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ReviewMass spectrometry reviews2022

RECOGNITION AND AVOIDANCE OF ION SOURCE-GENERATED ARTIFACTS IN LIPIDOMICS ANALYSIS.

Changfeng Hu, Wenqing Luo, Jie Xu, Xianlin Han

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Review in Mass spectrometry reviews, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Roles of FXR in Lipid Biochemistry within Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using MALDI MSI.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Changfeng HuCollege of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 548 Bingwen Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310053, China.
Wenqing LuoCollege of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 548 Bingwen Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310053, China.
Jie XuCollege of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, 266003, China.
Xianlin HanBarshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · CNOcean University of China · CNThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

South Texas Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterP30AG066546 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Mohamad Habes · 2021 to 2026
$24.0M
Utilization of proteomics and lipidomics to identify modifiers of LBDU54NS110435 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI MCLEAN, PAMELA J · 2019 to 2023
$14.5M
Identification of a missing key element underlying apoE2 neuroprotection in Alzheimer's disease and the aging brainRF1AG061872 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI HAN, XIANLIN, SESHADRI, SUDHA · 2018 to 2018
$3.4M
Sulfatide deficiency: A novel mechanism leading to reactive astrogliosis in aging and Alzheimer’s diseaseRF1AG061729 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI HAN, XIANLIN · 2021 to 2021
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066546NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG061729NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG061872NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS110435
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid research is attracting more and more attention as various key roles and novel biological functions of lipids have been demonstrated and discovered in the organism. Mass spectrometry (MS)-based lipidomics approaches are the most powerful and effective tools for analysis of cellular lipidomes with very high sensitivity and specificity. However, the artifacts generated from in-source fragmentation are always present in all kinds of ion sources, even soft ionization techniques (i.e., electrospray ionization and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization [MALDI]). These artifacts can cause many problems for lipidomics, especially when the fragment ions correspond to/are isomeric species of other endogenous lipid species in complex biological samples. These commonly observed artifacts could lead to misannotation, false identification, and consequently, incorrect attribution of phenotypes, and will have negative impact on any MS-based lipidomics research including but not limited to biomarker discovery, drug development, etc. Liquid chromatography-MS, shotgun lipidomics, and MALDI-MS imaging are three representative lipidomics approaches in which ion source-generated artifacts are all manifested and are comprehensively summarized in this article. The strategies on how to avoid/reduce the artifacts of in-source fragmentation on lipidomics analysis are also discussed in detail. We believe that with the recognition and avoidance of ion source-generated artifacts, MS-based lipidomics approaches will provide better accuracy on comprehensive analysis of biological samples and will make greater contribution to the research on metabolism and translational/precision medicine (collectively termed functional lipidomics). © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Mass Spec Rev.

Indexed as

ArtifactsLipidomicsChromatography, LiquidIonsSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationIonsartifactsfunctional lipidomicsin-source fragmentationlipidomicsMALDI-MSImass spectrometry

Identifiers

PMID32997818
PMCPMC8287896
OpenAlexW3091047196

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