Luncheon Seminars
- Day 2, May 12（Tue.） 12:00-13:00 Room D （801/02）
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Metabolome Analysis for Discovering Biomarkers of Gastrointestinal Cancers
Improvements in analytical technologies have made it possible to rapidly determine the concentrations of thousands of metabolites in any biological sample, which has resulted in metabolome analysis being applied to various types of research, such as clinical, cell biology, and plant/food science studies. The metabolome represents all of the end products and by-products of the numerous complex metabolic pathways operating in a biological system. Thus, metabolome analysis allows one to survey the global changes in an organism's metabolic profile and gain a holistic understanding of the changes that occur in organisms during various biological processes, e.g., during disease development. In clinical metabolomic studies, there is a strong possibility that differences in the metabolic profiles of human specimens reflect disease-specific states. Recently, metabolome analysis of biofluids, e.g., blood, urine, or saliva, has been increasingly used for biomarker discovery and disease diagnosis. Mass spectrometry-based techniques have been extensively used for metabolome analysis because they exhibit high selectivity and sensitivity during the identification and quantification of metabolites. Here, we show metabolome analysis using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Furthermore, we discuss metabolome analysis-based disease diagnosis.
Keywords: Metabolomics, Bio-marker, Cancer, Diagnosis