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Monitoring of Altered Amino Acid Metabolic Pattern in Rat Urine Following Intraperitoneal Injection With γ-hydroxybutyric Acid

Monitoring of Altered Amino Acid Metabolic Pattern in Rat Urine Following Intraperitoneal Injection With γ-hydroxybutyric Acid

Chan Seo, Myungjin Na, Jiyeun Jang, Meejung Park, Boyeon Choi, Sooyeun Lee, Man-Jeong Paik

Metabolomics. 2018 Aug 19;14(9):111.

PMID: 30830415

Abstract:

Introduction:
γ-Hydroxybutyric acid is a well-known prescription medicine that is used for the clinical treatment of alcohol dependence and narcolepsy. However, the biochemical mechanism underlying γ-hydroxybutyric acid intoxication remains unclear, and metabolomic amino acid profiling and pattern analyses have not been attempted following treatment with γ-hydroxybutyric acid.
Objectives:
We carried out urinary amino acid profiling and pattern analyses in rats to determine the biochemical events associated with altered amino acid metabolism and biomarker detection of intoxication following treatment with γ-hydroxybutyric acid.
Methods:
Metabolic profiling analysis of amino acids in rat urine samples was performed as ethoxycarbonyl/tert-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry following intraperitoneal administration of γ-hydroxybutyric acid once per day for 1 and 10 consecutive days.
Results:
A total of 28 amino acids were positively identified in urine samples from the control, single and multiple groups treated with γ-hydroxybutyric acid. Their levels from the single and multiple treated groups were normalized to the corresponding mean control values. The star graphic pattern of the amino acids was characteristic and readily distinguishable for each group owing to its distorted nonacosagonal shape. In the principle component analysis, we monitored phenylalanine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, asparagine, and methionine as contributing factors that discriminated the three groups.
Conclusion:
The present metabolomic study may explain the altered metabolism of amino acids following administration, and intoxication with γ-hydroxybutyric acid.

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