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Preparation of Human Tissues Embedded in Optimal Cutting Temperature Compound for Mass Spectrometry Analysis
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Recherche en cancérologie
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Preparation of Human Tissues Embedded in Optimal Cutting Temperature Compound for Mass Spectrometry Analysis
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09:09 min

April 27, 2021

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Chapitres

  • 00:04Introduction
  • 00:54Preparation of Tissue-Drying Wicks
  • 01:39Tissue Washing for Sphingolipidomic Optimal Cutting Temperature-Compound (OCT) Removal
  • 02:41Tissue Weighing for Data Normalization
  • 04:12Lipid Extraction
  • 07:03Results: Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC ESI MS/MS) Analysis of Tissues Following OCT Removal
  • 08:36Conclusion

Summary

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Sphingolipids are bioactive metabolites with well-established roles in human disease. Characterizing alterations in tissues with mass-spectrometry can reveal roles in disease etiology or identify therapeutic targets. However, the OCT-compound used for cryopreservation in biorepositories interferes with mass-spectrometry. We outline methods to analyze sphingolipids in human tissues embedded in OCT with LC-ESI-MS/MS.

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