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Metabolites, Volume 9, Issue 2

February 2019 - 20 articles

Cover Story: Cancer metabolic reprogramming has been reported as one of the “hallmarks of cancer”, providing proliferating cancer cells with bioenergetic and biosynthetic advantages. Additionally, tumorigenesis has been largely associated with increased oxidant levels, further counteracted by the upregulation of antioxidant systems. For instance, the balance between intracellular ROS and antioxidant needs is closely dependent on metabolic pathways, generating crosstalk between metabolism and redox status. In this paper, we applied a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the interplay among metabolic, redox, and oncogenic alterations in papillary thyroid carcinoma cell lines. The results highlighted changes in energetic pathways and in the redox balance, confirming the pivotal role of these two hallmarks of cancer in the papillary thyroid carcinoma biology. View this paper.
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,932 Views
12 Pages

Feed Restriction Reveals Distinct Serum Metabolome Profiles in Chickens Divergent in Feed Efficiency Traits

  • Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli,
  • Sina-Catherine Siegerstetter,
  • Elizabeth Magowan,
  • Peadar G. Lawlor,
  • Niamh E. O’Connell and
  • Qendrim Zebeli

25 February 2019

Restrictive feeding influences systemic metabolism of nutrients; however, this impact has not been evaluated in chickens of diverging feed efficiency. This study investigated the effect of ad libitum versus restrictive feeding (85% of ad libitum) on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,464 Views
11 Pages

Effects of Sowing Season on Agronomic Traits and Fatty Acid Metabolic Profiling in Three Brassica napus L. Cultivars

  • Xiaoyi Li,
  • Lintao Wu,
  • Guoliang Qiu,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Chunhong Liu,
  • Yongming Yang,
  • Bin Feng,
  • Cun Chen,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Zhibin Liu

22 February 2019

Decreasing saturated fatty acids and increasing monounsaturated fatty acids are desirable to improve oil for food. Seed oil content and fatty acid composition are affected by genotype and environment. Therefore, we systematically analyzed the agronom...

  • Review
  • Open Access
133 Citations
10,795 Views
21 Pages

21 February 2019

Acylcarnitines play an essential role in regulating the balance of intracellular sugar and lipid metabolism. They serve as carriers to transport activated long-chain fatty acids into mitochondria for β-oxidation as a major source of energy for c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,735 Views
11 Pages

A Noninvasive Comparison Study between Human Gliomas with IDH1 and IDH2 Mutations by MR Spectroscopy

  • Xin Shen,
  • Natalie L. Voets,
  • Sarah J. Larkin,
  • Nick de Pennington,
  • Puneet Plaha,
  • Richard Stacey,
  • James S. O. McCullagh,
  • Christopher J. Schofield,
  • Stuart Clare and
  • Uzay E. Emir
  • + 2 authors

20 February 2019

The oncogenes that are expressed in gliomas reprogram particular pathways of glucose, amino acids, and fatty acid metabolism. Mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase genes (IDH1/2) in diffuse gliomas are associated with abnormally high levels of 2-hydr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
84 Citations
8,079 Views
22 Pages

Metabolomics Approaches for the Diagnosis and Understanding of Kidney Diseases

  • Hayley Abbiss,
  • Garth L. Maker and
  • Robert D. Trengove

14 February 2019

Diseases of the kidney are difficult to diagnose and treat. This review summarises the definition, cause, epidemiology and treatment of some of these diseases including chronic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, acute kidney injury, kidney cancer,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,919 Views
14 Pages

Palmitate and Stearate are Increased in the Plasma in a 6-OHDA Model of Parkinson’s Disease

  • Anuri Shah,
  • Pei Han,
  • Mung-Yee Wong,
  • Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang and
  • Cristina Legido-Quigley

13 February 2019

Introduction: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, without any widely available curative therapy. Metabolomics is a powerful tool which can be used to identify unexpected pathway-related disease progres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,704 Views
19 Pages

Evaluation of Sample Preparation Methods for the Analysis of Reef-Building Corals Using 1H-NMR-Based Metabolomics

  • Erik R. Andersson,
  • Rusty D. Day,
  • Julie M. Loewenstein,
  • Cheryl M. Woodley and
  • Tracey B. Schock

13 February 2019

The field of metabolomics generally lacks standardized methods for the preparation of samples prior to analysis. This is especially true for metabolomics of reef-building corals, where the handful of studies that were published employ a range of samp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,455 Views
13 Pages

13 February 2019

Emerging fusariotoxins, mainly enniatins (ENNs) and beauvericin (BEA), are secondary toxic metabolites produced by Fusarium spp. and are widely distributed contaminants of cereals and by-products. Mycotoxin contamination in these products supposes an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,153 Views
12 Pages

MALDI-TOF-MS Analysis in the Identification of Urine Proteomic Patterns of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

  • Paulina Banach,
  • Paweł Dereziński,
  • Eliza Matuszewska,
  • Jan Matysiak,
  • Hubert Bochyński,
  • Zenon J. Kokot and
  • Ewa Nowak-Markwitz

9 February 2019

Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is a group of highly aggressive, rare tumors. Human chorionic gonadotropin is a common biomarker used in the diagnosis and monitoring of GTD. To improve our knowledge of the pathology of GTD, we performed prote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,764 Views
19 Pages

Consistency, Inconsistency, and Ambiguity of Metabolite Names in Biochemical Databases Used for Genome-Scale Metabolic Modelling

  • Nhung Pham,
  • Ruben G. A. van Heck,
  • Jesse C. J. van Dam,
  • Peter J. Schaap,
  • Edoardo Saccenti and
  • Maria Suarez-Diez

6 February 2019

Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) are manually curated repositories describing the metabolic capabilities of an organism. GEMs have been successfully used in different research areas, ranging from systems medicine to biotechnology. However, the di...

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