Research Article

Metabonomic Strategy to the Evaluation of Chinese Medicine Compound Danshen Dripping Pills Interfering Myocardial Ischemia in Rats

Table 3

List of identified differential metabolites between the sham and model group on day 3.

tR (min)MetabolitesVIPa Fold changec (model/sham)Metabolic pathways

6.34Glycine1.60.0029 Amino acid metabolism
7.14Urea1.40.02211.4Nucleic acid metabolism
7.64L-alanine1.40.01341.3Amino acid metabolism
8.72L-isoleucine2.50.0000 Amino acid metabolism
8.9Cadaverine1.60.00582.1Not known
9.01Succinic acid1.20.0532 Energy metabolism
9.522-Butenedioic acid1.90.0003 Energy metabolism
9.96L-threonine2.00.0002 Amino acid metabolism
11.06Aminomalonic acid1.30.0236 Amino acid metabolism
11.69L-aspartic acid2.30.00001.1Amino acid metabolism
11.72L-proline2.00.0002 Amino acid metabolism
12.14Creatinine1.70.00101.2Amino acid metabolism
13.04L-phenylalanine1.30.01921.4Energy metabolism
16.18Citric acid1.30.0407 Energy metabolism
16.86D-xylose1.20.03281.2Nucleic acid metabolism
16.89D-glucose1.70.00171.7Energy metabolism
17.19Lactic acid1.80.00101.6Energy metabolism
17.58L-tyrosine1.70.00161.2Amino acid metabolism
19.84Propanoic acid1.30.0138 Energy metabolism
21.95L-tryptophan1.70.00121.1Amino acid metabolism

aVariable importance in the projection (VIP) was obtained from OPLS-DA with a threshold of 1.0. b values were calculated from Student’s -test. cFold change was calculated from the arithmetic mean values of each group. Fold change with a positive value indicates a relatively higher concentration present in model group while a negative value means a relatively lower concentration as compared to the sham group.