Abstract:

As a high flux, sensitivity, highly accurate analysis of modern technology ,metabonomics has made Enormous progress over past decade ,which has been used widely in the different fields of science research such as botany, microbiology, bromatology, dietetics, toxicology, pharmacology and environmental science .With the further research on the macroscopic and microcosmic nutritional of animals, metabonomics, as a strong technical means will become an important way of nutritional research. This article give a brief introduction about metabonomics from its generation, characteristic and research methods. Five aspects applications of metabonomics are reviewed in the animal nutritional study :the relationship between nutrient and organism; the interacting research with the host and microbe in the animal enteron ;the foodstuffs from animal related to security; fermentation feed developing.

Key words: metabonomics; animal nutrition; hyphenated techniques chromatography