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Singh U, Emwas AH, Jaremko M. Enhancement of weak signals by applying a suppression method to high-intense methyl and methylene signals of lipids in NMR spectroscopy. RSC Adv 2024; 14:26873-26883. [PMID: 39193283 PMCID: PMC11347981 DOI: 10.1039/d4ra03019b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 08/18/2024] [Indexed: 08/29/2024] Open
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Lipids play crucial roles in human biology, serving as energy stores, cell membranes, hormone production, and signaling molecules. Accordingly, their study under lipidomics has advanced the study of living organisms. 1-Dimensional (D) and 2D NMR methods, particularly 1D 1H and 2D 1H-1H Total Correlation Spectroscopy (TOCSY), are commonly used in lipidomics for quantification and structural identification. However, these NMR methods suffer from low sensitivity, especially in cases of low concentrated molecules such as protons attached to hydroxy, esters, aliphatic, or aromatic unsaturated carbons. Such molecules are common in complex mixtures such as dairy products and plant oils. On the other hand, lipids have highly populated fractions of methyl and methylene groups that result in intense peaks that overwhelm lower peaks and cause inhomogeneities in 2D TOCSY spectra. In this study, we applied a method of suppression to suppress these intense peaks of methyl and methylene groups to detect weaker peaks. The suppression method was investigated on samples of cheese, butter, a mixture of lipids, coconut oil, and olive oil. A significant improvement in peak sensitivity and visibility of cross-peaks was observed, leading to enhanced comparative quantification and structural identification of a greater number of lipids. Additionally, the enhanced sensitivity reduced the time required for the qualitative and comparative quantification of other lipid compounds and components. This, in turn, enables faster and more reliable structural identification and comparative quantification of a greater number of lipids. Additionally, it reduces the time required for the qualitative, and comparative quantification due to the enhancement of sensitivity.
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- Upendra Singh
- Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal Makkah 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Core Lab of NMR, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal Makkah 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Smart-Health Initiative (SHI), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal Makkah 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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Wang A, Song Q, Li Y, Fang H, Ma X, Li Y, Wei B, Pan C. Effect of traditional Chinese medicine on metabolism disturbance in ischemic heart diseases. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2024; 329:118143. [PMID: 38583735 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2024.118143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Ischemic heart diseases (IHD), characterized by metabolic dysregulation, contributes majorly to the global morbidity and mortality. Glucose, lipid and amino acid metabolism are critical energy production for cardiomyocytes, and disturbances of these metabolism lead to the cardiac injury. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), widely used for treating IHD, have been demonstrated to effectively and safely regulate the cardiac metabolism reprogramming. AIM OF THE REVIEW This study discussed and analyzed the disturbed cardiac metabolism induced by IHD and development of formulas, extracts, single herb, bioactive compounds of TCM ameliorating IHD injury via metabolism regulation, with the aim of providing a basis for the development of clinical application of therapeutic strategies for TCM in IHD. MATERIALS AND METHODS With "ischemic heart disease", "myocardial infarction", "myocardial ischemia", "metabolomics", "Chinese medicine", "herb", "extracts" "medicinal plants", "glucose", "lipid metabolism", "amino acid" as the main keywords, PubMed, Web of Science, and other online search engines were used for literature retrieval. RESULTS IHD exhibits a close association with metabolism disorders, including but not limited to glycolysis, the TCA cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, branched-chain amino acids, fatty acid β-oxidation, ketone body metabolism, sphingolipid and glycerol-phospholipid metabolism. The therapeutic potential of TCM lies in its ability to regulate these disturbed cardiac metabolisms. Additionally, the active ingredients of TCM have depicted wonderful effects in cardiac metabolism reprogramming in IHD. CONCLUSION Drawing from the principles of TCM, we have pinpointed specific herbal remedies for the treatment of IHD, and leveraged advanced metabolomics technologies to uncover the effect of these TCMs on metabolomics alteration. In the future, further clinical experimental studies should be included to explore whether more TCM medicines can play a therapeutic role in IHD by reversing cardiac metabolism disorders; multi-omics would be conducted to explore more pathways and genes targeting such metabolism reprogramming by TCMs, and to seek more TCM therapies for IHD.
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- Anpei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, PR China.
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Hao C, Yi H, Hong L, Ming Y, Hengli T, Feipeng G, Lingyun Z. Research Progress on the Mechanism of Reducing Toxicity and Increasing the Efficacy of Sini Decoction Compatibility. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 2022; 70:827-838. [PMID: 36123021 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.c22-00380] [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: 11/22/2022]
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Sini Decoction (SND) is the main prescription for treating Shaoyin disease in Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid Diseases in Han Dynasty. It is composed of Aconitum carmichaeli Debeaux, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch ex DC and Zingiber officinale Roscoe. It has the effects of warming middle-jiao to dispel cold and revive the yang for resuscitation. Nowadays, it is mainly used in diseases in cardiovascular system, nervous system, digestive system and so on. In this paper, the effect and mechanism of the compatibility of Aconitum carmichaelii, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch ex DC and Zingiber officinale Roscoe in SND were described. The results showed that SND performed remarkbly on strengthening heart, promoting blood circulation as well as inhibiting cardiomyocyte apoptosis, anti-inflammatory and anti-hypothyroidism. The toxic effect of Aconitum carmichaelii was relieved by the combination of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch ex DC and Zingiber officinale Roscoe. The mechanism of increasing efficiency and reducing toxicity after the compatibility of medicines in SND was discussed from the perspective of changes in biological effects and chemical compositions. In terms of biological effects, the mechanism of SND in treating heart failure, myocardial ischemia, myocardial hypertrophy and hypothyroidism and protecting cell injury were discussed. As to chemical composition changes, most studies have compared the changes of main components in Aconitum carmichaelii, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch ex DC and Zingiber officinale Roscoe with the whole prescription, drug pair and single Decoction, which further confirmed the effect of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch ex DC on the detoxification of Aconitum carmichaelii and the significance of compatibility efficiency of SND. For the application of differently processed varieties of Aconitum carmichaelii in SND, the treatment of different diseases has siginificant tendencies and differences in the selections of Aconitum carmichaelii processed varieties. This paper will lay a foundation on clarifying the mechanism of drug compatibility of SND and in the future, provide a reference for the proper selection of differently processed products of Aconitum carmichaelii in SND in order to exert better effects in clinical pratices.
