Meaning of metabonomics | Babel Free

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The study of the metabolic responses of organisms to stimuli such as disease or injury.

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“Metabonomics broadly aims to measure⟳ the global, dynamic metabolic response of living systems to biological stimuli or genetic manipulation. The focus⟳ is on understanding systemic change⟳ through time in complex multicellular systems. Metabolomics seeks an analytical description of complex biological samples, and aims to characterize and quantify all the small molecules in such a sample.”

“All metabonomics studies result⟳ in complex multivariate data sets the require⟳ visualisation software and chemometric and bioinformatic methods for interpretation.”

“Metabonomics has great potential for intensive care medicine, where patients are complex and understanding the relationship of host⟳ factors, disease and treatment effects is key to improving care.”

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