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Insights in fecal metabolic changes associated with PDF and CCA are required for further molecular research related to gut health and potential diagnostic biological marker development.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n In this study, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomics was applied for fecal metabolic phenotyping from 55 fecal water samples across different study groups including normal bile duct, PDF and CCA groups.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n By using NMR spectroscopy-based metabolomics, fecal metabolic profiles of patients with CCA or PDF and of individuals with normal bile duct have been established with a total of 40 identified metabolites. Further multivariate statistical analysis and hierarchical clustering heat map have demonstrated the PDF- and CCA-specific metabotypes through various altered metabolite groups including amino acids, alcohols, amines, anaerobic glycolytic metabolites, fatty acids, microbial metabolites, sugar, TCA cycle intermediates, tryptophan catabolism substrates, and pyrimidine metabolites. Compared to the normal bile duct group, PDF individuals showed the significantly elevated relative concentrations of fecal ethanol, glycine, tyrosine, and\n N<\/jats:italic>\n -acetylglucosamine whereas CCA patients exhibited the remarkable fecal metabolic changes that can be evident through the increased relative concentrations of fecal uracil, succinate, and 5-aminopentanoate. The prominent fecal metabolic alterations between CCA and PDF were displayed by the reduction of relative concentration of methanol observed in CCA. The metabolic alterations associated with PDF and CCA progression have been proposed with the involvement of various metabolic pathways including TCA cycle, ethanol biogenesis, hexamine pathway, methanol biogenesis, pyrimidine metabolism, and lysine metabolism. Among them, ethanol, methanol, and lysine metabolism strongly reflect the association of gut-microbial host metabolic crosstalk in PDF and\/or CCA patients.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n The PDF- and CCA-associated metabotypes have been investigated displaying their distinct fecal metabolic patterns compared to that of normal bile duct group. 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