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Moon CM, Heo SH, Jeong YY, Lee YY, Kim SK, Shin SS. In vivo Hyperpolarized Metabolic Imaging to Monitor the Progression of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)-Related Hepatitis to Liver Fibrosis. Mol Imaging Biol 2024; 26:649-657. [PMID: 38992246 DOI: 10.1007/s11307-024-01936-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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PURPOSE This study aimed to assess metabolic changes to monitor the progression from normal liver to hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatitis and liver fibrosis using hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). PROCEDURES Hepatitis was induced in mice (n = 16) via hydrodynamic injection of HBV 1.2 plasmid (25 μg). Among them, liver fibrosis was induced in the mice (n = 8) through weight-adapted administration of thioacetamide with ethanol. Normal control mice (n = 8) were injected with a phosphate buffer solution. Subsequently, a hyperpolarized 13C MRI was performed on the mouse liver in vivo. The level of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in blood serum was measured. Statistical analysis involved comparing the differential metabolite ratios, blood biochemistry values, and body weight among the three groups using the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance. RESULTS HBsAg was absent in the normal and fibrosis groups, while it was detected in the hepatitis group. The ratios of [1-13C] lactate/pyruvate, [1-13C] alanine/pyruvate, [1-13C] lactate/total carbon, and [1-13C] alanine/total carbon were significantly lower in the normal control group than in the hepatitis and fibrosis groups (p < 0.05). Moreover, these ratios were significantly higher in the fibrosis group than in the hepatitis group (p < 0.05). However, no significant differences were observed in either [1-13C] pyruvate-hydrate/pyruvate or [1-13C] pyruvate-hydrate/total carbon among the three groups. CONCLUSIONS The levels of [1-13C] lactate and [1-13C] alanine in vivo may serve as valuable indicators for differentiating between HBV-related hepatitis, liver fibrosis, and normal liver.
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- Chung Man Moon
- Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Chonnam National University, 264 Seoyang‑ro, Hwasun‑eup, Hwasun‑gun, Jeollanam‑do, 58128, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, 322 Seoyang‑ro, Hwasun‑eup, Hwasun‑gun, Jeollanam‑do, 58128, Republic of Korea
- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 42 Jebong‑ro, Dong‑gu, Gwangju, 61469, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, 322 Seoyang‑ro, Hwasun‑eup, Hwasun‑gun, Jeollanam‑do, 58128, Republic of Korea
- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 42 Jebong‑ro, Dong‑gu, Gwangju, 61469, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 42 Jebong‑ro, Dong‑gu, Gwangju, 61469, Republic of Korea
- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Hospital, 42 Jebong‑ro, Dong‑gu, Gwangju, 61469, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, 322 Seoyang‑ro, Hwasun‑eup, Hwasun‑gun, Jeollanam‑do, 58128, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 42 Jebong‑ro, Dong‑gu, Gwangju, 61469, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 42 Jebong‑ro, Dong‑gu, Gwangju, 61469, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Hospital, 42 Jebong‑ro, Dong‑gu, Gwangju, 61469, Republic of Korea.
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Ben Othman A, Ben Ali R, Ben Akacha A, El May MV. Evaluation of antinociceptive effect and pharmacological mechanisms of thiocyanoacetamide in rats. Pain Pract 2023; 23:704-712. [PMID: 37083025 DOI: 10.1111/papr.13234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Acute pain is the most common type of pain. The aim of the present work was carried out to study the antinociceptive effect and pharmacological mechanisms of thiocyanoacetamide (Thm) in rats exposed to thermal pain stimulus. MATERIALS AND METHODS The anti-nociceptive effect of the newly synthesized compound, Thm was studied in comparison to that of paracetamol (Para), dexamethasone (Dex), and morphine (Morph) at different doses using a hot plate test at a constant temperature of 48.0 ± 0.5°C. During this test, the latency time (LT) was measured when rats express pain behavior. Then, the pharmacological mechanisms were determined using receptor-antagonist drugs. RESULTS Firstly, the obtained result showed pain modulation of the pretreated rats with Thm at 10 mg/kg dose proved by the delay of latency time during the thermal test. This significant antinociceptive activity of the thiocyanoacetamide was more effective than that of paracetamol or dexamethasone and less than that of morphine. Second, the pretreatment with acebutolol or risperidone antagonist drugs of, respectively, adrenergic and serotonin receptors demonstrated the elimination of pain modulation with Thm 10 mg/kg dose proved by a short latency time of rat's response in hot plate test. In this case, the pharmacological mechanism of Thm was characterized by the involvement of adrenergic and serotoninergic systems. CONCLUSIONS It may be concluded that Thm constitutes a promising antinociceptive drug including beta-adrenergic and serotoninergic targets. The present study warrants further investigation to determine the side effects of this compound.
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- Amal Ben Othman
- Experimental Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
- Histology, Embryology and Cell Biology Laboratory, Unit Research n° 17/ES/13, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Experimental Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
- Histology, Embryology and Cell Biology Laboratory, Unit Research n° 17/ES/13, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Organic Synthesis and Heterocyclic Chemistry Department, LR17ES01 Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Experimental Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
- Histology, Embryology and Cell Biology Laboratory, Unit Research n° 17/ES/13, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Pu W, Wang X, Zhong X, Zhao D, Zeng Z, Cai W, Zhong Y, Huang J, Tang D, Dai Y. Dysregulation of lipid metabolism in the pseudolobule promotes region-specific autophagy in hepatitis B liver cirrhosis. Hepatol Commun 2023; 7:e0187. [PMID: 37486962 PMCID: PMC10368385 DOI: 10.1097/hc9.0000000000000187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection leads to liver cirrhosis (LC), the end stage of liver fibrosis. The precise diagnosis and effective therapy for hepatitis B cirrhosis are still lacking. It is highly necessary to elucidate the metabolic alteration, especially the spatial distribution of metabolites, in LC progression. METHODS In this study, LC-MS/MS together with an airflow-assisted ionization mass spectrometry imaging system was applied to analyze and compare the metabolites' spatial distribution in healthy control (HC) and hepatitis B LC tissue samples. The liver samples were further divided into several subregions in HC and LC groups based on the anatomical characteristics and clinical features. RESULTS Both the LC-MS/MS and mass spectrometry imaging results indicated separated metabolite clusters between the HC and LC groups. The differential metabolites were mainly concentrated in lipid-like molecules and amino acids. The phosphatidylcholines (PCs), lysoPCs, several fatty acids, and amino acids reduced expression in the LC group with region specific. Acyl-CoA thioesterase 2 and choline/ethanolamine phosphotransferase 1, which regulate PC and fatty acid metabolism, were significantly decreased in the pseudolobule. Meanwhile, the increased expression of LC3B and p62 in the pseudolobule indicated the upregulation of autophagy. CONCLUSIONS Hepatitis B LC induced region-specific autophagy by increasing the expression of LC3B and p62 in the pseudolobule and by dysregulation of unsaturated fatty acids, amino acids, and PC metabolism. The mass spectrometry imaging system provided additional metabolites' spatial information, which can promote biomarker screening technology and support the exploration of novel mechanisms in LC.
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- Wenjun Pu
- Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Shenzhen, China
- The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Nephrology Center, Department of Liver Transplant Center, The Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Shenzhen, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Shenzhen, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Nephrology Center, Department of Liver Transplant Center, The Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Shenzhen, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Shenzhen, China
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Vázquez-Atanacio MJ, Bautista M, González-Cortazar M, Romero-Estrada A, De la O-Arciniega M, Castañeda-Ovando A, Sosa-Gutiérrez CG, Ojeda-Ramírez D. Nephroprotective Activity of Papaloquelite ( Porophyllum ruderale) in Thioacetamide-Induced Injury Model. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:3460. [PMID: 36559573 PMCID: PMC9784717 DOI: 10.3390/plants11243460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Acute kidney injury and impaired kidney function is associated with reduced survival and increased morbidity. Porophyllum ruderale is an edible plant endemic to Mexico used in Mexican traditional medicine. The aim of this study was to evaluate the nephroprotective effect of a hydroalcoholic extract (MeOH:water 70:30, v/v) from the aerial parts of P. ruderale (HEPr). Firstly, in vitro the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity of HEPr was determined; after the in vivo nephroprotective activity of HEPr was evaluated using a thioacetamide-induced injury model in rats. HEPr showed a slight effect on LPS-NO production in macrophages (15% INO at 40 µg/mL) and high antioxidant activity in the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) test, followed by the activity on DPPH and ABTS radicals test (69.04, 63.06 and 32.96% of inhibition, respectively). In addition, values of kidney injury biomarkers in urine (urobilinogen, hemoglobin, bilirubin, ketones, glucose, protein, pH, nitrites, leukocytes, specific gravity, and the microalbumin/creatinine) and serum (creatinine, urea, and urea nitrogen) of rats treated with HEPr were maintained in normal ranges. Finally, 5-O-caffeoylquinic, 4-O-caffeoylquinic and ferulic acids; as well as 3-O-quercetin glucoside and 3-O-kaempferol glucoside were identified by HPLC as major components of HEPr. In conclusion, Porophyllum ruderale constitutes a source of compounds for the treatment of acute kidney injury.
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- María José Vázquez-Atanacio
- Área Académica de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Instituto de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Av. Universidad Km 1, Ex-Hda. de Aquetzalpa, Tulancingo 43600, Hidalgo, Mexico
- Área Académica de Farmacia, Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Ex Hacienda la Concepción s/n, San Agustín Tlaxiaca 42160, Hidalgo, Mexico
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- Área Académica de Farmacia, Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Ex Hacienda la Concepción s/n, San Agustín Tlaxiaca 42160, Hidalgo, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica del Sur, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Argentina No. 1., Centro, Xochitepec 62790, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Madera, Celulosa y Papel, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad de Guadalajara, Km 15.5 Carretera Guadalajara-Nogales, Col. Las Agujas, Zapopan 45100, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Área Académica de Farmacia, Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Ex Hacienda la Concepción s/n, San Agustín Tlaxiaca 42160, Hidalgo, Mexico
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- Área Académica de Química, Instituto de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca-Tulancingo km 4.5 Carboneras, Mineral de la Reforma 42184, Hidalgo, Mexico
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- Área Académica de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Instituto de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Av. Universidad Km 1, Ex-Hda. de Aquetzalpa, Tulancingo 43600, Hidalgo, Mexico
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- Área Académica de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Instituto de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Av. Universidad Km 1, Ex-Hda. de Aquetzalpa, Tulancingo 43600, Hidalgo, Mexico
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Metabolomic Mechanisms of Radix Fici Hirtae against Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Acute Liver Damage in Mice. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2022; 2022:9157465. [PMID: 35620409 PMCID: PMC9129960 DOI: 10.1155/2022/9157465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Revised: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Background Radix Fici Hirtae (RFH), known as Cantonese ginseng, is an alternative folk medicine that is widely used to treat various diseases in southern China. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect and metabolic mechanisms of pretreatment with RFH on the serum metabolic profiles of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced acute liver injury in mice. Methods Mice fed with the water extract of RFH at a dose of 1.5 g/kg and 0.75 g/kg for consecutive 7 days, and then serum samples were taken for the metabolomic analysis. Furthermore, the bioinformatics and pathways analysis were measured. Results The UHPLC-Orbitrap/MS based-metabolomic analysis identified 20 differential metabolic markers in serum of CCl4-induced liver injury mice compared to that of the normal controls, which were mainly related to the metabolism of amino acids and fatty acids. Furthermore, most of these biomarkers contributing to CCl4 induction were ameliorated by RFH, and the bioinformatics and pathways analysis revealed that therapeutic actions of RFH were mainly involved in the regulation of the oxidative stress responses and energy homeostasis. Conclusion These findings provide potential metabolic mechanism for future study and allow for hypothesis generation about the hepatoprotective effects of Radix Fici Hirtae.
