPLC method with very sensitive coulometric detection after previous sample preparation including deproteination and solid-phase extraction with a Phenyl cartridge. Our limit of detection was 1.85 nmol/L and was better than the values reported in studies that directly focused on determining the endogenous plasma levels of LA: 2.4 and 4.9 nmol/L respectively. However, the levels of free LA in the plasma of nonsupplemented voluntary blood donors were not detectable in all cases. The presented results of our study show that endogenous concentrations of LA are <1.85 nmol/L.
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