The development and commercial availability of plasma ion source, specifically inductively coupled plasma, mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) have significantly extended the potential application of stable isotopes for nutritional modeling. The status of research and commercial ICP-MS instruments, and their applications and limitations for stable isotopic studies are reviewed. The consequences of mass spectroscopic resolution and measurement sensitivity obtainable with quadrupole, sector, time-of-flight, and trap instruments on stable isotope analysis are examined. Requirements for reliable isotope measurements with practical biological samples including tissues and fluids are considered. The possibility for stable isotope analysis in chemically separated compounds (speciation) also is explored. On- line compound separations by chromatography or electrophoresis, for example, have been combined instrumentally with ICP-MS. Some possibilities and requirements are described for stable isotope speciation analysis.
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Barnes, R. M. (1998). Plasma source mass spectrometry in experimental nutrition. In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (Vol. 445, pp. 379–396). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1959-5_24
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