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Jin X, Li Y, Li J, Cheng L, Yao Y, Shen H, Wang B, Ren J, Ying H, Xu J. Acute bone damage through liver-bone axis induced by thioacetamide in rats. BMC Pharmacol Toxicol 2022; 23:29. [PMID: 35526079 PMCID: PMC9080193 DOI: 10.1186/s40360-022-00568-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Thioacetamide (TAA) is used in various fields, such as synthetic drugs, organic chemical synthesis, and materials chemistry. TAA is mainly used to establish animal liver injury models and other organ damage models to explore their mechanisms for helping patients with liver disease. Liver damage can lead to abnormal expression of some enzymes in the serum, so we detected the appropriate enzyme levels in the serum of SD rats to verify the damage of TAA to the liver. More importantly, TAA caused bone damage is barely understood. Therefore, our research aims to establish a rat model reflecting the acute bone damage injury caused by TAA. Methods The SD rats were intraperitoneally injected with normal saline (0.9%) or TAA (200 mg/kg, 400 mg/kg) for 1 month (once the other day). After the last intraperitoneal injection, serum samples from rats were used for biochemical tests. Masson staining is used to detect liver damage, and micro-CT is used to detect the changes in bone. Moreover, the three-point bending experiment was used to detect the force range of the hind limbs of SD rats. Results Compared with the control group, after the intraperitoneal injection of TAA, the levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), uric acid (UA), total bile acid (TBA), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), carbamide (UREA) and creatinine (CREA) rose sharply, while the levels of serum content of total protein (TP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) were severely reduced. After TAA administration, collagen fibers were deposited and liver fibrosis was obvious. Micro-CT results showed that the bone surface, tissue surface, bone volume, and tissue volume of rats with an intraperitoneal injection of TAA were significantly reduced. In addition, the bones of rats with an intraperitoneal injection of TAA can resist less pressure and are prone to fractures. Conclusions TAA can cause liver damage in SD rats, which is explained by the changes in serum biochemical indicators and the deposition of liver collagen. More importantly, TAA can reduce bone mineral density and increase the separation of bone trabeculae in SD rats, and finally lead to bone injury. This suggests that TAA may become an ideal model to investigate abnormal bone metabolism after liver injury.
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- Xiaoli Jin
- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- FUDAN University, school of basic medical sciences, Shanghai, 200433, PR China
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- Department of The Third Orthopaedic, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University School of Medicine Xinjiang Shihezi, Shihezi, 832008, China
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- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- School of medical technology and information engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China.
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Ammar NM, Hassan HA, Abdallah HMI, Afifi SM, Elgamal AM, Farrag ARH, El-Gendy AENG, Farag MA, Elshamy AI. Protective Effects of Naringenin from Citrus sinensis (var. Valencia) Peels against CCl 4-Induced Hepatic and Renal Injuries in Rats Assessed by Metabolomics, Histological and Biochemical Analyses. Nutrients 2022; 14:841. [PMID: 35215494 PMCID: PMC8924893 DOI: 10.3390/nu14040841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Citrus fruits are grown worldwide for their special nutritive and several health benefits. Among citrus bioactives, naringenin, a major flavanone, exhibits a potential hepatoprotective effect that is not fully elucidated. Herein, serum biochemical parameters and histopathological assays were used to estimate the hepatoprotective activity of naringenin, isolated from Citrus sinensis (var. Valencia) peels, in CCl4-induced injury in a rat model. Further, GC-MS-based untargeted metabolomics was used to characterize the potential metabolite biomarkers associated with its activity. Present results revealed that naringenin could ameliorate the increases in liver enzymes (ALT and AST) induced by CCl4 and attenuate the pathological changes in liver tissue. Naringenin decreased urea, creatinine and uric acid levels and improved the kidney tissue architecture, suggesting its role in treating renal disorders. In addition, naringenin increased the expression of the antiapoptoic cell marker, Bcl-2. Significant changes in serum metabolic profiling were noticed in the naringenin-treated group compared to the CCl4 group, exemplified by increases in palmitic acid, stearic acid, myristic acid and lauric acids and decrease levels of alanine, tryptophan, lactic acid, glucosamine and glucose in CCl4 model rats. The results suggested that naringenin's potential hepato- and renoprotective effects could be related to its ability to regulate fatty acids (FAs), amino acids and energy metabolism, which may become effective targets for liver and kidney toxicity management. In conclusion, the current study presents new insights into the hepato- and renoprotective mechanisms of naringenin against CCl4-induced toxicity.
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- Naglaa M. Ammar
- Therapeutic Chemistry Department, Pharmaceutical and Drugs Research Institute, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt; (N.M.A.); (H.A.H.)
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- Therapeutic Chemistry Department, Pharmaceutical and Drugs Research Institute, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt; (N.M.A.); (H.A.H.)
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- Pharmacology Department, Medical Research and Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt;
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- Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sadat City, Sadat City 32897, Egypt;
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- Chemistry of Microbial and Natural Products Department, Pharmaceutical and Drugs Research Institute, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt;
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- Department of Pathology, Medical Research and Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt;
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- Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Department, Pharmaceutical and Drugs Research Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo 12622, Egypt;
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- Pharmacognosy Department, College of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt;
- School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
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- Chemistry of Natural Compounds Department, Pharmaceutical and Drugs Research Institute, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt
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Wang K, Deng Y, Zhang J, Cheng B, Huang Y, Meng Y, Zhong K, Xiong G, Guo J, Liu Y, Lu H. Toxicity of thioacetamide and protective effects of quercetin in zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 2021; 36:2062-2072. [PMID: 34227734 DOI: 10.1002/tox.23323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Quercetin is a flavonoid compound with a variety of biological properties that is widely distributed throughout the plant kingdom. Studies have found that quercetin has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and liver-protective effects, while thioacetamide (TAA) can cause inflammation and liver damage in zebrafish larvae. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether quercetin can prevent TAA-induced inflammation and liver damage in zebrafish larvae and to investigate the molecular mechanisms involved. Zebrafish Tg transgenic lines were used as the experimental animals. Behavioral, oxidative stress level, proliferative antigen chromogenic antibody, and western blot analyses were carried out on zebrafish larvae in the control group and groups treated with TAA and 12 μM quercetin. The results indicated that quercetin promoted the development of zebrafish larvae damaged by TAA, exhibited antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and promoted cell proliferation. Quercetin reduced the expression of p53 protein in zebrafish larvae injured by TAA, resulting in decreased levels of Bax and increased levels of Bcl-2. The findings suggested quercetin has antiapoptotic action. Quercetin reduced the expression of DKK1 and DKK2 genes related to the Wnt signaling pathway in zebrafish larvae damaged by TAA and increased the expression of Lef1 and wnt2bb. Quercetin may regulate the development of zebrafish larvae damaged by TAA through the Wnt signaling pathway. This study provides the scientific basis for the development and utilization of quercetin and the development of new related drugs.
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- Kexin Wang
- College of life sciences, Jiangxi Normal university, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- College of life sciences, Jiangxi Normal university, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory of Zebrafish Modeling and Drug Screening for Human Diseases, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Organs, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
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- College of life sciences, Jiangxi Normal university, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Center for drug screening and research, School of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory of Zebrafish Modeling and Drug Screening for Human Diseases, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Organs, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
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- Center for drug screening and research, School of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory of Zebrafish Modeling and Drug Screening for Human Diseases, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Organs, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
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- Center for drug screening and research, School of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory of Zebrafish Modeling and Drug Screening for Human Diseases, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Organs, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
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- Center for drug screening and research, School of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory of Zebrafish Modeling and Drug Screening for Human Diseases, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Organs, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
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- College of life sciences, Jiangxi Normal university, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory of Zebrafish Modeling and Drug Screening for Human Diseases, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Organs, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
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- College of life sciences, Jiangxi Normal university, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Center for drug screening and research, School of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory of Zebrafish Modeling and Drug Screening for Human Diseases, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Organs, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
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Xu Y, Xie L, Tang J, He X, Zhang Z, Chen Y, Zhou J, Gan B, Peng W. Morchella importuna Polysaccharides Alleviate Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Hepatic Oxidative Injury in Mice. Front Physiol 2021; 12:669331. [PMID: 34413784 PMCID: PMC8369260 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.669331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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This study aimed to investigate the effects of Morchella importuna polysaccharides (MIPs) on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatic damage in mice. A total of 144 female mice were randomly assigned to four treatment groups, namely, control, CCl4, low-dose MIP (LMIP) group, and high-dose MIP (HMIP) group. After the 10-day experiment, serum and liver were sampled for biochemical and metabolomic analyses. The HMIPs markedly decreased the liver weight under CCl4 intoxication. Furthermore, the significantly elevated concentrations of five serum biochemical parameters, including alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, triglyceride, total cholesterol, and total bile acid under CCl4 treatment were subverted by MIP administration in a dose-dependent manner. Moreover, MIPs relieved the increased hepatic malonaldehyde and protein carbonyl content and the decreased superoxide dismutase and catalase contents caused by CCl4 intoxication. There was also a dose-dependent decrease in the CCl4-induced inflammatory indices, such as the levels of interleukin-1, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and myeloperoxidase, with MIP administration. Subsequent ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry-based serum metabolomics identified nine metabolites between the control and CCl4 groups and 10 metabolites between the HMIP and CCl4 groups, including some critical metabolites involved in flavonoid biosynthesis, amino acid metabolism, energy metabolism, and toxicant degradation. These novel findings indicate that MIPs may be of therapeutic value in alleviating the oxidative stress and inflammation caused by CCl4. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomics provides a valuable opportunity for identifying potential biomarkers and elucidating the protective mechanisms of medicinal mushrooms against hepatic oxidative injury.
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- Yingyin Xu
- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Agricultural Resources and Environment Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Science, Chengdu, China
- Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-microbial Resource and Utilization in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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Protective effects of crude chalaza hydrolysates against liver fibrogenesis via antioxidation, anti-inflammation/anti-fibrogenesis, and apoptosis promotion of damaged hepatocytes. Poult Sci 2021; 100:101175. [PMID: 34175800 PMCID: PMC8254005 DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2021.101175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Four-hundred metric-ton chalazae are produced annually from the liquid-egg processing and always cause a heavy burden due to handling cost in Taiwan. After chalazae were hydrolyzed by protease A, the amounts of hydrophobic, aromatic, and branched-chain amino acids, as well as anserine were dramatically increased. This study was to understand the antifibrogenic effects of protease A-digested crude chalaza hydrolysates (CCH-As) on livers of thioacetamide (TAA) treated rats. CCH-As improved (P< 0.05) growth performance, serum liver damage indices, histopathological liver inflammation, and liver collagen deposition in TAA-treated rats. The antifibrogenic effects of CCH-As were due to decreased (P < 0.05) inflammatory/fibrogenic cytokine contents, α-smooth-muscle-actin (α-SMA) protein expression, and matrix metallopeptidase (MMP)-2 and -9 activities, as well as increased (P < 0.05) the antioxidant capacity in livers. CCH-As also increased (P < 0.05) cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved poly ADP-ribose polymerase protein levels in livers of TAA-treated rats which accelerating cell renewal. Thus, this study does not only reveal a novel nutraceutical ingredient, CCH-As, against liver fibrogenesis, but also offer an alternative way to expand the utilization of poultry byproducts.
