In Vivo, In Situ Tissue Analysis Using Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry
In Vivo, In Situ Tissue Analysis Using Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200902546
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Takats, Zoltan
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作者:
Schaefer, Karl-Christian;Denes, Julia;Takats, Zoltan
The analysis of intact biological tissues by mass spectrometry (MS) has been pursued for more than three decades. However, mass spectrometric methods have always put strong constraints on the geometry and the preparation of these samples. Even with the recent advent of ambient ionization methods, not all of these restrictions have been lifted.[1–5]MS analysis of biomolecules in tissue has traditionally been achieved by desorption ionization methods including secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS),[6–11] matrix-assisted laser desorption (MALDI),[12–17, 19, 20] and desorption electrospray ionization (DESI)[4, 5, 18] methods. While desorption ionization methods are not appropriate for the analysis of vital (living) tissues, rapid thermal evaporation has the potential to establish the in situ, in vivo ionization of tissue constituents. The possible formation of organic ions from condensed-phase samples in a purely thermal process was initially proposed by Holland et al.,[21] and it was successfully demonstrated later.[22–24] The rationale of rapid heating was to achieve molecular evaporation rates comparable to the rate of decomposition, which results in the formation of a considerable quantity of gaseous molecules or molecular ions.