“…The routine application of these techniques to large numbers of samples is still complicated, due to their intolerance to impurities (ESI) and varied instrumental response to different lipid classes/molecular species (ESI, FAB) 14,. 16,, 32,, 33 MALDI analysis of lipid molecules is generally more sensitive and less affected by impurities and polarities of the analytes than ESI 25,. 26,, 28,, 33 Although seldom used to provide detailed structural information for particular molecular species,28,, 31,, 35 MALDI is potentially an excellent analytical method for rapidly screening lipid components in biological matrices 35…”