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Trimethylamine N -Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease
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Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) is a biologically active molecule and is a putative promoter of chronic diseases including atherosclerosis in humans. Host intestinal bacteria produce its precursor trimethylamine (TMA) from carnitine, choline, or choline-containing compounds. Most of the TMA produced is passively absorbed into portal circulation, and hepatic flavin-dependent monooxygenases (FMOs) efficiently oxidize TMA to TMAO. Both observational and experimental studies suggest a strong positive correlation between increased plasma TMAO concentrations and adverse cardiovascular events, such as myocardial infarction, stroke, and death. However, a clear mechanistic link between TMAO and such diseases is not yet validated. Therefore, it is debated whether increased TMAO concentrations are the cause or result of these diseases. Here, we have tried to review the current understanding of the properties and physiological functions of TMAO, its dietary sources, and its effects on human metabolism. Studies that describe the potential role of TMAO in the etiology of cardiovascular and other diseases are also discussed.
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“A second pathway converting carnitine to TMA involves production of the intermediate γ-butyrobetaine in the ileum, with subsequent conversion of γ-butyrobetaine to TMA in the cecum and colon (62).”
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The Discussion (page not provided) describes a second pathway from L-carnitine through γ-butyrobetaine to TMA. It places γ-butyrobetaine formation in the latter jejunum and ileum, and TMA production from γ-butyrobetaine in the cecum and proximal large bowel, matching the cited sentence. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“However, the degree of rise in TMAO concentrations was not completely concordant with the degree of reduction in the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (108).”
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In the discussion of Stubbs et al. (passage 1; page not provided), the paper says the degree and pattern of rising TMAO levels were not uniformly concordant with the reduction in GFR. The same passage discusses the association between serum TMAO and eGFR, supporting the citing sentence’s paraphrase. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“The Women's Health Initiative and the alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene cancer prevention observational studies reported that alterations in choline metabolism and plasma TMAO concentrations were predicted risk factors for colorectal cancer (7,83).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.4. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Cancer
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The Discussion reports that alterations in choline metabolism were associated with higher colorectal cancer risk in postmenopausal women and that plasma TMAO may be a potential predictor. The claim overstates this as an established risk factor: the paper presents TMAO as a potential biomarker, with its clearest associations for rectal cancer and for women with low vitamin B12. This verdict addresses the Women's Health Initiative finding, not the separately cited ATBC study. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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The Discussion links the choline derivative TMAO to elevated colorectal cancer risk, citing the Women’s Health Initiative study (reference 35). But this ATBC paper’s own Results concern TMAO and aggressive prostate cancer, not colorectal cancer; it does not report an ATBC finding that choline-metabolism changes or plasma TMAO predicted colorectal cancer risk. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Both observational and experimental studies suggest a strong positive correlation between increased plasma TMAO concentrations and adverse cardiovascular events, such as myocardial infarction, stroke, and death.”
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“Host intestinal bacteria produce its precursor trimethylamine (TMA) from carnitine, choline, or choline-containing compounds.”
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“However, a clear mechanistic link between TMAO and such diseases is not yet validated.”
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“A recent study in men observed that people with higher Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes enrichment generated more TMA after a challenge meal (28).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.1. Trimethylamine Formation by Bacteria
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“We know that gut microbiota are required for these nutrients to be converted to TMA because gnotobiotic mice do not produce such TMA (1,96), and antibiotic treatment of standard mice decreases TMA formation (1).”
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“oral flora (Streptococcus sanguis, a facultative anaerobe) also can form TMA from choline (25).”
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“A YeaW/YeaX gene pair encodes for oxygenase and oxidoreductase activities that have substrate promiscuity for γ-butyrobetaine, L-carnitine, choline, and betaine.”
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“FMO3 has tenfold higher specific activity in the liver than does FMO1 (13).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“The bile salt, cholic acid, induces FMO3 via the bile acid-activated nuclear receptor FXR (13).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“A choline-utilization gene cluster (Cut) responsible for anaerobic conversion of choline to TMA was identified in the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (32,112).”
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“This menstrual trimethylaminuria is more pronounced in women homozygous for variants that result in a mild decrease in FMO3 enzyme activity (103).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [103] source
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“Only Edwardsiella tarda does not express the TMA-producing genes discussed in Section 1 above but produces TMA nonetheless (96).”
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- Not checked yetcites [96] source
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“The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Heidelberg study evaluated individual variations in fasting plasma TMAO concentrations for one year.TMAO concentration varied within each individual over time more than it did between people (66).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.4. Measurement of Trimethylamine and Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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- Not checked yetcites [66] source
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“Physiological concentration ranges for TMAO are ≈10to 20-fold higher than are those for TMA in human plasma (99).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [99] source
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“A microbial metabolic pathway generating TMA and malic semialdehyde from L-carnitine hydroxylation are active in human colon isolates belonging to the genera Acinetobacter and Serratia (41).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.1. Trimethylamine Formation by Bacteria
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- Not checked yetcites [41] source
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“TMAO modulates both lipid and glucose homeostasis”
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“It is interesting that, in rats, urinary TMAO excretion was elimination-and not formation-rate limited (88).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.3. Excretion of Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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- Not checked yetcites [88] source
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“about 95% of TMA is oxidized as it is subsequently excreted in urine in a 3:95 TMA:TMAO ratio (132).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [132] source
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“The pathway involves a radical C-N bond cleavage of choline to generate TMA and acetaldehyde (32).”
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- Not checked yetcites [32] source
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“In fact, a large study reported that women have less TMAO formation than do men (89).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [89] source
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“Deletion of the CutC gene in Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20 and heterologous expression of the CutC and CutD genes from D. alaskensis G20 in Escherichia coli confirmed that these genes are essential for the conversion of choline to TMA (32).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.1. Trimethylamine Formation by Bacteria
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- Not checked yetcites [32] source
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“FMO3 catalyzes NADPH-dependent oxygenation of TMA.”
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“Dietary Crucifera can decrease FMO3 enzyme activity.”
