Proteomic and metabolomic strategies to investigate HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
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* Corresponding author: Howard S Fox hfox@unmc.edu
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 985800 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
Genome Medicine 2010, 2:22 doi:10.1186/gm143
Published: 30 March 2010Abstract
Diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases, monitoring their progression and assessing responses to treatments will all be aided by the identification of molecular markers of different stages of pathology. Protein biomarkers for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders that have been discovered using proteomics include complement C3, soluble superoxide dismutase and a prostaglandin synthase. Metabolomics has not yet been widely used for biomarker discovery, but early work shows that it has great potential.