INTRODUCTION: Because of its ease of collection, urine is one of the most commonly used matrices for metabolomics studies. However, unlike other biofluids, urine exhibits tremendous variability that can introduce confounding inconsistency during result interpretation. Despite man...
Background. Hyperuricemia is the second most prevalent metabolic disorder globally and exhibits pronounced heterogeneity in clinical practice. Only about 10% of individuals with asymptomatic hyperuricemia (HUA) progress to gout, yet the lack of specific biomarkers and precise therapeutic targets ...
BACKGROUND: The human intestinal microbiome plays a central role in overall health status, especially in early life stages. 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing is used to profile its taxonomic composition; however, multiomic approaches have been proposed as the most accurate methods for...
Urine metabolomics is widely used for biomarker research in the fields of medicine and toxicology. As a consequence, characterization of the variations of the urine metabolome under basal conditions becomes critical in order to avoid confounding effects in cohort studies. Such physiological infor...