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Neuropeptide imaging in rat spinal cord with MALDI-TOF MS: Method development for the application in pain-related disease studies.

Sui P, Watanabe H, Artemenko K, Sun W, Bakalkin G, Andersson M, Bergquist J

European journal of mass spectrometry (Chichester, England)7 May 2017Cited by 11 (Europe PMC)

PMID28657437 (opens in a new tab)DOI10.1177/1469066717703272 (opens in a new tab)PepBankPUB-28657437
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Results from this study1

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  1. 01AnimalEndogenous levelAnimal study (in vivo)Other

    In naive rat spinal cord, imaging mass spectrometry showed that the distribution of the body's own thymosin beta‑4 matched histological features.

    In plain wordsIn rats, imaging showed that the body's own thymosin beta‑4 in the spinal cord lined up with the tissue structure.

    Peptide
    Thymosin beta-4 (human)
    Outcome
    Not applicableThymosin beta 4 distribution in naive rat spinal cord
    Study

    ratn: not reported in source

    Naive rat spinal cord tissue, MALDI TOF imaging mass spectrometry
    Outcome group
    Pain · Nervous system and cognition

    Source sentences

    Summary
    The imaging result showed that in naive rat spinal cord the molecular distribution of haeme, phosphatidylcholine, substance P and thymosin beta 4 were well in line with histological features.
    1 context sentence
    Summary · context
    This study was the first to investigate pain-related neuropeptide distribution in rat spinal cord using a matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS) approach.

    This result measures the body's own Thymosin beta-4 (human). Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.

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  1. Version 2Current

    13 Oct 2026, 01:52 UTC

    Study results updated

  2. Version 1

    12 Oct 2026, 18:17 UTC

    First added · source update from Europe PMC

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