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Breath Collection from Children for Disease Biomarker Discovery
Published on: February 14, 2019
Metabolic profile of exhaled breath condensate from the pneumonia patients
Xiaoguang Li1, Juan Du2,3, Jing Chen1
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Purpose Of The Study:
Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is increasingly being used for disease diagnosis and environmental exposure assessment as a noninvasive method reducing the risk of exposure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the application of a new sample type of EBC in pneumonia by metabolomics and to explore differential metabolites and potential metabolic pathways.
Materials And Methods:
A case-control study was performed at the Peking University Third Hospital from August to December 2020. C-MS/MS analyses were performed on EBC samples using a UHPLC system.
Results:
Totally 22 patients with pneumonia and 24 healthy controls were recruited. Using untargeted metabolomics based on LC-MS/MS analysis, 25 kinds of differential metabolites were found. Through a comprehensive analysis of the pathways in which the differential metabolites were located, the key pathway with the highest correlation with the difference of metabolites was taurine and hypotaurine metabolism.
Conclusions:
The study implicates that the hypotaurine/taurine metabolic pathway may play a role on the development of pneumonia through metabolism analysis on EBC and the 3-Sulfinoalanine may be used as a biomarker in the diagnosis of pneumonia.
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