A pilot study of the effect of human breast milk on urinary metabolome analysis in infants
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Hiromichi Shoji
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Hikari Taka
Abstract
Background:
This study aimed to examine the nutritional effect of breast feeding on healthy term infants by using urinary metabolome analysis.
Methods:
Urine samples were collected from 19 and 14 infants at 1 and 6 months, respectively. Infants were separated into two groups: the breast-fed group receiving <540 mL/week of their intake from formula (n=13 at 1 month; n=9 at 6 months); and the formula-fed group receiving no breast milk (BM) (n=6 at 1 month; n=5 at 6 months). Urinary metabolome analysis was performed using capillary electrophoresis-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (CE-TOF/MS).
Results:
A total of 29 metabolites were detected by CE-TOF/MS metabolome analysis in all samples. Urinary excretion of choline metabolites (choline base solution, N,N-dimethylglycine, sarcosine, and betaine) at 1 month were significantly (p<0.05) higher in breast-fed infants than in formula-fed infants. However, choline metabolites were not significantly different between the groups at 6 months. Urinary excretion of lactic acid in breast-fed infants at 1 and 6 months was significantly lower than that in formula-fed infants. Urinary l(−)-threonine and l-carnosine excretion at 1 month was significantly lower in breast-fed infants than in formula-fed infants, but it was not significantly different between the groups at 6 months.
Conclusions:
The type of feeding in early infancy affects choline metabolism, as well as lactate, threonine, and carnosine levels, in healthy term infants. Urinary metabolome analysis by the CE-TOF/MS method is useful for assessing nutritional metabolism in infants.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: This work was supported in part by KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; 15K09727) and the Food Science Institute Foundation (Ryoushoku-kenkyukai).
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Standard body mass index reference data of prepubescent diabetic Egyptian children
- Frequency and risk factors of depression in type 1 diabetes in a developing country
- Association of obesity and health related quality of life in Iranian children and adolescents: the Weight Disorders Survey of the CASPIAN-IV study
- Association between urinary phthalates and metabolic abnormalities in obese Thai children and adolescents
- A pilot study of the effect of human breast milk on urinary metabolome analysis in infants
- Assessment of the correlation between the atherogenic index of plasma and cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents: might it be superior to the TG/HDL-C ratio?
- Cardiovascular and metabolic risk in pediatric patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21 hydroxylase deficiency
- Application of povidone-iodine at delivery significantly increases maternal urinary iodine but not neonatal thyrotropin in an area with iodine sufficiency
- Influence of topical iodine-containing antiseptics used during delivery on recall rate of congenital hypothyroidism screening program
- Applying targeted next generation sequencing to dried blood spot specimens from suspicious cases identified by tandem mass spectrometry-based newborn screening
- Short Communication
- Initial patient choice of a growth hormone device improves child and adolescent adherence to and therapeutic effects of growth hormone replacement therapy
- Case Reports
- An occult ectopic parathyroid adenoma in a pediatric patient: a case report and management algorithm
- Fetal goitrous hypothyroidism treated by intra-amniotic levothyroxine administration: case report and review of the literature
- Carotid intima media thickness in a girl with sitosterolemia carrying a homozygous mutation in the ABCG5 gene
- Sirolimus in the treatment of three infants with diffuse congenital hyperinsulinism
