Affiliation:
1. Department of Precision Instrument and Opto‐Electronics Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin P. R. China
2. Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease Center School of Basic Medical Sciences Peking University Health Science Center Beijing P. R. China
Abstract
Epilepsy is a complex neurological disease characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures that affect around 1% of the global population. Despite the significant progress in the mechanisms of epileptogenesis, there is still about 60% of cases in which the cause is unknown. Thus, revealing the molecular mechanisms of epileptogenesis will greatly improve the development of epilepsy treatment. Since the comprehensive characterization of amino acids and water‐soluble vitamins is important in understanding the underlying mechanisms of epilepsy or seizures, we developed two liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry methods to quantify 17 water‐soluble vitamins and 46 amino acids and applied them to our pentylenetetrazole‐induced kindling rat model. All water‐soluble vitamins were detected with a linearity of r > 0.992 and limits of quantitation between 0.1 and 5 ng/ml except for nicotinic acid. For amino acids, the linearities obtained were good with correlation coefficients higher than 0.99, and matrix effects were between 85.3% and 110%. To handle the multidimensional data more effectively, multivariate statistical analysis approaches used in non‐targeted metabolomics were creatively exploited in the visualization, interpretation, and exploration of the results.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Filtration and Separation,Analytical Chemistry
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