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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
卷 8, 期 12, 页码 5559-5567出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr900651k
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Complex regional pain syndrome; capillary electrophoresis; mass spectrometry; metabolomics; urine
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is characterized by various combinations of sensory, autonomic and motor disturbances. Pain disproportionate to the severity and duration of the inciting event is the most devastating symptom. Diagnosis of CRPS is difficult as the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. To try to derive metabolic indicators potentially characteristic for CRPS, we applied capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry (CE-ToF-MS) to the explorative analysis of urine. The CE-ToF-MS method provided fast and stable metabolic profiles of urine samples. The mean intraday and interday CVs were <2% and <9% for migration times and peak areas, respectively, demonstrating robustness of the method. With the use of multivariate chemometric analysis, discrimination between urine samples from CRPS patients and controls was obtained, emphasizing differences in metabolic signatures between CRPS-diseased patients and controls. Several compounds, such as 3-methylhistidine, were responsible for discriminating the samples. The biological relevance of these compounds with regard to CRPS is discussed. Thus, CE-ToF-MS-based metabolic profiling of urine from CRPS patients and controls revealed metabolites that differentiate between diseased and control, illustrating the usefulness of this approach to get more insight into the pathology underlying CRPS.
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