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- Chen Hao
- Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine
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- Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine
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- Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine
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- Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine
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Gong X, Sun Z, Huang Z, Zhou Q, Yu Z, Chen X, Shao W, Zheng Y, Liang Y, Qin S, Su Y, Ge J. Circulating metabolite profiles to predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2020; 20:178. [PMID: 32299366 PMCID: PMC7164223 DOI: 10.1186/s12872-020-01443-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background Heart failure is associated with ventricular dyssynchrony and energetic inefficiency, which can be alleviated by cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with approximately one-third of non-response rate. Thus far, there is no specific biomarker to predict the response to CRT in patients with heart failure. In this study, we assessed the role of the blood metabolomic profile in predicting the response to CRT. Methods A total of 105 dilated cardiomyopathy patients with severe heart failure who received CRT were included in our two-stage study. Baseline blood samples were collected prior to CRT implantation. The response to CRT was defined according to echocardiographic criteria. Metabolomic profiling of serum samples was carried out using ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Results Seventeen metabolites showed significant differences in their levels between responders and non-responders, and these metabolites were primarily involved in six pathways, including linoleic acid metabolism, Valine, leucine and isoleucine biosynthesis, phenylalanine metabolism, citrate cycle, tryptophan metabolism, and sphingolipid metabolism. A combination of isoleucine, tryptophan, and linoleic acid was identified as an ideal metabolite panel to distinguish responders from non-responders in the discovery set (n = 51 with an AUC of 0.981), and it was confirmed in the validation set (n = 54 with an AUC of 0.929). Conclusions Mass spectrometry based serum metabolomics approach provided larger coverage of metabolome which can help distinguish CRT responders from non-responders. A combination of isoleucine, tryptophan, and linoleic acid may associate with significant prognostic values for CRT.
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- Xue Gong
- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China
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- Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China
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- Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China.
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He K, Wang YL, Zhu QF, Cheng LM, Feng YQ. Profiling thiol metabolites in myocardial infarction human serum by stable isotope labeling assisted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2019; 1126-1127:121738. [PMID: 31377566 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2019.121738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2019] [Revised: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Myocardial Infarction (MI) is one of the most common causes of deaths worldwide. Thiols have been reported to play a key role in physiological and pathological processes of MI. Comprehensive analysis of thiols would be conducive to fully elucidate the relation between thiols and MI. In the current study, we analyze the metabolomic differences of thiols in serum between MI patients (n = 30) and healthy controls (HCs, n = 30) by stable isotope labeling-dispersive solid phase extraction-liquid chromatography-full scan-Orbitrap-mass spectrometry analysis (IL-DSPE-LC-full scan-Orbitrap MS) method. We detected 300 potential thiols in serum of MI patients and HCs, among which, 67 thiols were positively or putatively identified. Furthermore, we found that the levels of 71 thiols in serum exhibited significant difference between MI patients and HCs. In the transsulfuration pathway, we observed that Cys and Hcys were upregulated, while GSH were downregulated. Our results provide a comprehensive understanding of thiols metabolome in human serum between MI patients and HCs.
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- Ke He
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China.
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Wang D, Tan G, Wang H, Chen P, Hao J, Wang Y. Identification of novel serum biomarker for the detection of acute myeloid leukemia based on liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2019; 166:357-363. [PMID: 30690249 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2019.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Revised: 12/08/2018] [Accepted: 01/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a life-threatening hematological malignancy. Traditional diagnosis of AML depends on invasive bone marrow biopsies. To recognize the metabolic characteristics related with AML and search for early non-invasive biomarkers of AML, in this work we applied ultra-high performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Q-TOFMS)-based metabolomoc method to profile serum metabolites from 55 de novo AML patients and 45 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects and to screen and validate AML biomarkers. We observed AML-related metabolic differences mainly involved in alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism; d-Glutamine and d-glutamate metabolism; tryptophan metabolism; taurine and hypotaurine metabolism; and phenylalanine metabolism as well as fatty acid metabolism. A serum metabolite biomarker panel consisting of glutamic acid, kynurenine and oleic acid was defined and validated based on binary logistic regression analysis and receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) analysis, yielding an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.981 with 0.975 sensitivity and 0.933 specificity in the discovery set and an AUC of 0.973 with 0.933 sensitivity and 0.933 specificity in the validation set. This work demonstrated the UHPLC- MS-based metabolomics as a low invasive potential tool for the detection of AML, and this composite serum metabolite panel exhibited good diagnostic performance for AML in this case-control study and deserved further validation in a large-scale clinical trial. The identified metabolic pathways were also potentially worthy of further studying the pathogenesis of AML.
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- Dong Wang
- Department of Pharmacy, Beidaihe Rehabilitation and Sanatorium Center, Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Qinhuangdao, 066100, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, China
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- Department of Hematology, Bei Zhan Hospital, Shanghai, 20031, China.
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China.
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Zhou Q, Meng P, Wang H, Dong X, Tan G. Pharmacokinetics of monoester-diterpenoid alkaloids in myocardial infarction and normal rats after oral administration of Sini decoction by microdialysis combined with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Biomed Chromatogr 2018; 33:e4406. [PMID: 30302776 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.4406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Revised: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Monoester-diterpenoid alkaloids are the main bioactive components of Sini decoction, which is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine formula for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure in China. In this work, an ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry combined with microdialysis method was successfully established and applied for investigating for the first time comparative plasma pharmacokinetics of three monoester-diterpenoid alkaloids (benzoylmesaconitine, benzoylaconitine and benzoylhypacoitine) in normal and MI rats after oral administration of Sini decoction. The statistical results of pharmacokinetic parameters demonstrated that benzoylmesaconitine, benzoylaconitine and benzoylhypacoitine showed lower peak concentration, longer half-life, smaller area under the concentration-time curve, slower clearance, time to peak concentration and mean residence time in MI rats than in normal rats (p < 0.05), which indicated that monoester-diterpenoid alkaloids exhibited lower systemic exposure and slower elimination in the MI rats. The results provided the experimental basis for understanding the metabolic fate and therapeutic effects of Sini decoction.
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- Qian Zhou
- Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Urology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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UHPLC-Q-TOF MS-Based Metabolic Analysis for the Therapeutic Efficacy of "Xuebijing Injection" against Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2018; 2018:8514619. [PMID: 30344613 PMCID: PMC6174773 DOI: 10.1155/2018/8514619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2018] [Revised: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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“Xuebijing Injection” (XBJ) is a traditional Chinese medicine and has been wildly used in the treatment of sepsis in China. However, few studies have reported the use of XBJ in sepsis with acute lung injury (ALI). This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of XBJ against sepsis-induced ALI. Generally a total of 27 mice were equally randomized into three groups: a sham group was given saline before sham operation. A sepsis group received the cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) operation only. A sepsis+XBJ group, XBJ, was injected at 72, 48, and 24 h before CLP operation. The lung tissue was collected for UHPLC-Q-TOF/MS profiling analysis, biomarker identification, and pathway analysis. With the analysis of principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), forty-five purine, amino acid, and sphingolipid metabolites in lung tissues were identified as potential biomarkers of sepsis-induced ALI, among which 22 were reversed in the sepsis+XBJ group significantly. Conclusively, our results suggest that purine metabolic pathway, glutathione metabolic pathway, sphingomyelin metabolic pathway, arachidonic acid metabolic pathway, and phospholipid metabolic pathway may be the potential therapeutic pathways to overcome sepsis-induced acute lung injury and we provided the potential mechanisms of protective effects of XBJ against ALI.
