Sentences with phrase «epigenetic effects from»
In recent years, the Skinner lab has documented epigenetic effects from a host of environmental toxicants, including DDT, plastics, pesticides, fungicides, dioxins, hydrocarbons and the plasticizer bisphenol - A or BPA.
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Earlier work by Skinner has found epigenetic effects from a host of environmental toxicants, connecting plastics, pesticides, fungicide, dioxin and hydrocarbons to diseases and abnormalities as many as three generations later.
New work from the University of Cambridge solidifies link between epigenetic effects from in utero diet and health problems across generations
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Because of the possibility of enduring effects, including via epigenetics, the Precautionary Principle suggests caution in deviating from these healthy physiologic processes in childbearing.»
Subsequent research undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues.
Tattersall explains how epigenetic effects on key genes cascade to produce radical morphological changes in an eye blink, and why our unusual thinking style, far from being the perfected product of long - term selective pressures, was bootstrapped out of existing abilities barely 100,000 years ago.
The drug had no effect on the epigenetic state of DNA taken from the local metastasis but reversed the epigenetic changes seen in cells from the distant metastasis.
Early results from a larger, ongoing study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on couples» reproductive success via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.
To see if PGD and the pentose phosphate pathway were tied to the epigenetic changes the researchers had detected in distant metastases, they treated tumor cells from different sites in a single patient with the drug 6 - aminonicotinamide (6AN), which is known to inhibit PGD but is not used in humans because of its severe side effects.
Steve: One of the really fascinating things in the article is this discussion of, it's not truly hereditary in the Mendelian sense, but you can perpetuate a dysfunction from generation to generation, sort of, indirectly through the epigenetic effect.
Results from this study highlight the role of pharmacologically active components in tea being involved in cancer and estrogen metabolism, which can reflect that health effects related to tea consumption might be due to epigenetic changes.
Al (2011) Suggest many aspects of urban living — ranging from life stressors to the use of drugs, can have an effect on human epigenetics.