NAME | PRINCIPLE | APPLICATION |
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1H-NMR rat/mouse liver profiling | Identification and (relative) quantification of up to 52 metabolites from aqueous and lipid extracts | • Phenotyping of genetically modified animals; • Drug toxicity and pre-clinical drug candidate safety assessment • Biomarker Discovery; • Clinical studies (diagnose and therapeutic efficacy) • Monitoring of diet-related health phenotyping. |
1H-NMR rat/mouse brain profiling | Identification and (relative) quantification of 64 metabolites from aqueous and lipid extracts | • Drug neurotoxicity and pre-clinical drug candidate safety) • Neurotoxicity studies |
1H-NMR serum/plasma extract profiling | Identificacion and (relative) quantification of up to 47 metabolites from serum/plasma extracts of human/animal models | • Biomarker Discovery; • Clinical studies (diagnose and therapeutic efficacy) • Monitoring of diet-related health phenotyping |
1H-NMR urine extract profiling | Identification and (relative) quantification of up to 46 metabolites in human/model animal urine | • Biomarker discovery • Assessment of diet or drug intervention • Drug toxicology studies • Clinical studies (diagnose and therapeutic efficacy) |
HR-MAS 1H-NMR of biopsies, intact tissues or cell cultures | Metabolic fingerprinting and profiling of intact non-solid/non-liquid biological samples | • Clinical diagnostic • Biomarker discovery |
GC-MS untargeted metabolomics on serum, urine or tissue extract samples | Identification of features that are differently expressed in cases vs. control experiments and identification of key metabolites | • Biomarker discovery • Clinical studies (diagnose and therapeutic efficacy) • Assessment of diet interventions |
LC-MS untargeted metabolomics on serum, urine or tissue extract samples | Identification of features that are differently expressed in cases vs. control experiments and identification of key metabolites | • Biomarker discovery • Clinical studies (diagnose and therapeutic efficacy) • Assessment of diet interventions |
Targeted LC-MS metabolomics | Detection and quantification of predetermined metabolites in biofluids or sample extracts | • Phenotypic and physiological effects • Pre-clinical drug candidate safety assessment • Pharmacometabonomics • Disease diagnosis and therapeutic efficacy |
Statistics and multivariate analysis | Programming and implementation of supervised and unsupervised multivariate algorithms in metabolomics datasets | • Basic univariate statistical test. • Use of advanced multivariate and artificial intelligence algorithms for metabolomics data sets and turn them into useful clinical information (PCA, PLS-DA, ANNs). • Identify metabolic relationships, mechanism, functions and pathways in the experimental data and mapping of relevant pathways. |