Université de Fribourg

Measurement of ultra-trace level of intact oxytocin in plasma using SALLE combined with nano-LC–MS

Liu, Dan ; Han, Xiaoli ; Liu, Xinxin ; Cheng, Mengchun ; He, Meixi ; Rainer, Gregor ; Gao, Huiyuan ; Zhang, Xiaozhe

In: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2019, vol. 173, p. 62–67

Measurement of peptides such as oxytocin in plasma is a critical challenge in clinical research because of their extreme low concentrations as well as the tremendous interferencing substances co-presented in plasma. In this study, we developed an efficient salt-out assisted liquid-liquid extraction (SALLE) to treat plasma, and then analyzed the samples using nano-LC–MS to quantify intact...

Université de Fribourg

Potential biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease revealed by plasma metabolic profiling

Zhao, Huiyuan ; Wang, Cui ; Zhao, Nan ; Li, Wenxue ; Yang, Zhaofei ; Liu, Xinxin ; Le, Weidong ; Zhang, Xiaozhe

In: Journal of Chromatography B, 2018, vol. 1081–1082, p. 101–108

The plasma of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients may contain various altered metabolites associated with the risk or progression of the disease. Characterization of the abnormal metabolic pattern in PD plasma is therefore critical for the search for potential PD biomarkers. We collected blood plasma samples from PD patients and used an LC-MS based metabolomics approach to identify 17...