Research Article

A Metabonomic Approach to Analyze the Dexamethasone-Induced Cleft Palate in Mice

Table 2

the main metabolites changes that were partially responsible for discriminating Dex group from control using PCA.

1H bucket region ( )metabolitesChanges in Dex group

1.32, 4.12Lactate
1.36unknown
1.48Alanine CH3
1.72Arginine( -H)
1.92Arginine ( -H)
2.02Acetate
2.04Lipid CH2CH2CH=CH
2.12Glutamine
2.28Valine ( -H)
2.36Glutamate
2.4801unknown
2.5201Lipid –C=C–CH2–C=C
2.8Aspartic acid ( -H)
3.24Choline N (CH3)3+
3.64Valine ( -H)
3.92Creatine
4.04myo-inositol

, relative increase in signal by loading plot.