Figure 1. Workflow outlining tissue sample preparation for combined lipidomics and MALDI-IMS.
(1) Serial coronal sections from GSC xenografts at 10 and 15 μm. (2) MALDI-IMS (10 μm) and lipid extraction ESI-MS/MS (15 μm) experiments were performed in parallel. (3) The identity of biological species of interest was confirmed by MS/MS. Lipid extraction and ESI-MS/MS provide quantitative measures of lipid species at high-resolution with submillimass accuracy and MALDI-IMS provides lipid localization of identified lipids as intact molecular ions.