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The quantitative analysis of plant sterols

  • Symposium: Sterols Held at the AOCS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, May 17–21, 1981
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Lipids

Abstract

Two methods for the quantitative analysis of plant sterols have been described. In the first, cholesterol is used for control of recovery and gas liquid chromatography (GLC) analysis. When cholesterol is present in the sterol mixture, a radioactive standard (usually cholesterol or sitosterol) is used to control recovery, and coprosterol is used to monitor GLC. The methods are exemplified for nitrogenfixing root nodules and for chloroplasts, respectively.

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  1. Department of Botany, The University, G128QQ, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.

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Knights, B.A. The quantitative analysis of plant sterols. Lipids 17, 204–208 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02535104

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