標題: Hydrogel Micropatches for Sampling and Profiling Skin Metabolites
作者: Dutkiewicz, Ewelina P.
Lin, Jia-Der
Tseng, Te-Wei
Wang, Yi-Sheng
Urban, Pawel L.
應用化學系
Department of Applied Chemistry
公開日期: 4-Mar-2014
摘要: Metabolites excreted by skin have a huge potential as disease biomarkers. However, due to the shortage of convenient sampling/analysis methods, the analysis of sweat has not become very popular in the clinical setting (pilocarpine iontophoresis being a prominent exception). In this report, a facile method for sampling and rapid chemical profiling of skin metabolites excreted with sweat is proposed. Metabolites released by skin (primarily the constituents of sweat) are collected into hydrogel (agarose) micropatches. Subsequently, they are extracted in an online analytical setup incorporating nanospray desorption electrospray ionization and an ion trap mass spectrometer. In a series of reference measurements, using bulk sampling and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, various low-molecular-weight metabolites are detected in the micropatches exposed to skin. The sampling time is as short as 10 min, while the desorption time is 2 min. Technical precision of micropatch analysis varies within the range of 3-42%, depending on the sample and the method of data treatment; the best technical precision (<= 10%) has been achieved while using an isotopically labeled internal standard. The limits of detection range from 7 to 278 pmol. Differences in the quantities of extracted metabolites are observed for the samples obtained from healthy individuals (intersubject variabilities: 30-89%; n = 9), which suggests that this method may have the potential to become a semiquantitative assay in clinical analysis and forensics.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac4039338
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/23990
ISSN: 0003-2700
DOI: 10.1021/ac4039338
期刊: ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume: 86
Issue: 5
起始頁: 2337
結束頁: 2344
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