Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 410, Issue 30, Pages 7979-7986Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-1420-0
Keywords
IR-MALDESI; Neurotransmitters; Mass spectrometry imaging; Exposomics; Orbitrap
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [R01GM087964, P30ES025128]
- National Institutes of Health IPA
- HP
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There is a pressing need to develop tools for assessing possible neurotoxicity, particularly for chemicals where the mode of action is poorly understood. Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), a highly abundant brominated flame retardant, has lately been targeted for neurotoxicity analysis by concerned public health entities in the EU and USA because it is a suspected thyroid disruptor and neurotoxicant. In this study, infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption electrospray ionization (IR-MALDESI) coupled to a Q Exactive Plus mass spectrometer was used for the analysis of neurotransmitters in the brains of rats exposed to TBBPA in gestation and lactation through their mothers. Three neurotransmitters of interest were studied in three selected regions of the brain: caudate putamen, substantia nigra (SN), and dorsal raphe. Stable isotope labeled (SIL) standards were used as internal standards and a means to achieve relative quantification. This study serves as a demonstration of a new application of IR-MALDESI, namely that neurotransmitter distributions can be confidently and rapidly imaged without derivatization.
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