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“Two genes, CntA and CntB, encode a two-subunit oxidoreductase (A encodes the carnitine oxidase, and B encodes a reductase) for L-carnitine conversion to TMA (confirmed by a series of knockout and heterologous expression experiments) (137).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.1. Trimethylamine Formation by Bacteria
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- Not checked yetcites [137] source
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“TMA is obtained from bacterial metabolism of dietary L-carnitine (and its metabolite γbutyrobetaine).”
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“In experiments designed to investigate pH-induced hysteretic processes of ischemic myocardium, TMAO increased the rate of reactivation of the phosphofructokinase enzyme purified from rat myocardium (47).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.1. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Is an Osmolyte and Protein Stabilizer
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- Not checked yetcites [47] Hand SC, 1986, Am. J. Physiol.
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“TMA also is obtained from bacterial metabolism of dietary betaine (120).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.4. Betaine
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“In addition, TMA can be present in commercially available fish oil or choline-containing diet supplements that have been subject to bacterial degradation during preparation or storage (131).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.1. Fish
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- Not checked yetcites [131] Zeisel SH, 1983, J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. source
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“TMAO also may signal via activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathways (99, 136).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.2. Trimethylamine Is a Ligand for Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 5
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“Suppression of intestinal microbiota (and therefore plasma TMAO concentrations) completely inhibited diet-dependent reductions in RCT.”
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“In a study of Swedish men, fish consumption was associated with increased urinary TMAO concentrations (107).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.5. Diet Patterns and Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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- Not checked yetcites [107] source
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“After administration of an L-carnitine challenge test (consumption of a diet containing an 8-ounce sirloin steak and a capsule containing 250 mg of a heavy isotope-labeled L-carnitine), people produced TMAO from L-carnitine in a gut microbe-dependent manner (63).”
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“Increased TMAO concentrations reduce the loss of catalytic activity of rabbit muscle phosphofructokinase under conditions of pH-induced cold lability (48).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.1. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Is an Osmolyte and Protein Stabilizer
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- Not checked yetcites [48] Hand SC, 1982, J. Biol. Chem. source
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“However, consumption of ≥2 eggs, which contain mostly PtdCho, results in increased formation of TMAO (79,110).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.3. L-Choline and Choline-Containing Compounds
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“TMA can be produced from bacterial metabolism of dietary choline and choline-containing compounds, such as PtdCho.”
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“In accord with its projected role as a chemical chaperone and nanocrowding particle (29), TMAO stimulated the association of the enzyme phosphorylase kinase with its substrate glycogen (26).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.1. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Is an Osmolyte and Protein Stabilizer
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Chebotareva NA, 2007, Biochemistry
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“Only the L-stereoisomer of carnitine is found in foods.”
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“TMAO regulates multiple aspects of cholesterol and sterol metabolism (Figure 2).”
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“After people consume a meal containing eggs, TMAO concentrations in plasma peak at 6 to 8 h and return to baseline by 24 h after the meal (79).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.5. Diet Patterns and Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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- Not checked yetcites [79] source
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“In obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery, TMAO concentrations were moderately increased after surgery (114).”
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“Similar reductions in hepatic lipids, plasma lipids, ketone bodies, glucose, and insulin were also seen in FMO3 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-treated LDL receptor knockout mice (102).”
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“Transcript levels of hepatic bile acid transporters, such as Oatp1, Oatp4, Mrp2, and Ntcp, also showed significant reductions in response to TMAO feeding (118).”
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“In the Jackson Heart Study, involving 3,924 African-Americans, higher dietary choline was associated with reduced risk of incident ischemic stroke, whereas higher betaine intake was associated with a nonlinear higher risk of incident coronary heart disease (78).”
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“A meta-analysis of 13 controlled trials (n = 3,629 people) reported that low oral dosage of L-carnitine resulted in 27% reduction in all-cause mortality, a 65% reduction in ventricular arrhythmias, and a 40% reduction in angina symptoms in patients who had an acute myocardial infarction (37).”
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“Feeding L-carnitine to Apo e -/- transgenic mice overexpressing human cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) caused increased plasma TMAO concentrations in these mice, but this elevated TMAO was inversely correlated with aortic lesion size (31).”
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“Feeding L-carnitine to Apo e -/- transgenic mice overexpressing human cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) caused increased plasma TMAO concentrations in these mice, but this elevated TMAO was inversely correlated with aortic lesion size (31).”
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“The proatherogenic effects of choline, γ-butyrobetaine, and carnitine were prevented by treatment with antibiotics, suggesting that microbial metabolism of these precursors was required for the effect (63, 118).”
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“However, dietary supplementation of TMAO failed to normalize cholesterol balance.”
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“Dietary intakes of betaine and choline were not associated with CVD risk in >17,000 postmenopausal Dutch women in the PROSPECT-EPIC cohort (34).”
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“Although oral supplementation of L-carnitine was associated with increased plasma TMAO concentrations, it decreased vascular injury markers and oxidative stress markers in hemodialysis patients (43).”
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“During three years of follow-up in patients (n = 4,007) undergoing elective coronary angiography, increased plasma concentrations of TMAO were associated with increased risks of major adverse cardiovascular events (110).”
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“In 292 individuals (99 CVD cases and 193 unmatched control subjects), plasma TMAO concentrations were significantly correlated with prevalent CVD, even after accounting for covariates, such as meat, fish, cholesterol, and energy intake (75).”
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“In fact, modest but significant increases in many cholesterol transporters, such as Abca1 and Abcg1, were noted (118).”
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“Feeding the TMAO precursor γ-butyrobetaine (a metabolite of carnitine) also increased aortic plaque size (62).”
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“No association was found between dietary choline or betaine intake and incident CVD in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (n = 14,430 middle-aged people) (16).”
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“In the Jackson Heart Study, involving 3,924 African-Americans, higher dietary choline was associated with reduced risk of incident ischemic stroke, whereas higher betaine intake was associated with a nonlinear higher risk of incident coronary heart disease (78).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.1. High trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with cardiovascular disease.
