PMID: 18198483Jan 17, 2008Paper

Integrated NMR-based metabonomic investigation of early metabolic effects of ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (EGME) on male reproductive organs in rats

The Journal of Toxicological Sciences
Toshinori YamamotoTakemi Yoshida

Abstract

High-resolution Magic Angle Spinning (Hr-MAS) (1)H-NMR spectroscopy was used to analyze intact testicular tissues ex vivo and to investigate the toxicological effects of ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (EGME), a well-known spermatocytes toxicant, on male reproductive organs by NMR-based metabonomic analysis. Especially, we reported the first Hr-MAS (1)H-NMR spectra of epididymis. Sexually matured male rats were treated with 50 and 2,000 mg/kg EGME, and body weight, reproductive organs weight, histopathology and plasma biochemistry were examined at 6 and 24 hr after administration. Two multivariate statistical methods, namely, unsupervised PCA and supervised PLS-DA, indicated that the balance of endogenous metabolites was perturbed in both reproductive organs and biofluids. In the testes, lactate, creatine and glutathione were mainly affected by EGME treatment. In urine and plasma, altered excretions of the TCA cycle intermediates (2-oxoglutarate, citrate and succinate) and the ketone-bodies (acetoacetate and beta-hydroxybutyrate) were also observed. The finding in current integrated metabonomic analysis of both intact tissues and biofluids suggested that EGME-induced testicular toxicity was attributed to perturbation of the en...Continue Reading

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