“…11 Previously, we also reported the use of the HPLC method for determining the purine content of food, 14 beer, and beer-like alcoholic beverages, 12 whereas LC-MS was suitable for the simultaneous analysis of 23 species of purine bases, pyrimidines, nucleosides, and nucleotides. 24 However, similar to most methods described, the simultaneous determination of purine bases (A, G, HX, X, and UA), nucleosides [(adenosine (Ado), guanosine (Guo), inosine (Ino), xanthosine (Xao), deoxyadenosine (dAdo), deoxyguanosine (dGuo), and deoxyinosine (dIno)], and nucleotides [Adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP), adenosine 5′-diphosphate (ADP), AMP, guanosine 5′-triphosphate (GTP), guanosine 5′-diphosphate (GDP), GMP, IMP, and xanthosine 5′-monophosphate (XMP), nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD + )] has yet to be reported. A method for the determination of the full profiles of nucleotides and their metabolites (nucleosides and purine bases) in various samples would be valuable for physiological and pharmacological studies.…”