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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2022

Metabolite profile of COVID-19 revealed by UPLC-MS/MS-based widely targeted metabolomics.

Jun Liu, Zhi-Bin Li, Qi-Qi Lu, Yi Yu, Shan-Qiang Zhang, Pei-Feng Ke, Fan Zhang, Ji-Cheng Li

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jun LiuMedical Research Center, Yue Bei People's Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shaoguan, China.
Zhi-Bin LiThe Central Laboratory, Yangjiang People's Hospital, Yangjiang, China.
Qi-Qi LuMedical Research Center, Yue Bei People's Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shaoguan, China.
Yi YuMedical Research Center, Yue Bei People's Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shaoguan, China.
Shan-Qiang ZhangMedical Research Center, Yue Bei People's Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shaoguan, China.
Pei-Feng KeMedical Research Center, Yue Bei People's Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shaoguan, China.
Fan ZhangMedical Research Center, Yue Bei People's Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shaoguan, China.
Ji-Cheng LiMedical Research Center, Yue Bei People's Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shaoguan, China.
Shantou University · CNShantou University Medical College · CNYue Bei People's Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The metabolic characteristics of COVID-19 disease are still largely unknown. Here, 44 patients with COVID-19 (31 mild COVID-19 patients and 13 severe COVID-19 patients), 42 healthy controls (HC), and 42 patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), were involved in the study to assess their serum metabolomic profiles. We used widely targeted metabolomics based on an ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). The differentially expressed metabolites in the plasma of mild and severe COVID-19 patients, CAP patients, and HC subjects were screened, and the main metabolic pathways involved were analyzed. Multiple mature machine learning algorithms confirmed that the metabolites performed excellently in discriminating COVID-19 groups from CAP and HC subjects, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 1. The specific dysregulation of AMP, dGMP,

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Community-Acquired InfectionsCOVID-19PneumoniaChromatography, High Pressure LiquidChromatography, LiquidHumansMetabolomicsTandem Mass SpectrometryCOVID-19machine learningpotential biomarkersUPLC-MS/MSwidely targeted metabolites

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PMID35924246
PMCPMC9339702
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