Progress in the application of metabonomics technology in toxicology research
10.13220/j.cnki.jipr2014.04.001
- Author:
Xian-Zhong YAN
1
Author Information
1. National Center of Biomedical Analysis, Academy of Military Medical Sciences
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Chromatography-mass spectrometry;
Metabolomics;
Nuclear magnetic resonance;
Pattern recognition;
Toxicology
- From:
Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research
2014;41(4):379-392
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Metabonomics is a new member in the omics field following the development of genomics, traqnscriptomics and proteomics, with its research object being the col1ection of metabolites — metabolome, the downstream products of life. Even with the development of past decade，there are still many problems to be solved in the area of experimental techniques，data analysis and results annotation. Any xenobiotics would cause the disturbance of homeostasis of organisms，resulting in the changes of metabolites. Consequently，toxicology is one of the major application areas of metabolomics，and is the earliest one. Metabolomics has been widely used in the early toxicological screening of leads， preclinical and clinical toxicology of drugs in animals and human， as well as in surrogate models such as cell lines and zebrafish. Annotation techniques for metabolic data have also been developed. In this paper，the development of metabolomic techniques and its application in toxicology are reviewed.