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Lodge S, Nitschke P, Kimhofer T, Coudert JD, Begum S, Bong SH, Richards T, Edgar D, Raby E, Spraul M, Schaefer H, Lindon JC, Loo RL, Holmes E, Nicholson JK. NMR Spectroscopic Windows on the Systemic Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Plasma Lipoproteins and Metabolites in Relation to Circulating Cytokines. J Proteome Res 2021; 20:1382-1396. [PMID: 33426894 PMCID: PMC7805607 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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To investigate the systemic metabolic effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection, we analyzed 1H NMR spectroscopic data on human blood plasma and co-modeled with multiple plasma cytokines and chemokines (measured in parallel). Thus, 600 MHz 1H solvent-suppressed single-pulse, spin-echo, and 2D J-resolved spectra were collected on plasma recorded from SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR-positive patients (n = 15, with multiple sampling timepoints) and age-matched healthy controls (n = 34, confirmed rRT-PCR negative), together with patients with COVID-19/influenza-like clinical symptoms who tested SARS-CoV-2 negative (n = 35). We compared the single-pulse NMR spectral data with in vitro diagnostic research (IVDr) information on quantitative lipoprotein profiles (112 parameters) extracted from the raw 1D NMR data. All NMR methods gave highly significant discrimination of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients from controls and SARS-CoV-2 negative patients with individual NMR methods, giving different diagnostic information windows on disease-induced phenoconversion. Longitudinal trajectory analysis in selected patients indicated that metabolic recovery was incomplete in individuals without detectable virus in the recovery phase. We observed four plasma cytokine clusters that expressed complex differential statistical relationships with multiple lipoproteins and metabolites. These included the following: cluster 1, comprising MIP-1β, SDF-1α, IL-22, and IL-1α, which correlated with multiple increased LDL and VLDL subfractions; cluster 2, including IL-10 and IL-17A, which was only weakly linked to the lipoprotein profile; cluster 3, which included IL-8 and MCP-1 and were inversely correlated with multiple lipoproteins. IL-18, IL-6, and IFN-γ together with IP-10 and RANTES exhibited strong positive correlations with LDL1-4 subfractions and negative correlations with multiple HDL subfractions. Collectively, these data show a distinct pattern indicative of a multilevel cellular immune response to SARS CoV-2 infection interacting with the plasma lipoproteome giving a strong and characteristic immunometabolic phenotype of the disease. We observed that some patients in the respiratory recovery phase and testing virus-free were still metabolically highly abnormal, which indicates a new role for these technologies in assessing full systemic recovery.
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- Samantha Lodge
- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health
Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western
Australia 6150, Australia
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- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
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- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health
Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western
Australia 6150, Australia
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- Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative
Therapeutics, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building,
Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia
- Perron Institute for Neurological and
Translational Science, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009,
Australia
- School of Medicine, University of Notre
Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia 6160,
Australia
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- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
- Section of Nutrition Research , Department of Metabolism,
Nutrition and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building,
Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ,
U.K.
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- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
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- Division of Surgery, Medical School, Faculty of Health
and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Harry
Perkins Building, Robert Warren Drive, Murdoch, Perth, Western Australia 6150,
Australia
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Western Australia, Harry Perkins Building,
Robert Warren Drive, Murdoch, Perth, Western Australia 6150,
Australia
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology,
PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Murdoch, Perth, Western
Australia 6150, Australia
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- Division of Systems Medicine, Department of
Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming
Building, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ,
U.K.
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- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health
Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western
Australia 6150, Australia
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- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health
Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western
Australia 6150, Australia
- Section of Nutrition Research , Department of Metabolism,
Nutrition and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building,
Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ,
U.K.
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- Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures
Institute, Murdoch University, Harry Perkins Building, Perth,
Western Australia 6150, Australia
- Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine, Health
Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western
Australia 6150, Australia
- Division of Surgery, Medical School, Faculty of Health
and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Harry
Perkins Building, Robert Warren Drive, Murdoch, Perth, Western Australia 6150,
Australia
- Institute of Global Health Innovation,
Imperial College London, Level 1, Faculty Building South
Kensington Campus, London SW7 2NA, U.K.
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Coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common cardiovascular disease (CVD), contributes to significant mortality worldwide. CAD is a multifactorial disease wherein various factors contribute to its pathogenesis often complicating management. Biomarker based personalized medicine may provide a more effective way to individualize therapy in multifactorial diseases in general and CAD specifically. Systems' biology "Omics" biomarkers have been investigated for this purpose. These biomarkers provide a more comprehensive understanding on pathophysiology of the disease process and can help in identifying new therapeutic targets and tailoring therapy to achieve optimum outcome. Metabolomics biomarkers usually reflect genetic and non-genetic factors involved in the phenotype. Metabolomics analysis may provide better understanding of the disease pathogenesis and drug response variation. This will help in guiding therapy, particularly for multifactorial diseases such as CAD. In this chapter, advances in metabolomics analysis and its role in personalized medicine will be reviewed with comprehensive focus on CAD. Assessment of risk, diagnosis, complications, drug response and nutritional therapy will be discussed. Together, this chapter will review the current application of metabolomics in CAD management and highlight areas that warrant further investigation.
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- Arwa M Amin
- Department of Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia.
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Ginsenoside Rg3 promotes regression from hepatic fibrosis through reducing inflammation-mediated autophagy signaling pathway. Cell Death Dis 2020; 11:454. [PMID: 32532964 PMCID: PMC7293224 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-020-2597-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Inflammation and autophagy occur during hepatic fibrosis development caused by various pathogens, and effectively curbing of autophage may delay the occurrence of hepatic fibrosis. The current study aimed to unravel the inhibitory effects of Ginsenoside Rg3 (G-Rg3) on inflammation-mediated hepatic autophagy to curb hepatic fibrosis caused by thioacetamide (TAA)-induced subacute and chronic hepatic injury. TAA is mainly metabolized in the liver to cause liver dysfunction. After intraperitoneal injection of TAA for 4 or 10 weeks (TAA-chronic mouse models), severe inflammatory infiltration and fibrosis occurred in the liver. Treatment with G-Rg3 alleviated hepatic pathological changes and reversed hepatic fibrosis in the TAA-chronic models with decreased deposition of collagen fibers, reduced expression of HSCs activation marker (α-SMA), and reduced secretion of profibrogenic factors (TGF-β1). G-Rg3 decreased expressions of autophagy-related proteins in mice of TAA-chronic models. Notably, G-Rg3 inhibited the survival of activated rat hepatic stellate cells (HSC-T6), but had no cytotoxicity on human hepatocytes (L02 cell lines). G-Rg3 dose-dependently inhibited autophagy in vitro with less expression of p62 and fewer LC3a transformation into LC3b in inflammatory inducer lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced rat HSC-T6 cells. Furthermore, G-Rg3 enhanced the phosphorylation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and protein kinase B (Akt) in vivo and in vitro. Besides, mTOR inhibitor Rapamycin and PI3K inhibitors LY294002 were employed in LPS-treated HSC-T6 cell cultures to verify that Rg3 partially reversed the increase in autophagy in hepatic fibrosis in vitro. Taken together, G-Rg3 exerted anti-fibrosis effect through the inhibition of autophagy in TAA-treated mice and LPS-stimulated HSC-T6 cells. These data collectively unravel that G-Rg3 may serve a promising anti-hepatic fibrosis drug.
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Zennaro L, Nicolè L, Vanzani P, Cappello F, Fassina A. 1H-NMR spectroscopy metabonomics of reactive, ovarian carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma ascites. Pleura Peritoneum 2020; 5:20200113. [PMID: 32566728 PMCID: PMC7292235 DOI: 10.1515/pp-2020-0113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Background Metabolomic profiling of human malignant effusion remain a field poorly investigated. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy is a rapid relatively low cost technique, and effusion is an optimal biospecimen suitable for metabonomic investigations. With this study we addressed metabolomic profiling of malignant ascitic effusion (mAE) from patients with high grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC), Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and benign AEs (bAEs) from patients with reactive peritonitis. Methods Metabolic profiling with 1H-NMR was performed on 72 AEs (31 HGSOC, 16 HCC and 25 bAE) prospectively collected in our cytology service. Histological confirmation was requested for all malignant case. Multivariate analysis comprising PCA and PLS-DA was applied to discover metabolites suitable to differentiate effusions among the investigated groups. Results 1H-NMR metabonomic analysis showed clearly different spectra for malignant and benign AEs, as well as for HGSOC vs. HCC effusion. When compared with HCC effusions, the HGSOC effusion were enriched, among all, in alanine, lipids, N-acetyl groups and phenylalanine and depleted in glutamine. Conclusions Subject to validation in further larger studies, 1H-NMR metabonomics could be an effective and reliable ancillary tool for AE investigations and diagnosis particularly in acellular effusions.
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- Lucio Zennaro
- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova School of Medicine and Surgery, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Padova School of Medicine and Surgery, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova School of Medicine and Surgery, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Padova School of Medicine and Surgery, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Padova School of Medicine and Surgery, Padova, Italy
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Urinary Metabolomics and Biochemical Analysis of Antihyperglycemic Effect of Ficus deltoidea Jack Varieties in Streptozotocin-Nicotinamide–Induced Diabetic Rats. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2020; 192:1-21. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-020-03304-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In 1999 the journal Xenobiotica published a perspective article detailing the new concept of metabonomics and its application to toxicology. The approach was to apply analytical chemistry techniques, and in particular 1 H NMR spectroscopy, to profile biofluids and tissues to assess the metabolic effects of xenobiotics. Metabonomics has been shown to be sensitive not only to organ specific toxicity but also provides information on the cells, tissues and mechanisms involved, as well as their interactions with the host's sex, age, diet and environment. This review assesses the impact of metabonomics on drug toxicology over the past twenty years and its future prospects. These applications include:Pharmacometabonomics - the prediction of drug effects through the analysis of predose, biofluid metabolite profiles, which reflect both genetic and environmental influences on physiology.The microbiomes role in toxicology - understanding how xenobiotics can be modified by the microbiome dramatically changing their impact on the host.Development of expert systems for toxicity prediction.Data fusion of different omics to better understand the underlying mechanisms of drug toxicity.Metabonomics and exposome - understanding how multiple environmental toxicants might interact with the host organism to produce their overall phenotype. While there has been huge growth in the use of metabonomics within toxicology these applications are set to increase as the tools become more sensitive and robust, as well as the increased use of both experimental and in silico databases to aid prediction of toxicology.
