Global metabolic profiling of animal and human tissues via UPLC-MS

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-32

  Want, Elizabeth J ^a   Masson, Perrine ^a   Michopoulos, Filippos ^b   Wilson, Ian D ^a   Theodoridis, Georgios ^b   Plumb, Robert S ^c   Shockcor, John ^c   Loftus, Neil ^d   Holmes, Elaine ^a   Nicholson, Jeremy K ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c WATERS CORPORATION   (United States)

^d SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HUMANS; LIVER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84872039962     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.135     Document Type: Article

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