1 4019 151 LOW-DOSE OR LOW-DOSE-RATE IONIZING RADIATION-INDUCED BIOEFFECTS IN ANIMAL MODELS. ANIMAL EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES INDICATE THAT ACUTE OR CHRONIC LOW-DOSE IONIZING RADIATION (LDIR) (</=100 MSV) OR LOW-DOSE-RATE IONIZING RADIATION (LDRIR) (<6 MSV/H) EXPOSURES MAY BE HARMFUL. IT INDUCES GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH A RANGE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES THAT INCLUDES ALTERED IMMUNE SYSTEM, ABNORMAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT WITH RESULTANT COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, CATARACTOGENESIS, ABNORMAL EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, CIRCULATORY DISEASES, WEIGHT GAIN, PREMATURE MENOPAUSE IN FEMALE ANIMALS, TUMORIGENESIS AND SHORTENED LIFESPAN. PATERNAL OR PRENATAL LDIR/LDRIR EXPOSURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED FERTILITY AND NUMBER OF LIVE FETUSES, AND TRANSGENERATIONAL GENOMIC ABERRATIONS. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN SOME EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES, LDIR/LDRIR EXPOSURE HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED TO BRING ABOUT BENEFICIAL EFFECTS SUCH AS REDUCTION IN TUMORIGENESIS, PROLONGED LIFESPAN AND ENHANCED FERTILITY. THE DIFFERENCES IN REPORTED EFFECTS OF LDIR/LDRIR EXPOSURE ARE DEPENDENT ON ANIMAL GENETIC BACKGROUND (SUSCEPTIBILITY), AGE (PRENATAL OR POSTNATAL DAYS), SEX, NATURE OF RADIATION EXPOSURE (I.E. ACUTE, FRACTIONATED OR CHRONIC RADIATION EXPOSURE), TYPE OF RADIATION, COMBINATION OF RADIATION WITH OTHER TOXIC AGENTS (SUCH AS SMOKING, PESTICIDES OR OTHER CHEMICAL TOXINS) OR ANIMAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS. IN THIS REVIEW PAPER, WE AIMED TO UPDATE RADIATION RESEARCHERS AND RADIOLOGISTS ON THE CURRENT PROGRESS ACHIEVED IN UNDERSTANDING THE LDIR/LDRIR-INDUCED BIONEGATIVE AND BIOPOSITIVE EFFECTS REPORTED IN THE VARIOUS ANIMAL MODELS. THE ROLES PLAYED BY A VARIETY OF MOLECULES THAT ARE IMPLICATED IN LDIR/LDRIR-INDUCED HEALTH EFFECTS WILL BE ELABORATED. THE REVIEW WILL HELP IN FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS OF LDIR/LDRIR-INDUCED HEALTH EFFECTS BY PROVIDING CLUES FOR DESIGNING IMPROVED ANIMAL RESEARCH MODELS IN ORDER TO CLARIFY THE CURRENT CONTROVERSIAL/CONTRADICTORY FINDINGS FROM EXISTING STUDIES.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
2 3899  26 LATE NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION: RISK FACTORS AND PHARMACEUTICAL APPROACHES. ZIKA VIRUS (ZIKV) INFECTION WAS HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED A DISEASE WITH MILD SYMPTOMS AND NO MAJOR CONSEQUENCES TO HUMAN HEALTH. HOWEVER, SEVERAL LONG-TERM, LATE ONSET, AND CHRONIC NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS, BOTH IN CONGENITALLY-EXPOSED BABIES AND IN ADULT PATIENTS, HAVE BEEN REPORTED AFTER ZIKV INFECTION, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE 2015 EPIDEMICS IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. THE DEVELOPMENT OR SEVERITY OF THESE CONDITIONS CANNOT BE FULLY PREDICTED, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS MAY CONTRIBUTE TO DETERMINE ZIKV INFECTION OUTCOMES. THIS REINFORCES THE IMPORTANCE THAT INDIVIDUALS EXPOSED TO ZIKV ARE SUBMITTED TO LONG-TERM CLINICAL SURVEILLANCE AND HIGHLIGHTS THE URGENT NEED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE THE NEUROLOGICAL BURDEN OF INFECTION. HERE, WE REVIEW THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ZIKV-ASSOCIATED NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND THE ROLE OF FACTORS THAT MAY INFLUENCE DISEASE OUTCOME. MOREOVER, WE DISCUSS EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL EVIDENCE OF DRUGS THAT HAVE SHOWN PROMISING RESULTS IN VITRO OR IN VITRO AGAINST VIRAL REPLICATION AND AND/OR ZIKV-INDUCED NEUROTOXICITY.