The Role of Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases

Prelims.- Introduction.- Understanding the role of pro-resolving lipid mediators in infectious keratitis.- Immunoresolvent resolvin D1 maintains the health of the ocular surface.- The evolving role of specialized pro-resolving mediators in modulating neuroinflammation in perioperative neurocognitive disorders.- Relationship between specialized pro-resolving mediators and inflammatory markers in chronic cardiac disorders.- Specialized pro-resolving mediators directs cardiac healing and repair with activation of inflammation and resolution program in heart failure.- Novel n-3 docosapentaneoic acid-derived pro-resolving mediators are vasculoprotective and mediate the actions of statins in controlling inflammation.- Aspects of prostaglandin glycerol ester biology.- Targeting the COX/mPGES-1/PGE2 pathway in neuroblastoma.- Metabolomics biomarkers for precision psychiatry.- Cytochrome P450 eicosanoid signaling pathway in colorectal tumorigenesis.- Contributions of 12/15-Lipoxygenase to bleeding in the brain following ischemic stroke.- Systematic understanding of bioactive lipids in neuro-immune interactions:  Lessons from an animal model of multiple sclerosis.- Role of bioactive sphingolipids in inflammation and eye diseases.- Roles of ceramides and other sphingolipids in immune cell function and inflammation.- Acute and chronic mild traumatic brain injury differentially changes levels of bioactive lipids in the CNS associated with headache.- Novel anti-inflammatory and vasodilatory -3 endocannabinoid epoxide regioisomers.- Overview of lipid biomarkers in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).- Flavonoids ability to disrupt inflammation mediated by lipid and cholesterol oxidation.- Index.

Kenneth Honn, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor in the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Departments of Pathology and Oncology and an adjunct professor in the WSU Department of Chemistry. He is director of the Bioactive Lipids Research Program and serves as a member of the Cancer Biology Graduate Program and of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. He is the founding member and president of the Eicosanoid Research Foundation and chairman of the International Conference on Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases, a biennial international conference he initiated in 1989. Dr. Honn received his Ph.D. in endocrinology from Wayne State University in 1977. With more than 30 years of experience in the fields of cancer, inflammation and bioactive lipids, his laboratory focuses on bioactive lipids and integrin receptors and the role they play in various aspects of tumor progression, namely, cell growth and apoptosis, angiogenesis and tumor cell matrix interactions. Dr. Honn's lab concentrates on lipoxygenases, and in particular 12-lipoxygenase and its metabolic product 12(S)-HETE. In addition to his research on bioactive lipids in tumor progression, he has collaborated with scientists at the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institutes of Health for the past four years, studying the role of lipids in human parturition, in particular, their role in preterm labor and term labor. Research efforts in Dr. Honn's laboratory have directly led to six clinical trials, and he holds 17 U.S. patents, seven of which are based on the generation of novel chemotherapeutic/radiation sensitizing compounds. Dr. Honn is the author of more than 300 published works. He has had continuous external funding with more than 50 grants totaling in excess of $25 million. He has and continues to serve on numerous study sections, reviewing grants for the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Defense, and he provides consultation to pharmaceutical