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. 2019 Jul 8;9:9822. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-46371-w

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Analysis of the effect of blank injections during the analysis of a batch of urine samples. (A) PCA scores (PC1 and PC2) as a function of the injection order. Red circles indicate the position of the blanks; (B) Evolution of the δ value and the number of LC-MS features showing different mean peak area using as reference the mean values calculated after the injection of 8 samples for reconditioning. Note: *indicates permutation test p-value < 0.05; (C) Peak area values, RT and extracted ion chromatograms for tryptophan in urine replicates. Red dots: blanks. Colored bold lines in the chromatograms indicate the limits of the XCMS integration window; (D) Distribution (top) and mean intensity profiles (bottom) of the features included in clusters 1 and 2 (see text for details).