Publication
Title
Metabolic profiling of a transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans Alzheimer model
Author
Abstract
Despite decades of research, no early-onset biomarkers are currently available for Alzheimer's disease, a cureless neurodegenerative disease afflicting millions worldwide. In this study, transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans were used to investigate changes in the metabolome after induced expression of amyloid-beta. GC- and LC-MS-based platforms determined a total of 157 differential features. Some of these were identified using in-house (GC-MS) or public libraries (LC-MS), revealing changes in allantoin, cystathionine and tyrosine levels. Since C. elegans is far better suited to metabolomics studies than most other model systems, the accordance of these findings with vertebrate literature is promising and argues for further use of C. elegans as a model of human pathology in the study of AD.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Metabolomics. - Dordrecht, 2005, currens
Publication
Dordrecht : 2015
ISSN
1573-3882 [print]
1573-3890 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S11306-014-0711-5
Volume/pages
11 :2 (2015) , p. 477-486
ISI
000350570300021
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Publication type
Subject
External links
Web of Science
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