“…Vitamin D3 and its metabolites are currently determined by radioimmunoassay (RIA) [8,9] and competitive protein binding assay (CPBA) [ 10,11 ] after tedious and time-consuming pretreatments which involve liquid-liquid [12][13][14] and solid-liquid extractions [15][16][17][18] in both cases and either (LC [16][17][18][19][20][21] or GC [ 13,14,[22][23][24][25][26][27]) for the latter. Several methods based on derivatization reactions (dehydration [28][29][30], cycloaddition [12, 31M1], silanisation [13,14,23,35,38] and charge-transfer complex formation [42]) have been implemented pre-column for either LC or GC, and postcolumn for LC. Laser excitation as an enhancer offluorimetric detection has been widely used in clinical chemistry, mainly coupled with LC [43][44][45] and CE [46,47]; however, no application for quantitation of vitamin D3 metabolites has been reported so far.…”