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“There was a positive correlation between processed meat and mortality due to CVD observed in a study from the EPIC group (n > 400,000 people), but this association was specific to processed meat and was not seen with unprocessed meat, which has high L-carnitine and choline content (95).”
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“As discussed above in Section 1, there is accumulating evidence suggesting an association between TMAO and risk for developing atherosclerotic CVD.”
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“Atherosclerosis-prone mice (C57BL/6J Apo e -/-) fed a normal diet supplemented with additional choline (118) and L-carnitine (63) or TMAO (118) had increased total aortic root atherosclerotic plaque area compared with mice fed a control diet (118).”
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“The prognostic value of plasma TMAO concentrations was assessed in a cohort of patients (n = 2,235) with stable coronary artery disease, and elevated concentrations were associated with greater long-term mortality risk (101).”
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“Plasma TMAO concentrations were strongly associated with long-term mortality in heart failure patients, with advanced left-ventricular diastolic dysfunction, and with atherosclerosis burden in patients with atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (100, 101, 109, 111, 120).”
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“Elevated concentrations of plasma choline and betaine, assessed in stable cardiac patients, were associated with incident mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke risk, independent of other traditional risk factors.”
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“In a cohort of 339 patients who underwent coronary angiography, plasma concentrations of TMAO or choline were significantly increased with decreasing renal function, but TMAO concentrations were not associated with incidence or symptoms of coronary heart disease.”
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“In a cohort of 339 patients who underwent coronary angiography, plasma concentrations of TMAO or choline were significantly increased with decreasing renal function, but TMAO concentrations were not associated with incidence or symptoms of coronary heart disease.”
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“In the transverse aortic constriction surgical mouse model for pressure overload-induced heart failure, a choline (1.2%)/TMAO (0.12%)-enriched diet significantly increased plasma TMAO concentrations and worsened pulmonary edema, cardiac enlargement, myocardial fibrosis, and left ventricular ejection fraction (90).”
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“However, these metabolites were predictive only when a simultaneous increase in plasma TMAO concentrations was observed (120).”
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“In a cross-sectional study of 227 patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery for coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, or aortic disease, a significantly increased number of infarcted coronary arteries was identified in patients in the highest quartile of plasma TMAO concentrations compared to the lowest quartile (odds ratio 11.9; 95% confidence interval 3.88-36.7,p value ≤ 0.001) (”
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“The proatherogenic effects of choline, γ-butyrobetaine, and carnitine were prevented by treatment with antibiotics, suggesting that microbial metabolism of these precursors was required for the effect (63, 118).”
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“Higher dietary intake of PtdCho, another precursor for TMAO formation, was associated with increased mortality risk in an analysis of 80,978 women from the Nurses' Health Study (1980-2012) and 39,434 men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (1986-2012) (135).”
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“In addition, plasma concentrations of the TMAO precursor L-carnitine in subjects undergoing cardiac evaluation (n = 2,595) predicted increased risks for CVD and for major adverse cardiac events (myocardial infarction, stroke, and death) (63).”
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“Many of the studies that identified an association between TMAO and heart disease also found that people with higher TMAO had decreased renal function (61,109).”
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“In fact, a large body of evidence links fish consumption to cardio-protective effects.”
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“Elevated plasma TMAO concentrations were predictive of five-year mortality risk after adjusting for traditional risk factors, such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, glomerular filtration rate, etc.”
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“Randomized intervention trials with TMAO do not exist, but several studies in mouse models and cell culture, discussed above in Sections 5.1.2and 5.1.3,provide key evidence that there could be a causal relationship between TMAO and CVD.”
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“As discussed above in Section 5.1.2,the effects of TMAO on atherogenesis are completely opposite when Apo e -/-transgenic mice overexpressing human CETP are studied.”
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“Most, but not all, human observational studies support the hypothesis that there is an association between high plasma TMAO concentrations and risk for CVD, especially atherosclerosis.”
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“In these mice, increased plasma TMAO concentrations were inversely correlated with aortic lesion size (31).”
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“Significantly higher concentrations of TMA and TMAO were noted in plasma from 15 patients with end-stage renal disease compared to 15 healthy counterparts (8).”
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“Patients with poor kidney function have elevated plasma TMAO concentrations (93,109).”
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“Mice lack the cholesteryl ester transfer protein that transfers cholesterol ester from HDL to very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and LDL (57).”
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- Not checked yetcites [57] Jawien J, 2004, J. Physiol. Pharmacol.
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“Peritoneal macrophages obtained from C57BL/6J mice, fed a TMAO-supplemented diet for more than three weeks, showed increased mRNA levels of two macrophage scavenger receptors (CD36 and SR-A1), which are implicated in atherosclerosis (118).”
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“Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in 16 patients observed that plasma TMAO concentrations were correlated with the degree of renal failure (12).”
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“In an analysis of 26 prospective cohort studies and 12 randomized controlled trials with aggregate data on 794,000 nonoverlapping people and 34,817 cerebrovascular outcomes, dietary fish intake was protective against stroke (30).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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“In the Physicians Health Study, no evidence of association was found between fish consumption and any type of CVD events (3).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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“Metabolomic analysis of urine from 31 patients identified a group of seven metabolites that differed between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and non-CKD urine samples; TMAO concentrations in plasma were higher in CKD (92).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.1. Trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with renal disease.
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“Renal transplantation corrects the high plasma TMAO concentrations seen in renal failure (81,106).”
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“Randomized intervention trials with TMAO do not exist, but several studies in mouse models and cell culture, discussed above in Sections 5.1.2and 5.1.3,provide key evidence that there could be a causal relationship between TMAO and CVD.”
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“However, such associations do not mean, necessarily, that TMAO causes heart disease.”
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“Serum concentration of TMAO was inversely associated with eGFR and was markedly higher in patients receiving dialysis (59,81); hemodialysis efficiently removed TMAO from blood (8).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.1. Trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with renal disease.
