A pH and solvent optimized reverse-phase ion-paring-LC–MS/MS method that leverages multiple scan-types for targeted absolute quantification of intracellular metabolites

Metabolomics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1338-1350

  McCloskey, Douglas ^a   Gangoiti, Jon A ^c   Palsson, Bernhard O ^a,b   Feist, Adam M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute quantification; Intracellular metabolism; Metabolomics; Reverse phase ion pairing liquid chromatography mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL METABOLISM; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLOMICS; PH; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE PHASE ION PAIRING LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84941023887     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-015-0790-y     Document Type: Article

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