Instrumentation
The facility has access to instrumentation based in the three laboratories.
The instruments based in the Systems Medicine group are:
Sciex 5500 QTrap
Ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography coupled to a triple quad/Q Trap mass spectrometer (UHPLC-QqQMS)
This spectrometer is designed to quantify a wide range of metabolites from lipids to amino acids in a targeted fashion
Agilent single quad gas chromatography mass spectrometer
This spectrometer is ideal for quantifying polar metabolites such as those in the TCA cycle and sugar derivatives.
This instrument has a sample preparation robot to automate the derivatisation required to reduce the sample-to-sample variability.
Automated sample prep workbench
Agilent Seahorse XF