Identification of a linoleic acid derivative in elderly female patients with schizophrenia from rural regions using untargeted metabolomics

IF 2.5 4区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

European Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI:10.1016/j.ejpsy.2024.100285

Bo Pan , Li Qu , Chuan-Lan Wang , Jianjun Weng , Jian-Feng Yu , Yanqing Liu , Xing-Chen Wang

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Abstract

Background and objectives

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental illness, affecting a large number of general populations. It was well documented that metabolic dysregulation is associated with schizophrenia. In order to define reliable peripheral biomarkers for schizophrenia in patients with specific age, sex, and locations, plasma metabolic profiling of elderly female schizophrenic patients in rural regions was investigated in this study.

Methods

A total of 20 female schizophrenic patients (average age: 68.65 ± 4.11) and 20 matched healthy controls were recruited. An untargeted metabolomics analysis was performed with their plasma samples of the participants. Differentially-expressed metabolites (DEMs) were identified, followed by a pathway enrichment analysis to reveal related signalling pathways. Then, machine learning analyses, including random forest (RF) and support vector machines-recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE), were implemented to determine signature metabolite(s).

Results

A total number of 2764 metabolites were identified, among which 61 DEMs were identified, including 38 down-regulated and 23 up-regulated metabolites. The enrichment analysis showed that glycerophospholipid metabolism and sphingolipid signalling pathway were the most significantly affected pathways. The ROC analysis indicated that metabolites belonging to the class of fatty acyls have higher power to discriminate schizophrenia. Finally, a linoleic acid derivative (Dg(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/0:0)[Iso2]) was revealed as signature metabolite by the RF and SVM-RFE machine learning analyses.

Conclusion

The present study investigated the plasma metabolic profiling of elderly female patients with schizophrenia and identified a peripheral linoleic acid derivative that might help discriminate schizophrenia and develop specific treatment strategies for elderly female patients in rural regions.

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European Journal of Psychiatry PSYCHIATRY-

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期刊介绍： The European journal of psychiatry is a quarterly publication founded in 1986 and directed by Professor Seva until his death in 2004. It was originally intended to report “the scientific activity of European psychiatrists” and “to bring about a greater degree of communication” among them. However, “since scientific knowledge has no geographical or cultural boundaries, is open to contributions from all over the world”. These principles are maintained in the new stage of the journal, now expanded with the help of an American editor.