Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry reveals lipid metabolism of individual oocytes and embryos.

Alteration of maternal lipid metabolism early in development has been shown to trigger obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases later in life in humans and animal models. Here, we set out to determine (i) lipid composition dynamics in single oocytes and preimplantatio...

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Main Authors: Andrés Felipe González-Serrano, Valentina Pirro, Christina R Ferreira, Paolo Oliveri, Livia S Eberlin, Julia Heinzmann, Andrea Lucas-Hahn, Heiner Niemann, Robert Graham Cooks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3779253?pdf=render