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Metabolites, Volume 7, Issue 3

September 2017 - 18 articles

Cover Story: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a multifactorial condition; optimal treatment is dependent on early and precise diagnosis, and accurate monitoring of disease activity and drug side effects. Metabolomics is a powerful tool to profile biofluid biomarkers that may stratify PD patients into different therapeutic regimens. In this review, we discuss the different analytical platforms and methodologies that are applicable to study alterations in metabolic pathways in clinical and experimental PD. Despite impressive progress, we conclude that the identification and quantification of compounds showing differences between controls and PD patients with or without L-DOPA treatment, is still a major challenge. View this paper
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Articles (18)

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
229 Citations
12,478 Views
13 Pages

16 September 2017

Hypoxia and acidosis are salient features of many tumors, leading to a completely different metabolism compared to normal cells. Two of the simplest metabolic products, protons and bicarbonate, are generated by the catalytic activity of the metalloen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,938 Views
10 Pages

Metabolomics Analysis of Urine Samples from Children after Acetaminophen Overdose

  • Laura K. Schnackenberg,
  • Jinchun Sun,
  • Sudeepa Bhattacharyya,
  • Pritmohinder Gill,
  • Laura P. James and
  • Richard D. Beger

6 September 2017

Acetaminophen (APAP), a commonly used over-the-counter analgesic, accounts for approximately fifty percent of the cases of acute liver failure (ALF) in the United States due to overdose, with over half of those unintentional. Current clinical approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,002 Views
25 Pages

6 September 2017

In this article, we present a protocol for generating a complete (genome-scale) metabolic resource allocation model, as well as a proposal for how to represent such models in the systems biology markup language (SBML). Such models are used to investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,706 Views
16 Pages

Recommendations for Improving Identification and Quantification in Non-Targeted, GC-MS-Based Metabolomic Profiling of Human Plasma

  • Hanghang Wang,
  • Michael J. Muehlbauer,
  • Sara K. O’Neal,
  • Christopher B. Newgard,
  • Elizabeth R. Hauser,
  • James R. Bain and
  • Svati H. Shah

25 August 2017

The field of metabolomics as applied to human disease and health is rapidly expanding. In recent efforts of metabolomics research, greater emphasis has been placed on quality control and method validation. In this study, we report an experience with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,041 Views
22 Pages

Impact of Soil Warming on the Plant Metabolome of Icelandic Grasslands

  • Albert Gargallo-Garriga,
  • Marta Ayala-Roque,
  • Jordi Sardans,
  • Mireia Bartrons,
  • Victor Granda,
  • Bjarni D. Sigurdsson,
  • Niki I. W. Leblans,
  • Michal Oravec,
  • Otmar Urban and
  • Ivan A. Janssens
  • + 1 author

23 August 2017

Climate change is stronger at high than at temperate and tropical latitudes. The natural geothermal conditions in southern Iceland provide an opportunity to study the impact of warming on plants, because of the geothermal bedrock channels that induce...

  • Review
  • Open Access
116 Citations
11,151 Views
15 Pages

Extracellular Microbial Metabolomics: The State of the Art

  • Farhana R. Pinu and
  • Silas G. Villas-Boas

22 August 2017

Microorganisms produce and secrete many primary and secondary metabolites to the surrounding environment during their growth. Therefore, extracellular metabolites provide important information about the changes in microbial metabolism due to differen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
121 Citations
14,647 Views
18 Pages

Biomarker Research in Parkinson’s Disease Using Metabolite Profiling

  • Jesper F. Havelund,
  • Niels H. H. Heegaard,
  • Nils J. K. Færgeman and
  • Jan Bert Gramsbergen

11 August 2017

Biomarker research in Parkinson’s disease (PD) has long been dominated by measuring dopamine metabolites or alpha-synuclein in cerebrospinal fluid. However, these markers do not allow early detection, precise prognosis or monitoring of disease progre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,310 Views
14 Pages

Exercise-Induced Alterations in Skeletal Muscle, Heart, Liver, and Serum Metabolome Identified by Non-Targeted Metabolomics Analysis

  • Joseph W. Starnes,
  • Traci L. Parry,
  • Sara K. O’Neal,
  • James R. Bain,
  • Michael J. Muehlbauer,
  • Aubree Honcoop,
  • Amro Ilaiwy,
  • Peter M. Christopher,
  • Cam Patterson and
  • Monte S. Willis

Background: The metabolic and physiologic responses to exercise are increasingly interesting, given that regular physical activity enhances antioxidant capacity, improves cardiac function, and protects against type 2 diabetes. The metabolic interacti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
16,211 Views
46 Pages

Volatile Metabolites Emission by In Vivo Microalgae—An Overlooked Opportunity?

  • Komandoor E. Achyuthan,
  • Jason C. Harper,
  • Ronald P. Manginell and
  • Matthew W. Moorman

Fragrances and malodors are ubiquitous in the environment, arising from natural and artificial processes, by the generation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Although VOCs constitute only a fraction of the metabolites produced by an organism, the...

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Metabolites - ISSN 2218-1989