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Review

Lipidomics in Biomarker Research

Thorsten Hornemann  1
Arnold von Eckardstein  1 , Christoph J. Binder  2
, editors.
In: Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis: Improving State-of-the-Art Management and Search for Novel Targets [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2022.
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Lipidomics in Biomarker Research

Thorsten Hornemann.
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Excerpt

Lipids are natural substances found in all living organisms and involved in many biological functions. Imbalances in the lipid metabolism are linked to various diseases such as obesity, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease. Lipids comprise thousands of chemically distinct species making them a challenge to analyze because of their great structural diversity.

Thanks to the technological improvements in the fields of chromatography, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics over the last years, it is now possible to perform global lipidomics analyses, allowing the concomitant detection, identification, and relative quantification of hundreds of lipid species. This review shall provide an insight into a general lipidomics workflow and its application in metabolic biomarker research.

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