Vol. 3 (2014)

Original Article

Quantification of Small Molecule Drugs in Biological Tissue Sections by Imaging Mass Spectrometry Using Surrogate Tissue-Based Calibration Standards

Nozomi Takai, Yukari Tanaka, Hideo Saji

Original Article

Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry (LDI-MS) of Lipids with Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Coated Targets

Maiko Kusano, Shin-ichirou Kawabata, Yusuke Tamura, Daigou Mizoguchi, Masato Murouchi, Hideya Kawasaki, Ryuichi Arakawa, Koichi Tanaka

Original Article

Formation of Benzyl Carbanion in Collision-Induced Dissociation of Deprotonated Phenylalanine Homologues

Kanako Sekimoto, Natsuki Matsuda, Mitsuo Takayama

Original Article

Sensitive Detection of Aromatic Hydrophobic Compounds in Water and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate in Human Serum by Surface-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry (SALDI-MS) with Amine Functionalized Graphene-Coated Cobalt Nanoparticles

Keisuke Nakai, Hideya Kawasaki, Atsushi Yamamoto, Ryuichi Arakawa, Robert N. Grass, Wendelin J. Stark

Original Article

Determination of Niacin and Its Metabolites Using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography Coupled to Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Kaori Taguchi, Eiichiro Fukusaki, Takeshi Bamba

Original Article

Peptide Peak Detection for Low Resolution MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry

Jingwen Yao, Shin-ichi Utsunomiya, Shigeki Kajihara, Tsuyoshi Tabata, Ken Aoshima, Yoshiya Oda, Koichi Tanaka

Original Article

Salt Tolerance Enhancement of Liquid Chromatography-Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Using Matrix Additive Methylenediphosphonic Acid

Yuki Ohta, Shinichi Iwamoto, Shin-ichirou Kawabata, Ritsuko Tanimura, Koichi Tanaka

Original Article

Activation of Nitrogen-Fixing Endophytes Is Associated with the Tuber Growth of Sweet Potato

Koyo Yonebayashi, Naoya Katsumi, Tomoe Nishi, Masanori Okazaki

Original Article

High-Throughput Analysis of Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters by Supercritical Fluid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Katsuhito Hori, Kazunobu Tsumura, Eiichiro Fukusaki, Takeshi Bamba

Preface

Recent Development of Mass Spectrometric Technologies in Asia and Oceania

Yu-Ju Chen, Jentaie Shiea

Review

Electrospray Ionization on Solid Substrates

Pui-Kin So, Bin Hu, Zhong-Ping Yao

Review

Effective Sample Preparations in Imaging Mass Spectrometry

Shuichi Shimma, Yuki Sugiura

Original Article

Analysis of Flexibility of Proteins by means of Positive and Negative Ion MALDI In-Source Decay Mass Spectrometry

Ryunosuke Iimuro, Mitsuo Takayama

Original Article

Super-Atmospheric Pressure Ion Sources: Application and Coupling to API Mass Spectrometer

Lee Chuin Chen, Md. Matiur Rahman, Kenzo Hiraoka

Original Article

Silver Oxide Based Nanoparticle Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Low Molecular Weight Compounds

Shu Taira, Hiroyuki Taguchi, Reiko Fukuda, Kohei Uematsu, Yuko Ichiyanagi, Yukie Tanaka, Yutaka Fujii, Hajime Katano

Original Article

Microfluidic Chip Coupled with Thermal Desorption Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Chia-Hsien Chang, Tsung-Yi Chen, Yu-Chie Chen

Original Article

Separation of Isobaric Compounds Using a Spiral Orbit Type Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer, MALDI-SpiralTOF

Takaya Satoh, Ayumi Kubo, Hisanao Hazama, Kunio Awazu, Michisato Toyoda

Original Article

Study of Isobaric Interference in Quantification of Citrulline by Parallel Fragmentation Monitoring

Eddy Wing Yin Ng, Hugh Simon Lam, Pak Cheung Ng, Terence Chuen Wai Poon

Original Article

Chiral Differentiation of Amino Acids by In-Source Collision-Induced Dissociation Mass Spectrometry

