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ArticleInternational journal of cancer2025

NMR-based metabolomics combined with metabolic pathway analysis reveals metabolic heterogeneity of colorectal cancer tissue at different anatomical locations and stages.

Rongzhi Cai, LiXin Ke, Yan Zhao, Jiayun Zhao, Huanian Zhang, Peie Zheng, Lijing Xin, Changchun Ma, Yan Lin

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Article in International journal of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Colorectal neoplasia-specific amino acid profiles and their diagnostic potential: a systematic review.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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9 authors.

Rongzhi CaiRadiology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.
LiXin KeRadiology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.ORCID 0009-0008-1547-9532
Yan ZhaoRadiology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.
Jiayun ZhaoRadiology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.
Huanian ZhangRadiology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.
Peie ZhengRadiology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.
Lijing XinAnimal Imaging and Technology Core, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Changchun MaRadiation Oncology Department, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China.
Yan LinRadiology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8284-9029

Funding

Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province 2020A1515011022Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province 2023A1515010326Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province 2023A15150103262020A1515011022Key Platforms and Scientific Research Projects in Universities in Guangdong Province 2022ZDZX2020National Natural Science Foundation of China 82071973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CRC) still remains the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. This study aimed to profile the metabolic differences of colorectal cancer tissues (CCT) at different stages and sites, as compared with their distant noncancerous tissues (DNT), to investigate the temporal and spatial heterogeneities of metabolic characterization. Our NMR-based metabolomics fingerprinting revealed that many of the metabolite levels were significantly altered in CCT compared to DNT and esophageal cancer tissues, indicating deregulations of glucose metabolism, one-carbon metabolism, glutamine metabolism, amino acid metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, TCA cycle, choline metabolism, and so forth. A total of five biomarker metabolites, including glucose, glutamate, alanine, valine and histidine, were identified to distinguish between early and advanced stages of CCT. Metabolites that distinguish the different anatomical sites of CCT include glucose, glycerol, glutamine, inositol, succinate, and citrate. Those significant metabolic differences in CRC tissues at different pathological stages and sites suggested temporal and spatial heterogeneities of metabolic characterization in CCT, providing a metabolic foundation for further study on biofluid metabolism in CRC early detection.

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Colorectal NeoplasmsMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMetabolomicsAgedAmino AcidsBiomarkers, TumorFemaleGlucoseGlutamineHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMaleMetabolomeMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingAmino AcidsBiomarkers, TumorGlucoseGlutamineanatomical locationscolorectal cancer tissuemetabolic pathwaysNMR‐based metabolomicstumor stages

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PMCPMC11826128

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