Summary of project PR001745
This data is available at the NIH Common Fund's National Metabolomics Data Repository (NMDR) website, the Metabolomics Workbench, https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org, where it has been assigned Project ID PR001745. The data can be accessed directly via it's Project DOI: 10.21228/M8513X This work is supported by NIH grant, U2C- DK119886.
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| Project ID: | PR001745 |
| Project DOI: | doi: 10.21228/M8513X |
| Project Title: | Amniotic fluid metabolites in TTTS |
| Project Summary: | Monochorionic-diamniotic twin pregnancies comprise 70% of identical twin pregnancies and are susceptible to unique complications arising from a single placenta shared by two fetuses. Twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is a constellation of disturbances caused by unequal blood flow within the shared placenta giving rise to a major hemodynamic imbalance between the twins. If untreated, it leads to fetal cardiac failure and death. Here, we applied TTTS as a model to uncover fetal metabolic adaptations to cardiovascular stress. We compared untargeted mass spectrometry-based metabolomic analyses of amniotic fluid samples from a cohort of severe TTTS cases showing sonographic evidence of increased afterload and heart failure vs. uncomplicated singleton controls. Amniotic fluid metabolites demonstrated footprints of changes in fatty acid, glucose, and steroid hormone metabolism in TTTS. Among TTTS cases, unsupervised principal component analysis revealed two distinct clusters of disease defined by levels of glucose metabolites, amino acids, urea, and redox status. Our results suggest that the human fetal heart can adapt to hemodynamic stress by modulating its glucose metabolism. Furthermore, we have uncovered heterogeneity among cases of severe TTTS suggesting potential differences in the ability of individual fetuses to respond to cardiovascular stress. |
| Institute: | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Last Name: | Parchem |
| First Name: | Jacqueline |
| Address: | 6431 Fannin, MSB 3.286, Houston, TX, 77030, USA |
| Email: | jacqueline.g.parchem@uth.tmc.edu |
| Phone: | 415-250-6257 |
Summary of all studies in project PR001745
| Study ID | Study Title | Species | Institute | Analysis(* : Contains Untargted data) | Release Date | Version | Samples | Download(* : Contains raw data) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST002797 | Fetal metabolic adaptations to cardiovascular stress in twin-twin transfusion syndrome | Homo sapiens | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | MS | 2023-08-15 | 1 | 32 | Uploaded data (30.6G)* |
