Adaptation of Lipid Profiling in Depression Disease and Treatment: A Critical Review
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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).
“Analyses of the plasma lipid profile following citalopram and escitalopram administration revealed changes in several types of PC, namely alkyl-PC, lysopPC, and SM (e.g., 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)) [157,158,159].”
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BackgroundThe role of ceramide in major depressive disorder
Kornhuber, J., Reichel, M., Tripal, P., Groemer, T. W., Henkel, A. W., Mühle, C., & Gulbins, E. (2009) · European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience · doi:10.1007/s00406-009-0061-x · Cited by 59 · cited 2× · see citing works
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Alves, M. A., Lamichhane, S., Dickens, A. M., McGlinchey, A. J., Ribeiro, H. C., Sen, P., Wei, F., Hyötyläinen, T., & Orešič, M. (2020) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids · doi:10.1016/j.bbalip.2020.158857 · Cited by 59 · cited 4× · see citing works
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BackgroundMethodInfluentialMcGranaghan, P., Kirwan, J., García-Rivera, M. A., Pieske, B. M., Edelmann, F., Blaschke, F., Appunni, S., Saxena, A., Rubens, M., Veledar, E., et al. (2021) · Metabolites · doi:10.3390/metabo11090621 · Cited by 55 · cited 1× · see citing works
“This is important in the case of MDD, where major modifications are expected to occur in the brain, that is inaccessible for molecular and biochemical analysis [63].”
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“Serum PS(34:2); LPI(16:0); LPI(18:2); TG(54:5); TG(54:6); TG(54:7); TG(54:8); TG(58:10); DG(32:0); DG(36:1); ChE(20:5) PI(32:1); PI(32:2); PI(34:1); PI(34:2); PI(34:3); PI(36:2); PI(36:3); LPC(16:1); LPA(16:1); LPA(22:4); TG(48:2); TG(50:3); TG(50:4); TG(52:6); DG(36:8) [70]”
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“In fact, some studies have found associations between changes in 5HT levels, as well as NE and DA, and behavioral aspects including appetite, sleep, pain response, and circadian rhythm, all of which are linked to MDD [33,34].”
BackgroundHamilton, P. J., Chen, E. Y., Tolstikov, V., Peña, C. J., Picone, J. A., Shah, P., Panagopoulos, K., Strat, A. N., Walker, D. M., Lorsch, Z. S., et al. (2020) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75114-5 · Cited by 46 · cited 1× · see citing works
“Serum Imipramine PA(44:4); PE-O(36:2); SM(d34:1); DG(38:2) PE(44:12); PE-O(44:5); LPE-O(14:1); lysoPS(10:0); lysoPS(20:5); SM(d34:1); SM(d38:3); TG(42:2) [91]”
Analytical approaches for lipidomics and its potential applications in neuropsychiatric disorders
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“The use of lipidomics to monitor progression of therapeutics and for a better prognosis could translate into a more accurate strategy to treat patients with MDD and predict its outcome [86].”
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“Maprotiline PC(30:0); PC(32:0); LPC(16:0); LPC(16:1); LPC(18:0); LPC(18:1); LPC(18:2); LPC(20:4); PC-O(30:0); PC-O/PC-P(36:3); Cer(d34:1); Cer(d36:1); Cer(d38:1); Cer(d40:1); Cer(d42:1); SM(34:0) PC(36:1); PC(38:3); PC(40:5); PC(40:6); PE(34:2); PE(36:5); PI(38:6); PI(40:4); PC-O/PC-P(40:2); PC-O/PC-P(42:5); PC-O/PC-P…”
BackgroundAnalytical challenges of shotgun lipidomics at different resolution of measurements
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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)
- PMC
- PMC8874755
- 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
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- 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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