Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Asthma Metabolomics: The Missing Step for Translating Bench Work into the Clinic

Abstract

Amber Dahlin, Michael J. McGeachie and Jessica A. Lasky-Su

Metabolite profiling, the systematic analysis of all metabolites, has been used successfully to identify new biomarkers for several complex diseases. In this review we describe how metabolomics data are generated, review the existing literature using metabolomics with asthma and related phenotypes, and discuss the need for more comprehensive asthma metabolomics research.