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Using the Activity-based Anorexia Rodent Model to Study the Neurobiological Basis of Anorexia Nervosa
Published on: October 22, 2015
Interaction Network Prediction and Analysis of Anorexia Nervosa
Majid Rezaei Tavirani1,2, Mostafa Rezaei Tavirani2, Reza Vafaee2
1Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Objectives:
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) as a mental condition is a common eating disorder among young women. We aimed to shed lights on molecular behavior of this serious disorder in terms of protein interacting profile to provide further insight about its complexity.
Materials & Methods:
The AN related genes were extracted from STRING database and included in interactome via Cytoscape software. The central nodes of the network were enriched via gene ontology (GO) by ClueGO+CluePedia and the action relationship between the nodes were determined by CluePedia.
Results:
Six genes including LEP, INS, POMC, GCG, SST, and ALB were introduced as hub-bottlenecks that among them LEP, INS, and POMC were the super hub-bottlenecks based on further analysis. Action map analysis showed prominent role of hubs relative to bottlenecks in the network. Regulation of behavior, regulation of carbohydrate biosynthetic process, and regulation of appetite are the top associated processes for the identified hub genes.
Conclusion:
Topological analysis proposed the five hub-bottlenecks as the most central genes in the network, these genes and their contributing biological terms may suggest additional importance in AN pathogenesis and thereby possible candidates for therapeutic usage. However, further studies are required to justify these findings.
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