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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disorder. No disease‐modifying therapies exist. This review proposes that PD susceptibility begins with epigenetic changes and neuroimmune activity—factors that alter gene expression ...
Ayodeji Johnson Ajibare +2 more
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Extending Epigenesis: From Phenotypic Plasticity to the Bio-Cultural Feedback [PDF]
The paper aims at proposing an extended notion of epigenesis acknowledging an actual causal import to the phenotypic dimension for the evolutionary diversification of life forms.
A Bouaïchi +134 more
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Epigenetic Modulation of IL-7 and IL-10: Toward Personalized Immune Therapies in Viral Epidemics. [PDF]
Background Host immune responses, including cytokine production, shape the severity of viral epidemics. Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation regulate cytokine gene expression and may contribute to immune dysregulation in severe disease. Methods This study analyzed interleukin‐7 (IL‐7), IL‐8, and IL‐10 promoter methylation in 145 COVID‐19 ...
Yulugkural Z +4 more
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Epigenetic regulation in lung cancer
Role of epigenetics in lung cancer. Epigenetics is considered the main cause of lung cancer. Epigenetics is categorized into three phenomena: histone modification, DNA methylation, and noncoding RNAs. One of the main approaches to controlling lung cancer is early diagnosis.
Shahin Ramazi +3 more
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Our study in Tenebrio molitor employed behavioral and proteomic analyses to establish a correlation between female mate choice and molecular changes in the female brain. We found that females preferred mating with more attractive males, who in turn had a greater likelihood of successfully mating and producing more larvae with attractive males than with
Miguel Hernández‐Villanueva +3 more
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Valproic acid and bladder healing: an experimental study in rats
Purpose: to recognize the effects of valproic acid (VPA), an epigenetic drug, on the bladder healing process, in rats. Method: twenty male Wistar rats were divided in two groups: experimental (A), treated with VPA (150mg/Kg/day), and control (B) with ...
MARIA DE LOURDES PESSOLE BIONDO-SIMÕES +5 more
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Ageing And Cancer As Diseases Of Epigenesis [PDF]
Cancer and ageing are often said to be diseases of development. During the past fifty years, the genetic components of cancer and ageing have been intensely investigated since development, itself, was seen to be an epiphenomenon of the genome.
Gilbert, Scott F.
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Patterns of Reliability: Assessing the Reproducibility and Integrity of DNA Methylation Measurement
Summary: DNA methylation plays an important role in both normal human development and risk of disease. The most utilized method of assessing DNA methylation uses BeadChips, generating an epigenome-wide “snapshot” of >450,000 observations (probe ...
Karen Sugden +15 more
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Epigenetics: What it is about? [PDF]
Epigenetics has captured the attention of scientists in the past decades, yet its scope has been continuously changing. In this paper, we give an overview on how and why its definition has evolved and suggest several clarification on the concepts used in
Ogryzko, Vasily, Saade, Evelyne
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The aim of the work is to establish the relationship between the expression levels of microRNA-378f, microRNA-4311, microRNA-4714-3p and anamnestic, clinical and paraclinical parameters of functional disorders of the gallbladder and Oddi's sphincter (FD ...
O. Ye. Abaturov, V. L. Babуch
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