Eastern oysters in the northern Gulf of Mexico are facing rapid environmental changes and
can respond to this change via plasticity or evolution. Plasticity can act as an immediate …

Recent studies indicate that during tumorigenic transformations, cells may generate
mutations by themselves as a result of error-prone cell division with participation of error …

DNA methylation on cytosine in CpG islands generates 5-methylcytosine (5mC), and further
modification of 5mC can result in the oxidized variants 5-hydroxymethyl (5hmC), 5-formyl …

Previous studies have established that chronic dietary insufficiency of the lipotropic nutrients
choline and methionine with or without chemical initiation is hepatocarcinogenic in the rat …

Folate is a source of one-carbons necessary for DNA methylation, a critical epigenetic
modification necessary for genomic structure and function. The use of supplemental folic …

The lemon grass, Cymbopogon citratus (DC) Stapf, is an important species of Poaceae
family commonly used in the folk medicine in many countries. The aim of this study was to …

DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that drives phenotype and that can be altered
by environmental exposures including radiation. The majority of human radiation exposures …

Accumulation of mutation has long been hypothesized to be a cause of aging and contribute
to many of the degenerative diseases, which appear in the senescent phase of life. To test …

Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity are the major public health problems.
Substantial efforts have been made to define loci and variants contributing to the individual …

Gap junctions, intercellular channels structured by the connexin protein family, have been
implicated in the control of cell homeostasis, proliferation, differentiation and death. A loss of …