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Ganeshalingam M, Enstad S, Sen S, Cheema S, Esposito F, Thomas R. Role of lipidomics in assessing the functional lipid composition in breast milk. Front Nutr 2022; 9:899401. [PMID: 36118752 PMCID: PMC9478754 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.899401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Breast milk is the ideal source of nutrients for infants in early life. Lipids represent 2–5% of the total breast milk composition and are a major energy source providing 50% of an infant’s energy intake. Functional lipids are an emerging class of lipids in breast milk mediating several different biological functions, health, and developmental outcome. Lipidomics is an emerging field that studies the structure and function of lipidome. It provides the ability to identify new signaling molecules, mechanisms underlying physiological activities, and possible biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis of diseases, thus laying the foundation for individualized, targeted, and precise nutritional management strategies. This emerging technique can be useful to study the major role of functional lipids in breast milk in several dimensions. Functional lipids are consumed with daily food intake; however, they have physiological benefits reported to reduce the risk of disease. Functional lipids are a new area of interest in lipidomics, but very little is known of the functional lipidome in human breast milk. In this review, we focus on the role of lipidomics in assessing functional lipid composition in breast milk and how lipid bioinformatics, a newly emerging branch in this field, can help to determine the mechanisms by which breast milk affects newborn health.
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Affiliation(s)
- Moganatharsa Ganeshalingam
- School of Science and the Environment/Boreal Ecosystems Research Initiative, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL, Canada
- *Correspondence: Moganatharsa Ganeshalingam,
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Orlando Health Winne Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies, Orlando, FL, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- School of Science and the Environment/Boreal Ecosystems Research Initiative, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL, Canada
- Raymond Thomas,
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Wang J, Wang C, Han X. Tutorial on lipidomics. Anal Chim Acta 2019; 1061:28-41. [PMID: 30926037 PMCID: PMC7375172 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.01.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2018] [Revised: 01/16/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
The mainstream of lipidomics involves mass spectrometry-based, systematic, and large-scale studies of the structure, composition, and quantity of lipids in biological systems such as organs, cells, and body fluids. As increasingly more researchers in broad fields are beginning to pay attention to and actively learn about the lipidomic technology, some introduction on the topic is needed to help the newcomers to better understand the field. This tutorial seeks to introduce the basic knowledge about lipidomics and to provide readers with some core ideas and the most important approaches for studying the field.
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- Jianing Wang
- Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
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- Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
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- Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA; Department of Medicine - Diabetes, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.
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