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Adaptation of Lipid Profiling in Depression Disease and Treatment: A Critical Review

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Pinto, Bruno, Conde, Tiago, Domingues, Inês, Domingues, M. Rosário·2022·International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Major depressive disorder (MDD), also called depression, is a serious disease that impairs the quality of life of patients and has a high incidence, affecting approximately 3.8% of the world population. Its diagnosis is very subjective and is not supported by measurable biomarkers mainly due to the lack of biochemical markers. Recently, disturbance of lipid profiling has been recognized in MDD, in animal models of MDD or in depressed patients, which may contribute to unravel the etiology of the disease and find putative new biomarkers, for a diagnosis or for monitoring the disease and therapeutics outcomes. In this review, we provide an overview of current knowledge of lipidomics analysis, both in animal models of MDD (at the brain and plasma level) and in humans (in plasma and serum). Furthermore, studies of lipidomics analyses after antidepressant treatment in rodents (in brain, plasma, and serum), in primates (in the brain) and in humans (in plasma) were reviewed and give evidence that antidepressants seem to counteract the modification seen in lipids in MDD, giving some evidence that certain altered lipid profiles could be useful MDD biomarkers for future precision medicine.

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  • Analyses of plasma lipid profile following citalopram and escitalopram administration reveal changes in several types of PC, including increases in PC (36:2), PC (30:0), PC (34:3), PC-O (34:2), PC-O (36:3), LPC (24:0), and SM (24:0) and decreases in PC (36:4), PC (38:6), LPC (20:4), and SM (18:1).

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Authors
Pinto, B., Conde, T., Domingues, I., & Domingues, M. R.
Affiliations
Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (PT)
Corresponding author
Domingues, M. Rosário
Venue
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2022-02-12
Volume
23
Issue
4
Pages
2032
ISSN
1422-0067 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4212930157
Cited by
51
References
105
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 2
FWCI
1.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Universidade de Aveiro (UIDB/50006/2020, LA/P/0094/2020, UIDP/50017/2020, UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/50017/2020, PT2020, UIDB/50017/2020)
  • Rede de Química e Tecnologia (LA/P/0094/2020, PT2020, UIDB/50006/2020)
  • Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde (UIDB/50017/2020, UIDB/50006/2020)
  • Centro de Estudos Ambientais e Marinhos, Universidade de Aveiro (UIDP/50017/2020 + UIDB/50017/2020 + LA/P/0094/2020, UIDP/50017/2020, 50017, UIDB / 50017/2020, LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-402-022125, LA/P/0094/2020, UIDB/50006/2020, UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/ 50017/2020, PT2020)
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2020.05678.BD, 01-0145, LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER- 402-022125, UIDP/50017/2020 + UIDB/50017/2020, PT2020, CESAM,UIDP/50017/2020, LA/P/0094/2020, UIDB/50017/2020+LA/P/0094/2020, UIDB/50017/2020, 2020.05678, UIDP/ 50017/2020 + UIDB/50017/2020 + LA/P/0094/2020, UIDP/50017/2020, UIDB/50006/2020, LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Biological Psychiatry › Tryptophan and brain disorders
Keywords
major depressive disorder, lipidomics, biomarkers, antidepressant treatment, plasma lipids, brain lipids, animal models of depression, precision medicine, depression diagnosis
MeSH terms
Animals, Depression, Humans, Biomarkers, Oxidative Stress, Lipid Metabolism

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