Ana Chem: New technology helps determine the composition of lipids in the brain

May 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at The University of California, Champs-Au-H.M., recently developed a new technique that can determine specific molecular forms, locations, and lipid counts in mouse brain tissue samplesThis technology provides more information than previous methodsrelated paper, "Quantitative Imprint Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Endogenous Ceramides in Rat Brain Tissue with Kinetic Blues", was recently published in the journal Analytical Chemistry"The brain is like a piece of butter, and the most common molecule sits in water and lipids," saidauthor of the article( James REisner, special chair of family chemistry and dean of the School of Chemical SciencesUnfortunately, we don't fully understand the chemical complexity of lipids in the brain, which makes it difficult to know how they function and how they are affected by different diseases"
previous studies in this field have identified the lipid composition in the brain region, but did not determine its location or quantitySweedler's team has improved a new technique called mass spectrometry that measures all three(Bio Valley Bioon.com)Source:New New Technique s forces forced spros in a brain region
Original Origin:Wu, Q., et al(2020) Quantitative MasstimeSpecromeimage of Endogenous Ceramides in Rat Brain with tissue With The Sy lOnKin Analytical Chemistry doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00392.