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. 2022 Mar;57(3):e4813.
doi: 10.1002/jms.4813.

Effects of dopants in the imaging of mouse brain by desorption electrospray ionization/post-photoionization mass spectrometry

Liutian Wu  1 , Keke Qi  1 , Minggao Xu  1 , Chengyuan Liu  1 , Yang Pan  1
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Effects of dopants in the imaging of mouse brain by desorption electrospray ionization/post-photoionization mass spectrometry

Liutian Wu et al. J Mass Spectrom. 2022 Mar.

Abstract

Desorption electrospray ionization/post-photoionization (DESI/PI) is a newly developed ionization method by the combination of DESI and post-photoionization for the simultaneous imaging of polar and nonpolar compounds in biological tissues. Dopants are of great importance in DESI/PI for the enhancement of signal intensities through ion-molecule reactions. In this work, to evaluate the performance of dopants in DESI/PI, an efficient homogenate model was developed, and four kinds of dopants (toluene, chlorobenzene, bromobenzene, and anisole) were tested using homogenate of mouse brain tissue as target sample. The influences of the dopants on the signal enhancements of different compounds were explained reasonably by the ionization mechanism. Then, the dopants with their optimum volume contents were applied to the mass spectrometry imaging (MSI). For a comprehensive imaging of various compounds with different polarities, methanol/toluene/formic acid (7:3:0.1) was chosen as the best choice. Finally, the stronger quantitative ability of DESI/PI with toluene as dopant for a few compounds in mouse brain tissue was demonstrated.

Keywords: DESI/PI; MSI; dopant; homogenate; quantification.

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