Early developmental conditioning of later health and disease: physiology or pathophysiology?

MA Hanson, PD Gluckman - Physiological reviews, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Extensive experimental animal studies and epidemiological observations have shown that
environmental influences during early development affect the risk of later pathophysiological …

Pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

PJ Wolters, HR Collard, KD Jones - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrosing interstitial lung disease associated with
aging that is characterized by the histopathological pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia …

Influences of maternal and paternal PTSD on epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in Holocaust survivor offspring

R Yehuda, NP Daskalakis, A Lehrner… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective Differential effects of maternal and paternal posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
have been observed in adult offspring of Holocaust survivors in both glucocorticoid receptor …

Aging of blood can be tracked by DNA methylation changes at just three CpG sites

CI Weidner, Q Lin, CM Koch, L Eisele, F Beier… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Human aging is associated with DNA methylation changes at specific sites in
the genome. These epigenetic modifications may be used to track donor age for forensic …

Human social genomics

SW Cole - PLoS genetics, 2014 - journals.plos.org
A growing literature in human social genomics has begun to analyze how everyday life
circumstances influence human gene expression. Social-environmental conditions such as …

[HTML][HTML] Endometriosis still a challenge

C Mehedintu, MN Plotogea, S Ionescu… - Journal of medicine …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Endometriosis is a debilitating disease with features of chronic inflammation. Endometriosis
appears to be one of the most common benign gynecological proliferations in …

Early life nutrition, epigenetics and programming of later life disease

MH Vickers - Nutrients, 2014 - mdpi.com
The global pandemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes is often causally linked to marked
changes in diet and lifestyle; namely marked increases in dietary intakes of high energy …

Altered DNA methylation and differential expression of genes influencing metabolism and inflammation in adipose tissue from subjects with type 2 diabetes

E Nilsson, PA Jansson, A Perfilyev, P Volkov… - Diabetes, 2014 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Genetics, epigenetics, and environment may together affect the susceptibility for type 2
diabetes (T2D). Our aim was to dissect molecular mechanisms underlying T2D using …

[HTML][HTML] The search for antiaging interventions: from elixirs to fasting regimens

R de Cabo, D Carmona-Gutierrez, M Bernier, MN Hall… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The phenomenon of aging is an intrinsic feature of life. Accordingly, the possibility to
manipulate it has fascinated humans likely since time immemorial. Recent evidence is …

Use of epigenetic drugs in disease: an overview

S Heerboth, K Lapinska, N Snyder… - Genetics & …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Epigenetic changes such as DNA methylation and histone methylation and acetylation alter
gene expression at the level of transcription by upregulating, downregulating, or silencing …