ArticleJournal of proteome research2022
Serum or Plasma (and Which Plasma), That Is the Question.
Article in Journal of proteome research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical lipidomics in bacterial sepsis: a systematic review of serum and plasma evaluations.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2026Pooled it
- Association Between Peripheral IL-6 Levels in the Acute Stage of Stroke and Poststroke Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Prognostic and clinicopathological value of soluble programmed cell death ligand-1 (sPD-L1) in patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma: a meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Plasma Instead of Serum Avoids Critical Confounding of Clinical Metabolomics Studies by Platelets.Journal of proteome research · 2024Trial
- Prestin as a potential biomarker for cochlear injury: Current evidence and future directions.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Review
- Correlation between serum and plasma lipoprotein(a) measurements: ARIC study.Journal of clinical lipidology · 2026Article
- NMR-Based Metabolic Profiling of Biobank Derived Blood Samples for the Identification of Liver Disease Biomarkers.Biomolecules & therapeutics · 2026Article
- Liquid Biopsy-Based Metabolomics in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Challenges, Methodological Advances and Translational Considerations.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Recent Trends in Metabolomics by NMR Spectroscopy.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Review
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- Characterization of pre-analytical blood collection and stabilization parameters to maintain endogenous protein levels for remote blood sampling technology.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Evaluation of serum as an alternative matrix to plasma for NULISA‑based proteomic blood biomarker measurements.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Investigating Variability in Metabolomics: A Comparative Study of Analytical Platforms and Blood Matrices Using HPLC-HRMS.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Metabolic signatures in sciatic nerve of PMP22 transgenic rats provide insights into the pathogenesis of charcot-marie-tooth disease type 1 A.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Pitfalls of onco-metabolomics: impact of sample integrity on metabolomic investigations in more than 4500 human serum samples from ten different cohorts.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026Article
- Comparative profiling of amino acids in plasma and serum across children and adults using LC-MS/MS and its implications for precision nutrition.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Differences among canine serum, plasma and urine metabolite profiles from samples that were collected at the same time.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Chemical Tools to Characterize the Coordination Chemistry of Radionuclides for Radiopharmaceutical Applications.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Towards the clinical use of peripheral bile acids: Recommendations to limit their preanalytical and analytical sources of variability.Practical laboratory medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Blood derivatives are the biofluids of choice for metabolomic clinical studies since blood can be collected with low invasiveness and is rich in biological information. However, the choice of the blood collection tubes has an undeniable impact on the plasma and serum metabolic content. Here, we compared the metabolomic and lipoprotein profiles of blood samples collected at the same time and place from six healthy volunteers but using different collection tubes (each enrolled volunteer provided multiple blood samples at a distance of a few weeks/months): citrate plasma, EDTA plasma, and serum tubes. All samples were analyzed via nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Several metabolites showed statistically significant alterations among the three blood matrices, and also metabolites' correlations were shown to be affected. The effects of blood collection tubes on the lipoproteins' profiles are relevant too, but less marked. Overcoming the issue associated with different blood collection tubes is pivotal to scale metabolomics and lipoprotein analysis at the level of epidemiological studies based on samples from multicenter cohorts. We propose a statistical solution, based on regression, that is shown to be efficient in reducing the alterations induced by the different collection tubes for both the metabolomic and lipoprotein profiles.
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