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Recent clinical trials demonstrated strong association between lipid abnormalities and progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR); however, whether circulating lipid levels or retinal lipid metabolism, or both, contributes to the pathogenesis of DR is not well understood. Limited amounts of retinal tissue available from animal models, such as mouse models of DR, have proved. Limited amount of retinal tissue was especially challenging for cholesterol and oxysterol detection as it precluded identification of individual isomers of each nonesterified sterol class. To measure cholesterol and oxysterols from limited retinal tissue samples, we developed extremely sensitive electrospray ionization liquid chromatography high-resolution/accurate mass measurements on an LTQ Orbitrap Velos mass spectrometer that are able to resolve sterols and oxysterols separated by reverse-phase HPLC using a gradient of 85–100% methanol containing 0.1% formic acid, with subsequent detection in positive ionization mode. This methodology will aid in our understanding of diabetes-induced changes in retinal cholesterol and oxysterol metabolism.
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Lydic, T.A., Busik, J.V. (2023). Diabetes Retinopathy: New Ways to Detect and Treat. In: Moore, A., Wang, P. (eds) Type-1 Diabetes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2592. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2807-2_6
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