“…We have previously developed a robust, reproducible, and high-throughput targeted method for measuring 102 polar metabolites from various biological classes semiquantitatively in a single injection [ 17 , 18 ]. Furthermore, the method has been used in many biomedical and clinical studies for biomarker discovery [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ]. The metabolites were selected according to the following criteria: have important roles in many biological processes, are known biomarkers in several diseases and technical feasibility for developing an analytical method that covers all the metabolites in a single assay.…”