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Tan G, Zhou Q, Liu K, Dong X, Li L, Liao W, Wu H. Cross-platform metabolic profiling deciphering the potential targets of Shenfu injection against acute viral myocarditis in mice. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2018; 160:1-11. [PMID: 30053682 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2018.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2018] [Revised: 06/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Acute viral myocarditis (AVMC) is typically caused by cardiotropic viral infection. There is a paucity of specific treatment options available with proven efficacy. Chinese patented pharmaceutical product Shenfu injection (SFI) has potent efficacy on treating AVMC in clinical practice. However, the molecular mechanism is still unknown. We employed cross-platform metabolomics combined with computational systems analysis, based on reversed-phase liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (RPLC-MS), hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HILIC-MS) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), to deciphering the targeted metabolic pathways of SFI against AVMC induced by coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3). Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) technique was further applied to determining the expressions of the key genes associated with the SFI-targeted metabolic pathways. We have identified 48 significantly changed metabolites related to CVB3-induced AVMC, and SFI can significantly regulate the abnormalities of 33 metabolites and 9 relevant enzymes. Combined metabolic pathway enrichment and topology analyses revealed that the mechanisms of SFI against CVB3-induced AVMC may be attributed to modulating the disordered homeostasis of sphingolipid metabolism, glycerophospholipid metabolism, arachidonic acid metabolism, tryptophan metabolism, and TCA cycle. It provides new experimental information on the pathogenesis of AVMC, unravels the potential targeted metabolic pathways of SFI against AVMC on the whole metabolic network and highlights the importance of metabolomics combined with computational systems analysis as a potential tool for deciphering drug-targeted metabolic pathways.
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- Guangguo Tan
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Student Brigade, College of Basic Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
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Gibson CL, Codreanu SG, Schrimpe-Rutledge AC, Retzlaff CL, Wright J, Mortlock DP, Sherrod SD, McLean JA, Blakely RD. Global untargeted serum metabolomic analyses nominate metabolic pathways responsive to loss of expression of the orphan metallo β-lactamase, MBLAC1. Mol Omics 2018; 14:142-155. [PMID: 29868674 PMCID: PMC6015503 DOI: 10.1039/c7mo00022g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The C. elegans gene swip-10 encodes an orphan metallo β-lactamase that genetic studies indicate is vital for limiting neuronal excitability and viability. Sequence analysis indicates that the mammalian gene Mblac1 is the likely ortholog of swip-10, with greatest sequence identity localized to the encoded protein's single metallo β-lactamase domain. The substrate for the SWIP-10 protein remains unknown and to date no functional roles have been ascribed to MBLAC1, though we have shown that the protein binds the neuroprotective β-lactam antibiotic, ceftriaxone. To gain insight into the functional role of MBLAC1 in vivo, we used CRISPR/Cas9 methods to disrupt N-terminal coding sequences of the mouse Mblac1 gene, resulting in a complete loss of protein expression in viable, homozygous knockout (KO) animals. Using serum from both WT and KO mice, we performed global, untargeted metabolomic analyses, resolving small molecules via hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) based ultra-performance liquid chromatography, coupled to mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). Unsupervised principal component analysis reliably segregated the metabolomes of MBLAC1 KO and WT mice, with 92 features subsequently nominated as significantly different by ANOVA, and for which we made tentative and putative metabolite assignments. Bioinformatic analyses of these molecules nominate validated pathways subserving bile acid biosynthesis and linoleate metabolism, networks known to be responsive to metabolic and oxidative stress. Our findings lead to hypotheses that can guide future targeted studies seeking to identify the substrate for MBLAC1 and how substrate hydrolysis supports the neuroprotective actions of ceftriaxone.
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- Chelsea L. Gibson
- Department of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Jupiter FL, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
- Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
- Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Jupiter FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
- Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
- Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Jupiter FL, USA
- Brain Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter FL, USA
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Tan G, Wang X, Liu K, Dong X, Liao W, Wu H. Correlation of drug-induced and drug-related ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry serum metabolomic profiles yields discovery of effective constituents of Sini decoction against myocardial ischemia in rats. Food Funct 2018; 9:5528-5535. [DOI: 10.1039/c8fo01217b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A “system to system” strategy of correlating drug-related and drug-induced UHPLC-Q-TOFMS serum metabolomic profiles was developed to screen effective constituents.
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- Guangguo Tan
- School of Pharmacy
- Fourth Military Medical University
- Xi'an 710032
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- Student Brigade
- College of Basic Medicine
- Fourth Military Medical University
- Xi'an 710032
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Fourth Military Medical University
- Xi'an 710032
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Lang L, Meng Z, Sun L, Xiao W, Zhao L, Xiong Z. Intergrated metabonomic study of the effects of Guizhi Fuling capsule intervention on primary dysmenorrheal using RP-UPLC-MS complementary with HILIC-UPLC-MS technique. Biomed Chromatogr 2017; 32. [PMID: 28906007 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.4093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Guizhi Fuling capsule (GFC), developed from the traditional Chinese prescription of Guizhi Fuling Wan, has been commonly used for the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea (PD). However, the intervention effective mechanism in vivo has not been well elucidated. In this study, an integrated plasma metabonomic strategy based on RP-UPLC-MS coupled with HILIC-UPLC-MS technique has been developed to investigate the global therapeutic effects and intervention mechanisms of GFC on dysmenorrhea rats induced by oxytocin. The 20 potential biomarkers were identified and primarily related to sphingolipid metabolism, steroid hormone biosynthesis, glycerophospholipid metabolism, amino acid metabolism, lipid metabolism and energy metabolism. The results showed that the GFC has therapeutic effects on rats with dysmenorrhea via the regulation of multiple metabolic pathways. Some new potential biomarkers associated with primary dysmenorrhea such as phenylalanine, tryptophan, taurine, carnitine, betaine, creatine and creatinine have been discovered in this study for the first time. This study provides a metabonomic platform based on RP-UPLC-MS complementary to HILIC-UPLC-MS technique to investigate both nonpolar and polar compounds, so as to get a more comprehensive metabolite information to yield insight into the pathophysiology of PD and assessing the efficacy of GFC on PD rats.
