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Serum metabolome associated with severity of acute traumatic brain injury

  • CENTER-TBI Participants and Investigators
  • Örebro University
  • University of Turku and Turku University Hospital
  • Turku University Hospital
  • University of Pecs Medical School
  • University of Pécs
  • Erasmus University Medical Center
  • University of Florida College of Medicine
  • Antwerp University Hospital
  • Leiden University Medical Centre
  • University of Cambridge
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Oslo University Hospital
  • University Hospital of North Norway
  • Medical University of Vienna
  • Hôpital Central
  • Raymond Poincaré Hospital
  • IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute
  • Amalia Children's Hospital
  • University of Szeged
  • ARTTIC Innovation GmbH
  • Medical University Innsbruck
  • Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital
  • NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre
  • AP-HP Sorbonne Université
  • Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
  • Odense University Hospital
  • Monash University
  • Trnava University
  • Quesgen Systems Inc.
  • Umeå University
  • University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • Department of Clinical Neurosciences
  • Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
  • Hospital de Cruces
  • Imperial College London
  • Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda
  • Universit̀ Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
  • ASST di Monza
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
  • University Medical Center
  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • University Hospital
  • University of Manchester
  • Oxford Brookes University
  • AOU Maggiore della Carità
  • Leuven University Center for Metabolic Bone Diseases
  • Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad
  • Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • CHR Citadelle
  • Rigshospitalet
  • Auckland University of Technology
  • Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
  • Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Neurorrehabilitación (FIVAN)
  • Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege
  • Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital
  • Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre
  • Australian National University
  • All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
  • University of Sterling
  • University Medical Center Groningen
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Hope Hospital
  • University Hospital
  • University of Liège
  • University of Sheffield
  • University Witten-Herdecke
  • ICON
  • CHRU Roger Salengro
  • Rambam Medical Center
  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
  • Southmead Hospital Bristol
  • University of California San Francisco
  • M. Bufalini Hospital
  • University Hospital Heidelberg
  • Walton Centre NHS Trust
  • Emergency County Hospital Timisoara
  • University of Helsinki
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • University of Antwerp
  • CHU Grenoble 38043Grenoble
  • University Hospital Padua
  • Helsinki University Central Hospital
  • AP-HP
  • Vall d’Hebron University Hospital
  • Kaunas University of Technology
  • Rezekne Hospital
  • The University of Edinburgh Medical School
  • University of Cambridge
  • Biotechnology Centre of Oslo
  • International Neurotrauma Research Organisation (INRO)
  • Klinikum Ludwigsburg
  • University of Debrecen
  • Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald
  • AUVA Trauma Hospital
  • Tweesteden Ziekenhuis Tilburg
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • St. Olavs Hospital
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
  • University of Milan
  • Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
  • University Medical Center Rotterdam
  • King's College London
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • Icometrix NV
  • School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
  • Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

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Abstract

Complex metabolic disruption is a crucial aspect of the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Associations between this and systemic metabolism and their potential prognostic value are poorly understood. Here, we aimed to describe the serum metabolome (including lipidome) associated with acute TBI within 24 h post-injury, and its relationship to severity of injury and patient outcome. We performed a comprehensive metabolomics study in a cohort of 716 patients with TBI and non-TBI reference patients (orthopedic, internal medicine, and other neurological patients) from the Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury (CENTER-TBI) cohort. We identified panels of metabolites specifically associated with TBI severity and patient outcomes. Choline phospholipids (lysophosphatidylcholines, ether phosphatidylcholines and sphingomyelins) were inversely associated with TBI severity and were among the strongest predictors of TBI patient outcomes, which was further confirmed in a separate validation dataset of 558 patients. The observed metabolic patterns may reflect different pathophysiological mechanisms, including protective changes of systemic lipid metabolism aiming to maintain lipid homeostasis in the brain.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2545
JournalNature Communications
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022
Externally publishedYes

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