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Metabolomics in the study of microbiome
Nazmutdinova, Anastasiia ; Kuzma, Marek (advisor) ; Cahová, Monika (referee)
Inflammatory bowel disease is a serious condition with an incomplete etiology and pathogenesis. In this thesis, a mouse model of sodium dextran sulfate-induced inflammation was used to study different changes in the metabolism of germ-free and conventionally raised mice due to the development of the inflammatory process. NMR metabolomics of fecal, urine and serum samples, combined with uni- and multivariate statistical analysis, were used to characterize the changes. It was shown that the metabolic signature differs between germ-free and conventional mice. In germ-free mice, significant amounts of carbohydrates were found in feces. Their levels decreased during inflammation as they were excreted in urine. In contrast to conventional mice, germ-free mice also excreted large amounts of amino acids in feces during the developing inflammation. Disorders of sugar and protein metabolism found in germ-free mice indicate severe malnutrition caused by inflammation. The results show that the presence of a microbiome represents a protective mechanism against significant disruption in the body. A stability study of fecal extracts of healthy conventionally colonized mice confirmed that none of the identified and quantified metabolites showed significant systemic changes in several consecutively collected...
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Markers of Oxidative Stress are Elevated in Workers Exposed to Nanoparticles
Pelclová, D. ; Ždímal, Vladimír ; Fenclová, Z. ; Vlčková, Š. ; Schwarz, Jaroslav ; Pušman, Jan ; Zíková, Naděžda ; Syslová, K. ; Kuzma, Marek ; Navrátil, Tomáš ; Zakharov, S. ; Kačer, P.
Health-effects of nanoparticles in humans are little understood. Pre-shift and post-shift spirometry, markers in exhaled breath condensate (EBC), and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) were measured both in 20 workers exposed to TiO2 aerosol and 19 controls. Particle number size distributions were monitored by aerosol spectrometers SMPS and APS, covering the overall size range 15 nm-10 μm. Simultaneously, the spatial distributions of total particle number and mass concentrations were determined using a particle number concentration monitor (P-TRAK) and a monitor of particle mass concentrations (DustTRAK DRX). Total aerosol concentrations in the production plant varied greatly in both space and time; number concentrations 1x104-2x105 particles/cm3 and mass concentrations 0.1-30 mg/m3. In the workshops, 90% of the particles were smaller than 100 nm in diameter and particle concentrations were 10x higher than in the control room.
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