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“The Nurses' Health Study compared women who rarely ate fish (<1 per month) with those who ate fish regularly and found that those with a higher intake of fish had a lower risk of CVD (54).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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“Acute intraperitoneal administration of TMAO to LDLR -/-mice recapitulated this phenotype, which could be a mechanism for development of atherosclerosis (52).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.2. Mice treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop cardiovascular disease.
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Herlaar E, 1999, Trends Mol. Med.
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“In a study of stable patients with kidney disease (n = 521), there was an association between fasting plasma TMAO concentrations and all-cause mortality (109).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.1. Trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with renal disease.
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“In 179 CKD stage 3-5 patients, the GFR and impaired renal function were the main variables affecting plasma TMAO concentrations (81).”
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“The major difference between this mouse model and humans is that plaque rupture is not observed (57).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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- Not checked yetcites [57] Jawien J, 2004, J. Physiol. Pharmacol.
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“Short-term TMAO treatment of primary mouse peritoneal macrophages did not result in phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase, ERK1/2, and p65 NF-κB (other inflammatory pathways associated with atherosclerosis) (52).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.3. Macrophages treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop the atherosclerotic phenotype.
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Herlaar E, 1999, Trends Mol. Med.
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“The clinical and epidemiological data themselves do not prove that TMAO causes heart disease.”
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“Although these studies provide interesting insights to TMAO and CVD risks, the excessively high levels of dietary choline and/or TMAO used in the above studies make it difficult to extrapolate these results directly to humans.”
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“Initial observational studies, involving Greenland Eskimos, Alaskan natives, and Japanese Okinawa islanders, reported lower risk of coronary artery disease death in these populations due to higher dietary fish intake (10,40,65).”
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“In addition, when mice were fed a chemically defined diet supplemented with either 0.12% TMAO or 1% choline, platelet aggregation induced by adenosine diphosphate stimulation was significantly increased (136).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.2. Mice treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop cardiovascular disease.
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“They are also susceptible to atherosclerosis (15).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“By contrast, patients with diabetes treated with metformin had decreased glucose but increased plasma TMAO concentrations compared with untreated individuals (55).”
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“In 123 individuals (out of 1,434 participants) in the Framingham Heart Study who did not have CKD at baseline but developed it during eight years of follow-up, metabolomic profiling on plasma showed that TMAO was associated with incident CKD even after adjustment for GFR, sex, diabetes, hypertension, and proteinuria at baseline (93).”
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“These data support the hypothesis that, in mice, TMAO is a cause of kidney damage.”
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“At this time, specific products that remove TMAO remain undiscovered.”
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“In addition, there is evidence that feeding TMAO increases insulin resistance in animal models.”
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“Also in a genome-wide analysis study, TMAO was genetically associated with colorectal cancer (124).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.4. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Cancer
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“Plasma TMAO concentrations also were significantly increased after consumption of a low glycemic load diet for 28 days (11).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.1. People with high trimethylamine N-oxide concentrations are at risk for diabetes.
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“For example, no relationship was observed between serum TMAO concentrations and all-cause mortality or cardiovascular outcomes in the Comprehensive Dialysis Study, a prospective cohort of 235 patients with end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis (59).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.3. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of renal dysfunction.
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“Serum and urinary concentrations of methylamines including TMAO were associated with the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver and impairment of glucose metabolism in high-fat-fed 129S6 mice (39).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“In diabetic patients, increased plasma TMAO concentrations were associated with death, myocardial infarction, heart failure, unstable angina, and other cardiovascular events (69).”
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“A nontoxic structural analog of choline, 3,3-dimethyl-1-butanol, inhibited the conversion of choline, carnitine, and crotonobetaine (but not γ-butyrobetaine) to TMA (119).”
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“As for TMAO and CVD or renal disease, there is some evidence that high plasma TMAO concentrations are correlated with diabetes risk.”
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“It is interesting that hepatic TMAO concentrations are decreased (not increased) in diabetic db/db mice (123).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“An NMR-based metabolomics study observed an association between urinary TMAO concentrations and tubulointerstitial lesions in patients (n = 77) with glomerulonephritis.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.1. Trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with renal disease.
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“In individuals undergoing elective coronary angiography, plasma TMAO concentrations were correlated with increased serum glucose and the patient's diabetic state (110).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.1. People with high trimethylamine N-oxide concentrations are at risk for diabetes.
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“The bacterial gene cluster that encodes the enzymes for the anaerobic production of TMA from choline have been identified (see Section 2.1).”
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“Antibiotic treatment also suppresses both good and bad bacteria, making it difficult to produce a desired impact (20).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“When mice were fed these diets for 16 weeks, serum cystatin C concentrations rose (a marker of kidney injury) (109).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.2. Mice treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop renal damage.
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“Alterations in TMAO metabolism have been linked to diabetes and insulin resistance.”
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“Because renal clearance is a determinant of plasma TMAO concentrations, kidney function and TMAO must be correlated even if TMAO does not cause kidney damage.”
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“The data from the mouse study discussed in Section 5.2.2 (109) are the most compelling evidence that TMAO (and choline a precursor of TMAO) causes renal disease.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.3. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of renal dysfunction.
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“Serum TMAO concentrations were also predictors of insulin resistance in cholesterol and high-fat-fed Macaca mulatta (70).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“LIRKO mice have increased expression of gluconeogenic genes owing to increased expression of the transcription factor forkhead box O1 (FoxO1).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“This study has not been replicated, yet the paper mentions a companion study using Apo e -/-mice but fails to present its results.”
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“However, such an association is not sufficient evidence that TMAO causes renal disease.”
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“Transcriptional and metabolomics profiling revealed upregulation of FMO3 and its corresponding metabolite TMAO in LIRKO mice (77).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“Even among patients who did not have severe kidney disease, elevated plasma TMAO concentrations indicated poor prognosis (109).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.1. Trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with renal disease.
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“In a group of 191 patients undergoing coronary intervention, plasma TMAO concentrations were independently associated with the patients' age, diabetes, and body mass index (35).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.1. People with high trimethylamine N-oxide concentrations are at risk for diabetes.
