Of mice and men: bridging the translational disconnect in CNS drug discovery

H Geerts - CNS drugs, 2009 - Springer
The tremendous advances in transgene animal technology, especially in the area of
Alzheimer's disease, have not resulted in a significantly better success rate for drugs …

Degeneracy as a substrate for respiratory regulation

NM Mellen - Respiratory physiology & neurobiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent studies in vivo and in vitro suggest that both respiratory rhythmogenesis and its
central chemosensory modulation arise from multiple, mechanistically and/or anatomically …

Integrative analysis of kinase networks in TRAIL-induced apoptosis provides a source of potential targets for combination therapy

J So, A Pasculescu, AY Dai, K Williton, A James… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Tumor necrosis factor–related apoptosis–inducing ligand (TRAIL) is an endogenous
secreted peptide and, in preclinical studies, preferentially induces apoptosis in tumor cells …

Heterogeneous dynamics, robustness/fragility trade-offs, and the eradication of the macroparasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis

E Michael, BK Singh - BMC medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background The current WHO-led initiative to eradicate the macroparasitic disease,
lymphatic filariasis (LF), based on single-dose annual mass drug administration (MDA) …

Ensembles of uncertain mathematical models can identify network response to therapeutic interventions

D Luan, F Szlam, KA Tanaka, PS Barie… - Molecular …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The role of mechanistic modeling and systems biology in molecular medicine remains
unclear. In this study, we explored whether uncertain models could be used to understand …

Modeling and analysis of the molecular basis of pain in sensory neurons

SO Song, J Varner - PLoS One, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Intracellular calcium dynamics are critical to cellular functions like pain transmission.
Extracellular ATP plays an important role in modulating intracellular calcium levels by …

Analysis of the molecular networks in androgen dependent and independent prostate cancer revealed fragile and robust subsystems

R Tasseff, S Nayak, S Salim, P Kaushik, N Rizvi… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Androgen ablation therapy is currently the primary treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.
Unfortunately, in nearly all cases, androgen ablation fails to permanently arrest cancer …

Reduced order modeling and analysis of the human complement system

A Sagar, W Dai, M Minot, R LeCover, JD Varner - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Complement is an important pathway in innate immunity, inflammation, and many disease
processes. However, despite its importance, there are few validated mathematical models of …

Modelling and analysis of an ensemble of eukaryotic translation initiation models

S Nayak, JK Siddiqui, JD Varner - IET systems biology, 2011 - IET
Programmed protein synthesis plays an important role in the cell cycle. Deregulated
translation has been observed in several cancers. In this study, the authors constructed an …

Modeling and analysis of retinoic acid induced differentiation of uncommitted precursor cells

R Tasseff, S Nayak, SO Song, A Yen… - Integrative …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Manipulation of differentiation programs has therapeutic potential in a spectrum of human
cancers and neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, we integrated computational and …