scholarly journals Functional metabolomics using UPLC-Q/TOF-MS combined with ingenuity pathway analysis as a promising strategy for evaluating the efficacy and discovering amino acid metabolism as a potential therapeutic mechanism-related target for geniposide against alcoholic liver disease

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2677-2690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi Qiu ◽  
Ai-hua Zhang ◽  
Yu Guan ◽  
Hui Sun ◽  
Tian-lei Zhang ◽  
...  

Metabolomics has been used as a strategy to evaluate the efficacy of and potential targets for natural products.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Shi ◽  
Xin Zhou ◽  
Ying Zhao ◽  
Xuemei Tang ◽  
Lu Feng ◽  
...  

Various types of liver diseases such as the alcoholic liver disease (ALD) are still global health problems. Bioactive peptides isolated from people, marine organisms, animals and plants have shown hepatoprotective...


Amino Acids ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
April D. Lake ◽  
Petr Novak ◽  
Petia Shipkova ◽  
Nelly Aranibar ◽  
Donald G. Robertson ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 5753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuming Wang ◽  
Chenghao Bi ◽  
Wentao Pang ◽  
Yuechen Liu ◽  
Yu Yuan ◽  
...  

Gout Party is a Chinese medicine prescription composed of Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparaia, Aconiti Radix Cocta, Cremastrae Pseudobulbus Pleiones Pseudobulbus, Smilacis Glabrae Rhizoma, Rehmanniae Radix, and Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, which can relieve joint pain caused by gouty arthritis (GA) and rheumatoid, and has a therapeutic effect on acute gouty arthritis (AGA). However, little information is available on the molecular biological basis and therapeutic mechanism of Gout Party for the treatment of AGA. AGA model was established by injecting sodium urate, and colchicine served as a positive control drug. We established a metabolomic method based on ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem quadrupole/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC–Q–TOF/MS) to analyze the plasma samples of model group rats and blank group rats. Multiple statistical analyses, including principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least square discrimination analysis (PLS-DA), were used to examine metabolite profile changes in plasma samples. Finally, we identified 2–ketobutyric acid, 3–hexenedioic acid, but–2–enoic acid, and so on; 22 endogenous metabolites associated with AGA. After successful molding, we found that 2–ketobutyric acid, 3–hexenedioic acid, but–2–enoic acid, argininic acid, galactonic acid, lactic acid, equol 4′–O–glucuronide, deoxycholic acid glycine conjugate, glycocholic acid, sphinganine 1–phosphate, LPE (0:0/20:3), LPE (0:0/16:0), LPC (15:0) decreased significantly (p < 0.05 or p < 0.01), alanine, erythrulose, 3–dehydrocarnitine, m–methylhippuric acid, 3–hydroxyoctanoic acid, p–cresol sulfate, estriol 3–sulfate 16–glucuronide, 10–hydroxy–9–(phosphonooxy)octadecenoate, docosahexaenoic acid increased significantly (p < 0.05 or p < 0.01). After Gout Party treatment, 14 biomarkers had a tendency to normal conditions. These above biomarkers were mainly involved in fatty acid metabolism, bile acid metabolism, amino acid metabolism, and energy metabolism pathways. These results suggested that Gout Party exerted therapeutic effects of treating AGA by improving energy metabolism disorder and amino acid metabolism dysfunction, and attenuating fatty acid metabolism abnormal and inflammation. The results of this experiment provided a reference for revealing the metabolic mechanism produced by Gout Party in the treatment of AGA, but the subsequent studies need to be further improved and supported by relevant cell experiments and clinical experiments.


Author(s):  
Eggert Holm ◽  
Oliver Sedlaczek ◽  
Eva Grips

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