Cancer detection and biopsy classification using concurrent histopathological and metabolomic analysis of core biopsies

Table 3 Number of metabolites in the major biochemical classes detected in various human tissues

Adrenal gland, colon, lung, muscle, pancreas, small intestine, spleen, and stomach samples were collected from beating heart donors just prior to the withdrawal of support, placed immediately in 80% methanol and incubated for 24 to 72 h at room temperature. Prostate refers to benign human tissue biopsy samples collected post-prostatectomy from regions of the prostate that did not contain cancer and processed in 80% methanol as described. Kidney refers to the fresh frozen normal human kidney tissue analyzed in the incubation time course experiment reported in Table 1. The number of metabolites detected in each biochemical class is indicated. The number of samples analyzed for each tissue type is indicated in parentheses.

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