Imperial College London
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Emeritus ProfessorJeremyNicholson

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3195j.nicholson Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Wendy Torto +44 (0)20 7594 3225

 
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Location

 

Office no. 665Sir Alexander Fleming BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Lees:2019:10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00040,
author = {Lees, HJ and Swann, JR and Poucher, S and Holmes, E and Wilson, ID and Nicholson, JK},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00040},
journal = {Journal of Proteome Research},
pages = {2160--2174},
title = {Obesity and cage environment modulate metabolism in the Zucker rat: a multiple biological matrix approach to characterizing metabolic phenomena},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00040},
volume = {18},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Obesity and its comorbidities are increasing worldwide imposing a heavy socioeconomic burden. The effects of obesity on the metabolic profiles of tissues (liver, kidney, pancreas), urine, and the systemic circulation were investigated in the Zucker rat model using 1H NMR spectroscopy coupled to multivariate statistical analysis. The metabolic profiles of the obese ( fa/ fa) animals were clearly differentiated from the two phenotypically lean phenotypes, ((+/+) and ( fa/+)) within each biological compartment studied, and across all matrices combined. No significant differences were observed between the metabolic profiles of the genotypically distinct lean strains. Obese Zucker rats were characterized by higher relative concentrations of blood lipid species, cross-compartmental amino acids (particularly BCAAs), urinary and liver metabolites relating to the TCA cycle and glucose metabolism; and lower amounts of urinary gut microbial-host cometabolites, and intermatrix metabolites associated with creatine metabolism. Further to this, the obese Zucker rat metabotype was defined by significant metabolic alterations relating to disruptions in the metabolism of choline across all compartments analyzed. The cage environment was found to have a significant effect on urinary metabolites related to gut-microbial metabolism, with additional cage-microenvironment trends also observed in liver, kidney, and pancreas. This study emphasizes the value in metabotyping multiple biological matrices simultaneously to gain a better understanding of systemic perturbations in metabolism, and also underscores the need for control or evaluation of cage environment when designing and interpreting data from metabonomic studies in animal models.
AU  - Lees,HJ
AU  - Swann,JR
AU  - Poucher,S
AU  - Holmes,E
AU  - Wilson,ID
AU  - Nicholson,JK
DO  - 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00040
EP  - 2174
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1535-3893
SP  - 2160
TI  - Obesity and cage environment modulate metabolism in the Zucker rat: a multiple biological matrix approach to characterizing metabolic phenomena
T2  - Journal of Proteome Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00040
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30939873
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/70039
VL  - 18
ER  -
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