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Metabolites, Volume 14, Issue 12

December 2024 - 83 articles

Cover Story: Both aging and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are strongly associated with changes in the metabolome; however, it is unknown whether they have common metabolomic signatures and if accelerated aging is associated with COPD. Thus, elastic net regression was used to create two metabolomic scores predicting airflow obstruction and age, achieving strong performance in validation. COPD subjects with accelerated aging had more severe disease compared with those who had decelerated aging. COPD and aging metabolites were more similar than expected (p < 0.001), with amino acid and glutathione metabolism being among the pathways that were overrepresented. Univariate analyses further exhibited this commonality. findings suggest a common mechanism between aging and COPD and that COPD is associated with accelerated metabolic aging. View this paper
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Articles (83)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,819 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Hyperlipidemia is a major contributor to metabolic complications and tissue damage, leading to conditions such as liver steatosis, atherosclerosis, and obesity. This study aimed to investigate the effects of aqueous artichoke b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,171 Views
25 Pages

Gallic Acid: A Potent Metabolite Targeting Shikimate Kinase in Acinetobacter baumannii

  • Mansour S. Alturki,
  • Abdulaziz H. Al Khzem,
  • Mohamed S. Gomaa,
  • Nada Tawfeeq,
  • Marwah H. Alhamadah,
  • Futun M. Alshehri,
  • Raghad Alzahrani,
  • Hanin Alghamdi,
  • Thankhoe A. Rants’o and
  • Khaled A. G. Ayil
  • + 2 authors

23 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Acinetobacter baumannii is a highly multidrug-resistant pathogen resistant to almost all classes of antibiotics; new therapeutic strategies against this infectious agent are urgently needed. Shikimate kinase is an enzyme b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,287 Views
16 Pages

23 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Catha edulis, commonly known as khat, is used for its psychoactive effects and is considered a natural amphetamine. The current study investigated the metabolomic profile in the cerebellum of mice after repeated exposure to kha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,265 Views
16 Pages

Reduced Intra- and Extracellular Circulating Postprandial Lysosomal Acid Lipase Activity in Patients with MASLD

  • Monica Mischitelli,
  • Eleonora Poggiogalle,
  • Giulia Tozzi,
  • Flaminia Ferri,
  • Simona Parisse,
  • Benedetta Meloni,
  • Anna Morrone,
  • Alice Sabbadini,
  • Monther Salem and
  • Elena Gangitano
  • + 5 authors

23 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Low fasting blood lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) activity is associated with the pathogenesis of metabolic hepatic steatosis. We measured LAL activity in blood and plasma before and after an oral fat tolerance test (OFTT) in patie...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,026 Views
23 Pages

22 December 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has spurred an extraordinary scientific effort to better understand the disease’s pathophysiology and develop diagnostic and prognostic tools to guide more precise and effective clinical ma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,204 Views
32 Pages

22 December 2024

Circadian rhythms are intrinsic, 24 h cycles that regulate key physiological, mental, and behavioral processes, including sleep–wake cycles, hormone secretion, and metabolism. These rhythms are controlled by the brain’s suprachiasmatic nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,574 Views
13 Pages

Carrot-Derived Rhamnogalacturonan-I Consistently Increases the Microbial Production of Health-Promoting Indole-3-Propionic Acid Ex Vivo

  • Annick Mercenier,
  • Lam Dai Vu,
  • Jonas Poppe,
  • Ruud Albers,
  • Sue McKay and
  • Pieter Van den Abbeele

21 December 2024

Background: Using dietary interventions to steer the metabolic output of the gut microbiota towards specific health-promoting metabolites is often challenging due to interpersonal variation in treatment responses. Methods: In this study, we combined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,370 Views
13 Pages

Impact of Babaco (Vasoncelea x pentagona (Heilborn) Mabb.) Fruit Ripening Stages on Phytochemical Composition and Biological Properties

  • Raluca A. Mihai,
  • Mauricio G. Canchignia Guacollantes,
  • Ramiro F. Vivanco Gonzaga,
  • Nelson S. Cubi-Insuaste and
  • Rodica D. Catana

21 December 2024

Background: This research article delves into Babaco fruit’s—an Ecuadorian product with immense nutraceutical potential phytochemical composition and biological activity—in different maturation fruit stages. Bridging the gap between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,197 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2024

Objectives: The salinization of the water environment worldwide is increasing, which has brought great challenges to the sustainability of fish farming of aquatic animals. Methods: Three NaHCO3 concentration groups (0 mmol/L, 20 mmol/L, and 60 mmol/L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,390 Views
15 Pages

Integrative Metagenomic Analyses Reveal Gut Microbiota-Derived Multiple Hits Connected to Development of Diabetes Mellitus

  • Sehad N. Alarifi,
  • Essam Jamil Alyamani,
  • Mohammed Alarawi,
  • Azzam A. Alquait,
  • Mohammed A. Alolayan,
  • Ahmad M. Aldossary,
  • Randa A. Abd EL-Rahman and
  • Rashid Mir

21 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder associated with gut dysbiosis. To investigate the association between gut microbiota and T2DM in a Saudi Arabian population. Methods: We conducted a comparative an...

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