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Single-cell RNA-sequencing of adult mouse lower urinary tracts

ABSTRACT: Single-cell RNA-sequencing of adult mouse lower urinary tracts

PROVIDER: PRJNA608745 | ENA |

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Project description:BACKGROUND: Protein undernutrition is prevalent mainly among elderly people, and it could develop diseases such as sarcopenia. Urinary metabolites may become biomarkers reflecting protein undernutrition, but this has been insufficiently investigated.OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify novel urinary metabolites as biomarker candidates responsive to protein undernutrition.METHODS: Adult male Wistar rats were fed an AIN-93 M diet [14% casein, control (CT) diet] or an AIN-93 M-based isocaloric diet [5% casein, low protein (LP) diet] for 4 weeks. 1H nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomic analysis was performed on urine samples weekly and on plasma and liver samples at week 4 to identify metabolites that respond to protein undernutrition. Liver samples were also subjected to mRNA microarray and quantitative PCR analyses at week 4 to investigate alterations of the gene expressions responsive to protein undernutrition.RESULTS: Urinary taurine levels were significantly lower in the LP group than in the CT group (79.7% lower) at week 1, and remained constant until week 4. Hepatic taurine level and gene expression level of cysteine dioxygenase type 1, the rate-limiting enzyme for taurine biosynthesis, were also significantly lower in the LP group than in the CT group (81.1% and 32.5% lower, respectively). Urinary trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) levels were significantly higher in the LP group than in the CT group (49.7% higher) at week 2, and remained constant until week 4. Hepatic TMAO level was also higher in the LP group than in the CT group (81.2% higher). Hepatic gene expression levels of flavin-containing monooxygenase 1 and 5, the enzymes for TMAO biosynthesis, were also significantly higher in the LP group than in the CT group (61.6% and 311.8% higher, respectively).CONCLUSIONS: Urinary taurine and TMAO levels substantially respond to LP diet ingestion, and may act as non-invasive biomarker candidates to detect protein undernutrition.

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Single-cell RNA-sequencing of adult mouse lower urinary tracts

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