BACKGROUND & AIMS: Although childhood and adult abuse are more prevalent among
patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) than healthy individuals (controls), other types of …

Stressors can be acute or chronic and range from daily hassles to life-threatening situations,
such as natural disasters and violence that trigger the “fight or flight” response. Over time …

Athletes, body builders, and military personnel use dietary creatine as an ergogenic aid to
boost physical performance in sports involving short bursts of high-intensity muscle activity …

An organism's behavioral and physiological and social milieu influence and are influenced
by the epigenome, which is composed predominantly of chromatin and the covalent …

The science of genetics is undergoing a paradigm shift. Recent discoveries, including the
activity of retrotransposons, the extent of copy number variations, somatic and chromosomal …

Maternal obesity carries significant health risks for offspring that manifest later in life,
including metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and affective disorders …

The phenotype of an individual is the result of complex interactions between genotype and
current, past and ancestral environment leading to a lifelong remodelling of our …

Familial inheritance of drug abuse is composed of both genetic and environmental factors.
Additionally, epigenetic transgenerational inheritance may provide a means by which …

In addition to being a part of the metabolic fatty acid fuel cycle, butyrate is also capable of
inducing growth arrest in a variety of normal cell types and senescence-like phenotypes in …

Context From the time of school entry, chronic levels of victimization by one's peers predict a
multitude of psychiatric and physical health problems. However, developmental trajectories …