Metabolic profile of serum lysophosphatidylcholine in rats with liver injury induced by Tripterygium wilfordii multiglucoside
Objective To investigate the metabolic profile of serum lysophosphatidylcholine(LPC)in rats with liver injury induced by tripterygium wilfordii multiglucoside(TWM).Methods The UPLC-Q-TOF/MS method was used to simultaneously quantify 15 LPCs in the serum of control,TWM-and triptolide(TP)-treated rats.Furthermore,chemometric analysis was applied to analyze the changes in the metabolic profiles of LPC in the serum of TWM-or TP-induced liver injured rats.Results The result of quantitative analysis showed that the serum levels of 11 LPCs in TWM group and 13 LPCs in TP group were significantly down-regulated when compared with control group.Principal component analysis(PCA)indicated that the serum LPC metabolic profiles of the two toxic groups were obviously different from the control group,and the deviation degree in TP-induced rats was greater than that in TWM-induced rats.Orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis(OPLS-DA)showed that LPC(14∶0),LPC(20∶4),LPC(18∶0),LPC(18∶1),LPC(17∶0),LPC(22∶5),LPC(16∶0)and LPC(17∶1)had significant contributions on the OPLS-DA model,and the serum levels of the 8 LPCs were well related to the activities of biochemical indicators such as ALT and AST(r>0.5,P<0.05).Consequently,these LPCs were identified as potential biomarkers of hepatotoxicity of TWM-and TP-induced liver injury.Conclusion The metabolic profile of LPC is related closely to TWM-and TP-induced liver injuries.