Modified saponification and HPLC methods for analyzing carotenoids from the retina of quail: Implications for its use as a nonprimate model species

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3976-3982

  Toomey, Matthew B ^a   McGraw, Kevin J ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; EPSILON CAROTENOID; GALLOXANTHIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN; (3R,3'S,6'R) LUTEIN; (3R,3'S,6'R)-LUTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROXIDE; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTERIFICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUAIL; RETINA; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SAPONIFICATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COTURNIX; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COTURNIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROXIDES; LUTEIN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; RETINA; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 35148847284     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0208     Document Type: Article

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