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Daniel Stöckel

Summary: The deregulation of biochemical pathways plays a central role in many diseases like cancer or Parkinsons's disease. In silico tools for calculating these deregulated pathways may help to gain new insights into pathogenic mechanisms and may open novel avenues for therapy stratification in the sense of personalized medicine. Here, we present NetworkTrail, a web service for the detection of deregulated pathways and subgraphs in biological networks.
Smoking is the most important risk factor for both lung cancer (LC) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of myeloid cell nuclear factor-κB in the regulation of tumor cell growth signaling. We subjected mice lacking myeloid RelA/p65 (relaΔ−/−) to a metastatic LC model. Cigarette smoke (CS) exposure significantly increased the proliferation of Lewis lung carcinoma cell tumors in wild-type mice. In CS-exposed relaΔ−/− mice, the tumor growth was largely inhibited.
The relevant HIV data sets used for predicting outcomes of HIV combination therapies suffer from several problems: different treatment backgrounds of the samples, uneven representation with respect to the level of therapy experience and uneven therapy representation. Also, they comprise only viral strain(s) that can be detected in the patients’ blood serum.

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