Environmental pollutants as risk factors for neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases

M Chin-Chan, J Navarro-Yepes… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer (AD) and Parkinson (PD) have attracted
attention in last decades due to their high incidence worldwide. The etiology of these …

[HTML][HTML] Role of epigenetics in biology and human diseases

A Moosavi, AM Ardekani - Iranian biomedical journal, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For a long time, scientists have tried to describe disorders just by genetic or environmental
factors. However, the role of epigenetics in human diseases has been considered from a …

Molecular complexes at euchromatin, heterochromatin and centromeric chromatin

O Morrison, J Thakur - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chromatin consists of a complex of DNA and histone proteins as its core components and
plays an important role in both packaging DNA and regulating DNA metabolic pathways …

[HTML][HTML] Reconfiguration of DNA methylation in aging

M Zampieri, F Ciccarone, R Calabrese… - Mechanisms of ageing …, 2015 - Elsevier
A complex interplay between multiple biological effects shapes the aging process. The
advent of genome-wide quantitative approaches in the epigenetic field has highlighted the …

Association of Brain DNA methylation in SORL1, ABCA7, HLA-DRB5, SLC24A4, and BIN1 with pathological diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

L Yu, LB Chibnik, GP Srivastava, N Pochet… - JAMA …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Recent large-scale genome-wide association studies have discovered several
genetic variants associated with Alzheimer disease (AD); however, the extent to which DNA …

ALS: A bucket of genes, environment, metabolism and unknown ingredients

M Zufiria, FJ Gil-Bea, R Fernandez-Torron… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
The scientific scenario of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has dramatically changed
since TDP-43 aggregates were discovered in 2006 as the main component of the neuronal …

Post-translational modifications: regulators of neurodegenerative proteinopathies

R Gupta, M Sahu, D Srivastava, S Tiwari… - Ageing Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the hallmark features in the neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) is the accumulation
of aggregated and/or non-functional protein in the cellular milieu. Post-translational …

[HTML][HTML] Potential for therapeutic use of hydrogen sulfide in oxidative stress-induced neurodegenerative diseases

R Tabassum, NY Jeong - International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Oxidative phosphorylation is a source of energy production by which many cells satisfy their
energy requirements. Endogenous reactive oxygen species (ROS) are by-products of …

Epigenetic and neurological impairments associated with early life exposure to persistent organic pollutants

N Grova, H Schroeder, JL Olivier… - International journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The incidence of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases worldwide has
dramatically increased over the last decades. Although the aetiology remains uncertain …

Epigenetics in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a role for histone post-translational modifications in neurodegenerative disease

SA Bennett, R Tanaz, SN Cobos, MP Torrente - Translational research, 2019 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the third most common adult onset neurodegenerative
disorder worldwide. It is generally characterized by progressive paralysis starting at the …