Metabolomics Study on the Toxicity of Aconite Root and Its Processed Products Using Ultraperformance Liquid-Chromatography/Electrospray-Ionization Synapt High-Definition Mass Spectrometry Coupled with
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- 作者：Xijun Wang ; Huiyu Wang ; Aihua Zhang ; Xin Lu ; Hui Sun ; Hui Dong ; Ping Wang
- 刊名：Journal of Proteome Research
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：February 3, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：11
- 期：2
- 页码：1284-1301
- 全文大小：1657K
- 年卷期：v.11,no.2(February 3, 2012)
- ISSN：1535-3907
文摘
The mother and lateral root of Aconitum carmichaelii Debx, named 鈥淐huanwu鈥?(CW) and 鈥淔uzi鈥? respectively, has been used to relieve joint pain and treat rheumatic diseases for over 2000 years. However, it has a very narrow therapeutic range, and the toxicological risk of its usage remains very high. The traditional Chinese processing approach, Paozhi (detoxifying measure),can decompose poisonous Aconitum alkaloids into less or nontoxic derivatives and plays an important role in detoxification. The difference in metabolomic characters among the crude and processed preparations is still unclear, limited by the lack of sensitive and reliable biomarkers. Therefore, this paper was designed to investigate comprehensive metabolomic characters of the crude and its processed products by UPLC-Q-TOF-HDMS combined with pattern recognition methods and ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA). The significant difference in metabolic profiles and changes of metabolite biomarkers of interest between the crude and processed preparations were well observed. The underlying regulations of Paozhi-perturbed metabolic pathways are discussed according to the identified metabolites, and four metabolic pathways are identified using IPA. The present study demonstrates that metabolomic analysis could greatly facilitate and provide useful information to further comprehensively understand the pharmacological activity and potential toxicity of processed Aconite roots in the clinic.