INDIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, cilt.75, sa.5, ss.563-568, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
A simple, sensitive and rapid spectrofluorimetric method for determination of alpha-tocopherol in pharmaceutical capsule and human plasma was developed and validated. The native fluorescence of alpha-tocopherol was measured at 334 nm with excitation at 291 nm, after extraction of alpha-tocopherol from human plasma hexane: dichloromethane mixture. The calibration curves were linear (R >= 0.9993) in the concentration range of 0.25-2.5 mu g/ml of alpha-tocopherol in both standard solutions and plasma samples. The developed method was directly and easily applied for determination of alpha-tocopherol in the plasma of healthy volunteers and different type of bladder cancer and stomach cancer patients and also pharmaceutical capsule.