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Sibomana I, Foose DP, Raymer ML, Reo NV, Karl JP, Berryman CE, Young AJ, Pasiakos SM, Mauzy CA. Urinary Metabolites as Predictors of Acute Mountain Sickness Severity. Front Physiol 2021; 12:709804. [PMID: 34588992 PMCID: PMC8475947 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.709804] [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: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Individuals sojourning at high altitude (≥2,500m) often develop acute mountain sickness (AMS). However, substantial unexplained inter-individual variability in AMS severity exists. Untargeted metabolomics assays are increasingly used to identify novel biomarkers of susceptibility to illness, and to elucidate biological pathways linking environmental exposures to health outcomes. This study used untargeted nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics to identify urine metabolites associated with AMS severity during high altitude sojourn. Following a 21-day stay at sea level (SL; 55m), 17 healthy males were transported to high altitude (HA; 4,300m) for a 22-day sojourn. AMS symptoms measured twice daily during the first 5days at HA were used to dichotomize participants according to AMS severity: moderate/severe AMS (AMS; n=11) or no/mild AMS (NoAMS; n=6). Urine samples collected on SL day 12 and HA days 1 and 18 were analyzed using proton NMR tools and the data were subjected to multivariate analyses. The SL urinary metabolite profiles were significantly different (p≤0.05) between AMS vs. NoAMS individuals prior to high altitude exposure. Differentially expressed metabolites included elevated levels of creatine and acetylcarnitine, and decreased levels of hypoxanthine and taurine in the AMS vs. NoAMS group. In addition, the levels of two amino acid derivatives (4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate and N-methylhistidine) and two unidentified metabolites (doublet peaks at 3.33ppm and a singlet at 8.20ppm) were significantly different between groups at SL. By HA day 18, the differences in urinary metabolites between AMS and NoAMS participants had largely resolved. Pathway analysis of these differentially expressed metabolites indicated that they directly or indirectly play a role in energy metabolism. These observations suggest that alterations in energy metabolism before high altitude exposure may contribute to AMS susceptibility at altitude. If validated in larger cohorts, these markers could inform development of a non-invasive assay to screen individuals for AMS susceptibility prior to high altitude sojourn.
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- Isaie Sibomana
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States
- Air Force Research Laboratory, 711th Human Performance Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, United States
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States
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- Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States
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- Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, United States
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- Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, United States
- Department of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
- Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education, Belcamp, MD, United States
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- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States
- Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, United States
- Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education, Belcamp, MD, United States
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- Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, United States
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, 711th Human Performance Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, United States
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YAMAOKA I, MIKURA M, NISHIMURA M, DOI M, KAWANO Y, NAKAYAMA M. Enhancement of Myofibrillar Proteolysis Following Infusion of Amino Acid Mixture Correlates Positively with Elevation of Core Body Temperature in Rats. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo) 2008; 54:467-74. [DOI: 10.3177/jnsv.54.467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Salter DN, Montgomery AI, Hudson A, Quelch DB, Elliott RJ. Lysine requirements and whole-body protein turnover in growing pigs. Br J Nutr 1990; 63:503-13. [PMID: 2116893 DOI: 10.1079/bjn19900137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The influence on protein accretion and whole-body protein turnover of changing dietary protein quality while maintaining constant energy intake was studied by varying the degree of lysine supplementation of a lysine-deficient barley-based diet given to growing pigs. Measurements of nitrogen metabolism and whole-body protein turnover, using both classical and 15N end-product methods following a single dose of [15N]glycine, were made in 49-kg male pigs given diets containing 109 g lysine-deficient protein/kg supplemented to make them (1) 'deficient', (2) 'adequate' and (3) 'in excess' with respect to lysine. The 15N dose and protein intake values used to calculate amino N flux from the cumulative urinary excretion of 15N in urea and ammonia were corrected respectively for apparent digestibilities of [15N]glycine and total N determined in a separate experiment in pigs fitted with simple ileal cannulas. N retention and biological value were significantly increased by lysine supplementation of the deficient diet to the 'adequate' level, but were not further increased by the higher level of supplementation. Rates of growth paralleled these changes. The poorer biological value of the unsupplemented diet 1 was shown also in a significantly higher excretion of urea N compared with diets 2 and 3. N digestibility was not markedly influenced by the level of lysine supplementation. Both whole-body protein synthesis and degradation increased markedly on 'adequate' supplementation of the diet with lysine, but did not increase further with an excess of lysine. It is concluded that the increase in protein accretion rate observed on supplementation of the diet with lysine was due to a greater increase in the rate of protein synthesis than of degradation, rather than a decrease in degradation rate.
