Discovering oxysterols in plasma: A window on the metabolome

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3602-3612

  Griffiths, William J ^a   Hornshaw, Martin ^b   Woffendin, Gary ^b   Baker, Sharon F ^c   Lockhart, Andrew ^c   Heidelberger, Sibylle ^d   Gustafsson, Magnus ^e   Sjövall, Jan ^e   Wang, Yuqin ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Thermo Fisher   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Derivatization; Electrospray; High performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometry; Ion trap; Lipidomics; Metabolomics; Steroidomics; Steroids; Sterols; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

24S HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 26 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 3BETA HYDROXYCHOLEST 5 EN 27 OIC ACID; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; 7ALPHA,27 DIHYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL 5,6 SECO STEROL DERIVATIVE; DESMOSTEROL; OXYSTEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; CHOLESTEROL OXIDASE; STEROL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STEROL ANALYSIS; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

CHOLESTEROL OXIDASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HUMANS; HYDROXYCHOLESTEROLS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; STEROLS;

EID: 53049101328     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr8001639     Document Type: Article

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