Journal
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
Volume 50, Issue 4, Pages 595-606Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291719000400
Keywords
Metabolomics; psychotic disorders; tryptophan; tyrosine
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- Research Council of Norway, Oslo, Norway [213837, 223273, 217776]
- South-East Norway Regional Health Authority, Hamar, Norway [2017-112]
- KG Jebsen Foundation, Bergen, Norway
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BackgroundWe aimed at exploring potential pathophysiological processes across psychotic disorders, applying metabolomics in a large and well-characterized sample of patients and healthy controls.MethodsPatients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders (N = 212) and healthy controls (N = 68) had blood sampling with subsequent metabolomics analyses using electrochemical coulometric array detection. Concentrations of 52 metabolites including tyrosine, tryptophan and purine pathways were compared between patients and controls while controlling for demographic and clinical characteristics. Significant findings were further tested in medication-free subsamples.ResultsSignificantly decreased plasma concentrations in patients compared to healthy controls were found for 3-hydroxykynurenine (3OHKY, p = 0.0008), xanthurenic acid (XANU, p = 1.5x10(-5)), vanillylmandelic acid (VMA, p = 4.5x10(-5)) and metanephrine (MN, p = 0.0001). Plasma concentration of xanthine (XAN) was increased in the patient group (p = 3.5x10(-5)). Differences of 3OHKY, XANU, VMA and XAN were replicated across schizophrenia spectrum disorders and bipolar disorders subsamples of medication-free individuals.ConclusionsAlthough prone to residual confounding, the present results suggest the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism, noradrenergic and purinergic system dysfunction as trait factors in schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorders. Of special interest is XANU, a metabolite previously not found to be associated with bipolar disorders.
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