The role of inflammation and genetics in periodontal disease

BG Loos, TE Van Dyke - Periodontology 2000, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Periodontitis is a complex disease:(a) various causative factors play a role simultaneously
and interact with each other; and (b) the disease is episodic in nature, and bursts of disease …

History of inflammatory bowel diseases

GC Actis, R Pellicano, S Fagoonee… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are characterized by chronic inflammation of the
intestinal mucosa and unknown etiology. In this review, we identified three main eras in the …

[HTML][HTML] Towards multi-modal causability with graph neural networks enabling information fusion for explainable AI

A Holzinger, B Malle, A Saranti, B Pfeifer - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
AI is remarkably successful and outperforms human experts in certain tasks, even in
complex domains such as medicine. Humans on the other hand are experts at multi-modal …

A molecular network of the aging human brain provides insights into the pathology and cognitive decline of Alzheimer's disease

S Mostafavi, C Gaiteri, SE Sullivan, CC White… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
There is a need for new therapeutic targets with which to prevent Alzheimer's disease (AD),
a major contributor to aging-related cognitive decline. Here we report the construction and …

Integrated gut/liver microphysiological systems elucidates inflammatory inter‐tissue crosstalk

WLK Chen, C Edington, E Suter, J Yu… - Biotechnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A capability for analyzing complex cellular communication among tissues is
important in drug discovery and development, and in vitro technologies for doing so are …

Concussion as a multi-scale complex system: an interdisciplinary synthesis of current knowledge

ES Kenzie, EL Parks, ED Bigler, MM Lim… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called “the most complicated disease of the most
complex organ of the body” and is an increasingly high-profile public health issue. Many …

Application of network methods for understanding mental disorders: pitfalls and promise

S Guloksuz, LK Pries, J Van Os - Psychological medicine, 2017 - cambridge.org
Galvanized with the availability of sophisticated statistical techniques and large datasets,
network medicine has emerged as an active area of investigation. Following this trend …

MTGO: PPI network analysis via topological and functional module identification

D Vella, S Marini, F Vitali, D Di Silvestre, G Mauri… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks are viable tools to understand cell functions,
disease machinery, and drug design/repositioning. Interpreting a PPI, however, it is a …

Large-scale analysis of disease pathways in the human interactome

M Agrawal, M Zitnik, J Leskovec - Pacific Symposium on …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Discovering disease pathways, which can be defined as sets of proteins associated with a
given disease, is an important problem that has the potential to provide clinically actionable …

Problems, challenges and promises: perspectives on precision medicine

DJ Duffy - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The 'precision medicine (systems medicine)'concept promises to achieve a shift to future
healthcare systems with a more proactive and predictive approach to medicine, where the …