Novel Approaches to Lipid Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

Lipids have in the last few years become increasingly more important. This is due to the interest in the health aspects of lipids and their vital role in biological processes, e.g., as signaling molecules in living organisms.

For our understanding of the physiological and biochemical prosesses it is of paramount importance to know the molecular structure and properties of the various lipids. To elucidate this, there are many different analytical tools that can be utilized.

High-resolution chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry are of great value in addition to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). An example of the importance of NMR is in the elucidation of Sn-positions of fatty acids in acylglycerides. This becomes more challenging when analyzing complex biological samples that contain a plethora of acyl glyceride varieties, including structural isomeric differences. There are also analytical challenges when working with small amounts of analytes, which often is the case.

This Special Issue provides an opportunity to the scientific community to present research that uses different types of analytical instrumentation for complex structure elucidation of all kinds of lipids. Both instrumentation used in routine analysis and for research purposes only are of interest in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Dag Ekeberg
Dr. Hanne Devle
Guest Editors

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• lipidomics
• acylglycerides
• phospholipids
• glycolipids
• liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)
• gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
• nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
• other spectroscopic techniques
• lipids in food and feed
• lipids and human health
• lipolysis
• lipids in marine sources
• utilization of lipids in marine and terrestrial food and feed industries