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Trial reportAmino acids2021

The serum amino acid profile in COVID-19.

Alptug Atila, Handan Alay, Mehmet Emrah Yaman, Tugrul Cagri Akman, Elif Cadirci, Burak Bayrak, Saffet Celik, Nihal Efe Atila, Aycan Mutlu Yaganoglu, Yucel Kadioglu and 3 more

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Trial report in Amino acids, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Alptug AtilaDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ataturk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey. alptug@atauni.edu.tr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7027-809X
Handan AlayDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Mehmet Emrah YamanDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ataturk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Tugrul Cagri AkmanDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Elif CadirciDepartment of Pharmacology, Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Burak BayrakDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ataturk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Saffet CelikTechnology Research and Development Application and Research Center, Trakya University, 22030, Edirne, Turkey.
Nihal Efe AtilaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Erzurum Regional Training and Research Hospital, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Aycan Mutlu YaganogluDepartment of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Ataturk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Yucel KadiogluDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ataturk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Zekai HalıcıDepartment of Pharmacology, Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Emine ParlakDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Zafer BayraktutanDepartment of Biochemistry, Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey.
Atatürk University · TRErzincan Binali Yıldırım University · TRErzurum Regional Training and Research Hospital · TRTrakya University · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pandemic of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 affects millions of people worldwide. There are still many unknown aspects to this infection which affects the whole world. In addition, the potential impacts caused by this infection are still unclear. Amino acid metabolism, in particular, contains significant clues in terms of the development and prevention of many diseases. Therefore, this study aimed to compare amino acid profile of COVID-19 and healthy subject. In this study, the amino acid profiles of patients with asymptomatic, mild, moderate, and severe/critical SARS-CoV-2 infection were scanned with LC-MS/MS. The amino acid profile encompassing 30 amino acids in 142 people including 30 control and 112 COVID-19 patients was examined. 20 amino acids showed significant differences when compared to the control group in COVID-19 patient groups with different levels of severity in the statistical analyses conducted. It was detected that the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) changed in correlation with one another, and L-2-aminobutyric acid and L-phenylalanine had biomarker potential for COVID-19. Moreover, it was concluded that L-2-aminobutyric acid could provide prognostic information about the course of the disease. We believe that a new viewpoint will develop regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis as a result of the evaluation of the serum amino acid profiles of COVID-19 patients. Determining L-phenylalanine and L-2-aminobutyric levels can be used in laboratories as a COVID-19-biomarker. Also, supplementing COVID patients with taurine and BCAAs can be beneficial for treatment protocols.

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AdultAgedAged, 80 and overAmino AcidsBiomarkersChromatography, LiquidCOVID-19FemaleHumansMaleMass SpectrometryMiddle AgedPrognosisSARS-CoV-2Amino AcidsBiomarkersAmino acidBCAAsCOVID-19l-2-aminobutyric acidL-phenylalanineTaurine

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PMID34605988
PMCPMC8487804
OpenAlexW3201878827

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