Microemulsion electrokinetic capillary chromatography has been successfully applied to the separation and determination of water-soluble vitamins (thiamine hydrochloride, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic ...

Avocado (a fruit that represents a billion-dollar industry) has become a relevant crop in global trade. The benefits of eating avocados have also been thoroughly described as they contain important nutrients needed to ...

The word vitamin was originally coined to describe amines that are essential for life. It is now know that although not all vitamins are amines, the are organic micronutrients that mean that they must be consumed in small ...

Vitamins are organic micronutrients which are substances that must be present in small quantities and that are essential for the growth and development of the human body and are required in numerous metabolic reactions to ...

In this work two voltammetric methods were investigated to study the interaction between metals, Cd and Pb, and fat-soluble vitamins (retinol palmitate VA; cholecalciferol VD; α-tocopherol acetate VE; filloquinona - ...

The incorporation of antioxidant fat-soluble vitamins to the meat of the fish can prevent the oxidation of the lipids that compose it since their stability depends on the balance between antioxidant components and pro-oxidants. ...

Our aim was to characterize HDL subspecies and fat-soluble vitamin levels in a kindred with familial apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) deficiency. Sequencing of the APOA1 gene revealed a nonsense mutation at codon 22, Q[22] X, ...

One of the most cultivated forage species is the annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam). One of the parameters that define quality, often poorly studied, are fat-soluble vitamins and antioxidant pigments. These compounds ...