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ReviewJournal of food and drug analysis2020

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-based analytical strategies for fatty acid analysis in biological samples.

Huai-Hsuan Chiu, Ching-Hua Kuo

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Review in Journal of food and drug analysis, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 194 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Huai-Hsuan ChiuSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ching-Hua KuoSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; The Metabolomics Core Laboratory, Center of Genomic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Pharmacy, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: kuoch@ntu.edu.tw.
National Taiwan University · TWNational Taiwan University Hospital · TW

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fatty acids play critical roles in biological systems. Imbalances in fatty acids are related to a variety of diseases, which makes the measurement of fatty acids in biological samples important. Many analytical strategies have been developed to investigate fatty acids in various biological samples. Due to the structural diversity of fatty acids, many factors need to be considered when developing analytical methods including extraction methods, derivatization methods, column selections, and internal standard selections. This review focused on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)-based methods. We reviewed several commonly used fatty acid extraction approaches, including liquid-liquid extraction and solid-phase microextraction. Moreover, both acid and base derivatization methods and other specially designed methods were comprehensively reviewed, and their strengths and limitations were discussed. Having good separation efficiency is essential to building an accurate and reliable GC-MS platform for fatty acid analysis. We reviewed the separation performance of different columns and discussed the application of multidimensional GC for improving separations. The selection of internal standards was also discussed. In the final section, we introduced several biomedical studies that measured fatty acid levels in different sample matrices and provided hints on the relationships between fatty acid imbalances and diseases.

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Gas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryFatty AcidsLiquid-Liquid ExtractionSolid Phase MicroextractionFatty AcidsBiological samplesFatty acidGas chromatographyMass spectrometry

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PMID31883609
PMCPMC13521055
OpenAlexW2990410471

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