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- D N Salter
- AFRC Institute for Grassland and Animal Production, Shinfield Research Station, Reading, Berks
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Kim CW, Okada A, Itakura T, Takagi Y, Nakao K, Kawashima Y. Urinary excretion of 3-methylhistidine as an index of protein nutrition in total parenteral nutrition. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 1988; 12:198-204. [PMID: 3129597 DOI: 10.1177/0148607188012002198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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In 39 healthy adult volunteers and nine patients receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN), determinations were made of the urinary excretion of 3-methylhistidine (3-Mehis) to estimate the degree to which the urinary output of 3-Mehis reflects the status of protein nutrition. In 19 males and 10 females of the former group, measurements were made of the amount of 3-Mehis and of creatinine (Cr) in 24-hr urine samples. The urinary output of 3-Mehis was also measured in two subgroups of five healthy adult male subjects who were fed one of the two different diets prescribed: meat (M) and meat-free (F) diet. Furthermore, in one of these subgroups which was fed on F diet, the urinary output of 3-Mehis was measured both while the subject was kept at bed rest and while the subject was allowed to live a normal life. From these measurements the standard value was determined for the urine 3-Mehis level and the 3-Mehis/Cr ratio in 24-hr urine in healthy adult human subjects of both sexes. In nine patients maintained on TPN these indices of nutritional status were measured before and at 4 weeks of TPN. The time course of the indices was also investigated. The results obtained suggest that both the urinary output of 3-Mehis and the 3-Mehis/Cr ratio can provide a sensitive index of the status of protein nutrition.
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- C W Kim
- First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan
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Fuller MF, Reeds PJ, Cadenhead A, Seve B, Preston T. Effects of the amount and quality of dietary protein on nitrogen metabolism and protein turnover of pigs. Br J Nutr 1987; 58:287-300. [PMID: 3314983 DOI: 10.1079/bjn19870096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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1. The interrelation between protein accretion and whole-body protein turnover were studied by varying the quantity and quality of protein given to growing pigs. 2. Diets with 150 or 290 g lysine-deficient protein/kg were given in hourly meals, with or without lysine supplementation, to female pigs (mean weight 47 kg). 3. After the animals were adapted to the diets, a constant infusion of [14C]urea was given intra-arterially for 30 h, during the last 6 h of which an infusion of [4,5-3H]leucine was also infused at a constant rate. At the same time, yeast-protein labelled with 15N was given in the diet for 50 h. 4. The rate of urea synthesis was estimated from the specific radioactivity (SR) of plasma urea. The rate of leucine flux was estimated from the SR of plasma leucine. The irrevocable breakdown of leucine was estimated from the 3H-labelling of body water. Total N flux was estimated from the 15N-labelling of urinary urea. 5. Addition of lysine to the low-protein diet significantly increased N retention, with a substantial reduction in leucine breakdown, but there was no significant change in the flux of leucine or of total N. 6. Increasing the quantity of the unsupplemented protein also increased N retention significantly, with concomitant increases in leucine breakdown and in the fluxes of leucine and of total N. 7. It is concluded that a doubling of protein accretion brought about by the improvement of dietary protein quality is not necessarily associated with an increased rate of whole-body protein turnover.
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- M F Fuller
- Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen
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Maeda Y, Hayashi K, Toyohara S, Hashiguchi T. Variation among chicken stocks in the fractional rates of muscle protein synthesis and degradation. Biochem Genet 1984; 22:687-700. [PMID: 6497831 DOI: 10.1007/bf00485853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Fractional rates (% X day-1) of synthesis and degradation were determined by measuring the output of N tau-methylhistidine (MeHis) in the excreta at 4 and 8 weeks of age in the chicken. At 4 weeks of age, the fractional rate of synthesis of the meat-type stock was twice that of the egg-type stock (White Leghorn), but the fractional rates of synthesis at 8 weeks of age were similar (4.1-5.1% X day-1) among stocks. The fractional rate of degradation (1.3-1.5% X day-1) of the meat-type stock at 8 weeks of age was less than half the rate of the egg-type stock (2.9% X day-1). The fractional rates of synthesis and degradation at 4 weeks of age in the Satsuma native fowl were relatively high compared with those in the other stocks. In particular, the rate of degradation (8.6% X day-1) at 4 weeks of age was approximately twice that of other stocks. These results show that fractional rates of synthesis and degradation of muscle protein in the chicken differ among genetically diverse groups. The effect of changes in rates of synthesis and degradation on the change in fractional growth rate also differed. From regression coefficients (bks . FGR and bKd . FGR) of these rates in skeletal muscle protein on the fractional growth rate, it was recognized that the change in growth rate accompanies the changes in both synthesis and degradation in White Leghorn and commercial broilers but only the change in synthesis in White Plymouth Rock (dw) and Satsuma native fowl.