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
3 6911  19 [TWO GERMAN BIRTH COHORTS: GINIPLUS AND LISAPLUS]. NUMEROUS CHRONIC DISEASES IN CHILDHOOD AND ADULTHOOD HAVE THEIR ORIGINS IN PERINATAL LIFE AND ARE POTENTIALLY INFLUENCED BY TRANS-GENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC PROCESSES. THEREFORE, PROSPECTIVE BIRTH COHORTS CAN SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTE TO OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ETIOLOGY OF DISEASES INCLUDING MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS. THE TWO POPULATION-BASED GERMAN BIRTH COHORTS GINIPLUS AND LISAPLUS AIM TO DESCRIBE THE NATURAL COURSE OF CHRONIC DISEASES AND INTERMEDIATE PHENOTYPES IN CHILDHOOD AND ITS DETERMINANTS, AND TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL GENETIC EFFECT MODIFICATIONS. IN THE MID-1990S, 5,991 (GINIPLUS) AND 3,097 (LISAPLUS) HEALTHY, TERM NEWBORNS WERE RECRUITED FOR LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP IN FOUR REGIONS OF GERMANY. THE FOLLOW-UP RATE FOR THE FIRST 10 YEARS WAS ABOUT 55%. WE ANALYZED THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF OVERWEIGHT, INFECTIONS AND ALLERGIC DISEASES, MENTAL AND ORAL HEALTH, METABOLIC AND INFLAMMATORY PARAMETERS AND THE ROLE OF POTENTIAL RISK FACTORS INCLUDING GENETICS. THE RESULTS OF THESE TWO BIRTH COHORTS SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE NATURAL COURSE OF THESE HEALTH PARAMETERS. THESE DATA WERE INCLUDED IN MANY INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AND CONSORTIA FOR PURPOSES OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF PREVALENCE AND CONSISTENCY OF FINDINGS, AND TO INCREASE THE POWER OF THE ANALYSES.	2012	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
4 4834  30 ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE MEDICINE OF HILDEGARD OF BINGEN AND MODERN MEDICINE: THE ROLE OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR AS AN EXAMPLE OF BIODYNAMIC INTERFACE FOR STUDYING THE CHRONIC DISEASE'S COMPLEXITY. INTRODUCTION: HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098-1179) INTERPRETED THE ORIGINS OF CHRONIC DISEASE HIGHLIGHTING AND ANTICIPATING, ALTHOUGH ONLY IN A LIMITED FASHION, THE IMPORTANCE THAT COMPLEX INTERACTIONS AMONG NUMEROUS GENETIC, INTERNAL MILIEU AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS HAVE IN DETERMINING THE DISEASE PHENOTYPE. TODAY, WE RECOGNIZE THOSE FACTORS, CAPABLE OF MEDIATING THE TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES BETWEEN HUMAN BODY AND ENVIRONMENT AND VICE VERSA, AS BIODYNAMIC INTERFACES. AIM: WE ANALYZED, IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, HILDEGARD OF BINGEN'S MEDICAL APPROACH AND HER ORIGINAL HUMORAL THEORY IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY POSSIBLE INSIGHTS INCLUDED IN HER MEDICINE THAT COULD BE REFERRED TO IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE. IN