A simultaneous liquid chromatography/mass spectrometric assay of glutathione, cysteine, homocysteine and their disulfides in biological samples

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-261

  Guan, Xiangming ^a   Hoffman, Brianna ^a   Dwivedi, Chandradhar ^a   Matthees, Duane P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine; Disulfides; Glutathione; Homocysteine; LC MS

Indexed keywords

5,5' DITHIOBIS(2 NITROBENZOIC ACID); CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HOMOCYSTINE; THIOL;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; ELUTION; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; HEART; KIDNEY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUNG; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; GLUTATHIONE; HOMOCYSTEINE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037467156     PISSN: 07317085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0731-7085(02)00594-0     Document Type: Article

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