Highly sensitive and specific analysis of sterol profiles in biological samples by HPLC-ESI-MS/MS

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-5, 2010, Pages 556-564

  Honda, Akira ^a   Miyazaki, Teruo ^a   Ikegami, Tadashi ^a   Iwamoto, Junichi ^a   Yamashita, Kouwa ^b   Numazawa, Mitsuteru ^b   Matsuzaki, Yasushi ^a  

^a Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analysis; Cholesterol; Derivatization; GC MS; HPLC MS MS; Oxysterol; Review; Sterol

Indexed keywords

ESTER DERIVATIVE; STEROL; STEROL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DERIVATIZATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STEROL ANALYSIS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HUMANS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STEROLS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77955426065     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2010.03.030     Document Type: Article

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