PARTICULAR, THE ABBESS'S HUMORAL THEORY SUGGESTS THE IDENTIFICATION OF BIODYNAMIC INTERFACES WITH SEX HORMONES AND THEIR RECEPTORS. FINDINGS: WE FOUND THAT THE HILDEGARDIAN HOLISTIC VISION OF THE ORGANISM-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIP CAN ACTUALLY REPRESENT A VISIONARY APPROACH TO MODERN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND THAT SEX HORMONES, IN PARTICULAR ESTROGENS, COULD REPRESENT AN EXAMPLE OF A BIODYNAMIC INTERFACE. ESTROGEN RECEPTORS ARE FOUND IN REGIONS OF THE BRAIN INVOLVED IN EMOTIONAL AND COGNITIVE REGULATION, CONTROLLING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF BRAIN FUNCTION. ESTROGEN RECEPTORS ARE INVOLVED IN THE REGULATION OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS AND IN THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF RESPONSES TO PHYSIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, AND HORMONAL STIMULI. FURTHERMORE, ESTROGEN AFFECTS GENE METHYLATION ON ITS OWN AND RELATED RECEPTOR PROMOTERS IN DISCRETE REGIONS OF THE DEVELOPING BRAIN. THIS SCENARIO WAS STRIKINGLY PERCEIVED BY THE ABBESS IN THE XIITH CENTURY, AND DEPICTED AS A COMPLEX INTERPLAY AMONG DIFFERENT HUMORS AND FLEGMATA THAT SHE RECOGNIZED TO BE SEX SPECIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTALLY REGULATED. VIEWPOINT: CONSIDERING THE FUNCTION PLAYED BY HORMONES, ANALYZED THROUGH THE LAST SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, AND SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON BIODYNAMIC INTERFACES, WE COULD SUGGEST HILDEGARDIAN INSIGHTS AND THEORIES AS THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE THE MODERN HOLISTIC, SEX-BASED MEDICINE. CONCLUSION: HILDEGARD ANTICIPATED A CONCEPT OF PATHOGENESIS THAT SEES A CENTRAL ROLE FOR ENDOCRINOLOGY IN SEX-SPECIFIC DISEASE. FURTHERMORE, ESTROGENS AND ESTROGEN RECEPTORS COULD REPRESENT A GOOD EXAMPLE OF MOLECULAR INTERFACES CAPABLE OF MODULATING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE ORGANISM INTERNAL MILIEU AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS.	2022	

5 6464  25 TISSUE MISREPAIR HYPOTHESIS FOR RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS. DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES FOR CHRONIC LEUKEMIA IN A-BOMB SURVIVORS AND LIVER TUMORS IN PATIENTS GIVEN THOROTRAST (COLLOIDAL THORIUM DIOXIDE) SHOW LARGE THRESHOLD EFFECTS. THE EXISTENCE OF THESE THRESHOLD EFFECTS CAN BE EXPLAINED BY THE FOLLOWING HYPOTHESIS. A HIGH DOSE OF RADIATION CAUSES A PERSISTENT WOUND IN A CELL-RENEWABLE TISSUE. DISORDER OF THE INJURED CELL SOCIETY PARTLY FREES THE COMPONENT CELLS FROM TERRITORIAL RESTRAINTS ON THEIR PROLIFERATION, ENABLING THEM TO CONTINUE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CELLULAR FUNCTIONS TOWARD ADVANCED AUTONOMY. THIS PROGRESSION MIGHT BE ACHIEVED BY CONTINUED EPIGENETIC AND GENETIC CHANGES AS A RESULT OF OCCASIONAL ERRORS IN THE OTHERWISE CONCERTED HEALING ACTION OF VARIOUS ENDOGENOUS FACTORS RECRUITED FOR TISSUE REPAIR. CARCINOGENESIS IS NOT SIMPLY A SINGLE-CELL PROBLEM BUT A CELL-SOCIETY PROBLEM. THEREFORE, IT IS NOT WARRANTED TO ESTIMATE RISK AT LOW DOSES BY LINEAR EXTRAPOLATION FROM CANCER DATA AT HIGH DOSES WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE MECHANISM OF RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS.	1991	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
