Elucidation of cellular metabolism via metabolomics and stable-isotope assisted metabolomics

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1075-1086

  Hiller, Karsten ^a   Metallo, Christian ^a   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

GC MS; LC MS; Mass isotopomer distribution; Metabolic flux analysis; Metabolomics; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CELL METABOLISM; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MASS ISOTOPOMER DISTRIBUTION; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLOMICS; PROTEOME; RADIOISOTOPE DILUTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 79959365550     PISSN: 13892010     EISSN: 18734316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920111795909096     Document Type: Article

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