[Investigation on Dexamethasone induced cleft palate in embryos of C57BL/6J mice by 1H-NMR pattern recognition of metabolites group].

Metabonomics approach is a science that systematically studies the regularity of changes of metabolites and reveals the nature of metabolic activities of the lives in the dynamic process of metabolism. In this study, pregnant C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into two groups with 15 mice in each. The ones in the experimental group were intraperitoneally injected with Dexamethasone and the others in the control group with isotonic Na chloride from 10th to 12th day of gestational period. On 17.5th day, all the mice were executed. The livers were extracted and prepared into aqueous soluble liver tissue extracts. The technology of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used to detect the endogenous small molecule metabolites. Finally, through the method of principal component analysis (PCA), changes of metabolites ingredients could be determined. The experimental results showed that there was significant difference in PCA scores plot between the two groups. Furthermore, the difference was in line with that of incidence of cleft palate in the embryos between the two groups. Therefore, metabonomics results can be used to reflect the changes of metabolites group interfered by Dexamethasone in the course of pregnancy of C57BL/6J mice and this method opens up a new way for further study of pathogenic mechanism of cleft lip with or without palate.