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“It also decreased intestinal microbial-dependent production of TMAO from L-carnitine (36,67).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“Meldonium, a drug that has cardioprotective action, decreased plasma concentrations of TMAO by increasing urinary excretion in humans.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“Resveratrol, a natural phytoalexin, also reduced plasma TMAO concentrations in Apo e -/-mice by inhibiting TMA production from gut microbiota (27).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“Human TAAR5 can be selectively activated in a concentrationdependent manner by TMA but not by TMAO (117).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.2. Trimethylamine Is a Ligand for Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 5
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The Results (Luciferase Reporter Assay System) report a concentration-dependent response of human TAAR5 to TMA and state that trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) was inactive at concentrations up to 1 mM. Selectivity is relative, not exclusive: the paper also identifies DMEA as an activating ligand. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Most of the TMA produced is passively absorbed into portal circulation, and hepatic flavindependent monooxygenases (FMOs) efficiently oxidize TMA to TMAO.”
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“Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) is a biologically active molecule and is a putative promoter of chronic diseases including atherosclerosis in humans.”
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“In some normal healthy women, modest trimethylaminuria occurs just at the onset of and during menstruation and then disappears (82).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [82] Mitchell SC, 2001, Drug Metab. Dispos.
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“After 300 g/day of cooked brussels sprouts for three weeks, people eating brussels sprouts showed significant increases in their urinary TMA/TMAO ratio, suggesting a decrease in TMA N oxidation (24).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“TMA can be used for methanogenesis in the gastrointestinal tract; in human intestine, this pathway is active in bacteria belonging to the genera Methanomassiliicoccus and Methanomethylophilus (18,21,38) as well as in Methanobrevibacter smithii and Methanosphaera stadtmanae (41).”
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“Thus, mutations in FMO3 in humans that result in excretion of TMA in sweat and breath present as fish-odor syndrome (trimethylaminuria).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“Although FMO3 and FMO1 genes are important in the formation of TMAO, a genomewide association study failed to find any significant host genetic influences on circulating TMAO concentrations and proposed that dietary factors and gut microbes may be the major determinants of circulating TMAO concentrations (49).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [49] source
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“The circulating TMAO concentrations of patients with renal dysfunction increased as kidney function decreased, and abnormally high TMAO concentrations resolved after kidney transplantation (106)”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.3. Excretion of Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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“Both mRNA and protein were found in 30% of fetal livers in the first trimester of pregnancy but not in the second and third trimesters; however, they could be detected again by 21 postnatal days.Expression of FMO3 then gradually increased to 8% of adult levels at about age nine months, 20% by 11 years, and did not reach adult levels until after 18 years (64, 133).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“The elucidation of microbial TMA-generating pathways is ongoing, and it is likely that part of TMAproducing microbial metabolism remains undiscovered (41).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.1. Trimethylamine Formation by Bacteria
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- Not checked yetcites [41] source
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“Most TMA is absorbed into the hepatic portal circulation by passive diffusion across the enterocyte membranes and then is efficiently converted to TMAO by hepatic FMO1 and FMO3 (13); about 95% of TMA is oxidized as it is subsequently excreted in urine in a 3:95 TMA:TMAO ratio (132).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“most cases of trimethylaminuria are inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“Therefore, it is debated whether increased TMAO concentrations are the cause or result of these diseases.”
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“In addition to TMA, other substrates for FMO3 include the pharmaceutical drugs cimetidine, chlorpromazine, ketoconazole, morphine, propranolol, ranitidine, sulindac, tamoxifen and tyramine (71).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [71] Mackay RJ, 2011, Clin. Biochem. Rev.
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“Orthologs and homologs of the CntA/CntB and YeaW/YeaX gene pairs are found in a variety of gut microbiota: Gammaproteobacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae, E. coli, Citrobacter, Providencia, and Shigella), Betaproteobacteria (Achromobacter), Firmicutes (Sporosarcina), and Actinobacteria; they appear to be absent in Bacteroidetes (41).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.1. Trimethylamine Formation by Bacteria
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“Carriers of an FMO3 mutation may have mild symptoms of trimethylaminuria or experience temporary episodes of fish-like body odor (71).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [71] Mackay RJ, 2011, Clin. Biochem. Rev.
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“Small amounts of FMO1 mRNA are also found in the adult small intestine (71).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [71] Mackay RJ, 2011, Clin. Biochem. Rev.
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“TMAO is a small molecule (75.1 Da) and is readily filtered by the kidneys.”
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“Testosterone suppresses and estrogen induces FMO3 expression.”
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“Thus, FMO3 activity is 100 times higher in female than in male mice; more modest gender-related differences are observed in humans (13).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [13] source
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“After administration of radiolabeled TMA or TMAO to people, 94.5% of the dose label was excreted in the urine within 24 h; only 4% of the dose was excreted in the feces and <1% in the breath (2).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.3. Excretion of Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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- Not checked yetcites [2] source
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“It is passively excreted in the proximal tubules of the chicken nephron via a probenecid-sensitive transporter at the luminal side, whereas N-oxidation of TMA occurs via a quinidine-sensitive transporter at the basal side.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.3. Excretion of Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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“it may exacerbate several chronic diseases including atherosclerosis, diabetes, and chronic kidney diseases (20).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 1. INTRODUCTION
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“In Britain, it is estimated that the incidence of carrier status for trimethylaminuria is 1% (82)”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [82] Mitchell SC, 2001, Drug Metab. Dispos.
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“More than 300 variants or single-nucleotide polymorphisms have been reported in FMO3.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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“FMO1 mRNA and protein are expressed in the human liver during the first trimester, declining gradually in the second and third trimesters, and disappearing completely by about the third postnatal day in the liver and kidney (71).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Formation from Trimethylamine in Humans
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- Not checked yetcites [71] Mackay RJ, 2011, Clin. Biochem. Rev.
