The future aspects of Prebiotics on human health: A Review
Prebiotics are short-chain carbohydrates that alter the composition, or metabolism, of the gut microbiota in a beneficial manner. It is therefore expected that prebiotics will improve health in a way similar to probiotics, whilst at the same time being cheaper, and carrying less risk and being easier to incorporate into the diet than probiotics.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The role of pharmacogenomics in drug development
The role of pharmacogenomics in drug development
Pharmacogenomics is a biotechnological science that combines the techniques of medicine, pharmacology, and genomics and is concerned with developing drug therapies to compensate for genetic differences in patients which cause varied responses to a single therapeutic regimen. Patient-drug interaction is a complex trait influenced by many genes.
Without a comprehensive knowledge of all the genes that influence drug response, it is difficult to develop genetic tests that could predict a person's response to a particular drug. Pharmacogenomics is a science that examines the inherited variations in genes that dictate drug response and explores the ways these variations can be used to predict the kind of response a patient would have to a drug
Pharmacogenomics is a biotechnological science that combines the techniques of medicine, pharmacology, and genomics and is concerned with developing drug therapies to compensate for genetic differences in patients which cause varied responses to a single therapeutic regimen. Patient-drug interaction is a complex trait influenced by many genes.
Without a comprehensive knowledge of all the genes that influence drug response, it is difficult to develop genetic tests that could predict a person's response to a particular drug. Pharmacogenomics is a science that examines the inherited variations in genes that dictate drug response and explores the ways these variations can be used to predict the kind of response a patient would have to a drug