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g NASH, chronic hepatitis, and liver cirrhosis. In our study, we detected overexpression of PTGS1 in DDC mice, which is a key regulator of prostaglandin formation. Martinez-Clemente et al. demonstrated that hyperlipidemiaprone apolipoprotein E-deficient ) mice exhibit hepatic steatosis and increased susceptibility to hepatic inflammation and advanced fibrosis. They found in an experimental model the proinflammatory 5-lipoxygenase pathway to be up-regulated and thus causing liver inflammation and fibrogenesis. They also found PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19720342 that the inhibition of the 5-LO pathway results in a significant reduction in liver inflammation. Our data supports an up-regulation of ALOX5AP through 5-LO pathway due to DDC treatment in AJ, B6, and PWD, leading to an upregulation of the downstream component 5-HPETE in the model that is supported by PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19717455 our experimental data. In conclusion, mRNA expression data 1022150-57-7 chemical information combined with mathematical modeling of metabolic systems provides a useful tool to better understand cellular metabolism although the correlation between transcripts and proteins can deviate depending on cellular location, biological function, and organism. The development of NAFLD is characterized by broad changes on the molecular level. Detailed analysis of three differently susceptible mouse strains, which reflect genetic diversity in humans, showed major deregulation of arachidonic acid metabolism. Detailed modeling of 11 Modeling Severity of Steatohepatitis in Mice the arachidonic acid metabolism and model predictions of metabolic levels are in good agreement with experimental profiles when the model is initialized by the measured gene and protein expression data. The study identified deregulated genes, proteins, metabolites and affected pathways of NAFLD etiology in mouse and serves as an integrated resource of omics data for the development of computational models of the disease, such as AA and SAMe metabolism. of the genome-scale metabolic network that were identified by edgeR over all three strains that were subsequently used in pathway over-representation analysis. Vascular inflammation is associated with accelerated many cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, hypertension and diabetes. Endothelial dysfunction is strongly considered as a key step in the initiation and progression of vascular inflammation. Multiple proinflammatory molecules, such as tumor necrosis factor a, induce endothelial cells activation to increase the expression of adhesion molecules and many chemokines. An increase in the various adhesion molecules, including intercellular adhesion molecule-1, vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, and endothelial selectin, as well as various chemokines and proinflammatory cytokines such as monocyte chemoattractant protein -1, interleukin -1b and IL-8, assists recruitment of activated inflammatory cells to vascular lesions and migration into to the sub-endothelial region, resulting in the onset and development of vascular inflammatory diseases. Activated NF-kB has been identified upon inflammatory stimulation, and a variety of adhesion molecules and chemokines have been reported to be the direct targets of NF-kB. On stimulation, IKK b is phosphorylated, which results in IkBa phosphorylation. Phosphorylated IkBa undergoes ubiquitination and then degradation, which activates NF-kB pathway. Once activated, NF-kB transcription factors p65 and p50 translocate from the cytoplasm to the nucleus, and subsequently regulate the transcription an