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“Colonization of gnotobiotic mice with choline-converting bacteria not only increases cecal TMA production but also lowers serum choline concentration (96).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2.1. Trimethylamine Formation by Bacteria
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- Not checked yetcites [96] source
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“The adequate intake is 550 mg/day for men and 425 mg/day for women, with upward adjustment in pregnant and lactating women; the upper intake limit ranges from 1,000 mg/day in children to 3,500 mg/day in adults (56).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.3. L-Choline and Choline-Containing Compounds
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- Not checked yetcites [56] Inst. Med., Natl. Acad., 1998
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“Choline is present as free choline and choline esters (such as PtdCho) in foods (130), and these forms of choline are absorbed differently in the intestines.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.3. L-Choline and Choline-Containing Compounds
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“In a small study in healthy Bavarian subjects, dietary intake of fish, meat, or eggs was not associated with plasma TMAO concentrations, but dairy intake was positively associated with plasma TMAO concentrations (94).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.5. Diet Patterns and Trimethylamine N-Oxide
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“For example, 100 g of spinach contains 577 mg betaine, 100 g of cod or beef contain 7 mg betaine, and 100 g of eggs contain <1 mg betaine.”
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“In 1998, the US Institute of Medicine (Food and Nutrition Board) established adequate intake and tolerable upper intake limit values for choline, based on limited human studies (56).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.3. L-Choline and Choline-Containing Compounds
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- Not checked yetcites [56] Inst. Med., Natl. Acad., 1998
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“TMA is formed in male ejaculate and vaginal secretions, and as noted in Section 2.2, TMA formation may be regulated by sex hormones (13), and cycle-dependent variations in TMA occur in women (82).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.2. Trimethylamine Is a Ligand for Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 5
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- Not checked yetcites [13] source
- Not checked yetcites [82] Mitchell SC, 2001, Drug Metab. Dispos.
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“The foods that contain the most betaine are of plant origin, especially spinach, beets and grains grown in high osmotic environments (129, 130).”
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“The bioavailability of L-carnitine in vegetarians (who are adapted to low-carnitine diets) was higher than in carnivores (42); therefore, less carnitine reaches the bacteria of the lower intestine in vegetarians.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.2. L-Carnitine
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“For example, 100 g of cod contains 89 mg total choline (choline + PtdCho + phosphocholine + sphingomyelin + glycerophosphocholine) compared to 100 g of beef, which contains 73 mg total choline, or 100 g of eggs, which contain 266 mg total choline (28).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.3. L-Choline and Choline-Containing Compounds
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“For example, 100 g of cod contains 300 mg TMAO compared to 100 g of beef or of egg, which contain <1 mg TMAO (28).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.1. Fish
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“TAAR5 is the most highly expressed TAAR gene in humans and may constitute an olfactory detector of TMA that elicits innate behaviors (117).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.2. Trimethylamine Is a Ligand for Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 5
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“TMAO production, following a challenge with L-carnitine, was significantly greater in omnivores versus vegans, and there were specific bacterial taxa associated with both dietary status and plasma TMAO concentration (63).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.2. L-Carnitine
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“Plants use betaine in their roots as an osmolyte to help them retain intracellular water (33).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.4. Betaine
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“TMAO and TMA are present in high concentrations in fish and other seafood.Marine fish (e.g., cod, haddock, halibut, herring, skate) have higher concentrations than do freshwater fish (e.g., trout) (9).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.1. Fish
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“Animal products like meat, fish, poultry, and milk (whey fraction) are highest in carnitine, whereas plants contain little carnitine (42).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.2. L-Carnitine
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“About 15% of the PtdCho in eggs was converted to TMA, and peak plasma TMA concentrations were achieved between 6 and 8 h after ingestion of the eggs (79).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.3. L-Choline and Choline-Containing Compounds
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“The foods that contain the most choline are of animal origin, especially eggs and liver; however, most of the foods we eat contain some amounts of choline or choline compounds (129, 130).”
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“For example, 100 g of asparagus contains 0.2 mg carnitine, 100 g of egg contains <1 mg carnitine, 100 g of cod contains 4 mg carnitine while 100 g of beef contains 39 mg carnitine, (28).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.2. L-Carnitine
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“TMAO is an osmolyte in tissues and acts as a molecular chaperone that stabilizes proteins.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.1. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Is an Osmolyte and Protein Stabilizer
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“Choline is absorbed in the small intestine via mediated transport, whereas PtdCho is absorbed intact via the lymphatic system or is hydrolyzed by pancreatic lipases and absorbed as glycerophosphocholine (125).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.3. L-Choline and Choline-Containing Compounds
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“It retains the folded state of proteins and counteracts the effect of denaturants, such as pH, urea, and high pressure (6,13,29).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.1. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Is an Osmolyte and Protein Stabilizer
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“Even though high concentrations of circulating plasma TMAO increase cholesterol influx to peritoneal macrophages (118), cholesterol efflux or cholesterol biosynthesis appears to be unchanged.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites [118] source
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“Trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs) belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors and are olfactory receptors (117).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.2. Trimethylamine Is a Ligand for Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 5
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“Carnitine also can be synthesized endogenously from two essential amino acids, lysine and methionine (63).This occurs in kidney, liver, and brain (42).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 3.2. L-Carnitine
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“Rather, these processes appear to be regulated by either TMA or other unidentified enzymatic substrates or products of FMO3.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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“The administration of antibiotics eliminated the FMO3 substrate TMA and normalized intestinal cholesterol absorption and fecal neutral sterol loss seen in FMO3 antisense oligonucleotide-treated mice (121).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites [121] source
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“In both the clinical cohorts, kidney function was not normal [normal glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is ∼100 mL/min]; the mean GFRs in both groups were 73 and 74 mL/min, respectively (range 60-87), values compatible with some loss of kidney function.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.1. High trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with cardiovascular disease.
