Toxicogenomics

Toxicogenomics is a subdiscipline of pharmacology that deals with the collection, interpretation, and storage of information about gene and protein activity within a particular cell or tissue of an organism in response to exposure to toxic substances. Toxicogenomics combines toxicology with genomics or other high-throughput molecular profiling technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.[1][2] Toxicogenomics endeavors to elucidate the molecular mechanisms evolved in the expression of toxicity, and to derive molecular expression patterns (i.e., molecular biomarkers) that predict toxicity or the genetic susceptibility to it.[3]

  1. ^ National Research Council (US) Committee on Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts (2005). Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts: A Workshop Summary. The National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/11179. ISBN 978-0-309-09538-9. PMID 20669449.
  2. ^ Hamadeh HK, Afshari CA, eds. (2004). Toxicogenomics: Principles and Applications. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss. ISBN 0-471-43417-5.
    Omenn GS (November 2004). "Book Review: Toxicogenomics: Principles and Applications". Environ. Health Perspect. 112 (16): A962. doi:10.1289/ehp.112-1247673. PMC 1247673.
  3. ^ Meier, Matthew J.; Harrill, Joshua; Johnson, Kamin; Thomas, Russell S.; Tong, Weida; Rager, Julia E.; Yauk, Carole L. (2024-09-02). "Progress in toxicogenomics to protect human health". Nature Reviews Genetics: 1–18. doi:10.1038/s41576-024-00767-1. ISSN 1471-0064.