Xianglei Kong, Zhaiyi Huo, Wei Zhai

Original Article

Increasing the Performance of Portable Ion Mobility Analyzers: Development of the Periodic Focusing Differential Mobility Analyzer (PFDMA)

Kent J. Gillig, Chung-Hsuan Chen

Foreword

Foreword

Toshifumi Takao

Review

Thermodynamic Measurements of Alloys and Compounds by Double Knudsen Cell Mass Spectrometry and Their Application to Materials Processing

Hideaki Sasaki, Yoshifumi Kobashi, Takashi Nagai, Masafumi Maeda

Review

Recent Progress in Presolar Grain Studies

Sachiko Amari

Review

Application of Metabolomics for High Resolution Phenotype Analysis

Eiichiro Fukusaki

Review

Recent Advance in Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Environmental Analysis in Japan

Shigeru Suzuki

Review

Imaging Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Neurotransmitters: A Review

Gustavo A. Romero-Perez, Shiro Takei, Ikuko Yao

Original Article

Complementary Characterization of End Groups in Radically Polymerized Poly(methyl methacrylate) by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry and Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

Hajime Ohtani, Tomomi Iura

Original Article

Application of Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry to the Study of Ionic Clusters: Investigation of Cluster Ions with Stable Sizes and Compositions

Keijiro Ohshimo, Tatsuya Komukai, Tohru Takahashi, Naoya Norimasa, Jenna Wen Ju Wu, Ryoichi Moriyama, Kiichirou Koyasu, Fuminori Misaizu

Original Article

Establishment of a Strategy for the Discovery and Verification of Low-Abundance Biomarker Peptides in Plasma Using Two Types of Stable-Isotope Tags

Yoshio Kodera, Yuya Hido, Rika Kato, Tatsuya Saito, Yusuke Kawashima, Satoru Minamida, Kazumasa Matsumoto, Masatsugu Iwamura

Original Article

Simultaneous Quantification of Sphingolipids in Small Quantities of Liver by LC-MS/MS

Daisuke Saigusa, Michiyo Okudaira, Jiao Wang, Kuniyuki Kano, Makoto Kurano, Baasanjav Uranbileg, Hitoshi Ikeda, Yutaka Yatomi, Hozumi Motohashi, Junken Aoki

Original Article

Development of Non-proximate Probe Electrospray Ionization for Real-Time Analysis of Living Animal

Kentaro Yoshimura, Lee Chuin Chen, Hisashi Johno, Mayutaka Nakajima, Kenzo Hiraoka, Sen Takeda

Original Article

Application of Tapping-Mode Scanning Probe Electrospray Ionization to Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Additives in Polymer Films

Ryo Shimazu, Yoshinari Yamoto, Tomoya Kosaka, Hideya Kawasaki, Ryuichi Arakawa

Foreword

Foreword

Takaaki Nishioka

Original Article

Automatic Compound Annotation from Mass Spectrometry Data Using MAGMa

Lars Ridder, Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Stefan Verhoeven

Original Article

CASMI 2013: Identification of Small Molecules by Tandem Mass Spectrometry Combined with Database and Literature Mining

Andrew G. Newsome, Dejan Nikolic

Original Article

A Data Structure for Rapid Mass Spectral Searching

Daniel L. Sweeney

Original Article

Solving CASMI 2013 with MetFrag, MetFusion and MOLGEN-MS/MS

Emma L. Schymanski, Michael Gerlich, Christoph Ruttkies, Steffen Neumann

Original Article

Molecular Formula Identification Using Isotope Pattern Analysis and Calculation of Fragmentation Trees

Kai Dührkop, Franziska Hufsky, Sebastian Böcker

Original Article

Winners of CASMI2013: Automated Tools and Challenge Data

Takaaki Nishioka, Takeshi Kasama, Tomoya Kinumi, Hidefumi Makabe, Fumio Matsuda, Daisuke Miura, Masahiro Miyashita, Takemichi Nakamura, Ken Tanaka, Atsushi Yamamoto

Commentary

Rethinking Mass Spectrometry-Based Small Molecule Identification Strategies in Metabolomics

Fumio Matsuda