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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 1343-1346Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2008.06.006
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We describe the application of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) as matrices for the determination of three estrogens using surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (SALDI-MS). Because Ag NPs have extremely high absorption coefficients (1.2 x 10(8) M-1 cm(-1)) at 337 nm, they are effective SALDI matrices when using a nitrogen laser. Three tested estrogens-estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), and estriol (E3)-adsorb weakly onto the surfaces of the Ag NPs, through van der Waals forces. After centrifugation, the concentrated analytes adsorbed on the Ag NPs were subjected directly to SALDI-MS analyses, with the limits of detection for E1, E2, and E3 being 2.23, 0.23, and 2.11 mu M, respectively. The shot-to-shot and batch-to-batch variations for the three analytes were less than 9% and 13%, respectively. We validated the practicality of this present approach through the quantitation of E2 in human urine. Using this approach, we determined the concentration of E2 in a sample of a pregnant woman's urine to be 0.16 +/- 0.05 mu M (n = 10). (J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2008, 19, 1343-1346) (C) 2008 American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
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