background: coronary artery disease (cad) is the major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. the aim of this study was to explore the effect of resveratrol (res) on canonical β-catenin/wnt and forkhead box o (foxo) pathways in cad patients.method: we performed this study on 10 metabolic syndrome patients with three-vessel cad and 10 sex-aged matched healthy subjects. the effects of res on...

background: cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of the most important parasitic diseases in humans. in this disease, one of the responsible organisms is leishmania major, which is transmitted by sandfly vector. there are specific differences in biochemical profiles and metabolite pathways in logarithmic and stationary phases of leishmania parasites. in the present study, 1h nmr spectroscopy was used...

fructose consumption has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, and its role in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome has been implicated by many studies. it is most often encountered in the diet as sucrose (glucose and fructose) or high-fructose corn syrup (55% fructose). at high levels, dietary exposure to fructose triggers a series of metabolic changes originating in the liver, le...

The Library of Apicomplexan Metabolic Pathways (LAMP, http://www.llamp.net) is a web database that provides near complete mapping from genes to the central metabolic functions for some of the prominent intracellular parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. This phylum includes the causative agents of malaria, toxoplasmosis and theileriosis-diseases with a huge economic and social impact. A number o...

The complexity of metabolic networks and their regulation renders an intuitive analysis of these biological systems a difficult task. Mathematical modeling approaches help to deal with this complexity, making them an important tool for metabolic engineering. Different methods were developed, ranging from basic stoichiometric models up to fine-grained kinetic models. Kinetic modeling is the most...

Automatic reconstruction of metabolic pathways for an organism from genomics and transcriptomics data has been a challenging and important problem in bioinformatics. Traditionally, known reference pathways can be mapped into an organism-specific ones based on its genome annotation and protein homology. However, this simple knowledge-based mapping method might produce incomplete pathways and gen...

The study of metabolic pathways is becoming increasingly important to exploit an integrated, systems-level approach for optimizing a desired cellular property or phenotype. In this context, the integration of genomics data with genetic, metabolic and regulatory models is essential because the systematic design of artificial, biological systems requires the identification of robust building bloc...

A new computational approach was developed for modeling the metabolic pathways. The new approach is featured by combing the knowledge of gene ontology, microarray, and chemical functional group to formulate the enzyme-substrate/product couples in a 1,660 vector space. The nearest neighbor algorithm was used to perform the prediction of the networking relationship occurring in the metabolic path...

Anthranilic acid analogues and their derivatives hold significant therapeutic potential for crafting designed compounds aimed at regulating cancer-causing pathways addressing metabolic challenges linked to diabetes, antiviral agents [...]

MOTIVATION There is an imperative need to integrate functional genomics data to obtain a more comprehensive systems-biology view of the results. We believe that this is best achieved through the visualization of data within the biological context of metabolic pathways. Accordingly, metabolic pathway reconstruction was used to predict the metabolic composition for Medicago truncatula and these p...