脂质组学通过研究脂质的结构和功能及其在体内的代谢变化,明确其对疾病诊断和治疗的作用,以期提高疾病风险预测的能力。常用脂质组学分析方法包括直接质谱注入法(鸟枪法)、色谱质谱联用法和核磁共振法等。脂质组学在疾病早期诊断、生物标志物的发现、新药研发以及系统研究方面都发挥了很大作用。本文旨在介绍脂质组学在疾病生物标志物发现中的应用及其研究方法。
To clarify the lipid′s effects on diagnosis and treatment of dis-eases and to enhance the ability to predict the disease risks in advance, lipidomics focuses on the structures and functions of lipids and their me-tabolites.Common analytical methods include direct mass spectrometers ( shotgun lipidomics) or chromatography-mass spectrometers and nuclear magnetic resonance.Lipidomics plays an important role in early diagnosis of disease, biomarker discoveries, new drug development and system study.This article reviewed the applications of lipidomics in biomarkers discovery and the technical approaches in lipidome analysis.