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Urea Cycle Related Amino Acids Measured in Dried Bloodspots Enable Long-Term In Vivo Monitoring and Therapeutic Adjustment

Baruteau, J; Khalil, Y; Grunewald, S; Zancolli, M; Chakrapani, A; Cleary, M; Davison, J; ... Mills, P; + view all (2019) Urea Cycle Related Amino Acids Measured in Dried Bloodspots Enable Long-Term In Vivo Monitoring and Therapeutic Adjustment. Metabolites , 9 (11) , Article 275. 10.3390/metabo9110275. Green open access

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dried bloodspots are easy to collect and to transport to assess various metabolites, such as amino acids. Dried bloodspots are routinely used for diagnosis and monitoring of some inherited metabolic diseases. METHODS: Measurement of amino acids from dried blood spots by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. RESULTS: We describe a novel rapid method to measure underivatised urea cycle related amino acids. Application of this method enabled accurate monitoring of these amino acids to assess the efficacy of therapies in argininosuccinate lyase deficient mice and monitoring of these metabolites in patients with urea cycle defects. CONCLUSION: Measuring urea cycle related amino acids in urea cycle defects from dried blood spots is a reliable tool in animal research and will be of benefit in the clinic, facilitating optimisation of protein-restricted diet and preventing amino acid deprivation.

Type: Article
Title: Urea Cycle Related Amino Acids Measured in Dried Bloodspots Enable Long-Term In Vivo Monitoring and Therapeutic Adjustment
Location: Switzerland
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/metabo9110275
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo9110275
Language: English
Additional information: © 2019 by the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: amino acids, argininosuccinate lyase, dried blood spots, tandem mass spectrometry, urea cycle
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085788
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