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- Lang Lang
- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutic Process, Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutic Process, Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China.,State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutic Process, Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
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Tan G, Zhao B, Li Y, Liu X, Zou Z, Wan J, Yao Y, Xiong H, Wang Y. Pharmacometabolomics identifies dodecanamide and leukotriene B4 dimethylamide as a predictor of chemosensitivity for patients with acute myeloid leukemia treated with cytarabine and anthracycline. Oncotarget 2017; 8:88697-88707. [PMID: 29179468 PMCID: PMC5687638 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.20733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Clinical responses to standard cytarabine plus anthracycline regimen in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are heterogeneous and there is an unmet need for biological predictors of response to this regimen. Here, we applied a pharmacometabolomics approach to identify potential biomarkers associated with response to this regimen in AML patients. Based on clinical response the enrolled 82 patients were subdivided into two groups: complete remission(CR) responders (n=42) and non-responders (n=40). Metabolic profiles of pre-treatment serum from patients were analyzed by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry and the metabolic differences between the two groups were investigated by multivariate statistical analysis. A metabolite panel containing dodecanamide and leukotriene B4 dimethylamide (LTB4-DMA) had the power capacity to differentiate the two groups of patients, yielding an area under the receiver operating characteristic of 0.945 (85.2% sensitivity and 88.9% specificity) in the training set and 0.944(84.6% sensitivity and 80.0% specificity) in the test set. The patients with high levels of LTB4-DMA and low amounts of dodecanamide had good sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents. The possible reasons were that dodecanamide was produced by leukemic cells as a lipolytic factor to fuel their growth with a potential role in drug resistance and LTB4-DMA was a potent leukotriene B4 antagonist that could be applicable in the treatment of AML. These preliminary results demonstrates the feasibility of relating chemotherapy responses with pre-treatment metabolic profiles of AML patients, and pharmacometabolomics may be a useful tool to select patients that are more likely to benefit from cytarabine plus anthracycline chemotherapy.
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- Guangguo Tan
- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Central Hospital of Xuhui District, Shanghai, 20031, China
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Zhou J, Ma X, Shi M, Chen C, Sun Y, Li J, Xiong Y, Chen J, Li F. Serum metabolomics analysis reveals that obvious cardioprotective effects of low dose Sini decoction against isoproterenol-induced myocardial injury in rats. PHYTOMEDICINE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOTHERAPY AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY 2017; 31:18-31. [PMID: 28606513 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2017.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2016] [Accepted: 01/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Sini decoction (SND) is used for cardiovascular disease over thousands of years in China. However, it is still lacking of dose-response relationship of SND in cardiovascular disease at the metabolic level. PURPOSE The present study is designed to explore the cardioprotective effects of different dosages of SND pretreatment on the isoproterenol (ISO)-induced myocardial injury and elucidate the mechanism underlying this protective effect. METHODS The cardioprotective effects of different dosages of SND pretreatment on the isoproterenol-induced myocardial injury were compared through a serum metabolomics approach based on ultraperformance liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF-MS). In addition, the cardioprotective effects were evaluated by serum biochemical analysis and histopathological examination of myocardial tissue. Finally, in view of the fact that these perturbed bile acid and phospholipid metabolisms are connected with NF-κB signaling pathway, nuclear expression of NF-κB p65 and the activation of NF-κB were analyzed by immunohistochemistry, immunoblotting and electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA), respectively. RESULTS The cardioprotective effect was observed in SND pretreatment groups, especially in low dosage SND group. The results of serum enzyme activities and histopathology were consistent with the above effect. Meanwhile, fifteen latent biomarker candidates were identified involving glucose, phospholipid, bile acid and amino acid metabolisms. Among them, five bile acids including ursodeoxycholic acid, murideoxycholic acid, muricholic acid, hyodeoxycholic acid and cholic acid, were for the first time identified as latent pathological biomarkers related to ISO-induced myocardial injury. Further, different dose SND groups exerted different of inhibition degrees to the activation of NF-κB, which was obvious in the SND-L group. CONCLUSION The results revealed that Sini decoction protreatment protects myocardium better at a low dose level and one of possible cardioprotective mechanisms is modulating NF-κB signaling pathway against isoproterenol-induced myocardial injury through regulating phospholipid and bile acid metabolisms.
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- Jun Zhou
- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China; School of Basic Medical Science, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, PR China
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- National Clinical Research Base of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- School of Basic Medical Science, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, PR China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China.
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Sun L, Liu J, Sun M, Lin L, Miao L, Ge Z, Yang B. Comprehensive metabonomic analysis of heart tissue from isoproterenol-induced myocardial infarction rat based on reversed-phase and hydrophilic interaction chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. J Sep Sci 2017; 40:2198-2206. [PMID: 28371309 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201601013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Revised: 03/03/2017] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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We aim to describe the metabonomic characteristics of myocardial infarction rats. High-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry was utilized to develop a metabonomic method of the heart homogenates of myocardial infarction rats. Hydrophilic interaction chromatography allows the analysis of high polar metabolites, providing complementary information to reversed-phase liquid chromatography. We combined reversed phase and hydrophilic interaction chromatographic separations to analyze 18 samples, ten from myocardial infarction rat hearts and eight from normal rat hearts. A total of 16 potential biomarkers in rat heart tissue were screened out, primarily related to oxidative stress, nitric oxide damage, taurine, and hypotaurine metabolism and sphingolipid metabolism. This research showed that a comprehensive metabonomic study is a useful tool to reveal the underlying mechanism of myocardial infarction.
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- Lei Sun
- Xiyuan hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing key lab of TCM pharmacology, Beijing, China.,Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Xiyuan hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing key lab of TCM pharmacology, Beijing, China
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- Xiyuan hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing key lab of TCM pharmacology, Beijing, China
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- Xiyuan hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing key lab of TCM pharmacology, Beijing, China
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- Xiyuan hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing key lab of TCM pharmacology, Beijing, China
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- Xiyuan hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing key lab of TCM pharmacology, Beijing, China
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- Xiyuan hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing key lab of TCM pharmacology, Beijing, China
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Tan G, Wang H, Yuan J, Qin W, Dong X, Wu H, Meng P. Three serum metabolite signatures for diagnosing low-grade and high-grade bladder cancer. Sci Rep 2017; 7:46176. [PMID: 28382976 PMCID: PMC5382774 DOI: 10.1038/srep46176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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To address the shortcomings of cystoscopy and urine cytology for detecting and grading bladder cancer (BC), ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled with Q-TOF mass spectrometry in conjunction with univariate and multivariate statistical analyses was employed as an alternative method for the diagnosis of BC. A series of differential serum metabolites were further identified for low-grade(LG) and high-grade(HG) BC patients, suggesting metabolic dysfunction in malignant proliferation, immune escape, differentiation, apoptosis and invasion of cancer cells in BC patients. In total, three serum metabolites including inosine, acetyl-N-formyl-5-methoxykynurenamine and PS(O-18:0/0:0) were selected by binary logistic regression analysis, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) test based on their combined use for HG BC showed that the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.961 in the discovery set and 0.950 in the validation set when compared to LG BC. Likewise, this composite biomarker panel can also differentiate LG BC from healthy controls with the AUC of 0.993 and 0.991 in the discovery and validation set, respectively. This finding suggested that this composite serum metabolite signature was a promising and less invasive classifier for probing and grading BC, which deserved to be further investigated in larger samples.
