Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Electronic Science, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plasma and Magnetic Resonance, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
  • 2 Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230031, P. R. China
  • 3 Department of Bioprocess Engineering & Innovation Centre in Agritechnology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia
PLoS One, 2015;10(4):e0119654.
PMID: 25849323 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119654

Abstract

Wilson's disease (WD), also known as hepatoleticular degeneration (HLD), is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder of copper metabolism, which causes copper to accumulate in body tissues. In this study, rats fed with copper-laden diet are used to render the clinical manifestations of WD, and their copper toxicity-induced organ lesions are studied. To investigate metabolic behaviors of 'decoppering' process, penicillamine (PA) was used for treating copper-laden rats as this chelating agent could eliminate excess copper through the urine. To date, there has been limited metabolomics study on WD, while metabolic impacts of copper accumulation and PA administration have yet to be established.

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