Study on the Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostic Tools to Assist in Identifying the Clinical Characteristics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Research on Metabolic Plastids of Tongue Coating

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

No intervention (observational study with diagnostic assessments only): This observational study involves no therapeutic or behavioral intervention. Participants undergo non-invasive assessments including Traditional Chinese Medicine four-diagnostic measurements (inspection, listening/smelling, inquiry, and pulse assessment), completion of standardized questionnaires, and collection of tongue-coating samples for metabolomic analysis.

Study summary

This study will be conducted at the outpatient clinic of China Medical University hospital. It is expected to enroll two groups of 30 subjects, including the experimental group must meet the clinical diagnosis of IBD, and the control group without IBD and have no obvious gastrointestinal symptoms . This proje ct uses modern TCM diagnostic tools, such as tongue diagnosis instrument, auscul tation instrument, TCM constitution questionnaire, and pulse diagnosis instrument to establish the comparison of physiological and biochemical indicators such as TCM phenotype and laboratory tests data in patients with IBD. Besides, another purpose of this project is to analyze the tongue coating metabolites of patients with IBD by mass spectrometry, and to establish a research model of tongue coating an d metabolomics for patien ts with IBD and the prognosis analysis of acute and remission phases.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Tongue-coating metabolomic profiles in patients with inflammatory bowel disease compared with healthy controls — At enrollment (single visit; cross-sectional assessment)
  After tongue-coating collection, the samples (approximately 20-50 mg) are weighed and stored at -80 °C until all samples have been collected. Metabolite extraction is then performed, followed by analysis of metabolite signals using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. The primary analytical platform consists of an ACQUITY UPLC I-Class System (Waters) coupled with a Vion IMS Q-ToF mass spectrometer (Waters). The acquired chromatographic and mass spectrometric data are further processed using the omics analysis software Progenesis QI to identify intergroup differences. Metabolite signal differences between the acute and remission phases are evaluated using principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). Subsequently, differential metabolite signals are matched against reference databases for metabolite identification. Upon completion of metabolite identification and data acquisition, disease phase-specific metabolomic signature patterns

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