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- Guangguo Tan
- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Department of Urology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Department of Urology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Department of Urology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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Nam M, Jung Y, Ryu DH, Hwang GS. A metabolomics-driven approach reveals metabolic responses and mechanisms in the rat heart following myocardial infarction. Int J Cardiol 2017; 227:239-246. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.11.127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Accepted: 11/06/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Zhang H, Ma S, Feng Z, Wang D, Li C, Cao Y, Chen X, Liu A, Zhu Z, Zhang J, Zhang G, Chai Y, Wang L, Xie XQ. Cardiovascular Disease Chemogenomics Knowledgebase-guided Target Identification and Drug Synergy Mechanism Study of an Herbal Formula. Sci Rep 2016; 6:33963. [PMID: 27678063 PMCID: PMC5039409 DOI: 10.1038/srep33963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 08/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Combination therapy is a popular treatment for various diseases in the clinic. Among the successful cases, Traditional Chinese Medicinal (TCM) formulae can achieve synergistic effects in therapeutics and antagonistic effects in toxicity. However, characterizing the underlying molecular synergisms for the combination of drugs remains a challenging task due to high experimental expenses and complication of multicomponent herbal medicines. To understand the rationale of combination therapy, we investigated Sini Decoction, a well-known TCM consisting of three herbs, as a model. We applied our established diseases-specific chemogenomics databases and our systems pharmacology approach TargetHunter to explore synergistic mechanisms of Sini Decoction in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. (1) We constructed a cardiovascular diseases-specific chemogenomics database, including drugs, target proteins, chemicals, and associated pathways. (2) Using our implemented chemoinformatics tools, we mapped out the interaction networks between active ingredients of Sini Decoction and their targets. (3) We also in silico predicted and experimentally confirmed that the side effects can be alleviated by the combination of the components. Overall, our results demonstrated that our cardiovascular disease-specific database was successfully applied for systems pharmacology analysis of a complicated herbal formula in predicting molecular synergetic mechanisms, and led to better understanding of a combinational therapy.
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- Hai Zhang
- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy; National Center of Excellence for Computational Drug Abuse Research; Drug Discovery Institute; Departments of Computational Biology and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy; National Center of Excellence for Computational Drug Abuse Research; Drug Discovery Institute; Departments of Computational Biology and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of pharmacy, Second Military Medical University; Department of Pharmacy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy; National Center of Excellence for Computational Drug Abuse Research; Drug Discovery Institute; Departments of Computational Biology and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy; National Center of Excellence for Computational Drug Abuse Research; Drug Discovery Institute; Departments of Computational Biology and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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Tang DQ, Zou L, Yin XX, Ong CN. HILIC-MS for metabolomics: An attractive and complementary approach to RPLC-MS. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2016; 35:574-600. [PMID: 25284160 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 07/28/2014] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) is an emerging separation mode of liquid chromatography (LC). Using highly hydrophilic stationary phases capable of retaining polar/ionic metabolites, and accompany with high organic content mobile phase that offer readily compatibility with mass spectrometry (MS) has made HILIC an attractive complementary tool to the widely used reverse-phase (RP) chromatographic separations in metabolomic studies. The combination of HILIC and RPLC coupled with an MS detector expands the number of detected analytes and provides more comprehensive metabolite coverage than use of only RP chromatography. This review describes the recent applications of HILIC-MS/MS in metabolomic studies, ranging from amino acids, lipids, nucleotides, organic acids, pharmaceuticals, and metabolites of specific nature. The biological systems investigated include microbials, cultured cell line, plants, herbal medicine, urine, and serum as well as tissues from animals and humans. Owing to its unique capability to measure more-polar biomolecules, the HILIC separation technique would no doubt enhance the comprehensiveness of metabolite detection, and add significant value for metabolomic investigations. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Mass Spec Rev 35:574-600, 2016.
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- Dao-Quan Tang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, 221044, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab for the study of New Drug and Clinical Pharmacy, Xuzhou Medical College, Yunlong, China
- NUS Environmental Research Inst., National University of Singapore, 5 A Engineering Srive 1, Singapore, 117411, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 16 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117597, Singapore
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- Jiangsu Key Lab for the study of New Drug and Clinical Pharmacy, Xuzhou Medical College, Yunlong, China
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- NUS Environmental Research Inst., National University of Singapore, 5 A Engineering Srive 1, Singapore, 117411, Singapore
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 16 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117597, Singapore
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Jiang T, Qian J, Ding J, Wang G, Ding X, Liu S, Chen W. Metabolomic profiles delineate the effect of Sanmiao wan on hyperuricemia in rats. Biomed Chromatogr 2016; 31. [PMID: 27450803 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.3792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A serum metabolomic method based on ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry was developed to characterize hyperuricemia-related metabolic profiles and delineate the mechanism of Sanmiao wan (SMW), a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), in treating hyperuricemic rats. With partial least-squares discriminant analysis for classification and selection of biomarkers, 13 potential biomarkers in mouse serum were identified in the screen, primarily involved in purine metabolism, arginine and proline metabolism, citrate cycle, phenylalanine metabolism, tryptophan metabolism and glycerophospholipid metabolism. Taking these potential biomarkers as screening indexes, SMW could reverse the pathological process of hyperuricemia through partially regulating the perturbed metabolic pathway except for glycerophospholipid metabolism. Our results showed that a metabolomic approach offers a useful tool to identify hyperuricemia-related biomarkers and provides a new methodological cue for systematically dissecting the underlying efficacies and mechanisms of TCM in treating hyperuricemia.
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- Tingwang Jiang
- Institution for Laboratory Medicine, Changshu, Jiangsu, 215500, China
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- Institution for Laboratory Medicine, Changshu, Jiangsu, 215500, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- Department of Cardiology, 117 Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310007, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Sun M, Sun L, Miao L, Lin L, Huang S, Yang B, Fu J, Ge Z, Jin L, Liu J. Metabonomics Study of Heart Homogenates from Myocardial Infarction Rats Using Liquid Chromatography/Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry. Chromatographia 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10337-016-3136-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Screening and Validation of Active Ingredients in Sini Decoction by Combination Method of Pharmacophore Modeling and Molecular Docking. CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINES 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s1674-6384(16)60021-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Metabolite Modulation in Human Plasma in the Early Phase of Acclimatization to Hypobaric Hypoxia. Sci Rep 2016; 6:22589. [PMID: 26940428 PMCID: PMC4778071 DOI: 10.1038/srep22589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The exposure of healthy subjects to high altitude represents a model to explore the pathophysiology of diseases related to tissue hypoxia. We explored a plasma metabolomics approach to detect alterations induced by the exposure of subjects to high altitude. Plasma samples were collected from 60 subjects both on plain and at high altitude (5300 m). Metabolite profiling was performed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and ultra-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-QTOFMS) in conjunction with univariate and multivariate statistical analyses. ELISA assays were further employed to measure the levels of several relevant enzymes together with perturbed metabolic pathways. The results showed that hypobaric hypoxia caused significant and comprehensive metabolic changes, as represented by significant changes of 44 metabolites and 4 relevant enzymes. Using MetaboAnalyst 3.0, it was found that several key metabolic pathways were acutely perturbed. In addition, 5 differentially expressed metabolites in pre-exposure samples from the acute mountain sickness-susceptible (AMS-S) group compared with those from the AMS-resistant (AMS-R) group are identified, which warrant further validation as potential predictive biomarkers for AMS-S individuals. These results provide new insights for further understanding the pathophysiological mechanism of early acclimatization to hypobaric hypoxia and other diseases correlated to tissue hypoxia.
