Sentences with phrase «epigenetic changes in this process»

«We already know that nutritional supplements for children can lead to lower ADHD and conduct problems, so it will be important for future research to examine the role of epigenetic changes in this process.»

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The epigenetic impairments reflect changes that increase accessibility of chromatin, a process that enhances gene transcription, suggesting the impairments play an important role in addiction behavior.

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

It is only now, more than three decades later, that science has the tools to see that this legacy of trauma becomes etched in our DNA — a process known as epigenetics, in which environmental factors trigger genetic changes that may be passed on, just as surely as blue eyes and crooked smiles.

«The coolest thing from an environmental perspective is that we can ask whether diet can influence this epigenetic process,» say Lanlan Shen of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, whose group has developed a way to direct where methylation occurs, allowing them to show that epigenetic changes can trigger tumours (see main story).

The researchers linked the excess weight and changes in metabolism to epigenetic modifications that reduce expression of the gene for adiponectin — a hormone that helps regulate several metabolic processes, including glucose regulation.

The black truffle uses reversible epigenetic processes to regulate its genes, and adapt to changes in its surroundings.

The way epigenetics helps understand that process is that it provides the mechanism by which maternal experience of a pup can essentially produce lifelong changes in the brain because many epigenetic changes are that stable.

The differences between male and female iPS cells are most pronounced for one of the key processes in the field of epigenetics: DNA methylation, a modification that changes the activity of a DNA segment without changing its sequence.

However, scientists have recently found that gene regulation can also happen in an ongoing fashion through epigenetic processes, with the potential to change behavior throughout a lifetime.

Fernald's work suggests that epigenetic processes may cause, rather than simply reflect, changes in dominance status in hierarchically organized species, said Tom Boyce, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

Major epigenetic changes underlie the process of epigenetic reprogramming in vivo and in vitro (SCNT, iPS generation...).

RNAi and other epigenetic processes induce changes in where and when specific genes are expressed without altering their genetic code...

The process, called epigenetic change, can result in her child tending to gain more fat.

«We're really trying to learn through molecular profiling analysis and a lot of epigenetic changes how to beat cancer, but not beat the patient's brain in the process,» he says.

Advances in neuroscience have revealed that the process of brain development is driven by a dynamic interaction between the genome (nature) and the environment (nurture).25 Epigenetic mechanisms like DNA methylation and histone acetylation are able to transduce experiences with the environment into long - lasting, even intergenerational changes in gene expression.26 — 35 So although the inherited genetic program is thought to provide a general blueprint for brain architecture, the environment is able to influence which genes are used, when they are used during the course of development, and where they are used within the developing brain.