《Rapid In Vivo Fingerprinting of Nonvolatile Compounds in Breath by Extractive Electrospray Ionization Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry》.ppt

Rapid In Vivo Fingerprinting of Nonvolatile Compounds in Breath by Extractive Electrospray Ionization Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Page ? * H. Chen, A. Wortmann, W. Zhang and R. Zenobi. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2007, 46(4), 580-583. Figure 1. Schematic illustration of the concept and setup of EESIQTOF-MS. Figure 2. Breath fingerprints obtained under different conditions:a) after overnight fasting, a higher urea content (showing dominant proton-bound dimer m/z 121 and monomer m/z 61) was detected in the breath. Note that there is a break in the y-axis between 20 and 30%; b) urea at a lower level was also found in breath 2 h after consuming cheese, a high-protein diet. The inset shows the CID spectrum of the proton-bound urea dimer (m/z 121). Figure 3. Breath fingerprints, obtained by EESI-QTOF-MS using water/HAc (5:1) as the spraying solution, of an individual Asian (left column) and European (right column) subject before and after drinking beer which reflect body metabolic dynamics. a,b) similar fingerprints before drinking beer; c,d) after one bottle (500 mL) of beer; e,f) after three bottles of beer; g,h) 50 min after finishing three bottles of beer. The insets in b, d, f, and h show fragmentation of the ions at m/z 181, 183, 282, and 549, respectively. Figure S2. Metabolic dynamics shown in breath fingerprints after smoking: a) breath fingerprint before smoking; b) breath fingerprint within 2 min after smoking; c) breath fingerprint 80 min after smoking; d) breath fingerprint 4 hours after smoking. Inserts show the nicotine and cotinine relative intensities in different measurements. Figure 4. Highly selective detection of sulfur-containing species present in breath after eating garlic: a) breath fingerprint showing no nonpolar compounds in the absence of any Ag+/molecule reactions; the inset shows the isotope signals of silver produced by electrospraying the AgNO3 water solution; b) simplified spectrum showing adducts formed between silver isotopes