Table 3.

Metabolic pathways revealed by enrichment analysis on the milk metabolites significantly differing the healthy dairy cows from the mastitic ones (p value <0.05 and impact value >0.1).

Metabolic pathways	Metabolites	p value	Impactor value
Arginine and proline metabolism	Arginine, Creatine, Proline	0.0065	0.15
Citrate cycle (TCA cycle)	cis-Aconitate, Citrate	0.018	0.14
Phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis	Phenylalanine	0.042	0.50
Riboflavin metabolism	Riboflavin	0.042	0.50