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- Title
Toxicogenomics and systems toxicology: aims and prospects.
- Authors
Waters, Michael D; Fostel, Jennifer M
- Abstract
Toxicogenomics combines transcript, protein and metabolite profiling with conventional toxicology to investigate the interaction between genes and environmental stress in disease causation. The patterns of altered molecular expression that are caused by specific exposures or disease outcomes have revealed how several toxicants act and cause disease. Despite these success stories, the field faces noteworthy challenges in discriminating the molecular basis of toxicity. We argue that toxicology is gradually evolving into a systems toxicology that will eventually allow us to describe all the toxicological interactions that occur within a living system under stress and use our knowledge of toxicogenomic responses in one species to predict the modes-of-action of similar agents in other species.
- Publication
Nature reviews. Genetics, 2004, Vol 5, Issue 12, p936
- ISSN
1471-0056
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrg1493