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- Julian L Griffin
- Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Systems Medicine, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Medicine, Imperial College London, The Sir Alexander Fleming Building, London, UK
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Liang YJ, Wang P, Long DX, Wang HP, Sun YJ, Wu YJ. The progressive alteration of urine metabolomic profiles of rats following long-term and low-dose exposure to permethrin. Biomarkers 2019; 25:94-99. [PMID: 31762333 DOI: 10.1080/1354750x.2019.1697755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Background: Permethrin is a type of widely used pyrethroid pesticide. Although acute toxicity of permethrin has been well-characterised, the non-acute toxicity of permethrin upon long-term exposure at low dose has been seldom studied yet. The current study investigates the time-course change of the metabolomic profiles of urine following the low level long-term exposure of permethrin and identified biomarkers of the chronic toxicity of permethrin.Methods: Male Wistar rats were administrated orally with permethrin (75 mg/kg body weight/day, 1/20 LD50) daily for consecutive 90 days. The urine samples from day 30, day 60, and day 90 after the first dosing were collected and analysed by 1H NMR spectrometry. Serum biochemical analysis was also carried out.Results: Permethrin caused significant changes in the urine metabolites such as taurine, creatinine, acetate, lactate, dimethylamine, dimethylglycine, and trimethylamine-N-oxide. These biological markers indicated prominent kidney and liver toxicity induced by permethrin. However, there was no change in serum biochemical parameters for the toxicity, indicating that metabolomic approach was much more sensitive in detecting the chronic toxicity.Conclusion: The time-course alteration of metabolomic profiles of the urine based on 1H NMR reflects the progressive development of the chronic toxicity with the long-term low-level exposure of permethrin.
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- Yu-Jie Liang
- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing, PR China.,Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing, PR China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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Zhao DS, Wu ZT, Li ZQ, Wang LL, Jiang LL, Shi W, Li P, Li HJ. Liver-specific metabolomics characterizes the hepatotoxicity of Dioscorea bulbifera rhizome in rats by integration of GC-MS and 1H-NMR. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2018; 226:111-119. [PMID: 30114519 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2018.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Dioscorea bulbifera rhizome (DBR), one type of herbal medicine, is extensively used in both Indian and Chinese system of traditional medicine. It has been effective in treating various diseases, such as sore throat, struma, and tumors. However, more and more clinical investigations have suggested that DBR can cause liver injury. AIM OF THE STUDY In the present study, we aimed to characterize the corresponding molecular changes of liver dysfunction and reveal overall metabolic and physiological mechanisms of the subchronic toxic effect of DBR. MATERIALS AND METHODS A liver-specific metabolomics approach integrating GC-MS and 1H-NMR was developed to assess the hepatotoxicity in rats after DBR exposure for 12 weeks. Multivariate statistical analysis and pattern recognition were employed to examine different metabolic profiles of liver in DBR-challenged rats. RESULTS A total of 61 metabolites were screened as significantly altered metabolites, which were distributed in 43 metabolic pathways. The correlation network analysis indicated that the hub metabolites of hepatotoxicity could be mainly linked to amino acid, lipid, purine, pyrimidine, bile acid, gut microflora, and energy metabolisms. Notably, purine, pyrimidine, and gut microflora metabolisms might be novel pathways participating in metabolic abnormalities in rats with DBR-triggered hepatic damage. CONCLUSIONS Our results primarily showed that the liver-specific metabolic information provided by the different analytical platforms was essential for identifying more biomarkers and metabolic pathways, and our findings provided novel insights into understand the mechanistic complexity of herb-induced liver injury.
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- Dong-Sheng Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 24 Tongjia Lane, Nanjing 210009, China.
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Guo Q, Zhang QQ, Chen JQ, Zhang W, Qiu HC, Zhang ZJ, Liu BM, Xu FG. Liver metabolomics study reveals protective function of Phyllanthus urinaria against CCl 4-induced liver injury. Chin J Nat Med 2018; 15:525-533. [PMID: 28807226 DOI: 10.1016/s1875-5364(17)30078-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Phyllanthus Urinaria L. (PUL) is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat hepatic and renal disorders. However, the mechanism of its hepatoprotective action is not fully understood. In the present study, blood biochemical indexes and liver histopathological changes were used to estimate the extent of hepatic injury. GC/MS and LC/MS-based untargeted metabolomics were used in combination to characterize the potential biomarkers associated with the protective activity of PUL against CCl4-induced liver injury in rats. PUL treatment could reverse the increase in ALT, AST and ALP induced by CCl4 and attenuate the pathological changes in rat liver. Significant changes in liver metabolic profiling were observed in PUL-treated group compared with liver injury model group. Seventeen biomarkers related to the hepatoprotective effects of PUL against CCl4-induced liver injury were screened out using nonparametric test and Pearson's correlation analysis (OPLS-DA). The results suggested that the potential hepatoprotective effects of PUL in attenuating CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity could be partially attributed to regulating L-carnitine, taurocholic acid, and amino acids metabolism, which may become promising targets for treatment of liver toxicity. In conclusion, this study provides new insights into the mechanism of the hepatoprotection of Phyllanthus Urinaria.
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- Qing Guo
- MOE Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China; State key laboratory of natural medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China; State key laboratory of natural medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China; State key laboratory of natural medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science & Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Quality Standards, Nanning 530022, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China; State key laboratory of natural medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Quality Standards, Nanning 530022, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China; State key laboratory of natural medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China.
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Wang L, Liu Z, Chen Z, Huang C, Liu X, Chen C, Liu X, Huang J, Liu L, Lin D. Metabonomic analysis of the therapeutic effect of exendin-4 for the treatment of tBHP-induced injury in mouse glomerulus mesangial cells. Free Radic Res 2018. [PMID: 29526117 DOI: 10.1080/10715762.2018.1449948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Although previous studies have reported the protective effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in diabetes nephropathy, the molecular mechanism such as nephroprotection remains elusive. In this study, we explored the molecular mechanism of exendin-4 as an GLP-1 receptor agonist for the treatment of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP)-induced injury in mouse glomerulus mesangial cells (SV40 MES 13 cells) via an NMR-based metabonomic analysis. We found that exendin-4 protected mesangial cells from t-BHP-mediated toxicity, decreased the percentage of t-BHP-treated cells undergoing apoptosis, and restored glucose consumption in the t-BHP-treated group. A supervised partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) revealed that the metabolic profiles could be distinguished between the control, t-BHP-treated, and exendin-4-pretreated groups. Our findings indicate that exendin-4 pretreatment can cause distinct changes in energy, glycerol phospholipid, and amino acid metabolism. Our study provides novel insight into the metabolic mechanism of exendin-4-mediated nephroprotective effects.
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- Linxi Wang
- a Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Geriatrics , Fujian Institute of Endocrinology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital , Fuzhou , China
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- b Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xiamen University , Xiamen , China
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- c Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy , Fujian Medical University , Fuzhou , China
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- d Exercise and Health Laboratory , Xiamen University of Technology , Xiamen , China
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- a Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Geriatrics , Fujian Institute of Endocrinology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital , Fuzhou , China
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- a Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Geriatrics , Fujian Institute of Endocrinology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital , Fuzhou , China
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- a Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Geriatrics , Fujian Institute of Endocrinology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital , Fuzhou , China
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- a Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Geriatrics , Fujian Institute of Endocrinology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital , Fuzhou , China
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- a Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Geriatrics , Fujian Institute of Endocrinology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital , Fuzhou , China
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- b Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xiamen University , Xiamen , China
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1H-NMR Based Serum Metabolomics Study to Investigate Hepatoprotective Effect of Qin-Jiao on Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Acute Hepatotoxicity in Rats. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2017; 2017:6091589. [PMID: 29234415 PMCID: PMC5687146 DOI: 10.1155/2017/6091589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Revised: 05/29/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Gentiana macrophylla Radix, commonly known as Qin-Jiao (QJ), was recorded alone to treat jaundice in Compendium of Materia Medica and has been frequently prescribed for treatment of liver disease in China. However, the underlying mechanism remains unknown. In the present work, QJ of 1,2 g/kg or silybin of 40 mg/kg (positive control) was orally given to rats for 7 days to verify the protective effect on acute liver damage induced by tetrachloride (CCl4). Together with serum biochemistry and histopathological examination, 1H-NMR based metabolomics work was carried out to investigate the efficacy. It turned out that QJ of 2 g/kg exerted comparable protective effect with positive control and partially recovered disturbed metabolism by CCl4. Multivariate analysis was conducted and metabolites altered significantly among groups were assigned and discussed, including betaine, glucose, lactate, creatine, and LDL/VLDL. Metabolic regulations involved in QJ or silybin treatment were as follows: tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, synthesis of LDL/VLDL, and gluconeogenesis were enhanced, while betaine metabolism, glycolysis, creatine metabolism, synthesis of ketone bodies, amino acids metabolism, and β-oxidation of fatty acids were suppressed. For the first time hepatoprotective effect of QJ on acute liver damage was revealed by 1H-NMR based metabolomics, prompting understanding of the underlying mechanism.
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Wu YHS, Tseng JK, Chou CH, Chiu CH, Lin YL, Chen YC. Preventive effects of Ophiocordyceps sinensis mycelium on the liver fibrosis induced by thioacetamide. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 2017; 32:1792-1800. [PMID: 28181416 DOI: 10.1002/tox.22402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2016] [Revised: 01/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Thioacetamide (TAA), usually used as a fungicide to control the decay of citrus products, itself is not toxic to the liver, but its intermediates are able to increase oxidative stress in livers and further cause fibrosis. Ophiocordyceps sinensis mycelium (OSM) which contains 10% polysaccharides and 0.25% adenosine decreased (P < 0.05) the lipid accumulation and increased (P < 0.05) antioxidative capacity in livers of thioacetamide (TAA) injected rats. Meanwhile, the increased (P < 0.05) liver sizes, serum alanine transaminase (AST) and aspartate transaminase (ALT) values in thioacetamide (TAA)-injected rats were ameliorated (P < 0.05) by OSM supplementation. Moreover, the levels of proinflammatory cytokines, such as the tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β), were also reduced (P < 0.05). The fibrosis phenomena in pathological (Masson's trichrome and H&E stainings) and immunohistochemical [α-smooth actin (αSMA) and CD86/ED1] observations in TAA-treated rats were reduced (P < 0.05) by OSM cotreatment. The protective effect of OSM against TAA-induced liver inflammation/fibrosis may be via downregulations (P < 0.05) of TGF-β pathways and NFκB which further influenced (P < 0.05) the expressions of fibrotic and inflammatory genes (i. e., αSMA, Col1α, COX2). Therefore, OSM shows preventive effects on the development of TAA-induced hepatic fibrosis.
