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Metabolomics analysis of human sweat collected after moderate exercise

Delgado-Povedano, M.M., Calderón-Santiago, M., Luque de Castro, M.D., Priego-Capote, F.·2018·Talanta

Abstract

Sweat is a promising biofluid scarcely used in clinical analysis despite its non-invasive sampling. A more frequent clinical use of sweat requires to know its whole composition, especially concerning to non-polar compounds, and the development of analytical strategies for its characterization. The aim of the present study was to compare different sample preparation strategies to maximize the detection of metabolites in sweat from humans collected after practicing moderate exercise. Special emphasis was put on non-polar compounds as they have received scant attention in previous studies dealing with this biofluid. Sample preparation by liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) using extractants with different polarity index was compared to deproteination. Then, derivatization by methoxymation with subsequent silylation was compared to direct analysis of sweat extracts to check the influence of derivatization on the subsequent determination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). 135 compounds were tentatively identified by combining spectral and retention time information after analysis by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry in high resolution mode (GC-TOF/MS). Lipids, VOCs, benzenoids and other interesting metabolites such as alkaloids and ethanolamines were identified. Among the tested protocols, methyoxiamination plus silylation after LLE with dichloromethane was the best option to obtain a representative snapshot of sweat metabolome collected from different body parts after moderate exercise. Passive and active sweat pools from a cohort of volunteers (n = 6) were compared to detect compositional differences which can be explained by the sampling process and sweating induction. As most of the identified compounds are metabolites involved in key biochemical pathways, this study opens new opportunities to extend the applicability of human sweat as a source of metabolite biomarkers of pathologies or specific processes such as dehydration or nutritional unbalance.

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  • Most amino acid, alcohol, carbohydrate, and fatty acid concentrations have been higher with exercise than pharmacologically induced sweating.

    “Most amino acid (Souza et al. 2018), alcohol, carbohydrate, and fatty acid (Delgado-Povedano et al. 2018) concentrations have been higher with exercise than pharmacologically induced sweating.”

    From Physiological mechanisms determining eccrine sweat composition (2020) · cites this paper as Delgado-Povedano et al. 2018

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Authors
Delgado-Povedano, M. M., Calderón-Santiago, M., Luque de Castro, M. D., & Priego-Capote, F.
Affiliations
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ES)
Venue
Talanta
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-01
Volume
177
Pages
47-65
ISSN
0039-9140 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2756438808
Cited by
68
References
28
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 4
FWCI
2.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Talanta (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • MINECO (CTQ2015-68813-R)
  • Junta de Andalucía and FEDER program (FQM-1602)
  • MECD (FPU14/03068)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Analytical Chemistry › Analytical chemistry methods development
Keywords
human sweat, moderate-intensity exercise, nonpolar molecules, sample preparation, liquid-liquid extraction, silylation, volatile organic compounds, benzenoids, monoethanolamine, non-invasive biomarkers, dehydration
MeSH terms
Humans, Solvents, Sweat, Exercise, Metabolomics, Liquid-Liquid Extraction

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