Metabolic profiling of liver in the rats with chronic heart failure / 中国比较医学杂志

Objective To establish a rat model of liver metabolism profile in chronic heart failure (CHF), to explore the dynamics of liver metabolism in CHF from the point of view of metabolism, and to find the characteristic metabolites valuable for the molecular mechanism and management of CHF.Methods Twenty male Wistar rats were assigned to the CHF group to receive aortic coarctation or to the control group to receive sham surgery, and were bred for 24 weeks following surgery.The metabolic profiling of the rat liver tissues was analyzed on a metabonomics research platform. Orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis ( OPLS-DA) model and principal component analysis ( PCA) model were established for liver tissues of the CHF rats, and the characteristic metabolites were finally derived by data processing with SPSS 19.0 software.Results The PAC and OPLS-DA models were established successfully.Ten characteristic metabolites with significant differences between the CHF and control groups, including lysophosphatidyl choline, lysophosphatidyl ethanolamine, oleic acid, glycocholic acid, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, were screened and identified from the models.Conclusions The metabolic disorders in CHF rats are well fitted to the established metabolic profile models, and these identified characteristic metabolites may provide reference for the pathophysiological molecular mechanism and management, etc., of chronic heart failure.

Investigation of serum metabolic profiling in late-stage of acute myocardium infarction in rats / 天津医药

Objective A serum metabolic profiling in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) rat was established to screen potential metabolic markers of AMI prognosis and complication. Methods Male Wistar rats(n=20)were divided randomly into AMI 1 week group and control group. Anterior descending coronary was ligated in rats in AMI 1 week group to establish AMI model. After one week, these rats were sacrificed and the blood was collected from heart. And metabolomics platform was used to analyze serum metabolic profile. After PCA (principal component analysis) and OPLS-DA (Orthogonal partial least squares-Discriminant Analysis) were established, SPSS 19.0 was used to analysis data to get the potential metabolic markers. Results The PCA and OPLS-DA were established successfully and 27 metabolites present differently in levels between AMI 1 week group and the control group. Among these metabolites, LysoPC (lysophosphatidylcholine) and LysoPE (lysophosphatidyl ethanolamine) demonstrate significant differeance between these two groups. Conclusion The metabolic disorder in AMI patients can be reflected from the serum metabolic profiling. And these significant metabolites provide sup?port and reference for the prevention of AMI complication and its treatment.

A 20-year follow-up study on the effects of long-term exposure to thorium dust / 中华医学杂志(英文版)

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the possible effects of long-term exposure to dust containing thorium and thoron progeny on dust-exposed miners.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A negative, high voltage, exhaled thoron progeny measurement system was used to estimate the miners' thorium lung burden.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The highest thorium lung burden of 638 miners was 11.11 Bq. The incidence of stage 0(+) pneumoconiosis was higher among dust-exposed miners. Lung cancer mortality of the dust-exposed miners was significantly higher than that of controls (P < 0.005).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>There is a difference in cancer rates between those who have long-term exposure to dust containing thorium (in which carcinogenic ThO(2) and SiO(2) exist) and thoron progeny and those who have not.</p>