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ArticleOncology letters2018

Volatile metabonomic profiling in urine to detect novel biomarkers for B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Qingling Hua, Lin Wang, Chan Liu, Lingling Han, Yazhong Zhang, Hu Liu

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Article in Oncology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Qingling HuaDepartment of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230022, P.R. China.
Lin WangDepartment of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230022, P.R. China.
Chan LiuDepartment of Antibiotics, Anhui Institute For Food and Drug Control, Hefei, Anhui 230022, P.R. China.
Lingling HanDepartment of Antibiotics, Anhui Institute For Food and Drug Control, Hefei, Anhui 230022, P.R. China.
Yazhong ZhangDepartment of Antibiotics, Anhui Institute For Food and Drug Control, Hefei, Anhui 230022, P.R. China.
Hu LiuDepartment of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230022, P.R. China.
First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University · CNAnhui Medical University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To date, there have been a limited number of useful biomarkers for the screening and monitoring of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL), which leads to the impetus to discover novel biomarkers for the disease. In the present study, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with head-space solid-phase micro-extraction (HS-SPME) was employed to analyze the volatile metabolites in the urine samples of 131 subjects. The subjects were divided into 4 main groups: Aggressive B-NHL, indolent B-NHL, benign lymphatic diseases patients and healthy volunteers. The differences of the concentrations of the potential biomarkers among the groups were assessed by non-parametric Wilcoxon's test. The ability of the potential biomarkers to discriminate between the four aforementioned groups was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC). The present study indicated that 4-heptanone, 2-methylpyrazine, 2-methylbutanal, 2,6-dimethyl-7-octen-2-ol and decanoic acid may serve as potential biomarkers for B-NHL. The area under the curve (AUC) values of single potential biomarker ranged from 0.634 to 0.901. The diagnostic models established with combined biomarkers exhibited higher diagnostic values (AUC, 0.824-0.968) compared with the models established with single biomarkers. The present study indicated that urinary volatile metabolites might be potential biomarkers for screening and monitoring of B-NHL.

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B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomamonitoringscreeningurinevolatile metabolites

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