Title
Modeling Circadian Rhythms in Inflammation
Abstract
Due to the inherent complexities involved in understanding a redundant, non-linear process like inflammation, systems biology modeling approaches have been proposed. While these models have produced encouraging results, they do not take into account the circadian nature of many of their components. Circadian rhythms are daily variations in a wide number of biological processes, including many of the hormones and cytokines responsible for the regulation of inflammation. Thus, to work towards the development of a more complete and useful model of inflammation, we extend previous modeling efforts by incorporating important interactions that give rise to circadian variability in inflammation. This is predicated on the assumption that hormones regulated by the central circadian pacemaker ultimately govern diurnal variations in the inflammatory response. The model is then used to simulate a normal resting state, a healthy self-limited inflammatory response, and an unresolved inflammatory response, by analyzing how these responses change throughout the day, clinically-relevant insight is gained.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/BIBE.2010.39
BioInformatics and BioEngineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
biological process,circadian rhythm,previous modeling effort,central circadian pacemaker,modeling circadian rhythms,unresolved inflammatory response,systems biology modeling approach,healthy self-limited inflammatory response,circadian nature,useful model,inflammatory response,resting state,system biology,production,heart rate variability,systems biology,circadian rhythms,neurophysiology,molecular biophysics,mathematical model,data models,diurnal variation,hormones,immune system,biological processes
Hormone,Neuroscience,Cellular biophysics,Circadian rhythm,Biology,Resting state fMRI,Systems biology,Physiology,Modelling biological systems,Bioinformatics,Inflammation
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7494-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeremy D. Scheff111.38
Ioannis P. Androulakis2879.42
Steve E. Calvano311.38
Stephen F. Lowry411.38