An Introduction to Metabolomics and its Potential Application in Veterinary Science

摘要

Metabolomicshasbeenfoundtobeapplicabletoawiderangeoffields,includingthestudyofgenefunction,toxicology,plantsciences,environmentalanalysis,clinicaldiagnostics,nutrition,andthediscriminationoforganismgenotypes.Thisapproachcombineshigh-throughputsampleanalysiswithcomputer-assistedmultivariatepattern-recognitiontechniques.Itisincreasinglybeingdeployedintoxico-andpharmacokineticstudiesinthepharmaceuticalindustry,especiallyduringthesafetyassessmentofcandidatedrugsinhumanmedicine.However,despitethepotentialofthistechniquetoreducebothcostsandthenumbersofanimalsusedforresearch,examplesoftheapplicationofmetabolomicsinveterinaryresearchare,thusfar,rare.Herewegiveanintroductiontometabolomicsanddiscussitspotentialinthefieldofveterinaryscience.