Mapping Lipid Alterations in Traumatically Injured Rat Spinal Cord by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Imaging Mass Spectrometry
- 13 December 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 83 (1), 207-215
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac102264z
Abstract
Desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) mass spectrometry (MS) is used in an imaging mode to interrogate the lipid profiles of 15 μm thin tissue cross sections of injured rat spinal cord and normal healthy tissue. Increased relative intensities of fatty acids, diacylglycerols, and lysolipids (between +120% and +240%) as well as a small decrease in intensities of lipids (−30%) were visualized in the lesion epicenter and adjacent areas after spinal cord injury. This indicates the hydrolysis of lipids during the demyelination process due to activation of phospholipase A2 enzyme. In addition, signals corresponding to oxidative degradation products, such as prostaglandin and hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, exhibited increased signal intensity by a factor of 2 in the negative ion mode in lesions relative to the normal healthy tissue. Analysis of malondialdehyde, a product of lipid peroxidation and marker of oxidative stress, was accomplished in the ambient environment using reactive DESI mass spectrometry imaging. This was achieved by electrospraying reagent solution containing dinitrophenylhydrazine as high-velocity charged droplets onto the tissue section. The hydrazine reacts selectively and rapidly with the carbonyl groups of malondialdehyde, and signal intensity of twice the intensity was detected in the lesions compared to healthy spinal cord. With a small amount of tissue sample, DESI-MS imaging provides information on the composition and distribution of specific compounds (limited by the occurrence of isomeric lipids with very similar fragmentation patterns) in lesions after spinal cord injury in comparison with normal healthy tissue allowing identification of the extent of the lesion and its repair.Keywords
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