Cirrhosis is a common and terminal outcome of many
chronic liver conditions. A urinary meta
bonomic study using gas chromatography鈥搈ass spectrometry (GC鈥揗S) and ultra performance liquid chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC鈥揟OFMS) was carried out to elucidate the pathophysiological
basis of post
hepatitis B cirrhosis in 63 post
hepatitis B cirrhosis patients and 31 health controls. Urinary meta
bolic profile and corresponding differential meta
bolites associated with Child-Pugh (CP) grading of liver function were characterized, in addition to the
blood routine, liver, and renal function tests. Multivariate statistical tools including principal component analysis (PCA) and orthogonal partial least-squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) were employed in the meta
bolite analysis along with a univariate statistical method, Wilcoxon鈥揗ann鈥揥hitney test. The alterations of differential meta
bolites contri
buting to the intergroup variation
between healthy controls and cirrhotic patients, and among cirrhosis of CP grade A, B and C were also investigated. Six meta
bolites, 伪-hydroxyhippurate, tyrosine-
betaxanthin, 3-hydroxyisovalerate, canavaninosuccinate, estrone, and glycoursodeoxycholate, were significantly altered among cirrhotic patients with CP A, B, and C, reflecting a
bnormal meta
bolism of amino acid,
bile acids, hormones, and intestinal micro
bial meta
bolism. The results show that dynamic alteration of urinary meta
bolome, characterized
by the changes of a panel of the differential meta
bolite markers, is indicative of an exacer
bated liver function, highlighting their diagnostic and prognostic potential for the liver cirrhosis development.<
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Keywords:
bs.acs.org/action/doSearch?action=search&searchText=cirrhosis&qsSearchArea=searchText">cirrhosis; bs.acs.org/action/doSearch?action=search&searchText=hepatitis+B&qsSearchArea=searchText">hepatitis B; bs.acs.org/action/doSearch?action=search&searchText=urine&qsSearchArea=searchText">urine; bs.acs.org/action/doSearch?action=search&searchText=urinary+metabolites&qsSearchArea=searchText">urinary metabolites; bs.acs.org/action/doSearch?action=search&searchText=metabonomics&qsSearchArea=searchText">metabonomics; bs.acs.org/action/doSearch?action=search&searchText=Child%5C-Pugh+classification&qsSearchArea=searchText">Child-Pugh classification