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“Dietary supplementation of TMAO also decreased intestinal cholesterol absorption.The effect is consistent with reduced expression of the cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 but again does not explain reductions in RCT (118).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites [118] source
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“People at risk for CVD and stroke have high plasma TMAO concentrations; they also have higher concentrations of the TMAO precursors, i.e., choline, betaine, and carnitine in plasma.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Cardiovascular Disease
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“When C57Bl/6 female mice were fed either a low-or high-cholesterol diet, FMO3 knockdown greatly reduced hepatic FMO3 expression with corresponding increases in plasma TMA concentrations and reductions in TMAO concentrations (121).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites [121] source
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“FMO3 inhibition stimulated fecal neutral sterol loss and basal and liver X receptor-dependent macrophage RCT (121).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites [121] source
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“Thus, both studies conclude that FMO3 inhibition has definite positive effects on cholesterol and glucose homeostasis and that TMAO does not seem to be a critical player.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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“The study concluded that plasma concentrations of TMAO were confounded by impaired kidney function because it was increased with declining GFR (85).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.1. High trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with cardiovascular disease.
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- Not checked yetcites [85] source
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“FMO3 knockdown altered several steps of cholesterol balance, including intestinal cholesterol absorption, hepatic cholesterol ester storage, and macrophage RCT in a dietary cholesterol-dependent manner (121).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites [121] source
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“Mouse peritoneal macrophages incubated with TMA express scavenger receptors, accumulate cholesterol, and form foam cells.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2. Apolipoprotein E (Apo E
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“Interpretation of such results is difficult, as normal mouse diets contain 0.1% choline, and the authors treated mice with amounts of choline twelve times higher; these levels are not physiologic.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.2. Mice treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop cardiovascular disease.
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“This cohort had a mean eGFR of 83 mL/min (63).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.1. High trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with cardiovascular disease.
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- Not checked yetcites [63] source
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“TMAO feeding did not change the expression of hepatic cholesterol exporters, but striking reductions in bile acid pool size and species, along with reduced expression of the cytochrome P450 family of enzymes, Cyp7a1 and Cyp27a1, were noted (118).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites [118] source
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“These results suggest that, although chronic elevation of TMAO can be detrimental in mice, the ability of FMO3 to reorganize cholesterol balance is most likely not mediated through TMAO.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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“Taken together these results provide evidence that TMAO alters pathways for cholesterol elimination from the body and causes reductions in RCT.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 4.3. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Sterol Metabolism
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“Humans carry about 75% of their plasma cholesterol in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles, whereas mice carry most of their cholesterol in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles (57).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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- Not checked yetcites [57] Jawien J, 2004, J. Physiol. Pharmacol.
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“Thus, there are strong data that suggest an association between TMAO and CVD risk, but there are equally strong inconsistencies.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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“A meta-analysis of 11 eligible studies and 13 cohorts (n = 222,364) found that fish consumption was inversely associated with CVD and may even reduce mortality due to CVD (50,51).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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“Thus, the existing mouse data may support the hypothesis that TMAO causes atherosclerosis, but given the concerns discussed above, we should be cautious about extrapolating data from a particular mouse model to humans.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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“Chronic choline supplementation of atherosclerosis-prone low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR -/-) mice increased plasma TMAO concentrations and increased expression of inflammatory genes in vascular cells (52).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.2. Mice treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop cardiovascular disease.
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Herlaar E, 1999, Trends Mol. Med.
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“Uremia accelerates atherosclerosis and arterial calcification in patients with chronic renal failure (22,74).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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“Apo E-knockout mice have a shift in plasma lipoproteins from HDL, the major lipoprotein in wild-type mice, to cholesterolenriched remnants of chylomicrons and VLDLs, and these mice have phenotypes similar to those of Apo E-deficient humans (57).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
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- Not checked yetcites [57] Jawien J, 2004, J. Physiol. Pharmacol.
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“Serum concentration of TMAO was inversely associated with eGFR and was markedly higher in patients receiving dialysis (59,81); hemodialysis efficiently removed TMAO from blood (8).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.1. Trimethylamine N-oxide correlates with renal disease.
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“TMAO is cleared from plasma by the kidney.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2. Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Kidney Disease
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“If TMAO causes CVD, then eating more fish should be associated with increased risk for heart disease; it is not.”
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“As noted above in Section 2.3, TMAO is excreted by the kidneys, and this metabolite is elevated in patients with kidney disease.”
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“These macrophages had excess cholesterol accumulation and foam cell formation (118).”
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“Increased TMAO concentrations were associated with systemic inflammatory markers and predicted a reduced fiveyear survival (81).”
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“Apo E knockout mice are considered to be one of the most relevant models for atherosclerosis because they are hypercholesterolemic and develop spontaneous arterial lesions (87).”
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“TMA can be used for methanogenesis in the gastrointestinal tract, and bacteria belonging to the genera Methanomassiliicoccus and Methanomethylophilus have this pathway (18,21,38,41).”
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“Knockdown of FMO3 in LIRKO mice suppressed FoxO1 expression (and improved glucose tolerance) by upregulating sterol regulatory element binding protein 2 (SREBP2) (77).”
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“TMAO was used also as a urinary marker in a mouse model of gastric tumorigenesis (60).”
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“To this end, oral charcoal adsorbent (AST-120) has been clinically used to remove uremic toxins, such as indoxyl sulfate, in patients with advanced renal failure (86).”
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“When C57BL/6J mice were fed either a high-choline diet or a diet supplemented with TMAO for six weeks, plasma concentrations of TMAO increased and were associated with corresponding increases in tubulointerstitial fibrosis and collagen deposition, as well as increases in kidney injury marker-1.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.2. Mice treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop renal damage.
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“The study concluded that this increased excretion of TMAO could be due to tubulointerstitial distortions (4).”
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“SREBP2 directly activates microRNA 182, which in turn regulates FoxO1 expression (77).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“Liver insulin receptor knockout (LIRKO) mice are unable to respond to insulin in the liver and display several features of diabetes, such as hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, and dyslipidemia.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“Thus, the existing mouse data may support the hypothesis that TMAO causes renal disease, but given the concerns discussed in Section 5.1.4,scientists and clinicians should be cautious about extrapolating data from a particular mouse model to humans.”
