Trends in the Application of High-resolution Mass Spectrometry for Human Biomonitoring: An Analytical Primer to Studying the Environmental Chemical Space of the Human Exposome

Overview

Journal Environ Int

Specialties Environmental Health
Toxicology

Date 2017 Jan 8

PMID 28062070

Citations 48

Authors

Syam S Andra

Christine Austin

Dhavalkumar Patel

Georgia Dolios

Mahmoud Awawda

Manish Arora

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Abstract

Global profiling of xenobiotics in human matrices in an untargeted mode is gaining attention for studying the environmental chemical space of the human exposome. Defined as the study of a comprehensive inclusion of environmental influences and associated biological responses, human exposome science is currently evolving out of the metabolomics science. In analogy to the latter, the development and applications of high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) has shown potential and promise to greatly expand our ability to capture the broad spectrum of environmental chemicals in exposome studies. HRMS can perform both untargeted and targeted analysis because of its capability of full- and/or tandem-mass spectrum acquisition at high mass accuracy with good sensitivity. The collected data from target, suspect and non-target screening can be used not only for the identification of environmental chemical contaminants in human matrices prospectively but also retrospectively. This review covers recent trends and advances in this field. We focus on advances and applications of HRMS in human biomonitoring studies, and data acquisition and mining. The acquired insights provide stepping stones to improve understanding of the human exposome by applying HRMS, and the challenges and prospects for future research.

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