TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Mathis, Déborah
A1  - Sass, Jörn Oliver
A1  - Graubner, Claudia
A1  - Schoster, Angelika
T1  - Diagnosis of atypical myopathy based on organic acid and acylcarnitine profiles and evolution of biomarkers in surviving horses
JF  - Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports
N2  - 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.
KW  - DBSdried blot spots
KW  - AMAtypical myopathy
KW  - GC–MSgas chromatography–mass spectrometry
KW  - MADDMultiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
KW  - ACacylcarnitines
KW  - OA, organic acids
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-60155
SN  - 2214-4269
SS  - 2214-4269
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgmr.2021.100827
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgmr.2021.100827
PM  - 34900597
VL  - 29
SP  - 7
S1  - 7
PB  - Elsevier
ER  -