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Rapid diagnosis and treatment with disease-modifying therapies is essential to reduce inflammation and prevent joint destruction. RA is a heterogeneous disease, and many patients do not respond to front-line therapies, requiring escalation of treatment onto biologics, of which TNF inhibitors (TNF-i) are the most common.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives\/methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study we determined whether serum metabolomics, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, could discriminate RA blood sera from healthy human controls and whether the technologies could be used to predict response or non-response to TNF inhibitor (TNF-i) therapy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      NMR spectroscopy identified 35 metabolites in RA sera, with acetic acid being significantly lower in RA sera compared to healthy controls (HC, FDR\u2009&lt;\u20090.05). PLS-DA modelling identified 2-hydroxyisovalericacetic acid, acetoacetic acid, mobile lipids, alanine and leucine as important metabolites for discrimination of RA and HC sera by\n                      <jats:sup>1<\/jats:sup>\n                      H NMR spectroscopy (averaged 83.1% balanced accuracy, VIP score\u2009&gt;\u20091). FTIR spectroscopy identified a significant difference between RA and HC sera in the 1000\u20131200\u00a0cm\n                      <jats:sup>\u2212\u20091<\/jats:sup>\n                      spectral area, representing the mixed region of carbohydrates and nucleic acids (FDR\u2009&lt;\u20090.05). Sera from RA patients who responded to TNF-i were significantly different from TNF-i non-responder sera in the 1600\u20131700\u00a0cm\n                      <jats:sup>\u2212\u20091<\/jats:sup>\n                      region (FDR\u2009&lt;\u20090.05).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We propose that NMR and FTIR serum metabolomics could be used as a diagnostic tool alongside current clinical parameters to diagnose RA and to predict whether someone with severe RA will respond to TNF-i.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s11306-025-02310-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,12]],"date-time":"2025-08-12T07:10:23Z","timestamp":1754982623000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Serum metabolomics identifies unique inflammatory signatures to distinguish rheumatoid arthritis responders and non-responders to TNF inhibitor therapy"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Michele","family":"Fresneda Alarcon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Cassio","family":"Lima","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Susanna","family":"Ford","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rudi","family":"Grosman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Royston","family":"Goodacre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marie M","family":"Phelan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Helen L","family":"Wright","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"2310_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"92","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chemolab.2012.03.004","volume":"117","author":"NK Afseth","year":"2012","unstructured":"Afseth, N. 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