UHPLC/Q-TOF MS-based plasma metabolic profiling analysis of the bleeding mechanism in a rat model of yeast and ethanol-induced blood heat and hemorrhage syndrome

•Rats model with blood heat and hemorrhage syndrome was built for the first time.•Blood biochemical parameters of the model were investigated.•An UHPLC/Q-TOF MS combined with OPLS-DA was built to study the model.•The possible bleeding mechanism was proposed based on the above study.

Blood heat and hemorrhage (BHH) syndrome is the most common bleeding disease in clinic. In this study, a rat model with BHH syndrome was built for the first time. Biochemical study showed the intrinsic coagulation pathways and the platelet aggregation rate in the rat model were inhibited, while extrinsic pathway of coagulation cascade was activated. An UHPLC/Q-TOF MS combined with orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) was employed to construct plasma metabolic profiling of the rat model with BHH syndrome. Twenty-four unique metabolites were identified, which were involved in glycerophospholipid metabolism, arachidonic acid metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, amino acid metabolism and cholic acid metabolism. In the end, we concluded that bleeding mechanism of the rat with BHH syndrome may be associated with augmenting blood viscosity, inhibiting platelet aggregation and intrinsic coagulation pathways.

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