“…Owing to zwitterionic polar heads and hydrophobic tails in phospholipid molecules and thus their inherent chemical nature, they are often co‐extracted with the compounds of interest during sample preparation and eluted at a wide range of retention times, resulting in ion suppression in ESI–MS (Chambers et al, ; Little et al, ). Phosphatidylcholines, sphingomyelins and lysophosphatidylcholines constitute the vast majority of total plasma phospholipids and cause most MEs in LC–MS‐based analytical methods for blood samples (Pang, Liang, Wang, Ping, & Luo, ; Schwarz, Dahlke, & Dreisbach, ). In our method, a sorbent‐containing filtration plate, Phree™ phospholipid‐removal plate (Phenomenex), was chosen to remove phospholipids as it has the ability to filter protein precipitate and selectively remove phospholipids.…”