6 2603  29 EPIGENETICS, ENVIRONMENT AND EPIDEMIOLOGY: AN INTERVIEW WITH KARL KELSEY. IN THIS INTERVIEW, PROFESSOR KARL KELSEY SPEAKS WITH STORM JOHNSON, COMMISSIONING EDITOR FOR EPIGENOMICS, ON HIS WORK TO DATE IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENTAL EPIGENOMICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY. DR KARL KELSEY, MD, MOH IS A PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE AT BROWN UNIVERSITY. HE IS THE FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY AND HEAD OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SECTION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. DR KELSEY IS INTERESTED IN THE APPLICATION OF LABORATORY-BASED BIOMARKERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE, WITH EXPERIENCE IN CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TUMOR BIOLOGY. THE GOALS OF HIS WORK INCLUDE A MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF INDIVIDUAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO EXPOSURE-RELATED CANCERS. IN ADDITION, HIS LABORATORY IS INTERESTED IN TUMOR BIOLOGY, INVESTIGATING SOMATIC ALTERATIONS IN TUMOR TISSUE FROM THE PATIENTS WHO HAVE DEVELOPED EXPOSURE-RELATED CANCERS. THIS WORK INVOLVES THE USE OF AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZE EPIGENETIC AND GENETIC ALTERATION OF GENES IN THE CAUSAL PATHWAY FOR MALIGNANCY. ACTIVE WORK INCLUDES SEVERAL STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CANCER. DR KELSEY'S LABORATORY MAINLY INVESTIGATES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SMOKING-RELATED LUNG CANCER AND STUDIES MULTI-RACIAL AND ETHNIC POPULATIONS. IN ADDITION, THE LABORATORY IS ALSO INVOLVED WITH THE STUDY OF INHERITED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BRAIN TUMORS AND PANCREATIC CANCER. MAJOR CASE CONTROL STUDIES THAT ARE ONGOING IN THE LABORATORY INCLUDE STUDIES DESIGNED TO UNDERSTAND INHERITED AND ACQUIRED SUSCEPTIBILITY IN HEAD AND NECK CANCERS. THE LABORATORY IS ALSO INVOLVED IN A CASE CONTROL STUDY OF ASBESTOS-ASSOCIATED MESOTHELIOMA, ARSENIC EXPOSURE, CIGARETTE SMOKING AND BLADDER CANCER. CONSIDERABLE WORK IS BEING DEVOTED TO UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF BOTH ASBESTOS AND ARSENIC INCLUDING THEIR ABILITY TO AFFECT PROMOTER METHYLATION AND GENE SILENCING IN CARCINOGENESIS. RECENT LABORATORY STUDIES INCLUDES AN INTEREST IN USING NEWLY DEVELOPED DNA METHYLATION BIOMARKERS TO PROBE IMMUNE PROFILES FROM ARCHIVED BLOOD. DR KELSEY RECEIVED HIS MD FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AND MASTERS OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
7 4736  27 NOVEL EPIGENETIC BIOMARKERS MEDIATING BISPHENOL A EXPOSURE AND METABOLIC PHENOTYPES IN FEMALE MICE. THERE IS COMPELLING EVIDENCE THAT EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS LINK DEVELOPMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL INSULTS TO ADULT DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY. ANIMAL STUDIES HAVE ASSOCIATED PERINATAL BISPHENOL A (BPA) EXPOSURE TO ALTERED DNA METHYLATION, BUT THESE STUDIES ARE OFTEN LIMITED TO CANDIDATE GENE AND GLOBAL NON-LOCI-SPECIFIC APPROACHES. BY USING AN EPIGENOME-WIDE DISCOVERY PLATFORM, WE ELUCIDATED EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS IN LIVER TISSUE FROM ADULT MICE OFFSPRING (10 MONTHS) FOLLOWING PERINATAL BPA EXPOSURE AT HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT