Shotgun Lipidomics Approach for Clinical Samples

Shotgun Lipidomics Approach for Clinical Samples

Abstract

Shotgun lipidomics offers fast and reproducible identification and quantification of lipids in clinical samples. Lipid extraction procedures based on the methyl tert-butyl protocol are well established for performing shotgun lipidomics in biomedical research. Here, we describe a shotgun lipidomics workflow that is well suited for the analysis of clinical samples such as tissue samples, blood plasma, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Eggers, L. F. & Schwudke, D. Shotgun Lipidomics Approach for Clinical Samples. in Clinical Metabolomics: Methods and Protocols (ed. Giera, M.) 163–174 (Springer New York, 2018). doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7592-1_12