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ArticleACS omega2020

Assessment of Melatonin and Its Precursors Content by a HPLC-MS/MS Method from Different Romanian Wines.

Camelia Albu, Letitia Elena Radu, Gabriel-Lucian Radu

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Article in ACS omega, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Camelia AlbuCentre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences-Bucharest, 296 Splaiul Independentei, 060031 Bucharest, Romania.
Letitia Elena RaduCarol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Eroii Sanitari Bulevard, 050474 Bucharest, Romania.
Gabriel-Lucian RaduCentre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences-Bucharest, 296 Splaiul Independentei, 060031 Bucharest, Romania.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because melatonin has strong antioxidant activity and wine is an alcoholic beverage of economic relevance, in the present work, the impact of some variable parameters that may occur in the winemaking process on the concentrations of melatonin and its precursors in Romanian wines was studied. Therefore, a sensitive and selective high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method was developed for the simultaneous analysis of melatonin, serotonin, and l-tryptophan, and some method performance parameters including selectivity, detection limit, precision (by comparing with an alternative HPLC-FL method), accuracy, and robustness were validated. These determinations are significant and the final amounts of analytes are dependent on the microorganisms involved in the winemaking process, the grape variety, geographic regions of vineyards, and aging of wines. In the future, the method may be useful to increase the melatonin content and the antioxidant activity in wines by improved steps in the winemaking process, especially based on application of selected yeasts and improved fermentation conditions.

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PMID33134687
PMCPMC7594137

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