Determination of vitamin E and its metabolites in equine urine using liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry
- 1 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Drug Testing and Analysis
- Vol. 13 (6), 1158-1168
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dta.3006
Abstract
Equine neuroaxonal dystrophy/degenerative myeloencephalopathy (eNAD/EDM) is a hereditary, deteriorating central nervous disease in horses. Currently, the only way to confirm eNAD/EDM is through a postmortem histological evaluation of the central nervous system. Vitamin E, specifically the isoform alpha‐tocopherol (α‐TP), is known to protect eNAD/EDM susceptible horses from developing the clinical phenotype. While vitamin E is an essential nutrient in the diet of horses, there are no diagnostic tests able to quantitate vitamin E and its metabolites in urine. An ultra‐performance liquid chromatography‐atmospheric‐pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry (UPLC‐APCI‐MS/MS) method was developed and validated following acidic hydrolysis and solid phase extraction to quantitate vitamin E and its metabolites in equine urine. A blank control horse urine matrix was used and spiked with different concentrations of analytes to form a standard curve using either alpha‐tocopherol‐d6 or chlorpropamide as the internal standard. Inter‐day and intra‐day statistics were performed to evaluate the method for accuracy (90% to 116%) and precision (0.75% to 14%). Matrix effects, percent recovery, and stability were also assessed. The method successfully analyzed alpha‐carboxyethyl hydroxychroman (α‐CEHC), alpha‐carboxymethylbutyl hydroxychromans (α‐CMBHC), gamma‐carboxyethyl hydroxychroman γ‐CEHC, and α‐TP concentrations in urine to determine a baseline levels of analytes in healthy horses, and can be used to determine concentrations of vitamin E metabolites in equine urine allowing for its evaluation as a diagnostic approach in the treatment of eNAD/EDM.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (K01OD015134, L40 TR001136)
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