Jewell Dennis E, Tavener Selena K, Hollar Regina L, Panickar Kiran S
Department of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States of America.
Science & Technology Center, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc., Topeka, Kansas, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2025 Aug 18;20(8):e0329999. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0329999. eCollection 2025.
Two common problems in the urinary system of cats are renal disease (RD) and calcium oxalate (CaOx) stones. The objective of this study was to assess urine metabolomic parameters of cats with these diseases to determine metabolic abnormalities and differences between the groups. The urine metabolic profile for each cat was determined, along with their lifetime history of stone incidence and renal disease. In order to reduce the data for analysis, factor analysis/factor loading was used allowing statistical hypothesis testing and the selection of significant metabolites from 488 identified metabolites. A total of 42 cats were used (19 healthy, 12 with CaOx stones and 11 with renal disease). Urine from the cats were tested multiple times (mean = 4.6) therefore cat ID was used as a random variable. All analytes were expressed as a ratio to creatinine in order to compensate for differences in water intake. Principal components analysis was used as the method of factor extraction resulting in six factors that differed between groups. Factors 1, 2, and 5 were elevated in healthy cats and depressed in RD and CaOx cats. These factors had several analytes that are known to be elevated in the serum of cats with CaOx stones (i.e., 7-methylguanine, erythritol, pseudouridine, N1-methylinosine). Factor 5 was elevated in healthy cats containing six phenyl moieties as well as p-cresol sulfate. There were two factors which were increased in CaOx cats. Factor 12 was increased when compared to healthy cats and contained three purine nucleic acids (inosine, xanthine and hypoxanthine) as well as 3-hydroxybutyrate while factor 23 was elevated and the only factor that contained phospholipids. These results show that urine is not simply reflecting circulating concentration changes observed in cats with CaOx stones and RD but rather also gives insight into the functional kidney changes associated with these diseases.
猫泌尿系统的两个常见问题是肾病(RD)和草酸钙(CaOx)结石。本研究的目的是评估患有这些疾病的猫的尿液代谢组学参数,以确定代谢异常以及两组之间的差异。确定了每只猫的尿液代谢谱,以及它们结石发病和肾病的终生病史。为了减少分析数据,使用了因子分析/因子载荷,从而进行统计假设检验并从488种已鉴定的代谢物中选择显著的代谢物。总共使用了42只猫(19只健康猫、12只患有CaOx结石的猫和11只患有肾病的猫)。对猫的尿液进行了多次检测(平均 = 4.6次),因此将猫的ID用作随机变量。所有分析物均表示为与肌酐的比值,以补偿水摄入量的差异。主成分分析被用作因子提取方法,结果产生了六组不同的因子。因子1、2和5在健康猫中升高,而在患有RD和CaOx结石的猫中降低。这些因子中有几种分析物在患有CaOx结石的猫的血清中已知会升高(即7-甲基鸟嘌呤、赤藓糖醇、假尿苷、N1-甲基肌苷)。因子5在含有六个苯基部分以及对甲酚硫酸盐的健康猫中升高。有两个因子在患有CaOx结石的猫中增加。与健康猫相比,因子12增加,包含三种嘌呤核酸(肌苷、黄嘌呤和次黄嘌呤)以及3-羟基丁酸,而因子23升高,是唯一包含磷脂的因子。这些结果表明,尿液不仅仅反映了患有CaOx结石和RD的猫所观察到的循环浓度变化,还深入了解了与这些疾病相关的功能性肾脏变化。