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Kirby RK, Landmann WA. Urinary 3-methylhistidine as an index of dietary protein adequacy in the adult rat: Short term testing. Nutr Res 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0271-5317(83)80079-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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von der Decken A. Experimental studies on the quality of food proteins. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1983; 74:213-20. [PMID: 6403281 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(83)90002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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1. This paper reviews chemical and biological assays for measuring the quality of food proteins. 2. The availability of amino acids in a protein is determined by digestability and the capacity of the recipient animal to absorb the amino acids. 3. Intracellularly amino acid concentration influences enzyme activities associated with amino acid and nitrogen metabolism. 4. Amino acids utilized for metabolism affect the cells at the gene level: transcription of DNA to RNA and translation of RNA to protein. 5. More accurate measurements of amino acid utilization for metabolism will follow from further understanding of basic cellular metabolic events.
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Long CL, Birkhahn RH, Geiger JW, Betts JE, Schiller WR, Blakemore WS. Urinary excretion of 3-methylhistidine: an assessment of muscle protein catabolism in adult normal subjects and during malnutrition, sepsis, and skeletal trauma. Metabolism 1981; 30:765-76. [PMID: 6790901 DOI: 10.1016/0026-0495(81)90022-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The urinary excretion of 3-methylhistidine (3 MEH) has been shown to be a reliable index of muscle protein breakdown. It is decreased in protein-calorie malnutrition and increased during the hypercatabolic phase of sepsis and thermal trauma. Losses of 3 MEH after moderate to severe skeletal trauma in man and animals are reported as increased or unchanged. To clarify this response, 24 male and 6 female skeletal trauma patients were evaluated for 24 hr urinary losses of 3 MEH, nitrogen and creatinine. Eight of the 24 males also received a catabolic steroid for treatment of a head injury. In addition, 3 male and 1 female septic patients were similarly evaluated. Controls consisted of 10 volunteers on a meat free diet for 4 days and of 8 volunteers who were given only intravenous 5% dextrose in water for 3 days. The 3 MEH excretion for all control males was 3.6 mumole/Kg/day and for females was 2.8 Skeletal trauma produced a 280% increase for the males and a 225% increase for the females. Trauma with steroids caused a 325% increase. Sepsis induced a 227% increase in 3 MEH losses for males and 292% for females during the febrile episode. Creatinine excretion also increased significantly in response to trauma and sepsis but the magnitude of the increase was less than for 3 MEH. This was reflected in the 3 MEH to creatinine molar ratio increase from 0.018 for controls to 0.030-0.040 in sepsis and trauma. Patients with extensive body weight loss showed decreases in 3 MEH and creatinine excretion and a molar ratio similar to controls. The calculated contribution of muscle protein to whole body protein breakdown in the trauma and septic groups showed a twofold increase compared to the control group. The data indicate that the increased muscle protein catabolic response following stress of skeletal trauma and sepsis provides an insight on the origin of the large urinary nitrogen losses following such insults.
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Harris CI, Milne G. The urinary excretion of N tau-methyl histidine by cattle: validation as an index of muscle protein breakdown. Br J Nutr 1981; 45:411-22. [PMID: 7213586 DOI: 10.1079/bjn19810116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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1. The recoveries of radioactivity in cattle urine following the intravenous administration of N tau-[14CH3]methyl histidine were essentially quantitative in 5--7 d in non-lactating cows, bulls and steers and did not change with age. 2. The N tau-methyl histidine was excreted unchanged in urine. 3. N tau-methyl histidine occurred in muscle extracts both in the free form and as a perchloric acid-soluble, acid-labile form which accounted for approximately 85% of the total non-bound N tau-methyl histidine in muscle and appeared identical to a similar component identified in muscle extracts of sheep and pigs. 4. There was probably an age-related decrease in the concentration of the acid-labile component in muscle but which did not produce a measurable change in recovery of radioactivity in urine. 5. The daily excretion of N tau-methyl histidine (E, mumol) by male cattle was highly correlated with live weight (W, kg) by the equation: E = 50 . 4 + 3 . 536 (+/- 0 . 044)W (r 0. 997). The excretions progressively decreased from 4 . 04 mumol/d per kg at 100 kg weight to 3 . 62 mumol/d per kg at 600 kg. 6. By the criterion of the rate of clearance of labelled N tau-methyl histidine from the body, the excretion of N tau-methyl histidine in urine appears to be a valid index of muscle protein breakdown in cattle.
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Asghar A, Pearson A. Influence of Ante- and Postmortem Treatments Upon Muscle Composition and Meat Quality. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2628(08)60318-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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