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Conditions for the determination of organic acids without derivatization using GC–MS on a polar stationary phase were optimized. A procedure for preparing blood serum for analysis (precipitation of proteins and removal of lipids) and conditions for the selective separation of analytes (temperature gradient, 70−230°C) were proposed. The developed approaches made it possible to obtain characteristic profiles of organic acids in the blood serum samples of patients with endometriosis and uterine myoma (as a comparison reference group).\nSimilar content being viewed by others\nREFERENCES\nGiudice, L.C., N. Engl. J. Med., 2010, vol. 362, p. 2389. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMcp1000274\nGovorov, I., Sitkin, S., Pervunina, T., Moskvin, A., Baranenko, D., and Komlichenko, E., Curr. Med. Chem., 2020, vol. 27, no. 22, p. 3611. https://doi.org/10.2174/0929867326666190104124245\nKartsova, L.A., Bessonova, E.A., Deev, V.A., and Kolobova, E.A., Crit. Rev. Anal. 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Makhlyarchuk\nPublisher’s Note.\nPleiades Publishing remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.\nRights and permissions\nAbout this article\nCite this article\nBessonova, E.A., Araslanova, A.T., Lazaretova, A.I. et al. Metabolic Profiling of Carboxylic Acids and Amino Acids in the Biological Fluids of Patients Diagnosed with Endometriosis Using Liquid (HPLC-UV) and Gas (GC–MS) Chromatography. J Anal Chem 78, 1469–1479 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061934823100040\nReceived:\nRevised:\nAccepted:\nPublished:\nVersion of record:\nIssue date:\nDOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061934823100040","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}