Highly sensitive analysis of sterol profiles in human serum by LC-ESI-MS/MS

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2063-2073

  Honda, Akira ^a   Yamashita, Kouwa ^b   Miyazaki, Hiroshi ^c   Shirai, Mutsumi ^d   Ikegami, Tadashi ^a   Xu, Guorong ^e   Numazawa, Mitsuteru ^b   Hara, Takashi ^d   Matsuzaki, Yasushi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Pharmax Institute   (Japan)

^d Ibaraki Prefectural Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^e RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholestanol; Cholesterol precursors; Congenital birth defect; Liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry; Picolinic acid; Plant sterols

Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; 8 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; CAMPESTEROL; CHOLESTANOL; COPROSTEROL; DESMOSTEROL; DIHYDROLANOSTEROL; LANOSTEROL; LATHOSTEROL; PICOLINIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SITOSTANOL; SITOSTEROL; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZYMOSTEROL; PICOLINIC ACID; SITOSTEROL DERIVATIVE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; STEROL ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS; BLOOD; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CEREBROTENDINOUS XANTHOMATOSIS; CHONDRODYSPLASIA PUNCTATA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME;

CACO-2 CELLS; CHONDRODYSPLASIA PUNCTATA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HUMANS; PICOLINIC ACIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SITOSTEROLS; SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STEROLS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; XANTHOMATOSIS, CEREBROTENDINOUS;

EID: 53149093246     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.D800017-JLR200     Document Type: Article

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