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Shi J, Cao B, Wang XW, Aa JY, Duan JA, Zhu XX, Wang GJ, Liu CX. Metabolomics and its application to the evaluation of the efficacy and toxicity of traditional Chinese herb medicines. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2015; 1026:204-216. [PMID: 26657802 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2015.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Revised: 09/27/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Traditional Chinese herb medicines (TCHMs) have been used in the treatment of a variety of diseases for thousands of years in Asian countries. The active components of TCHMs usually exert combined synergistic therapeutic effects on multiple targets, but with less potential therapeutic effect based on routine indices than Western drugs. These complex effects make the assessment of the efficacy of TCHMs and the clarification of their underlying mechanisms very challenging, and therefore hinder their wider application and acceptance. Metabolomics is a crucial part of systems biology. It allows the quantitative measurement of large numbers of the low-molecular endogenous metabolites involved in metabolic pathways, and thus reflects the fundamental metabolism status of the body. Recently, dozens of metabolomic studies have been devoted to prove the efficacy/safety, explore the underlying mechanisms, and identify the potential biomarkers to access the action targets of TCHMs, with fruitful results. This article presents an overview of these studies, focusing on the progress made in exploring the pharmacology and toxicology of various herbal medicines.
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- Jian Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Jiangsu Key laboratory of Drug Design and Optimization, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China; Pharmacy Department, Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Jiangsu Key laboratory of Drug Design and Optimization, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China; Pharmacy Department, Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Jiangsu Key laboratory of Drug Design and Optimization, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Jiangsu Key laboratory of Drug Design and Optimization, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Drug Delivery System and Biotech Drugs in Universities of Shandong, Yantai University, Yantai, China.
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- Key Lab of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Key Lab of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Jiangsu Key laboratory of Drug Design and Optimization, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China
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- Research Center of New Drug Evaluation, The National Laboratory of Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics, Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Tianjin, China
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Lu Y, Ning H, Jiang X, Yang R, Song D, Yuan H. Metabolomics reveals hippocampal metabolic fluctuations of postoperative fatigue syndrome and anti-fatigue effect of Carthamus tinctorius L extract in rat model. Biomed Chromatogr 2015; 30:1052-1058. [PMID: 26577245 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.3649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2015] [Revised: 10/31/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Postoperative fatigue syndrome (POFS) is a common clinical complication followed by almost every major abdominal surgery. There is not a full explanation to the etiology of POFS, especially its central mechanism. Carthamus tinctorius L is a classic traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) which could exert the anti-fatigue effect on POFS. However, its mechanism is still lacking. Here, ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Q-TOFMS) based metabonomic approach was used to characterize hippocampal metabolic fluctuations of POFS in a rat model induced by partial hepatectomy (PHx), and to evaluate the anti-fatigue effect of Carthamus tinctorius L extract (CTLE). With partial least-squares discriminant analysis for classification and selection of biomarkers, fifteen hippocampal metabolites related to POFS were identified, primarily involving alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism, valine, leucine and isoleucine degradation, purine metabolism, phenylalanine metabolism, tryptophan metabolism, phospholipid metabolism and fatty acid metabolism. With these altered metabolic pathways as possible drug targets, we systematically analyzed the protective effect of CTLE, which showed that CTLE could provide anti-fatigue effect on POFS through partially regulating the perturbed metabolic pathways. This study indicated that UHPLC-Q-TOFMS-based metabolomics provided a powerful tool to reveal hippocampal metabolic fluctuations of POFS and study the mechanism of TCM. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Ye Lu
- Department of Anaesthesiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Department of Bone Tumor Surgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China
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Gao S, Chen W, Peng Z, Li N, Su L, Lv D, Li L, Lin Q, Dong X, Guo Z, Lou Z. Urinary metabonomics elucidate the therapeutic mechanism of Orthosiphon stamineus in mouse crystal-induced kidney injury. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2015; 166:323-32. [PMID: 25794803 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2014] [Revised: 02/05/2015] [Accepted: 03/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Orthosiphon stamineus (OS), a traditional Chinese herb, is often used for promoting urination and treating nephrolithiasis. AIM OF THE STUDY Urolithiasis is a major worldwide public health burden due to its high incidence of recurrence and damage to renal function. However, the etiology for urolithiasis is not well understood. Metabonomics, the systematic study of small molecule metabolites present in biological samples, has become a valid and powerful tool for understanding disease phenotypes. In this study, a urinary metabolic profiling analysis was performed in a mouse model of renal calcium oxalate crystal deposition to identify potential biomarkers for crystal-induced renal damage and the anti-crystal mechanism of OS. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty six mice were randomly divided into six groups including Saline, Crystal, Cystone and OS at dosages of 0.5g/kg, 1g/kg, and 2g/kg. A metabonomics approach using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Q-TOF/MS) was developed to perform the urinary metabolic profiling analysis. Principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) were utilized to identify differences between the metabolic profiles of mice in the saline control group and crystal group. RESULTS Using partial least squares-discriminant analysis, 30 metabolites were identified as potential biomarkers of crystal-induced renal damage. Most of them were primarily involved in amino acid metabolism, taurine and hypotaurine metabolism, purine metabolism, and the citrate cycle (TCA). After the treatment with OS, the levels of 20 biomarkers had returned to the levels of the control samples. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that OS has a protective effect for mice with crystal-induced kidney injury via the regulation of multiple metabolic pathways primarily involving amino acid, energy and choline metabolism.
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- Songyan Gao
- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Proteomics/Mass Spec Facility, Center for Functional Genomics, University at Albany, Rensselaer, NY 12144, USA
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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Liu M, Zhou K, Li H, Dong X, Tan G, Chai Y, Wang W, Bi X. Potential of serum metabolites for diagnosing post-stroke cognitive impairment. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2015; 11:3287-96. [PMID: 26490688 DOI: 10.1039/c5mb00470e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A panel of serum metabolite markers (glutamine, kynurenine, and LysoPC(18:2)) was identified as candidate diagnostic biomarkers for post-stroke cognitive impairment.