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“Even though it needs to be demonstrated in humans, introducing Lactobacillus paracasei in mice expressing human baby flora decreased fecal choline and was associated with reduced concentrations of TMA and dimethylamine in the liver and plasma lipoproteins (73).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“It was suggested that the accumulation of TMAO in end-stage renal disease patients who receive chronic hemodialysis is mainly due to the previously unrecognized limitation of chronic dialysis (45).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.3. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of renal dysfunction.
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“In high-fat-fed C57Bl/6 mice, TMAO feeding increases the glucose intolerance induced by the diet as measured by higher fasting insulin levels and the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) for insulin resistance scores along with altered insulin signaling and increased inflammatory markers (44).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.3.2. Animals with altered trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism, or treated with trimethylamine N-oxide, develop diabetes.
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“And the investigators did not determine, using antibiotics, whether conversion of choline to TMAO was required for the choline effects.”
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“However, long-term usage of antibiotics can promote the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains and repopulation of microbes after its withdrawal.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“TMAO is cleared more efficiently than urea by the normal kidney function but not by dialysis (45).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.2.3. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of renal dysfunction.
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“It also significantly lowered plasma TMAO concentrations and mitigated choline-enhanced macrophage foam cell formation and atherosclerosis in Apo e -/-mice (119).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“One should also consider the side effects associated with inhibiting FMOs as they are major xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes (23).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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“Inhibiting FMO enzymes, however, may not be ideal as it causes accumulation of TMA, leading to a fishy odor and inflammation as observed in antisense oligonucleotide-treated mice (102, 121).”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 6. TARGETING TRIMETHYLAMINE, HEPATIC FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE, AND TRIMETHYLAMINE N-OXIDE PATHWAYS IN DISEASE THERAPY
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Plasma TMAO concentration is a valid proxy for the biologically relevant TMAO exposure at target tissues.
“Both observational and experimental studies suggest a strong positive correlation between increased plasma TMAO concentrations and adverse cardiovascular events, such as myocardial infarction, stroke, and death.”
“TMAO-mediated atherosclerosis could potentially be a significant cause of heart and kidney disease, but the underlying mechanisms whereby TMAO is related to heart and kidney disease need to be fully elucidated and validated.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Fish contain high concentrations of TMA, and gut bacteria convert this TMA to TMAO in people who eat fish.
“Fish contain high concentrations of TMA, which are converted to TMAO by bacteria in the gut of people who eat fish.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Renal clearance determines plasma TMAO concentrations.
“Because renal clearance is a determinant of plasma TMAO concentrations, kidney function and TMAO must be correlated even if TMAO does not cause kidney damage.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Normal mouse diets contain 0.1% choline.
“Interpretation of such results is difficult, as normal mouse diets contain 0.1% choline, and the authors treated mice with amounts of choline twelve times higher; these levels are not physiologic.”
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“Nearly 95% of TMA is oxidized and it is afterwards excreted in urine in a 3:95 TMA: TMAO ratio within 24 h, only 4% is excreted in feces and less than 1% is eliminated in the breath [18].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“Nevertheless, there could be several problems with this approach as an accumulation of TMA leads to trimethylaminuria, which is characterized by fishy odor (similar to rotten fish) and induce inflammation [18,75,99].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“TMA is generated in the gut from betaine, L-carnitine and its metabolite γ-butyrobetaine (GBB), choline and other choline-containing compounds, which are present in the diet.”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
In the citing paper
“It has been demonstrated in gnotobiotic mice that gut bacteria are essential to transform the dietary compounds into TMA [18].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
In the citing paper
“FMO1 has tenfold lower specific activity in the liver than does FMO3, so FMO3 is the main enzyme responsible for the conversion of TMA into TMAO [18].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“For example, oral charcoal adsorbent (AST-120) has been clinically used to remove uremic toxins such as indoxyl sulfate from patients with advanced renal failure.”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“The gene cluster responsible for the conversion of choline into TMA has been identified.”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“However, a compound that removes specifically TMAO has not yet been discovered [18,95].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“CutC and CutD are necessary for that transformation; so they could be used like targets as their inhibition eradicates the production of TMA [18].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“Another problem would be that TMAO is not the only substrate for FMO3; morphine, propranolol and tyramine are also metabolized by FMO3 [18].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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“CutC and CutD are necessary for that transformation; so they could be used like targets as their inhibition eradicates the production of TMA [18].”
From Implication of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) in Disease: Potential Biomarker or New Therapeutic Target (2018) · cites this paper as [18]
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§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.4. Trimethylamine N-oxide-cause or result of atherosclerosis.
“Fish contain high concentrations of TMA, which are converted to TMAO by bacteria in the gut of people who eat fish.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 1. INTRODUCTION
“This absorbed TMA is delivered to the liver where flavin-dependent monooxygenase (FMO) isoforms 1 and 3 convert it to TMAO.”
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§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 2. Apolipoprotein E (Apo E
“Mouse peritoneal macrophages incubated with TMA express scavenger receptors, accumulate cholesterol, and form foam cells.”
§ Annual Review of Nutrition Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease > 5.1.3. Macrophages treated with trimethylamine N-oxide develop the atherosclerotic phenotype.
“Peritoneal macrophages obtained from C57BL/6J mice, fed a TMAO-supplemented diet for more than three weeks, showed increased mRNA levels of two macrophage scavenger receptors (CD36 and SR-A1), which are implicated in atherosclerosis (118).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zeisel, S. H., & Warrier, M.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina System (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zeisel, Steven H.
- ORCID
- Zeisel, Steven H.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Nutrition
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2017-08-21
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 157-181
- ISSN
- 0199-9885 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4312
- OpenAlex
- W2566137938
- Cited by
- 475
- References
- 133
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 60 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 75 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 70 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 42 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 3.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Polyamine Metabolism and Applications
- Keywords
- trimethylamine N-oxide, trimethylamine, gut microbiota, cardiovascular disease, heart disease, kidney disease, atherosclerosis, flavin-dependent monooxygenase, L-carnitine, choline, food sources, myocardial infarction, stroke
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Bacteria, Diet, Female, Heart Diseases, Humans, Kidney Diseases, Liver, Male, Methylamines, Microbiota
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