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Blood derivatives are the biofluids of choice for metabolomic clinical studies since blood can be collected with low invasiveness and is rich in biological information. However, the choice of the blood collection tubes has an undeniable impact on the plasma and serum metabolic content. Here, we compared the metabolomic and lipoprotein profiles of blood samples collected at the same time and place from six healthy volunteers but using different collection tubes (each enrolled volunteer provided multiple blood samples at a distance of a few weeks/months): citrate plasma, EDTA plasma, and serum tubes. All samples were analyzed via nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Several metabolites showed statistically significant alterations among the three blood matrices, and also metabolites' correlations were shown to be affected. The effects of blood collection tubes on the lipoproteins' profiles are relevant too, but less marked. Overcoming the issue associated with different blood collection tubes is pivotal to scale metabolomics and lipoprotein analysis at the level of epidemiological studies based on samples from multicenter cohorts. We propose a statistical solution, based on regression, that is shown to be efficient in reducing the alterations induced by the different collection tubes for both the metabolomic and lipoprotein profiles.
Serum, Blood Specimen Collection, Plasma, collection tubes; citrate; EDTA; serum; plasma; NMR; metabolomics; lipidomics, Humans, Metabolomics, Citric Acid, citrate; collection tubes; EDTA; lipidomics; metabolomics; NMR; plasma; serum; Blood Specimen Collection; Citric Acid; Humans; Metabolomics; Plasma; Serum
Serum, Blood Specimen Collection, Plasma, collection tubes; citrate; EDTA; serum; plasma; NMR; metabolomics; lipidomics, Humans, Metabolomics, Citric Acid, citrate; collection tubes; EDTA; lipidomics; metabolomics; NMR; plasma; serum; Blood Specimen Collection; Citric Acid; Humans; Metabolomics; Plasma; Serum
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