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Mass Spectrometry
Clinical Services
The Mass Spectrometry Resource Center houses approximately $1 million dollars in equipment and maintains the staff needed to support the various research projects that depend on mass spectral data. The availability of hundreds of biomolecules enriched with stable (nonradioactive) isotopes has increased demand on analytical techniques that can measure the enrichment and follow the metabolism of selected biomolecules. Although a major part of our research has used these isotopes in various animal models, the fact that they are safe for use in humans means that a number of our study protocols can be "translational" (from laboratory to bedside) in nature. Recently, the field of mass spectrometry has expanded into an area
of research termed "proteomics." This is a very unique application of mass spectrometry, and the Mass Spectrometry Resource Center has developed links to the Cancer Center Proteomics Core Laboratory headed by Dr. Mark Duncan, who is a faculty member in the pediatric Section of Pulmonary Medicine.
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