Department of Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Research Center, Zhongshan Hospital Qing-Pu Branch, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
J Transl Med. 2012 Dec 5;10:240. doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-10-240.
Disease biomarkers are defined to diagnose various phases of diseases, monitor severities of diseases and responses to therapies, or predict prognosis of patients. Disease-specific biomarkers should benefit drug discovery and development, integrate multidisciplinary sciences, be validated by molecular imaging. The opportunities and challenges in biomarker development are emphasized and considered. The Journal of Translational Medicine opens a new Section of Disease Biomarkers to bridge identification and validation of gene or protein-based biomarkers, network biomarkers, dynamic network biomarkers in human diseases, patient phenotypes, and clinical applications. Disease biomarkers are also important for determining drug effects, target specificities and binding, dynamic metabolism and pharmacological kinetics, or toxicity profiles.
疾病生物标志物被定义为用于诊断疾病的各个阶段、监测疾病的严重程度和对治疗的反应,或预测患者的预后。疾病特异性生物标志物应有利于药物发现和开发,整合多学科科学,并通过分子成像进行验证。强调并考虑了生物标志物开发中的机遇和挑战。《转化医学杂志》开辟了一个新的疾病生物标志物版块,旨在连接基因或蛋白质生物标志物、网络生物标志物、人类疾病中的动态网络生物标志物、患者表型以及临床应用的鉴定和验证。疾病生物标志物对于确定药物作用、靶标特异性和结合、动态代谢和药代动力学或毒性特征也很重要。