Metabolomic applications in nutritional research: a perspective. (2nd February 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: O'Gorman, Aoife; Brennan, Lorraine
• Is Part Of: Journal of the science of food and agriculture. Volume 95:Number 13(2015:Oct. 15)
• Page Start: 2567
• Page End: 2570
• Publication Date: 2015-02-02
• Subjects: Food -- Periodicals; Agriculture -- Periodicals; 664
• DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.7070
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-5142

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="jsfa7070-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p id="jsfa7070-para-0001">Metabolomics focuses on the global study of metabolites in cells, tissues and biofluids. Analytical technologies such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and hyphenated mass spectrometry (MS) combined with advanced multivariate statistical methods allow us to study perturbations in metabolism. The close link between metabolism and nutrition has seen the application of metabolomics in nutritional research increase in recent times. Such applications can be divided into three main categories, namely (1) the area of dietary biomarker identification, (2) diet‐related diseases and (3) nutritional interventions. The present perspective gives an overview of these applications and an outlook to the future. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry</p> </abstract>