Chestnut tannin from the true chestnut species (lat. Castanea sativa) belongs to the group of tannins called ellagitannins. From these tannins, mammals form special metabolites, urolithins, in the intestines via bacterial pathways. Urolithins have excellent properties, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic effects, they can also pass into the blood and continue to various organs, and some of them can be excreted together with feces and urine.
In the thesis, the development and validation of a method for the determination of urolithin A were presented. The aim of the thesis was to verify the applicability of high-resolution liquid chromatography for the determination of urolithin A.
The determination of urolithin A was performed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using UV-VIS detection. The separation was carried out on a C18 column, and as mobile phase 100% acetonitrile and a 0.1% solution of trifluoroacetic acid in water were used, with a flow rate of 1 mL/min. The standard used was urolithin A, and its solvent was a 50% solution of methanol in water.
With the validation, the linearity of the method, the limit of detection, the limit of quantitation, reproducibility and stability were checked. It was found that the method is linear in the concentration range between 0.4 mg/L and 25 mg/L. The limit of detection was set as two times multiple of the noise, and the limit of quantitation as ten times the noise. It was found that the method is reproducible, and the stability of the standard solutions depends on the storage conditions.
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