High-mass-resolution MALDI mass spectrometry imaging of metabolites from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue

Nature Protocols

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1428-1443

  Ly, Alice ^a   Buck, Achim ^a   Balluff, Benjamin ^b   Sun, Na ^a   Gorzolka, Karin ^a   Feuchtinger, Annette ^a   Janssen, Klaus Peter ^c   Kuppen, Peter J K ^d   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^d   Weirich, Gregor ^e   Erlmeier, Franziska ^e   Langer, Rupert ^e   Aubele, Michaela ^a   Zitzelsberger, Horst ^a   McDonnell, Liam ^d,f   Aichler, Michaela ^a   Walch, Axel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza ONLUS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACRIDINE; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FORMALIN FIXED AND PARAFFIN EMBEDDED TISSUE; HIGH MASS RESOLUTION MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION FOURIER TRANSFORM ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY IMAGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TISSUE SECTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROCEDURES; TISSUE FIXATION;

AMINACRINE; FORMALDEHYDE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84979912993     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2016.081     Document Type: Article

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