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- Min Liu
- Departments of Physiology
- College of Basic Medicine
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- Department of Neurology
- Changhai Hospital
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- Department of Neurology
- Changhai Hospital
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis
- School of Pharmacy
- Fourth Military Medical University
- Xi'an 710032
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- Departments of Physiology
- College of Basic Medicine
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- Department of Neurology
- Changhai Hospital
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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Comparison of capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry and hydrophilic interaction chromatography–mass spectrometry for anionic metabolic profiling of urine. Talanta 2015; 132:1-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2014.08.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Revised: 08/13/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Yan B, Deng Y, Hou J, Bi Q, Yang M, Jiang B, Liu X, Wu W, Guo D. UHPLC-LTQ-Orbitrap MS combined with spike-in method for plasma metabonomics analysis of acute myocardial ischemia rats and pretreatment effect of Danqi Tongmai tablet. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2014; 11:486-96. [PMID: 25418780 DOI: 10.1039/c4mb00529e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Undoubtedly, metabonomics can reveal the comprehensive efficacies of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formulae and its complex mechanism at the molecular biological level. In this study, an attempt was made to address the pretreatment effect of a TCM formula. In this case, as a critical point, we should first know how to really reflect the various endogenous metabolites in a disease status before a TCM formula is employed in a therapeutic procedure. Here, we explored an approach that combined high resolution LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometry with a spike-in method to characterize endogenous metabolites in acute myocardial ischemia (AMI) rats. As a result, 19 potential biomarkers in rat plasma were identified and 10 related disturbed pathways were perturbed in the early stages of AMI development. Subsequently, the metabonomics method was applied to investigate the pretreatment effect of the TCM formula named the Danqi Tongmai tablet (DQTM). The results revealed that the DQTM pretreatment could reduce the AMI injury and partially regulate the perturbed TCA cycle and amino and nucleotide metabolism, which were presumable related to energy metabolism and myocardial cells apoptosis/necrosis. In conclusion, UHPLC-LTQ-Orbitrap MS combined with a spike-in method were successfully applied to the metabonomics analysis of DQTM, which demonstrated that not only a comprehensive metabolic profile in the early stages of AMI development was achieved, but also that the underlying holistic efficacies were assessed and it was helpful to understand the possible mechanism of pretreatment with DQTM.
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- Bingpeng Yan
- College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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Tan G, Liu M, Dong X, Wu S, Fan L, Qiao Y, Chai Y, Wu H. A strategy for rapid analysis of xenobiotic metabolome of Sini decoction in vivo using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with pattern recognition approach. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2014; 96:187-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2014.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2013] [Revised: 03/14/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Chen X, Cao Y, Zhang H, Zhu Z, Liu M, Liu H, Ding X, Hong Z, Li W, Lv D, Wang L, Zhuo X, Zhang J, Xie XQ, Chai Y. Comparative normal/failing rat myocardium cell membrane chromatographic analysis system for screening specific components that counteract doxorubicin-induced heart failure from Acontium carmichaeli. Anal Chem 2014; 86:4748-57. [PMID: 24731167 PMCID: PMC4033634 DOI: 10.1021/ac500287e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Cell membrane chromatography (CMC)
derived from pathological tissues
is ideal for screening specific components acting on specific diseases
from complex medicines owing to the maximum simulation of in vivo drug-receptor interactions. However, there are no
pathological tissue-derived CMC models that have ever been developed,
as well as no visualized affinity comparison of potential active components
between normal and pathological CMC columns. In this study, a novel
comparative normal/failing rat myocardium CMC analysis system based
on online column selection and comprehensive two-dimensional (2D)
chromatography/monolithic column/time-of-flight mass spectrometry
was developed for parallel comparison of the chromatographic behaviors
on both normal and pathological CMC columns, as well as rapid screening
of the specific therapeutic agents that counteract doxorubicin (DOX)-induced
heart failure from Acontium carmichaeli (Fuzi). In
total, 16 potential active alkaloid components with similar structures
in Fuzi were retained on both normal and failing myocardium CMC models.
Most of them had obvious decreases of affinities on failing myocardium
CMC compared with normal CMC model except for four components, talatizamine
(TALA), 14-acetyl-TALA, hetisine, and 14-benzoylneoline. One compound
TALA with the highest affinity was isolated for further in
vitro pharmacodynamic validation and target identification
to validate the screen results. Voltage-dependent K+ channel
was confirmed as a binding target of TALA and 14-acetyl-TALA with
high affinities. The online high throughput comparative CMC analysis
method is suitable for screening specific active components from herbal
medicines by increasing the specificity of screened results and can
also be applied to other biological chromatography models.
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- Xiaofei Chen
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University , No. 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China
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Wu Z, Shon JC, Liu KH. Mass Spectrometry-based Lipidomics and Its Application to Biomedical Research. J Lifestyle Med 2014; 4:17-33. [PMID: 26064851 PMCID: PMC4390758 DOI: 10.15280/jlm.2014.4.1.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2014] [Accepted: 03/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Lipidomics, a branch of metabolomics, is the large-scale study of pathways and networks of all cellular lipids in biological systems such as cells, tissues or organisms. The recent advance in mass spectrometry technologies have enabled more comprehensive lipid profiling in the biological samples. In this review, we compared four representative lipid profiling technoligies including GC-MS, LC-MS, direct infusion-MS and imaging-MS. We also summarized representative lipid database, and further discussed the applications of lipidomics to the diagnostics of various diseases such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and Alzheimer diseases.
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- Zhexue Wu
- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Liu YT, Jia HM, Chang X, Cheng WH, Zhao X, Ding G, Zhang HW, Cai DY, Zou ZM. Metabolic pathways involved in Xin-Ke-Shu protecting against myocardial infarction in rats using ultra high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2014; 90:35-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2013.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2013] [Revised: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 11/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Liu Y, Hong Z, Tan G, Dong X, Yang G, Zhao L, Chen X, Zhu Z, Lou Z, Qian B, Zhang G, Chai Y. NMR and LC/MS-based global metabolomics to identify serum biomarkers differentiating hepatocellular carcinoma from liver cirrhosis. Int J Cancer 2014; 135:658-68. [PMID: 24382646 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2013] [Accepted: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world. However, current biomarkers that discriminate HCC from liver cirrhosis (LC) are important but are limited. More reliable biomarkers for HCC diagnosis are therefore needed. Serum from HCC patients, LC patients and healthy volunteers were analyzed using NMR and LC/MS-based approach in conjunction with random forest (RF) analysis to discriminate their serum metabolic profiles. Thirty-two potential biomarkers have been identified, and the feasibility of using these biomarkers for the diagnosis of HCC was evaluated, where 100% sensitivity was achieved in detecting HCC patients even with AFP values lower than 20 ng/mL. The metabolic alterations induced by HCC showed perturbations in synthesis of ketone bodies, citrate cycle, phospholipid metabolism, sphingolipid metabolism, fatty acid oxidation, amino acid catabolism and bile acid metabolism in HCC patients. Our results suggested that these potential biomarkers identified appeared to have diagnostic and/or prognostic values for HCC, which deserve to be further investigated. In addition, it also suggested that RF is a classification algorithm well suited for selection of biologically relevant features in metabolomics.
