Four ~1.5-g frozen tissue samples collected from specimens 25, 27, 28, and 29 each in 1:1 wt:wt sample to EtOH ratio solutions were shipped on dry ice for biogenic amines panel metabolome analyses by HILIC-QTOF MS/MS [76 (link)] at the UC Davis West Coast Metabolomic Center (http://metabolomics.ucdavis.edu/). Raw output files were curated based on internal standard removal, signal to noise ratio cutoff, and a minimum peak threshold of 1000 and subsequently parsed based on average (n=4) metabolite log fold increases relative to blanks, as suggested elsewhere [77 (link)]. Only metabolites with non-redundant names and InChIKey identifiers and average fold changes higher than 5 relative to blanks were retained for further analyses.
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