Samples were prepared according to.
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link) Specifically, 35 mg of textile matrix was weighed per sample. Afterward, 2 mL of
HPLC-grade acetone (Sigma Aldrich, Sydney, Australia) and 2 mL of HPLC-grade chloroform (ChemSupply, Port Adelaide, Australia) were added to each vial and sonicated, without heat, for 20 minutes. The samples were then left at 4 °C for 16 hours for extraction. Afterward, 1 mL of the resulting extract was filtered through a 0.2 μm hydrophobic PTFE syringe filter (MicroAnalytix, Taren Point, Australia). Then, 25 μL of the filtered aliquots were spiked with 20 μL 10 ppm stearic acid-d3 (Merck, Macquarie Park, Australia) and 50 μL of 10 ppm cholesterol-d7 were added as internal standards. These were dried down under a gentle stream of nitrogen at 40°C. Samples were then reconstituted in 40 μL of N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA) with trimethylchlorosilane (TMCS) (PM Separations, Capalaba, Australia) and 10 μL of HPLC acetonitrile (Labscan Ltd., Gillman, Australia), and heated for 30 minutes at 70°C prior to being transferred into 250 μL polymer inserts (Agilent Technologies, Mulgrave, Australia). All samples were extracted and aliquoted in duplicates and injected onto the GC-MS/MS, where duplicate runs were conducted, giving a total of four data points per sample with the addition of a full scan injection for quality control purposes.
Collins S., Maestrini L., Hui F.K., Stuart B, & Ueland M. (2023). The use of generalized linear mixed models to investigate postmortem lipids in textiles. iScience, 26(8), 107371.