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- Yi-Hsieng Samuel Wu
- Department of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
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- Department of Optometry, Asia University, Taichung, 413, Taiwan
- Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, 404, Taiwan
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
- Zoonoses Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
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- Department of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
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- Department of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
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- Department of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
- Zoonoses Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
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Pariyani R, Ismail IS, Azam A, Khatib A, Abas F, Shaari K, Hamza H. Urinary metabolic profiling of cisplatin nephrotoxicity and nephroprotective effects of Orthosiphon stamineus leaves elucidated by 1 H NMR spectroscopy. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2017; 135:20-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2016.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2016] [Revised: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Zennaro L, Vanzani P, Nicolè L, Cappellesso R, Fassina A. Metabonomics by proton nuclear magnetic resonance in human pleural effusions: A route to discriminate between benign and malignant pleural effusions and to target small molecules as potential cancer biomarkers. Cancer Cytopathol 2017; 125:341-348. [PMID: 28140518 DOI: 10.1002/cncy.21832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2016] [Revised: 12/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cytopathology is a noninvasive and cost-effective method for detecting cancer cells in pleural effusions (PEs), although in many cases, the diagnostic performance is hindered by the paucity of significant cells or the lack of clear morphological criteria. This study presents the results of an omics approach to improving the diagnostic performance of PE cytology. METHODS Metabolic profiling with proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1 H-NMR) was performed for 92 PEs (44 malignant cases of 8 different cancers and 48 benign cases of 7 nonneoplastic conditions). Light's criteria were used to further classify PEs as transudates or exudates, and 1 H-NMR spectroscopy was used to differentiate malignant pleural effusions (mPEs) from benign pleural effusions (bPEs). RESULTS 1 H-NMR metabolic analysis showed clearly different spectra for mPEs and bPEs in the regions of the signals due to lipids, branched amino acids, and lactate, which were increased in mPEs. Transudates and exudates in bPEs were differentiated as well on the basis of the 1 H-NMR signals from lipids and lipoproteins, which were increased in exudates. CONCLUSIONS Subject to validation in further larger studies, 1 H-NMR metabonomics could be an effective and reliable ancillary tool for PE investigations and diagnoses. Cancer Cytopathol 2017;125:341-348. © 2017 American Cancer Society.
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- Lucio Zennaro
- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.,Section of Padua, National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.,Section of Padua, National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems, Rome, Italy
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- Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Wang L, Liu S, Yang W, Yu H, Zhang L, Ma P, Wu P, Li X, Cho K, Xue S, Jiang B. Plasma Amino Acid Profile in Patients with Aortic Dissection. Sci Rep 2017; 7:40146. [PMID: 28071727 PMCID: PMC5223271 DOI: 10.1038/srep40146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Aortic dissection (AD), a severe cardiovascular disease with the characteristics of high mortality, is lack of specific clinical biomarkers. In order to facilitate the diagnosis of AD, we investigated plasma amino acid profile through metabolomics approach. Total 33 human subjects were enrolled in the study: 11 coronary heart disease (CHD) patients without aortic lesion and 11 acute AD and 11 chronic AD. Amino acids were identified in plasma using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), and were further subjected to multiple logistic regression analysis. The score plots of principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares-discriminate analysis (PLS-DA) showed clear discrimination of CHD patients with AD, acute AD or chronic AD patients, respectively. The contents of histidine, glycine, serine, citrate, ornithine, hydroxyproline, proline and sarcosine were significant different in acute AD patients comparing with CHD patients. The levels of citrate, GABA, glutamate and cysteine were significant different in chronic AD patients comparing with CHD patients. The contents of glutamate and phenylalanine were significant changed in acute AD patients comparing with chronic AD patients. Plasma aminograms were significantly altered in patients with AD comparing with CHD, especially in acute AD, suggesting amino acid profile is expected to exploit a novel, non-invasive, objective diagnosis for AD.
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- Linlin Wang
- Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.,Covidien (Shanghai) Management Consulting Co., Ltd, Shanghai 200233, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
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- The Second Artillery General Hospital PLA, Beijing 100088, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Takarazuka University of Medical and Health Care, Hanayashiki-Midorigaoka, Takarazuka-city 6660162, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
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Mostafa RE, Salama AAA, Abdel-Rahman RF, Ogaly HA. Hepato- and neuro-protective influences of biopropolis on thioacetamide-induced acute hepatic encephalopathy in rats. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2016; 95:539-547. [PMID: 28177688 DOI: 10.1139/cjpp-2016-0433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome that ultimately occurs as a complication of acute or chronic liver failure; accompanied by hyperammonemia. This study aimed to evaluate the potential of biopropolis as a hepato- and neuro-protective agent using thioacetamide (TAA)-induced acute HE in rats as a model. Sixty Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups: Group 1 (normal control) received only saline and paraffin oil. Group 2 (hepatotoxic control) received TAA (300 mg/kg, once). Groups 3, 4, and 5 received TAA followed by vitamin E (100 mg/kg) and biopropolis (100 and 200 mg/kg), respectively, daily for 30 days. Evidences of HE were clearly detected in TAA-hepatotoxic group including significant elevation in the serum level of ammonia, liver functions, increased oxidative stress in liver and brain, apoptotic DNA fragmentation and overexpression of iNOS gene in brain tissue. The findings for groups administered biopropolis, highlighted its efficacy as a hepato- and neuro-protectant through improving the liver functions, oxidative status and DNA fragmentation as well as suppressing the brain expression of iNOS gene. In conclusion, biopropolis, at a dose of 200 mg/kg per day protected against TAA-induced HE through its antioxidant and antiapoptotic influence; therefore, it can be used as a protective natural product.
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- Rasha E Mostafa
- a Pharmacology Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt
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- a Pharmacology Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt
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- b Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.,c Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Le L, Jiang B, Wan W, Zhai W, Xu L, Hu K, Xiao P. Metabolomics reveals the protective of Dihydromyricetin on glucose homeostasis by enhancing insulin sensitivity. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36184. [PMID: 27796348 PMCID: PMC5087077 DOI: 10.1038/srep36184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Dihydromyricetin (DMY), an important flavanone found in Ampelopsis grossedentata, possesses antioxidative properties that ameliorate skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity and exert a hepatoprotective effect. However, little is known about the effects of DMY in the context of high-fat diet (HFD)-induced hepatic insulin resistance. Male Sprague-Dawley(SD) rats were fed a HFD(60% fat) supplemented with DMY for 8 weeks. The administration of DMY to the rats with HFD-induced insulin resistance reduces hyperglycemia, plasma levels of insulin, and steatosis in the liver. Furthermore, DMY treatment modulated 24 metabolic pathways, including glucose metabolism, the TCA cycle. DMY significantly enhanced glucose uptake and improved the translocation of glucose transporter 1. The specificity of DMY promoted the phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). In addition, the exposure of HepG2 cells to high glucose concentrations impaired the insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of Akt2 Ser474 and insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) Ser612, increased GSK-3β phosphorylation, and upregulated G6Pase and PEPCK expression. Collectively, DMY improved glucose-related metabolism while reducing lipid levels in the HFD-fed rats. These data suggest that DMY might be a useful drug for use in type 2 diabetes insulin resistance therapy and for the treatment of hepatic steatosis.
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- Liang Le
- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China.,Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, P. R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China.,State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China.,State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China.,State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China.,State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, No. 151 Malianwa North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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Li Z, Li A, Gao J, Li H, Qin X. Kidney Tissue Targeted Metabolic Profiling of Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction Rats by NMR. Front Pharmacol 2016; 7:307. [PMID: 27695416 PMCID: PMC5023943 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2016.00307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Renal interstitial fibrosis is a common pathological process in the progression of kidney disease. A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based metabolomic approach was used to analyze the kidney tissues of rats with renal interstitial fibrosis (RIF), induced by unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO). The combination of a variety of statistical methods were used to screen out 14 significantly changed potential metabolites, which are related with multiple biochemical processes including amino acid metabolism, adenine metabolism, energy metabolism, osmolyte change and induced oxidative stress. The exploration of the contralateral kidneys enhanced the understanding of the disease, which was also supported by serum biochemistry and kidney histopathology results. In addition, the pathological parameters (clinical chemistry, histological and immunohistochemistry results) were correlated with the significantly changed differential metabolites related with RIF. This study showed that targeted tissue metabolomic analysis can be used as a useful tool to understand the mechanism of the disease and provide a novel insight in the pathogenesis of RIF.
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- Zhenyu Li
- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanxi University Taiyuan, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanxi University Taiyuan, China
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- Shanxi Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Taiyuan, China
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- Shanxi Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Taiyuan, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanxi University Taiyuan, China
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Ruiz-Rodado V, Nicoli ER, Probert F, Smith DA, Morris L, Wassif CA, Platt FM, Grootveld M. 1H NMR-Linked Metabolomics Analysis of Liver from a Mouse Model of NP-C1 Disease. J Proteome Res 2016; 15:3511-3527. [PMID: 27503774 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Clinical manifestations of Niemann-Pick type C1 (NP-C1) disease include neonatal hepatosplenomegaly and in some patients progressive liver dysfunction and failure. This study involved a 1H NMR-linked metabolomics analysis of liver samples collected from a NP-C1 disease mutant mouse model in order to explore time-dependent imbalances in metabolic pathways associated with NP-C1 liver dysfunction, including fibrosis. NP-C1 mutant (Npc1-/-; NP-C1), control (Npc1+/+; WT), and NP-C1 heterozygous mice (Npc1+/-; HET) were generated from heterozygote matings. Aqueous extracts of these liver samples collected at time points of 3, 6, 9, and 11 weeks were subjected to high-resolution NMR analysis, and multivariate (MV) metabolomics analyses of data sets acquired were performed. A MV random forests (RFs) model effectively discriminated between NP-C1 and a combined WT/HET hepatic NMR profiles with very high predictive accuracy and reliability. Key distinguishing features included significant upregulations in the hepatic concentrations of phenylalanine, tyrosine, glutamate, lysine/ornithine, valine, threonine, and hypotaurine/methionine, and diminished levels of nicotinate/niacinamide, inosine, phosphoenolpyruvate, and 3-hydroxyphenylacetate. Quantitative pathway topological analysis confirmed that imbalances in tyrosine biosynthesis, and hepatic phenylalanine, tyrosine, glutamate/glutamine, and nicotinate/niacinamide metabolism were involved in the pathogenesis of NP-C1 disease-associated liver dysfunction/damage. 1H NMR-linked metabolomics analysis provides valuable biomarker information regarding hepatic dysfunction or damage in NP-C1 disease.
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- Victor Ruiz-Rodado
- Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University , The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford , Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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- Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University , The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford , Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford , Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford , Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom.,Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH , Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford , Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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- Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University , The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, United Kingdom
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Anti-Diabetic Activity and Metabolic Changes Induced by Andrographis paniculata Plant Extract in Obese Diabetic Rats. Molecules 2016; 21:molecules21081026. [PMID: 27517894 PMCID: PMC6273188 DOI: 10.3390/molecules21081026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 07/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Andrographis paniculata is an annual herb and widely cultivated in Southeast Asian countries for its medicinal use. In recent investigations, A. paniculata was found to be effective against Type 1 diabetes mellitus (Type 1 DM). Here, we used a non-genetic out-bred Sprague-Dawley rat model to test the antidiabetic activity of A. paniculata against Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Type 2 DM). Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy in combination with multivariate data analyses was used to evaluate the A. paniculata and metformin induced metabolic effects on the obese and obese–diabetic (obdb) rat models. Compared to the normal rats, high levels of creatinine, lactate, and allantoin were found in the urine of obese rats, whereas, obese-diabetic rats were marked by high glucose, choline and taurine levels, and low lactate, formate, creatinine, citrate, 2-oxoglutarate, succinate, dimethylamine, acetoacetate, acetate, allantoin and hippurate levels. Treatment of A. paniculata leaf water extract was found to be quite effective in restoring the disturbed metabolic profile of obdb rats back towards normal conditions. Thisstudy shows the anti-diabetic potential of A. paniculata plant extract and strengthens the idea of using this plant against the diabetes. Further classical genetic methods and state of the art molecular techniques could provide insights into the molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and anti-diabetic effects of A. paniculata water extract.
