Lipid Chromatographic Analysis

Abstract

Focusing on state-of-the-art gas chromatography (GC) and high-performance liquid chromatography, this guide discusses the theories behind, and applications of, the latest developments in chromatographic techniques - assessing the strengths and limitations of each methodology.;Presenting many detection methods for the first time, Lipid Chromatographic Analysis: provides a review of conventional column and thin-layer chromatography; examines a new GC technique to detect plasmalogen phospholipids; outlines a supercritical fluid chromatography for lipids; details the first systematic description of a microanalytical procedure for cholesterol and related compounds; explains a GC analysis of lipid breakdown products for monitoring biological processes such as ageing, carcinogenesis and mutagenesis; and describes techniques that allow for the simultaneous analysis of non-polar and polar lipids.