Hypoxanthine
metaboliteHypoxanthine is an early metabolite marker of myocardial ischemic injury from accelerated purine degradation.
Pathway placement
Cascade stepMyocardial injury (shared endpoint)
Confidencehigh
RationalePurine catabolite released during cardiomyocyte ischemic stress and ATP depletion.
Druggability
Not assessed (no mapped human gene target).
Type I vs Type II discrimination
ScoresLow-confidence (proxy)
R — rupture / Type-I38
C — confounder / Type-II92
A — assay feasibility42
E — evidence strength34
T1DI (composite)3
Specificity differential (R−C)-54
Confounder panel (Type-II drivers)
No confounder evidence retrieved.
Tier: light (literature co-occurrence proxy — lower confidence). See the discrimination table for all markers.
Assay & specimen
Class-level default (no specific cleared assay)— generic method inferred from analyte class; confirm against a specific product insert before use.
Specimen
Serum, plasma or urine
Collection tube
Serum separator (gold/red-top, SST) · Lithium heparin (green-top) · Sterile urine container
Method / principle
LC-MS/MS (targeted metabolomics) or enzymatic colorimetric where available
Reagent / substrate
Stable-isotope-labeled internal standard (MS); or enzyme-coupled Trinder reagent
Platform
LC-MS/MS; some automated chemistry
Turnaround · availability
Send-out / research · Specialized / research
Literature evidence(1)
- Inosine and hypoxanthine as novel biomarkers for cardiac ischemia: from bench to point-of-care.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2015 · PMID 25956679 · doi