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- Yue Liu
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Metabolite Research, Shanghai, China
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Qi Y, Song Y, Gu H, Fan G, Chai Y. Global metabolic profiling using ultra-performance liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1198:15-27. [PMID: 25270920 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1258-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Currently, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is one of the most important analytical technologies for detecting hundreds of metabolites in the field of metabolomics. A recent advance in LC that has impacted metabolomics is the development of UPLC (ultra-performance liquid chromatography). In this chapter, we describe the analytical methodologies for the global metabolic profiling of serum, urine, and tissue samples using UPLC-Q-TOF (quadrupole-time-of-flight)-MS. Aqueous metabolites are extracted after adding methanol/acetonitrile/acetone and then analyzed by UPLC-MS under positive and/or negative ionization mode. With the aid of multivariate statistical analysis, separation between various groups can be observed in the score plots, and biomarkers are screened in the loading/weight/VIP (variable importance in the projection) scatterplots. Furthermore, putative markers can be identified through comparison with the authentic standards based on tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) fragmentation pattern and LC retention. We expect that our protocol, with modifications if necessary, can be useful in many metabolomics studies and a wide range of research areas related to small molecules and LC-MS.
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- Yunpeng Qi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Malerod H, Rogeberg M, Tanaka N, Greibrokk T, Lundanes E. Large volume injection of aqueous peptide samples on a monolithic silica based zwitterionic-hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography system for characterization of posttranslational modifications. J Chromatogr A 2013; 1317:129-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2013.07.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2013] [Revised: 07/18/2013] [Accepted: 07/22/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Metabolomics Study of Resina Draconis on Myocardial Ischemia Rats Using Ultraperformance Liquid Chromatography/Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Combined with Pattern Recognition Methods and Metabolic Pathway Analysis. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2013; 2013:438680. [PMID: 23762136 PMCID: PMC3677627 DOI: 10.1155/2013/438680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2013] [Revised: 04/24/2013] [Accepted: 04/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Resina draconis (bright red resin isolated from Dracaena cochinchinensis, RD) has been clinically used for treatment of myocardial ischemia (MI) for many years. However, the mechanisms of its pharmacological action on MI are still poorly understood. This study aimed to characterize the plasma metabolic profiles of MI and investigate the mechanisms of RD on MI using ultraperformance liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry-based metabolomics combined with pattern recognition methods and metabolic pathway analysis. Twenty metabolite markers characterizing metabolic profile of MI were revealed, which were mainly involved in aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan biosynthesis, vascular smooth muscle contraction, sphingolipid metabolism, and so forth. After RD treatment, however, levels of seven MI metabolite markers, including phytosphingosine, sphinganine, acetylcarnitine, cGMP, cAMP, L-tyrosine, and L-valine, were turned over, indicating that RD is likely to alleviate MI through regulating the disturbed vascular smooth muscle contraction, sphingolipid metabolism, phenylalanine metabolism, and BCAA metabolism. To our best knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study to investigate the mechanisms of RD for treating MI, from a metabolomics point of view. Our findings are very valuable to gain a better understanding of MI metabolic profiles and provide novel insights for exploring the mechanisms of RD on MI.
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Metabolomic strategy for studying the intervention and the synergistic effects of the shexiang baoxin pill for treating myocardial infarction in rats. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2013; 2013:823121. [PMID: 23533524 PMCID: PMC3603319 DOI: 10.1155/2013/823121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2012] [Revised: 01/03/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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A metabolomic approach has been developed for evaluating the therapeutic effects of the bioactive components and the synergistic efficacy of the Shexiang Baoxin Pill (SBP) on myocardial infarction (MI) in rats. The MI rats were administered the SBP, muscone, cinnamic acid, bufalin, ginsenoside Re, ginsenoside Rb1, cholic acid, borneol, and a combined version of these bioactive components (SFSBP). Liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF/MS) was used to obtain the mass data from the rats' serum. The number of biomarkers that were reversed by SFSBP was greater than any of the monotherapy groups. The PLS-DA score plots demonstrated that the SFSBP group results were located closer to the sham group than any of the monotherapy groups and that the SBP group was located closer to the sham group than the SFSBP treatment group. The reversing results observed with SFSBP showed synergistic effects when compared with those of the individual bioactive components that were used as monotherapy. Meanwhile, the SBP displayed superior regulation efficacy to SFSBP in MI rats, indicating that there must be other active components in the SBP that were responsible for the treatment of MI that were not included in the SFSBP treatment.
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Liu YT, Jia HM, Chang X, Ding G, Zhang HW, Zou ZM. The metabolic disturbances of isoproterenol induced myocardial infarction in rats based on a tissue targeted metabonomics. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2013; 9:2823-34. [DOI: 10.1039/c3mb70222g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Liao W, Tan G, Zhu Z, Chen Q, Lou Z, Dong X, Zhang W, Pan W, Chai Y. Combined Metabonomic and Quantitative Real-Time PCR Analyses Reveal Systems Metabolic Changes in Jurkat T-Cells Treated with HIV-1 Tat Protein. J Proteome Res 2012; 11:5109-23. [DOI: 10.1021/pr300173c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Wenting Liao
- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
- College of High Altitude
Military Medicine, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433,
China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433,
China
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- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Wu S, Gao Y, Dong X, Tan G, Li W, Lou Z, Chai Y. Serum metabonomics coupled with Ingenuity Pathway Analysis characterizes metabolic perturbations in response to hypothyroidism induced by propylthiouracil in rats. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2012; 72:109-14. [PMID: 23146233 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2012.09.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2012] [Revised: 08/25/2012] [Accepted: 09/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A serum metabonomic profiling method based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC/TOF-MS) was applied to investigate the metabolic changes in hypothyroid rats induced by propylthiouracil (PTU). With Significance Analysis of Microarray (SAM) for classification and selection of biomarkers, 13 potential biomarkers in rat serum were screened out. Furthermore, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) was introduced to deeply analyze unique pathways of hypothyroidism that were primarily involved in sphingolipid metabolism, fatty acid transportation, phospholipid metabolism and phenylalanine metabolism. Our results demonstrated that the metabonomic approach integrating with IPA was a promising tool for providing a novel methodological clue to systemically dissect the underlying molecular mechanism of hypothyroidism.
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- Si Wu
- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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