Metabolomics Workbench ST000075 - GNPS - Combined Metabolomics and Lipidomics of Type 1 Diabetes (QTOF)

This West Coast Metabolomics Center pilot and feasibility project granted to Graeme Bell  (University of Chicago) and collaborator Manami Hara uses a multi-omics approach to investigate the metabolome (primary metabolites), lipidome (complex lipids) and signaling lipids (oxylipins) in the plasma of Non-obese Diabetic (NOD) mice which progressed to Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D) and those that did not. NOD Mice (n=71) were assessed as diabetic or non-diabetic based on their fasting (4hr) blood glucose levels at sacrifice, which defined 30 hyperglycemic (glucose = 250 mg/dL) and 41 normoglycemic animals. The primary objective of this study was to identify candidate biomarkers associated with beta-cell destruction/survival and T1D progression.