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Mouse models are useful for studying cigarette smoke (CS)-induced chronic pulmonary pathologies such as lung emphysema. To enhance translation of large-scale omics data from mechanistic studies into pathophysi...
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A Systems Toxicology Approach to Investigating the Cardiovascular Effects of Cigarette Smoke and Environmental Pollutants in ApoE-Deficient Mice
Epidemiological evidence indicates that exposure to combustion-derived particles is linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Despite this strong association, there remains a lack of data that can...
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Causal Biological Network Database: A Comprehensive Platform of Causal Biological Network Models Focused on the Pulmonary and Vascular Systems
While the ever-increasing amounts of scientific data provide a more detailed description of toxic effects, it is not trivial to extract information that will contribute to a better biological understanding. So...
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Open AccessA vascular biology network model focused on inflammatory processes to investigate atherogenesis and plaque instability
Numerous inflammation-related pathways have been shown to play important roles in atherogenesis. Rapid and efficient assessment of the relative influence of each of those pathways is a challenge in the era of ...
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Direct reprogramming enables the generation of pluripotent stem-cell lines from almost any somatic tissue and mammalian species, thereby avoiding the ethical i...