부산대학교 도서관

Ulcerative colitis (UC), often known as UC, is an inflammatory disease of the intestines that has frequent andlong-lasting flare-ups. It is unknown precisely how the traditional Chinese drug Indigo Naturalis (IN) heals inflammatorybowel disease, despite its long-standing use in China and Japan. Finding new metabolite biomarkers linked to UC couldimprove our understanding of the disease, speed up the diagnostic process, and provide insight into how certain drugs work totreat the condition. Our work is designed to use a metabolomic method to analyze potential alterations in endogenoussubstances and their impact on metabolic pathways in a mouse model of UC. To determine which biomarkers and metabolismsare more frequently connected with IN’s effects on UC, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis ofthe serum metabolomics of UC mice and normal mice was performed. The outcomes demonstrated that IN boosted the healthof UC mice and reduced the severity of their metabolic dysfunction. In the UC model, it was also found that IN changed theway 17 biomarkers and 3 metabolisms functioned.