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Akyıl D, Eren Y, Konuk M, Dere H, Serteser A. Genotoxic evaluation of Halfenprox using the human peripheral lymphocyte micronucleus assay and the Ames test. Drug Chem Toxicol 2016; 40:191-195. [PMID: 27387265 DOI: 10.1080/01480545.2016.1193865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The genotoxicity and mutagenicity of Halfenprox, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide and acaricide, was assessed using two standard genotoxicity assays of the Salmonella typhimurium mutagenicity assay (Ames test) and in vitro micronucleus (MN) assay in human peripheral lymphocytes. In the Ames test, Salmonella strains TA98 and TA100 were treated with or without S9 fraction. The doses of Halfenprox were 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50, and 100 μg/plate and test materials were dissolved in DMSO. The concentrations of Halfenprox did not show mutagenic activity on both strains with and without S9 fraction. The MN assay was used to investigate the genotoxic effects of Halfenprox in human peripheral lymphocytes treated with 250, 500, 750, and 1000 μg/ml concentrations of Halfenprox for 24 and 48 h, and at 1000 μg/ml the concentration was significantly increased and the MN formation was compared with the negative control for both treatment periods. In addition, a significant decrease of the nuclear devision index (NDI) values at the higher concentrations of Halfenprox and at both treatment periods was observed.
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- Dilek Akyıl
- a Department of Biology , Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Afyon Kocatepe University , Afyonkarahisar , Turkey
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- b Department of Science , Faculty of Education, Suleyman Demirel University , Isparta , Turkey , and
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- c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (English) , Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Üsküdar University , Istanbul , Turkey
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- a Department of Biology , Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Afyon Kocatepe University , Afyonkarahisar , Turkey
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- a Department of Biology , Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Afyon Kocatepe University , Afyonkarahisar , Turkey
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Miao YJ, Shi YY, Li FQ, Shan CX, Chen Y, Chen JW, Li X. Metabolomics study on the toxicity of Annona squamosa by ultraperformance liquid-chromatography high-definition mass spectrometry coupled with pattern recognition approach and metabolic pathways analysis. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2016; 184:187-95. [PMID: 26965366 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2016.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Revised: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Annona squamosa Linn (Annonaceae) is a commonly used and effective traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) especially in the South China. The seeds of Annona squamosa Linn (SAS) have been used as a folk remedy to treat "malignant sores" (cancer) in South of China, but they also have high toxicity on human body. AIM OF THE STUDY To discover the potential biomarkers in the mice caused by SAS. MATERIALS AND METHODS We made metabonomics studies on the toxicity of SAS by ultraperformance liquid-chromatography high-definition mass spectrometry coupled with pattern recognition approach and metabolic pathways analysis. RESULTS The significant difference in metabolic profiles and changes of metabolite biomarkers between the Control group and SAS group were well observed. 11 positive ions and 9 negative ions (P<0.05) were indicated based on UFLC-QTOF-HDMS. The metabolic pathways of SAS group are discussed according to the identified endogenous metabolites, and eight metabolic pathways are identified using Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG). CONCLUSIONS The present study demonstrates that metabonomics analysis could greatly facilitate and provide useful information for the further comprehensive understanding of the pharmacological activity and potential toxicity of SAS in the progress of them being designed to a new anti-tumor medicine.
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- Yun-Jie Miao
- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical institute, Nanjing 210046, China.
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- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical institute, Nanjing 210046, China.
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- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical institute, Nanjing 210046, China.
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- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical institute, Nanjing 210046, China.
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- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical institute, Nanjing 210046, China.
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- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical institute, Nanjing 210046, China.
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- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Pharmaceutical institute, Nanjing 210046, China.
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Emwas AH, Roy R, McKay RT, Ryan D, Brennan L, Tenori L, Luchinat C, Gao X, Zeri AC, Gowda GAN, Raftery D, Steinbeck C, Salek RM, Wishart DS. Recommendations and Standardization of Biomarker Quantification Using NMR-Based Metabolomics with Particular Focus on Urinary Analysis. J Proteome Res 2016; 15:360-73. [PMID: 26745651 PMCID: PMC4865177 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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NMR-based metabolomics has shown considerable promise in disease diagnosis and biomarker discovery because it allows one to nondestructively identify and quantify large numbers of novel metabolite biomarkers in both biofluids and tissues. Precise metabolite quantification is a prerequisite to move any chemical biomarker or biomarker panel from the lab to the clinic. Among the biofluids commonly used for disease diagnosis and prognosis, urine has several advantages. It is abundant, sterile, and easily obtained, needs little sample preparation, and does not require invasive medical procedures for collection. Furthermore, urine captures and concentrates many "unwanted" or "undesirable" compounds throughout the body, providing a rich source of potentially useful disease biomarkers; however, incredible variation in urine chemical concentrations makes analysis of urine and identification of useful urinary biomarkers by NMR challenging. We discuss a number of the most significant issues regarding NMR-based urinary metabolomics with specific emphasis on metabolite quantification for disease biomarker applications and propose data collection and instrumental recommendations regarding NMR pulse sequences, acceptable acquisition parameter ranges, relaxation effects on quantitation, proper handling of instrumental differences, sample preparation, and biomarker assessment.
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- Abdul-Hamid Emwas
- Imaging and Characterization Core Lab, KAUST , Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Centre of Biomedical Research, formerly, Centre of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences Campus , Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Charles Sturt University , Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
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- UCD Insitute of Food and Health, UCD , Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- FiorGen Foundation , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Centro Risonanze Magnetiche - CERM, University of Florence , Florence, Italy
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- Computational Bioscience Research Center, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory, LNBio , Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington , 850 Republican Street, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
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- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington , 850 Republican Street, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States.,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , 1100 Fairview Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) , Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) , Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Li Y, Deng H, Ju L, Zhang X, Zhang Z, Yang Z, Wang L, Hou Z, Zhang Y. Screening and validation for plasma biomarkers of nephrotoxicity based on metabolomics in male rats. Toxicol Res (Camb) 2016; 5:259-267. [PMID: 30090342 PMCID: PMC6062367 DOI: 10.1039/c5tx00171d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Currently, drug-induced nephrotoxicity is widespread and seriously affects human health. However, the conventional indexes of renal function lack sensitivity, leading to a delay in the detection of nephrotoxicity. Therefore, we need to identify more sensitive indexes for evaluating nephrotoxicity. In this study, we used gentamicin (100 mg kg-1), etimicin (100 mg kg-1) and amphotericin B (4 mg kg-1) to establish renal injury models in rats, and we collected information using ultra-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry in the screening stage. Thirteen nephrotoxicity metabolites were selected after multivariate statistical and integration analyses. Then, we conducted trend analysis to select 5 nephrotoxicity biomarkers [thymidine, LysoPC(16:1), LysoPC(18:4), LysoPC(20:5), and LysoPC(22:5)] whose content changed consistently at different timepoints after drug administration. To verify the sensitivity and specificity of these biomarkers for nephrotoxicity, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and support vector machine (SVM) analyses were applied. The area under the curve of the 5 biomarkers were 0.806-0.901 at the 95% confidence interval according to the ROC analysis. We used the SVM classified model to verify these biomarkers, and the prediction rate was 95.83%. Therefore, the 5 biomarkers have strong sensitivity and high accuracy; these biomarkers are more sensitive indexes for evaluating renal function to identify nephrotoxicity and initiate prompt treatment.
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- Yubo Li
- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine , Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 312 Anshan west Road , Tianjin 300193 , China . ; ; Tel: +86-22-59596221
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Ali SO, Darwish HA, Ismail NA. Curcumin, Silybin Phytosome(®) and α-R-Lipoic Acid Mitigate Chronic Hepatitis in Rat by Inhibiting Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Cytokines Production. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 2015; 118:369-80. [PMID: 26457982 DOI: 10.1111/bcpt.12502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Chronic hepatitis is recognized as a worldwide health problem that gradually progresses towards cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite the large number of experiments using animal models for allergic hepatitis, it is still difficult to produce a picture of chronic hepatitis. Therefore, this study was conducted to introduce an animal model approximating to the mechanism of chronicity in human hepatitis. The study also aimed to examine the hepatoprotective effects of curcumin, silybin phytosome(®) and α-R-lipoic acid against thioacetamide (TAA)-induced chronic hepatitis in rat model. TAA was administered intraperitoneally at a dose of 200 mg/kg three times weekly for 4 weeks. At the end of this period, a group of rats was killed to assess the development of chronic hepatitis in comparison with their respective control group. TAA administration was then discontinued, and the remaining animals were subsequently allocated into four groups. Group 1 was left untreated, whereas groups 2-4 were allowed to receive daily oral doses of curcumin, silybin phytosome(®) or α-R-lipoic acid, respectively, for 7 weeks. Increases in hepatic levels of malondialdehyde associated with TAA administration were inhibited in groups receiving supplements. Furthermore, glutathione depletion, collagen deposition, macrophage activation and nuclear factor κappa-B expression as well as tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 levels were significantly decreased in response to supplements administration. Serological analysis of liver function and liver histopathological examination reinforced the results. The above evidence collectively indicates that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of curcumin, silybin phytosome(®) and α-R-lipoic acid may confer therapeutic efficacy against chronic hepatitis.
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- Shimaa O Ali
- Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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Jiang B, Le L, Wan W, Zhai W, Hu K, Xu L, Xiao P. The Flower Tea Coreopsis tinctoria Increases Insulin Sensitivity and Regulates Hepatic Metabolism in Rats Fed a High-Fat Diet. Endocrinology 2015; 156:2006-18. [PMID: 25774555 DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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An infusion of Coreopsis tinctoria (CT) flowering tops is traditionally used in Portugal to control hyperglycemia; however, the effects of CT protection against high-fat diet (HFD)-induced hepatic insulin resistance have not been systematically studied and the precise mechanism of action is not clear. The metabolomic profiles of insulin-resistant rats fed a HFD and a CT-supplemented diet (HFD supplemented with CT drinking) for 8 weeks were investigated. Serum samples for clinical biochemistry and liver samples for histopathology and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomic research were collected. Western blot and quantitative real-time PCR analyses were further used to measure the expression of several relevant enzymes together with perturbed metabolic pathways. Using analysis software, the CT treatment was found to significantly ameliorate the disturbance in 10 metabolic pathways. Combined metabolomic, Western blot, and quantitative real-time PCR analyses revealed that CT treatment significantly improved the glucose homeostasis by, on the one hand, through inhibiting the expression of gluconeogenic pathway key proteins glucose-6-phosphatase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and, on the other hand, via regulating the mRNA or protein levels of the Krebs cycle critical enzymes (citrate synthase, succinate dehydrogenase complex, subunit A, flavoprotein, and dihydrolipoamide S-succinyltransferase). These results provide metabolic evidence of the complex pathogenic mechanism involved in hepatic insulin resistance and that the supplementation with CT improves insulin resistance at a global scale. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomics approaches are helpful to further understand diabetes-related mechanisms.
