Anuri Shah
King’s College London
Title: Association of plasma and mid-brain metabolites with 6-OHDA induced in-vivo Parkinsonism
Biography
Biography: Anuri Shah
Abstract
Association of plasma and mid-brain metabolites with 6-OHDA induced in-vivo Parkinsonism
Abstract
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, with no cure at present. An in-depth understanding of the pathology of PD will pave ways for effective treatment options. In recent years metabolomics has emerged as a powerful tool to identify biomarkers and mechanisms for a range of diseases. The aim of this study was to use systems metabolomics to identify changes in an in-vivo model of PD.
Male Sprague- Dawley rats were injected with the toxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) into the mid-brain, to induce Parkinsonism. Animals injected with saline were used as the control group. Two weeks after the injection, behaviour tests were carried out to assess motor dysfunction, followed by plasma and brain collection for untargeted metabolic profiling.
Palmitic acid (p = 1.76 x 10-2, q = 3.72 x 10-2, FC = 1.81) and stearic acid (p = 2.56 x 10-2, q = 3.84 x 10-2, FC = 2.15) were significantly upregulated in the plasma of the PD group, while mono-palmitin (p = 2.4 x 10-2, q = 4.8 x 10-2, FC = -11.7), mono-stearin (p = 3.1 x 10-2, q = 3.72 x 10-2, FC = -15.1) and myo-inositol (p = 3.81 x 10-2, q = 3.81 x 10-2, FC = -3.32) showed a significant imbalance in their mid-brains. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves showed that all these metabolites had an area under the curve (AUC) of > 0.8, which indicates good prediction ability. Furthermore, the plasma metabolites were significantly correlated with the behaviour test scores.
These results show that plasma saturated free fatty acids and their mono-glycerides in the brain were associated with 6-OHDA induced toxicity. All these metabolites showed a good prediction ability. The plasma fatty acids also had a strong correlation with motor dysfunction, an integral symptoms of PD, suggestive of their potential as biomarkers.