Advance in Metabolomics of Spinal Cord Injury (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

@#Spinal cord injury (SCI) often causes different degrees of sensory and motor dysfunction, resulting in permanent disability, with many complications and difficult to cure. Metabolomics, as a new developing technique, identifies specific biomarkers for diagnosis, treatment or prognosis judgement by analyzing the changes in the metabolites after individual stress, and can make the best treatment and rehabilitation program for the patients in the early stage of the disease. At present, some achievements have been made in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis monitoring of spinal cord injury, and some potential biomarkers have been identified. However, the pathophysiology of spinal cord injury is not fully understood, and relevant biomarkers are also lacking in clinical trials.