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- Baoping Jiang
- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (B.J., L.L., W.W., W.Z., K.H., L.X., P.X.), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100194, China; and Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine (B.J., W.W., L.X., P.X.), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100194, China
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Yang Y, Zheng L, Wang L, Wang S, Wang Y, Han Z. Effects of high fructose and salt feeding on systematic metabonome probed via (1) H NMR spectroscopy. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2015; 53:295-303. [PMID: 25641270 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2014] [Revised: 11/01/2014] [Accepted: 11/15/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Diets rich in high fructose and salt are increasingly popular in our daily life. A combination consumption of excessive fructose and salt can induce insulin resistance (IR) and hypertension (HT), which are major public health problems around the world. However, the effects of high fructose and salt on systematic metabonome remain unknown, which is very important for revealing the molecular mechanism of IR and HT induced by this dietary pattern. The metabolic profiling in urine, plasma, and fecal extracts from high fructose and salt-fed rats was investigated by use of (1) H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabonomics approach in this study. Multivariate analysis of NMR data showed the effects of high fructose and salt on the global metabonome. The metabolite analysis in urine and fecal extracts showed the time-dependent metabolic changes, which displayed metabonomic progression axes from normal to IR and HT status. The changes of 2-oxoglutarate, creatine and creatinine, citrate, hippurate, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), and betaine in urine, together with gut microbiota disorder in feces, were observed at the preliminary formation stage of IR and HT (fourth week). At the severe stage (eighth week), the previously mentioned metabolic changes were aggravated, and the changes of lipid and choline metabolism in plasma suggested the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. These findings provide an overview of biochemistry consequences of high fructose and salt feeding and comprehensive insights into the progression of systematic metabonome for IR and HT induced by this dietary pattern.
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- Yongxia Yang
- School of Basic Courses, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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Study of the cardiotoxicity of Venenum Bufonis in rats using an 1H NMR-based metabolomics approach. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0119515. [PMID: 25781638 PMCID: PMC4363591 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Accepted: 01/24/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Venenum Bufonis, a well-known traditional Chinese medicine, has been widely used in Asia and has gained popularity in Western countries over the last decade. Venenum Bufonis has obvious side effects that have been observed in clinical settings, but few studies have reported on its cardiotoxicity. In this work, the cardiotoxicity of Venenum Bufonis was investigated using a 11H NMR-based metabolomics approach. The 1H NMR profiles of the serum, myocardial extracts and liver extracts of specific-pathogen-free rats showed that Venenum Bufonis produced significant metabolic perturbations dose-dependently with a distinct time effect, peaking at 2 hr after dosing and attenuating gradually. Clinical chemistry, electrocardiographic recordings, and histopathological evaluation provided additional evidence of Venenum Bufonis-induced cardiac damage that complemented and supported the metabolomics findings. The combined results demonstrated that oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and energy metabolism perturbations were associated with the cardiac damage that results from Venenum Bufonis.
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Urinary metabolite profiling offers potential for differentiation of liver-kidney yin deficiency and dampness-heat internal smoldering syndromes in posthepatitis B cirrhosis patients. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2015; 2015:464969. [PMID: 25667596 PMCID: PMC4312628 DOI: 10.1155/2015/464969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/29/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Zheng is the basic theory and essence of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in diagnosing diseases. However, there are no biological evidences to support TCM Zheng differentiation. In this study we elucidated the biological alteration of cirrhosis with TCM “Liver-Kidney Yin Deficiency (YX)” or “Dampness-Heat Internal Smoldering (SR)” Zheng and the potential of urine metabonomics in TCM Zheng differentiation. Differential metabolites contributing to the intergroup variation between healthy controls and liver cirrhosis patients were investigated, respectively, and mainly participated in energy metabolism, gut microbiota metabolism, oxidative stress, and bile acid metabolism. Three metabolites, aconitate, citrate, and 2-pentendioate, altered significantly in YX Zheng only, representing the abnormal energy metabolism. Contrarily, hippurate and 4-pyridinecarboxylate altered significantly in SR Zheng only, representing the abnormalities of gut microbiota metabolism. Moreover, there were significant differences between two TCM Zhengs in three metabolites, glycoursodeoxycholate, cortolone-3-glucuronide, and L-aspartyl-4-phosphate, among all differential metabolites. Metabonomic profiling, as a powerful approach, provides support to the understanding of biological mechanisms of TCM Zheng stratification. The altered urinary metabolites constitute a panel of reliable biological evidence for TCM Zheng differentiation in patients with posthepatitis B cirrhosis and may be used for the potential biomarkers of TCM Zheng stratification.
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Wang L, Zheng L, Luo R, Zhao X, Han Z, Wang Y, Yang Y. A1H NMR-based metabonomic investigation of time-dependent metabolic trajectories in a high salt-induced hypertension rat model. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra07215d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The time-dependent metabolic profiles in urine, plasma and feces of salt-fed hypertensive rats were systematically investigated using NMR-based metabonomics.
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- Linlin Wang
- School of Basic Courses
- Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
- Guangzhou
- P. R. China
- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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- School of Basic Courses
- Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
- Guangzhou
- P. R. China
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- Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Southern Medical University
- Guangzhou
- P. R. China
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- Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Southern Medical University
- Guangzhou
- P. R. China
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- School of Basic Courses
- Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
- Guangzhou
- P. R. China
- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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- School of Basic Courses
- Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
- Guangzhou
- P. R. China
- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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- School of Basic Courses
- Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
- Guangzhou
- P. R. China
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Dong G, Wang J, Guo P, Wei D, Yang M, Kong L. Toxicity assessment of Arisaematis Rhizoma in rats by a 1H NMR-based metabolomics approach. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2015; 11:407-17. [DOI: 10.1039/c4mb00583j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A 1H NMR based metabolomics approach combined with serum biochemistry and histopathological examination was used to study the toxicity of Arisaematis Rhizoma by intragastrical administration for the first time.
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- Ge Dong
- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines
- Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing
- P.R. China
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- Center for Molecular Metabolism
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing
- P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines
- Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing
- P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines
- Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing
- P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines
- Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing
- P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines
- Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing
- P.R. China
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Nephrotoxicity or renal toxicity can be a result of hemodynamic changes, direct injury to cells and tissue, inflammatory tissue injury, and/or obstruction of renal excretion. Nephrotoxicity is frequently induced by a wide spectrum of therapeutic drugs and environ mental pollutants. Knowledge of the complex molecular and pathophysiologic mechanisms leading to nephrotoxicity remains limited, in part, by research that historically focused on single or relatively few risk markers. As such, current kidney injury biomarkers are inadequate in terms of sensitivity and specificity. In contrast, metabolomics enables screening of a vast array of metabolites simultaneously using NMR and MS to assess their role in nephrotoxicity development and progression. A more comprehensive understanding of these biochemical pathways would also provide valuable insight to disease mechanisms critical for drug development and treatment.
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Xia K, He X, Dai Q, Cheng WH, Qi X, Guo M, Luo Y, Huang K, Zhao C, Xu W. Discovery of systematic responses and potential biomarkers induced by ochratoxin A using metabolomics. Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess 2014; 31:1904-13. [PMID: 25255040 DOI: 10.1080/19440049.2014.957249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Ochratoxin A (OTA) is known to be nephrotoxic and hepatotoxic in rodents when exposed orally. To understand the systematic responses to OTA exposure, GC-MS- and (1)H-NMR-based metabolomic techniques together with histopathological assessments were applied to analyse the urine and plasma of OTA-exposed rats. It was found that OTA exposure caused significant elevation of amino acids (alanine, glycine, leucine etc.), pentose (ribose, glucitol, xylitol etc.) and nucleic acid metabolites (pseudouridine, adenosine, uridine). Moreover, myo-inositol, trimethylamine-oxide (TMAO), pseudouridine and leucine were identified as potential biomarkers for OTA toxicity. The primary pathways included the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), the Krebs cycle (TCA), the creatine pathway and gluconeogenesis. The activated PPP was attributed to the high requirements for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), which is involved in OTA metabolism through cytochrome P450. The elevated gluconeogenesis and TCA suggest that energy metabolism was involved. The up-regulated synthesis of creatinine reveals the elevated catabolism of proteins. These findings provide an overview of systematic responses to OTA exposure and metabolomic insight into the toxicological mechanism of OTA.
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- Kai Xia
- a Laboratory of Food Safety and Molecular Biology, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China
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Bogren LK, Murphy CJ, Johnston EL, Sinha N, Serkova NJ, Drew KL. 1H-NMR metabolomic biomarkers of poor outcome after hemorrhagic shock are absent in hibernators. PLoS One 2014; 9:e107493. [PMID: 25211248 PMCID: PMC4161479 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background Hemorrhagic shock (HS) following trauma is a leading cause of death among persons under the age of 40. During HS the body undergoes systemic warm ischemia followed by reperfusion during medical intervention. Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) results in a disruption of cellular metabolic processes that ultimately lead to tissue and organ dysfunction or failure. Resistance to I/R injury is a characteristic of hibernating mammals. The present study sought to identify circulating metabolites in the rat as biomarkers for metabolic alterations associated with poor outcome after HS. Arctic ground squirrels (AGS), a hibernating species that resists I/R injury independent of decreased body temperature (warm I/R), was used as a negative control. Methodology/principal findings Male Sprague-Dawley rats and AGS were subject to HS by withdrawing blood to a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of 35 mmHg and maintaining the low MAP for 20 min before reperfusing with Ringers. The animals’ temperature was maintained at 37±0.5°C for the duration of the experiment. Plasma samples were taken immediately before hemorrhage and three hours after reperfusion. Hydrophilic and lipid metabolites from plasma were then analyzed via 1H–NMR from unprocessed plasma and lipid extracts, respectively. Rats, susceptible to I/R injury, had a qualitative shift in their hydrophilic metabolic fingerprint including differential activation of glucose and anaerobic metabolism and had alterations in several metabolites during I/R indicative of metabolic adjustments and organ damage. In contrast, I/R injury resistant AGS, regardless of season or body temperature, maintained a stable metabolic homeostasis revealed by a qualitative 1H–NMR metabolic profile with few changes in quantified metabolites during HS-induced global I/R. Conclusions/significance An increase in circulating metabolites indicative of anaerobic metabolism and activation of glycolytic pathways is associated with poor prognosis after HS in rats. These same biomarkers are absent in AGS after HS with warm I/R.
