Diagnostic value of plasma tryptophan and symmetric dimethylarginine levels for acute kidney injury among tacrolimus-treated kidney transplant patients by targeted metabolomics analysis.

ABSTRACT: Few literatures have evaluated the exact role of metabolomics in the identification process of potential biomarkers for acute kidney injury among the patients receiving renal transplantation. On top of this, the success of metabolomics in biomarker translation seems to lie in the robust quantitative method. As such, a single-center retrospective observational study was conducted enrolling 42 patients underwent renal transplantation with/without acute kidney injury, as well as 24 healthy volunteers, in Shanghai Changzheng Hospital. Plasma amino acid metabolic patterns for the participants were investigated by targeted UHPLC-MS/MS metabolic profiling. The most significant changes of the explored metabolites were related to the disturbance of tryptophan metabolism and arginine metabolism. Abn

SUBMITTER: Zhang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6168546 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature