High-throughput, nontargeted metabolite fingerprinting using nominal mass flow injection electrospray mass spectrometry

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 486-504

  Beckmann, Manfred ^a   Parker, David ^a   Enot, David P ^a   Duval, Emilie ^a   Draper, John ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY FLUID; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; FLOW INJECTION ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; GRASS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; METABOLITE FINGERPRINTING; METABOLOMICS; MICROORGANISM; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RICE BLAST; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; METABOLISM; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

BRACHYPODIUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 40649099178     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.500     Document Type: Article

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