Effect of pivalate-induced secondary carnitine deficiency on hepatic transcriptome and plasma metabolome in growing pigs
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ABSTRACT: Administration of pivalate has been demonstrated to be suitable for induction of secondary car-nitine deficiency (CD) in pigs, as model objects for humans. In order to comprehensively charac-terize the metabolic effects of secondary CD in the liver of pigs, the present study aimed to carry out comparative analysis of hepatic transcriptome and plasma metabolome of a total of 12, male 5-weeks-old pigs administered either pivalate (group PIV, n = 6) or vehicle (group CON, n = 6) for 28 days. Pigs of group PIV had approximately 40-60% lower concentrations of free carnitine and acetylcarnitine in plasma, liver and different skeletal muscles than pigs of group CON (p < 0.05). Transcript profiling of the liver revealed 140 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between group PIV and group CON (fold change > 1.2 or < −1.2, p-value < 0.05). Biological process terms dealing with the innate immune response were found to be enriched with the DEGs (p < 0.05). Using a targeted metabolomics approach for the simultaneous quantification of 630 metabolites, 13 me-tabolites were identified to be lower and 5 metabolites to be higher in group PIV than in group CON (p < 0.05). Despite pivalate-induced CD caused only weak alterations of the hepatic tran-scriptome and the plasma metabolome, the changes observed indicate that secondary CD modu-lates the innate immune response of pigs.
ORGANISM(S): Sus scrofa
PROVIDER: GSE178384 | GEO | 2021/06/18
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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