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Metabonomics

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The study of metabolic responses to drugs, environmental changes and diseases.

Metabonomics is an extension of genomics (concerned with DNA) and proteomics (concerned with proteins).

Following on the heels of genomics and proteomics, metabonomics may lead to more efficient drug discovery and individualized patient treatment with drugs, among other things.

In more technical (and wordy) terms, metabonomics is the quantitative measurement of the dynamic multiparametric metabolic response of living systems to pathophysiological stimuli or genetic modification.

See also: Metabolomics.

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