The invention belongs to the technical field of
cell viability on-line discrimination, and particularly relates to a
mass spectrum-based
cell viability measurement method and a
mass spectrum-based
cell viability measurement
system. The invention provides a
label-free endogenous
metabolite-based cell viability measurement scheme and a
label-free endogenous
metabolite-based cell viability measurement
system, aiming at the defects that the prior art depends on an exogenous
label and cannot be synchronously carried out on line with single
cell mass spectrometry. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring continuous single cell
metabolome data through single cell
electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, identifying a single cell event and a time window by taking ubiquitous membrane lipid as a first characteristic
ion, extracting an endogenous
metabolite reflecting
cell activity in the window as a second characteristic
ion, and calculating a
signal-to-
noise ratio; generating an activity label according to a preset threshold value and counting the cell viability of the group, wherein the
system correspondingly comprises a
data acquisition module, an event identification module, a marker extraction module, a threshold value judgment module and a viability counting module. According to the invention, synchronous, on-line and label-free accurate measurement of the cell viability in single cell metabonomics analysis is realized, and exogenous interference and data deviation are effectively avoided.