A metabonomics approach based on high-resolution magic-angle spinning (HRMAS)
1H NMR spectroscopy was applied to investigate the metabolite composition in intact hepatic tissues and renal cortical tissues
from
db/db mice of 8 weeks old, an animal model of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Compared to the control group, the hepatic tissues of diabetic
mice have elevated levels of triglyceride and bile acid and declined levels of trimethylamine-
N-oxide, phosphocholine, glycerophosphocholine, and choline. The biochemical changes are less obvious in renal cortical tissues
of diabetic mice. The WET_CPMG pulse sequence was selected for our metabonomics study after the quality and reproducibility
of the spectra obtained from the NOEPR, NOEPR_CPMG, and WET_CPMG pulse sequences were analyzed together with principal component
analysis. The influence of line-broadening factor of exponential window function for spectral manipulation on class separation
was paid attention to for the first time, and an optimal value was obtained under our experimental conditions. These studies
show the efficiency of HRMAS
1H NMR spectroscopy for tissue metabonomics study in combination with multivariate statistical analysis, which may help to
explore the etiological factor of diabetes mellitus from a new perspective.
Comparative 1H MAS NMR spectra of liver and kidney tissues
Keywords NMR - Metabonomics - Magic-angle spinning (MAS) - Principal component analysis (PCA) - Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) - Tissues