Abstract
Blood is the most widely used biological specimen in the metabolomics field. With its unique characteristics of high reproducibility and excellent quantitation, NMR spectroscopy offers immense benefits for the analysis of blood metabolites. In the metabolomics field, intact blood serum and plasma have been widely used for many years. However, such analysis has met with challenges arising from the deleterious effects of the abundant proteins in serum and plasma. Recent advances have led to the development of improved NMR methods that involve removal of protein before analysis. In particular, protein removal by precipitation using methanol alone or using a mixture of methanol and chloroform was shown to be an optimal method for metabolite recovery and for producing highly resolved NMR spectra. This has led to the absolute quantitation of nearly 70 metabolites in serum and plasma and nearly 80 in whole blood. In this chapter, we describe protocols for the analysis of blood serum, blood plasma, and whole blood metabolites using 1D 1H NMR spectroscopy methods.
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We acknowledge financial support from the NIH (National Institute of General Medical Sciences 2R01GM085291).
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Nagana Gowda, G.A., Raftery, D. (2019). Analysis of Plasma, Serum, and Whole Blood Metabolites Using 1H NMR Spectroscopy. In: Gowda, G., Raftery, D. (eds) NMR-Based Metabolomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2037. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9690-2_2
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