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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Metabolomics. 2013;1(2):109–120. doi: 10.2174/2213235x11301020001

Table 1.

Dietary Modulation of the Urine Metabolome

Sample Metabolites Identified by Platform
GC-MS LC-MS NMR Other*

Urine Hippurate Trimethylamine-N-oxide Proline Niacin
4-hydroxphenylacetic acid Phenylalanine Betaine Proline
Tartrate Histidine 4- hydroxyhippurate Betaine
Ethanol Citrate Fumarate Hesperidin
Mannitol Acetaminophen Lactate Narirutin
3-methyl-oxovalerate Acetate Glucose
Nitrogen Choline Glycine
Creatinine Phenylacetylglutamine Methylamine
Succinate Taurine Phenylacetylglycine
Putrescine Methionine Formate
Threonine Urocanate Branched Chain Amino Acids
3-hydroxyisovalerate Sucrose P-cresolsulfate
Arginine Cis-aconitate Trigonelline
Acetone Methylhistidine Theobromine
N (1) -methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxylamide (PYR) Dimethylsulfone Caffeine
Tyrosine Prolinebetaine
Ascorbate derivatives Hydroxynicotnic acid Hesperidin
4-cresylsulfate Urolithin B glucuronide Narirutin
S-methyl-l-cysteine sulfoxide Urolithin A β-aminoisobutyrate
Urolithin B Oxodecanoic acid
2-oxoglutarate Acylcarnitines
Fumarate Creatinine
Hippurate Trimethylamine-N-oxide
Lactate Hippurate
Creatinine Phemylacetylglutamine
Succinate Acetone

References [59, 60] [9, 59, 61, 62] [11, 14, 17, 22, 24, 6366] [6769]
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Other Platforms used in Identifying Metabolites: ICP-OES: Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy, DAD-MS/MS: Diode Array Detector Mass Spectrometry, FIEI-MS: Flow Injection Electrospray-ionisation.