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Diagnosis of atypical myopathy based on organic acid and acylcarnitine profiles and evolution of biomarkers in surviving horses

  • Background: Atypical myopathy (AM), an acquired multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) in horses, induce changes in mitochondrial metabolism. Only few veterinary laboratories offer diagnostic testing for this disease. Inborn and acquired MADD exist in humans, therefore determination of organic acids (OA) in urine and acylcarnitines (AC) in blood by assays available in medical laboratories can serve as AM diagnostics. The evolution of OA and AC profiles in surviving horses is unreported. Methods: AC profiles using electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) and OA in urine using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS) were determined in dried blot spots (DBS, n = 7) and urine samples (n = 5) of horses with AM (n = 7) at disease presentation and in longitudinal samples from 3/4 survivors and compared to DBS (n = 16) and urine samples (n = 7) from control horses using the Wilcoxon test. Results: All short- (C2-C5) and medium-chain (C6-C12) AC in blood differed significantly (p < 0.008) between horses with AM and controls, except for C5:1 (p = 0.45) and C5OH + C4DC (p = 0.06). In AM survivors the AC concentrations decreased over time but were still partially elevated after 7 days. 14/62 (23%) of OA differed significantly between horses with AM and control horses. Concentrations of ethylmalonic acid, 2-hydroxyglutaric acid and the acylglycines (butyryl-, valeryl-, and hexanoylglycine) were highly elevated in the urine of all horses with AM at the day of disease presentation. In AM survivors, concentrations of those metabolites were initially lower and decreased during remission to approach normalization after 7 days. Conclusion: OA and AC profiling by specialized human medical laboratories was used to diagnose AM in horses. Elevation of specific metabolites were still evident several days after disease presentation, allowing diagnosis via analysis of samples from convalescent animals.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author:Déborah Mathis, Jörn Oliver Sass, Claudia Graubner, Angelika Schoster
Parent Title (English):Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports
Volume:29
Article Number:100827
Number of pages:7
ISSN:2214-4269
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-60155
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgmr.2021.100827
PMID:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34900597
Publisher:Elsevier
Publishing Institution:Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Date of first publication:2021/11/25
Copyright:© 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
Funding:This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Keyword:ACacylcarnitines; AMAtypical myopathy; DBSdried blot spots; GC–MSgas chromatography–mass spectrometry; MADDMultiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency; OA, organic acids
Departments, institutes and facilities:Fachbereich Angewandte Naturwissenschaften
Institut für funktionale Gen-Analytik (IFGA)
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC):5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 576 Genetik und Evolution
Entry in this database:2021/12/01
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International