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Table 1 Overview of metabolomic studies in the blood metabolome of PD clinical populations

From: Recent advances and perspectives of metabolomics-based investigations in Parkinson’s disease

Analytical platform

Subjects

Differential metabolites/metabolic pathways

Statistics

Validation

Reference

HILIC-TOF/MS

Early PD (n = 80)

Controls (n = 76)

Ethanolamine, N-Lauroylglycine, Alpha-N-Phenylacetyl-L-glutamine, Sarcosine, Glu-Ile, 1,3-Dimethyluracil, Arg-Ala, PCs, SMs, Lyso-PAF C-16, etc.

ROC (AUC = 0.80)

No

Stoessel D et al. [52]

CE-TOF/MS

LC-TOOF/MS

PD (n = 109)

Controls (n = 32)

Long chain acylcarnitines

ROC (AUC = 0.895)

Yes

Saiki S et al. [102]

LC-MS

PD (LID, n = 10,

non-LID, n = 8,

unmedicated, n = 8)

Controls (n = 14)

3-hydroxykynurenine/kynurenic acid

Ratio

t-test, p < 0.05

No

Havelund JF et al. [6]

Nontargeted MS-based metabolomics

Early PD (n = 41)

Controls (n = 40)

Hexanoylglutamine, Decanoylcarnitine, Myristoleoylcarnitine, Octanoylcarnitine, Oleoylcarnitine, Palmitoleoylcarnitine, Suberoylcarnitine, Octadecanedioate, 3-hydroxysebacate

ROC (AUC = 0.857)

No

Burté F et al. [111]

UPLC-MS/MS

GC-MS

PD (n = 35)

Controls (n = 15)

Lower levels of tryptophan, caffeine, bilirubin and ergothioneine; higher levels of levodopa metabolites and biliverdin

random forest classification

No

Hatano T et al. [112]

NMR

PD (n = 43)

Controls (n = 37)

Myoinositol, sorbitol, citrate, acetate, succinate and pyruvate

PLS-DA

No

Ahmed SS et al. [113]

LCECA

LRRK2 PD (n = 12)

idiopathic PD (n = 41)

Controls (n = 46)

Purine metabolism (uric acid, hypoxanthine, xanthine, etc.)

PLS-DA

No

Johansen KK et al. [16]

LCECA

PD (n = 66)

Controls (n = 25)

8-OHdG, glutathione, uric acid

PLS-DA

No

Bogdanov M et al. [17]

GC-TOFMS

PD (n = 20)

Controls (n = 20)

Amino acids (pyroglutamate and 2-oxoisocaproate), C16-C18 saturated and unsaturated fatty acids

OPLS-DA

No

Trupp M et al. [50]

LC-MS

GC-MS

PD (n = 82)

RLS (n = 95)

Controls (n = 1272)

Long-chain (polyunsaturated) fatty acids, inositol metabolites

 

No

Kassubek J et al. [101]

UPLC-TOF/MS

PD (cohort 1, n = 82, cohort 2, n = 118)

Controls (cohort 1, n = 82, cohort 2, n = 37)

Huntington’s disease (cohort2, n = 22)

Kynurenic acid, quinolinic acid, ratio of kynurenic acid /kynurenine, ratio of quinolinic acid/ kynurenic acid

OPLS-DA

Yes

Chang KH et al. [19]

LC-QE/MS

Slow. PD (n = 41)

Rapid. PD (n = 39)

Controls (n = 20)

N8-acetyl spermidine

OPLS-DA

No

Roede JR et al. [49]