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- Lori K. Bogren
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America
- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America
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- Centre of Biomedical Research, SGPGIMS Campus, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
- University of Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America
- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America
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Kyriakides M, Hardwick RN, Jin Z, Goedken MJ, Holmes E, Cherrington NJ, Coen M. Systems level metabolic phenotype of methotrexate administration in the context of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in the rat. Toxicol Sci 2014; 142:105-16. [PMID: 25145655 PMCID: PMC4226764 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfu160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) represent a significant clinical challenge with respect to patient morbidity and mortality. We investigated the hepatotoxicity and systems level metabolic phenotype of methotrexate (MTX) in the context of a prevalent liver disease; non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). A nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic-based metabonomic approach was employed to analyze the metabolic consequences of MTX (0, 10, 40, and 100 mg/kg) in the urine and liver of healthy rats (control diet) and in a model of NASH (methionine-choline deficient diet). Histopathological analysis confirmed baseline (0 mg/kg) liver necrosis, liver inflammation, and lipid accumulation in the NASH model. Administration of MTX (40 and 100 mg/kg) led to liver necrosis in the control cohort, whereas the NASH cohort also displayed biliary hyperplasia and liver fibrosis (100 mg/kg), providing evidence of the synergistic effect of MTX and NASH. The complementary hepatic and urinary metabolic phenotypes of the NASH model, at baseline, revealed perturbation of multiple metabolites associated with oxidative and energetic stress, and folate homeostasis. Administration of MTX in both diet cohorts showed dose-dependent metabolic consequences affecting gut microbial, energy, nucleobase, nucleoside, and folate metabolism. Furthermore, a unique panel of metabolic changes reflective of the synergistic effect of MTX and NASH was identified, including the elevation of hepatic phenylalanine, urocanate, acetate, and both urinary and hepatic formiminoglutamic acid. This systems level metabonomic analysis of the hepatotoxicity of MTX in the context of NASH provided novel mechanistic insight of potential wider clinical relevance for further understanding the role of liver pathology as a risk factor for ADRs.
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- Michael Kyriakides
- Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Computational Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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- Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Computational Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Computational Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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An magnetic resonance-based plasma metabonomic investigation on abnormal Savda in different complicated diseases. J TRADIT CHIN MED 2014; 34:166-72. [PMID: 24783928 DOI: 10.1016/s0254-6272(14)60073-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To provide potential evidence for the existence of abnormal Savda, we assessed host metabonomic responses and dynamic changes occurring in various diseases using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabonomics. METHODS Plasma samples taken from patients with complicated diseases with abnormal Savda (n = 140, including 35 cases each of diabetes, asthma, breast cancer, and cervical carcinoma) and from healthy controls (n = 35) were analyzed by 1H NMR (600 MHz), and the spectral profiles were analyzed by multivariate analysis using orthogonal projection to latent structure with discriminant analysis. RESULTS Supervised modeling of the data provided very good discrimination between patients and healthy controls. Compared with the healthy controls, the patient groups with different disease conditions displayed similar metabolic changes, characterized by lower creatine, creatinine, lactate, and amino acid levels (including isoleucine, leucine, valine, alanine, and 1-methylhistidine) and higher lipid levels (very low-density lipoproteins and unsaturated lipids). Additionally, cancer patients (breast and cervical) showed decreased myo-inositol, a-glucose, and beta-glucose, and increased pyruvate and carnitine in plasma. CONCLUSION The data indicate that decreased oxidative defense, liver function abnormalities, amino acid deficiencies, and energy metabolism disorders are common characteristics of complicated diseases, which may be related to the formation of abnormal Savda.
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Wei DD, Wang JS, Wang PR, Li MH, Yang MH, Kong LY. Toxic effects of chronic low-dose exposure of thioacetamide on rats based on NMR metabolic profiling. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2014; 98:334-8. [PMID: 24996005 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2014.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2014] [Revised: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Thioacetamide (TAA) is a well-known toxicant and its long term exposure could induce liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. A liver fibrosis rat model was established by consecutive injection of TAA solution for 7 weeks. Serum and urine samples were collected weekly for NMR based metabolomic study. Clinical biochemistry of serum samples revealed liver impairment and fibrosis. Histopathological inspections disclosed severe liver fibrosis and cirrhosis formation, and pathological changes in kidney by long-term TAA administration. Orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) was applied on serum and urine samples to excavate differential metabolites associated with TAA induced impairment and explore the time-dependent metabolic event associated with this xenobiotic perturbation. Integration of metabolomics results with serum biochemical revealed several potential biomarkers for liver fibrosis (2-hydroxybutyrate, 3-hydroxybutyrate and adipate in urine, and phenylalanine, N,N-dimethyl glycine, O-acetyl glycoprotein, N-acetyl glycoprotein and choline in serum). Pathway analysis revealed disturbed pathways concerning tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, pyruvate metabolism, starch and sucrose metabolism, glycolysis or gluconeogenesis, degradation of ketone bodies, butanoate metabolism, and biosynthesis of BCAAs (valine, leucine and isoleucine) and AAAs (phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan). This integrative study should help to develop a systematic understanding of liver fibrosis-related diseases and their metabolic events.
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- Dan-Dan Wei
- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tong Jia Xiang, Nanjing 210009, PR China
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- Center for Molecular Metabolism, School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 200 Xiao Ling Wei, Nanjing 210014, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tong Jia Xiang, Nanjing 210009, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tong Jia Xiang, Nanjing 210009, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tong Jia Xiang, Nanjing 210009, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tong Jia Xiang, Nanjing 210009, PR China.
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Yang Y, Wang L, Wang S, Huang R, Zheng L, Liang S, Zhang L, Xu J. An integrated metabonomic approach to studying metabolic profiles in rat models with insulin resistance induced by high fructose. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2014; 10:1803-11. [PMID: 24722466 DOI: 10.1039/c3mb70618d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Insulin resistance (IR) is a common risk factor for the development of metabolic diseases, and has gradually become a hot issue for research. It was reported that excessive feeding with high fructose induced insulin resistance in both humans and rats. The aim of this study was to investigate the progression of IR and identify potential biomarkers in urine, plasma and fecal extracts of high fructose-fed rats using a (1)H NMR-based metabonomics approach. The biochemical analysis was also performed. The levels of pyruvate and lactate in the plasma of the IR model rats were reduced significantly, and the levels of citrate and α-ketoglutaric acid (α-KG) in their urine, and the levels of succinate in their feces also decreased, suggesting perturbation of energy metabolism. Decreased levels of taurine in urine and fecal extracts during the whole experiment, together with increased levels of creatine/creatinine in urine, revealed liver and kidney injuries. Decreased levels of choline-containing metabolites in urine and increased levels of betaine in urine and plasma demonstrated altered transmethylation. Changes in hippurate, acetate, propionate and n-butyrate levels suggested disturbance of the intestinal flora in the IR rats. This study indicated that (1)H NMR-based metabonomics can provide biochemical information on the progression of IR and offers a non-invasive means for the discovery of potential biomarkers.
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- Yongxia Yang
- School of Basic Courses, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, 510006, P. R. China.
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Xue LM, Zhang QY, Han P, Jiang YP, Yan RD, Wang Y, Rahman K, Jia M, Han T, Qin LP. Hepatotoxic constituents and toxicological mechanism of Xanthium strumarium L. fruits. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2014; 152:272-82. [PMID: 24447814 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2013] [Revised: 12/11/2013] [Accepted: 12/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE In the recent years, the international community has attached increasing importance to possible toxicity associated with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). And hepatotoxicity is one of the major concerns, a fundamental pathological process induced by toxicant. This paper is in an attempt to identify the hepatotoxic components in Xanthium strumarium L. fruits (XSF) and interpret the toxicological mechanism induced by XSF. MATERIALS AND METHODS XSF extract was prepared and seven characteristic components were isolated and identified in XSF water extracts. We evaluated their hepatotoxicity effect on cell proliferation and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity in L-02 and BRL liver cell line. An integrated metabonomics study using high-resolution (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance ((1)H NMR) spectroscopy combined with multivariate statistical analysis was undertake to elucidate the hepatotoxicity mechanism induced in rats by XSF. The urine and serum metabolites were measured after treatment of rats with XSF (7.5, 15.0 and 30.0 g/kg/day) for 5 days. RESULTS The results showed that atractyloside, carboxyatractyloside, 4'-desulphate-atractyloside and XSF induced significant cytotoxic effects in both L-02 and BRL liver cell lines, indicating that atractyloside, carboxyatractyloside, and 4'-desulphate-atractyloside were the toxic components of XSF. When rats were treated with XSF at 30.0 g/kg the hepatotoxicity was reflected in the changes observed in serum biochemical profiles and by the histopathological examination of the liver. The levels of VLDL/LDL, 3-HB, lactate, acetate, acetone and glutamate in serum were increased in this group, while d-glucose, choline and valine were decreased. The elevation in the levels of succinate, citrate, 2-oxo-glutamate, glycine, 3-HB, acetate, lactate, hippurate, dimethylglycine, methylamine, dimethylamine, phenylalanine and tryptophan was observed in urine, in contrast a reduction in the intensities of taurine, d-glucose, N-acetyl-glucoprotein and trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) was observed. CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrate that the major hepatotoxicity constituents are atractyloside, carboxyatractyloside and 4'-desulphate-atractyloside, and the hepatotoxicity of XSF involves mitochondrial inability, fatty acid metabolism, and some amino acids metabolism. This integrated (1)H NMR -based metabolic profiling approach has been able to capture and probe the metabolic alterations associated with the onset and progression of hepatotoxicity induced by XSF, and permits a comprehensive understanding of systemic toxicity for phytochemicals and other types of xenobiotic agents.
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- Li-Ming Xue
- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China; Health Laboratory, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1380 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai 200336, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan Military Region, PLA, 36 East Wenhua Road, Jinan, Shandong 250012, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine University, 1 Jingba Road, Ji'nan 250001, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Faculty of Science, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
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Hua Y, Xue W, Zhang M, Wei Y, Ji P. Metabonomics study on the hepatoprotective effect of polysaccharides from different preparations of Angelica sinensis. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2014; 151:1090-1099. [PMID: 24378353 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2013] [Revised: 12/01/2013] [Accepted: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Angelica sinensis (AS) has been used for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Processed products of AS mainly include charred Angelica, parching Angelica with oil, parching Angelica with wine, and parching Angelica with soil, which have been widely used in TCM prescriptions. Polysaccharides are important chemical substances of AS. These compounds effectively treat liver diseases, shows hepatoprotectivity, and contributes directly to the therapeutic effect of AS. However, the precise molecular mechanism of the effects of the different AS products polysaccharide has not been comprehensively explored. The present investigation was designed to assess the effects and possible mechanisms of polysaccharide in the different AS products against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS Liver injury was induced by intraperitoneal injection with Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in the mice. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with pattern recognition approaches, namely, principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), were used to determine differentiating metabolites in plasma and liver tissue. RESULTS PCA and PLS-DA score plots of the liver injury group clustered separately from that of the control, while groups treated with polysaccharides from charred AS (ASTP), parching AS with soil (ASTUP), parching AS with wine (ASJP), parching AS with Sesame Oil (ASYP) clustered closely with the control. This result indicates that the metabolic profiles of the ASTP, ASTUP, ASJP, and ASYP groups are almost similar to those of the control. Potential metabolite biomarkers (six in the liver homogenates and seven in the plasma) were identified. These biomarkers include citric acid, succinic acid,glycine, palmitelaidic acid, arachidonic acid, fumaric acid, malic acid, valine, ananine, and hexadecanoic acid. Functional pathway analysis revealed that alterations in these metabolites are associated with lipid, amino acid, and energy metabolism. Notably, ASTP exhibited a potential pharmacological effect by regulating multiple perturbed pathways to the normal state. CONCLUSION It is likely that ASTP, ASTUP, ASJP, ASYP intervenes the metabolic process of liver injury mice by affecting the lipid and amino acid metabolism. Metabonomics is a robust and promising for the identification of biomarkers and elucidation of the mechanisms of a disease, thereby highlighting its importance in drug discovery.
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- Yongli Hua
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730070, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730070, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730070, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730070, China.
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730070, China
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