Mechanical communication in fibrosis progression

Y Long, Y Niu, K Liang, Y Du - Trends in cell biology, 2022 - cell.com
Mechanical hallmarks of fibrotic microenvironments are both outcomes and causes of
fibrosis progression. Understanding how cells sense and transmit mechanical cues in the …

Developments in toxicogenomics: understanding and predicting compound-induced toxicity from gene expression data

B Alexander-Dann, LL Pruteanu, E Oerton… - Molecular omics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The toxicogenomics field aims to understand and predict toxicity by using 'omics' data in
order to study systems-level responses to compound treatments. In recent years there has …

On the limits of active module identification

O Lazareva, J Baumbach, M List… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In network and systems medicine, active module identification methods (AMIMs) are widely
used for discovering candidate molecular disease mechanisms. To this end, AMIMs …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanism of asparagine endopeptidase in the progression of malignant tumors: a review

W Zhang, Y Lin - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Asparagine endopeptidase (AEP), also called legumain, is currently the only known cysteine
protease that specifically cleaves peptide bonds in asparaginyl residue in the mammalian …

Probiotics counteract the expression of hepatic profibrotic genes via the attenuation of TGF-β/SMAD signaling and autophagy in hepatic stellate cells

P Kanmani, H Kim - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Hepatic fibrosis is caused by the increased accumulation and improper degradation of
extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in the liver. Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) activation is a …

[HTML][HTML] A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats

TV de Jong, Y Pan, P Rastas, D Munro, M Tutaj, H Akil… - Cell genomics, 2024 - cell.com
The seventh iteration of the reference genome assembly for Rattus norvegicus—mRatBN7.
2—corrects numerous misplaced segments and reduces base-level errors by approximately …

Lacking mechanistic disease definitions and corresponding association data hamper progress in network medicine and beyond

S Sadegh, J Skelton, E Anastasi, A Maier… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A long-term objective of network medicine is to replace our current, mainly phenotype-based
disease definitions by subtypes of health conditions corresponding to distinct …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative computational modeling to unravel novel potential biomarkers in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Walakira, C Skubic, N Nadižar, D Rozman… - Computers in biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major health problem around the world. The
management of this disease is complicated by the lack of noninvasive diagnostic tools and …

Accelerating adverse outcome pathway development using publicly available data sources

NO Oki, MD Nelms, SM Bell, HM Mortensen… - Current environmental …, 2016 - Springer
The adverse outcome pathway (AOP) concept links molecular perturbations with organism
and population-level outcomes to support high-throughput toxicity (HTT) testing …

Legumain-deficient macrophages regulate inflammation and lipid metabolism in adipose tissues to protect against diet-induced obesity

W Zhang, S Wang, Z Liu, P Qian, Y Li, J Wu - Molecular and Cellular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Legumain-deficient macrophages regulate inflammation and lipid metabolism in adipose tissues to
protect against diet-induced obesity - ScienceDirect Skip to main contentSkip to article Elsevier logo …