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NMR-spectroscopy-based metabonomic approach to the analysis of Bay41-4109, a novel anti-HBV compound, induced hepatotoxicity in rats.

Shi C, Wu CQ, Cao AM, Sheng HZ, Yan XZ, Liao MY

Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 27# Taiping Road, Beijing 100850, PR China.

An integrated metabonomics study using high-resolution (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been applied to investigate the biochemical composition of urine, serum, liver tissue aqueous extracts (acetonitrile/water) and liver tissue lipidic extracts (chloroform/methanol) obtained from control and Bay41-4109 treated rats (10, 50, 400mg.kg(-1).d(-1) for 5 days, i.g.). Principal components analysis was used to visualize similarities and differences in biochemical profiles. The results showed the effects induced by Bay41-4109 at 400mg.kg(-1).d(-1) are different from those induced at 10, 50mg.kg(-1).d(-1). The biochemical profiles of 400mg.kg(-1).d(-1) group might reflect the hepatotoxicity of Bay41-4109 more exactly. The elevation in the level of 3-HB, lactate, 2-hydroxy-acetol and d-glucose was found in the urine, and the levels of VLDL/LDL(CH(2))(n), VLDL/LDL-CH(3), 2-oxo-3-methyl-n-valerate, 3-HB, lactate, acetate, taurine, 2-hydroxy-isovalerate in serum were increased significantly in 400mg.kg(-1).d(-1) group. The predominant changes identified in liver tissue aqueous extracts included an increase in the signal intensities of lactate, 3-amino-isovalerate, pyruvate, choline, trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) and a reduction in the intensities of taurine, hippurate and d-glucose. In liver tissue chloroform/methanol extracts, there was a remarkably increase in many of the lipid signals including the triglyceride terminal methyl, methylene groups, and CH(2)CO, N(+)(CH(3))(3), CH(2)OPO(2), CH(2)OCOR. These observations all provide evidence that fatty acid metabolism disorder and mitochondrial inability might contribute to the hepatotoxicity of Bay41-4109. The application of (1)H NMR spectroscopy to an array of biological samples comprising urine, serum and liver tissue extracts yields new insight into the hepatotoxicity of xenobiotics.

Published 20 September 2007 in Toxicol Lett, 173(3): 161-7.
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