DOSES (50-NG, 50-MUG, AND 50-MG BPA/KG DIET). BIOLOGICAL PATHWAY ANALYSIS IDENTIFIED AN ENRICHMENT OF SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED REGIONS IN METABOLIC PATHWAYS AMONG FEMALES. FURTHERMORE, THROUGH THE USE OF TOP ENRICHED BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS, 4 CANDIDATE GENES WERE CHOSEN TO ASSESS DNA METHYLATION AS A MEDIATING FACTOR LINKING THE ASSOCIATION OF PERINATAL BPA EXPOSURE TO METABOLIC PHENOTYPES PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED IN FEMALE OFFSPRING. DNA METHYLATION STATUS AT JANUS KINASE-2 (JAK-2), RETINOID X RECEPTOR (RXR), REGULATORY FACTOR X-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN (RFXAP), AND TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 238 (TMEM238) WAS USED WITHIN A MEDIATIONAL REGRESSION ANALYSIS. DNA METHYLATION IN ALL FOUR OF THE CANDIDATE GENES WAS IDENTIFIED AS A MEDIATOR IN THE MECHANISTIC PATHWAY OF DEVELOPMENTAL BPA EXPOSURE AND FEMALE-SPECIFIC ENERGY EXPENDITURE, BODY WEIGHT, AND BODY FAT PHENOTYPES. DATA GENERATED FROM THIS STUDY ARE CRUCIAL FOR DECIPHERING THE MECHANISTIC ROLE OF EPIGENETICS IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CHRONIC DISEASE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EPIGENETIC-BASED PREVENTION AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES FOR COMPLEX HUMAN DISEASE.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
8 3591  32 IMPAIRED ONE CARBON METABOLISM AND DNA METHYLATION IN ALCOHOL TOXICITY. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS A PROMINENT PROBLEM AND ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY AROUND THE WORLD. LONG-TERM, HEAVY ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A NUMBER OF DELETERIOUS HEALTH CONSEQUENCES, SUCH AS CANCER, HEART AND LIVER DISEASE, A VARIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL, COGNITIVE, AND BEHAVIORAL DEFICITS. ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DEFECTS. THE CAUSES OF ALCOHOL-INDUCED TOXICITY ARE PRESENTLY UNCLEAR. ONE OF THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING ALCOHOL TOXICITY HAS TO DO WITH ITS INTERACTION WITH FOLIC ACID/HOMOCYSTEINE OR ONE-CARBON METABOLISM (OCM). OCM IS A MAJOR DONOR OF METHYL GROUPS FOR METHYLATION, PARTICULARLY DNA METHYLATION CRITICAL FOR EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION, AND ITS DISTURBANCE MAY COMPROMISE DNA METHYLATION, THEREBY AFFECTING GENE EXPRESSION. OCM DISTURBANCE MEDIATED BY NUTRIENT DEFICITS IS A WELL-KNOWN RISK FACTOR FOR VARIOUS DISORDERS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DEFECTS (E.G., NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS). IN THIS REVIEW, WE SUMMARIZE THE ROLE OF OCM DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED EPIGENETIC ABERRATIONS IN CHRONIC ALCOHOL-INDUCED TOXICITY. IN THIS REVIEW, WE SUMMARIZE THE ROLE OF ONE-CARBON METABOLISM (OCM) ABERRATIONS IN CHRONIC ALCOHOL-INDUCED TOXICITY. OCM IS A MAJOR DONOR OF METHYL GROUPS FOR METHYLATION REACTIONS, PARTICULARLY DNA METHYLATION CRITICAL FOR EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION. ALCOHOL INTERFERENCE WITH OCM AND CONSEQUENT REDUCED AVAILABILITY OF METHYL GROUPS, IMPROPER DNA METHYLATION, AND ABERRANT GENE EXPRESSION CAN PLAY A CAUSATIVE ROLE IN ALCOHOL TOXICITY.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
9  452  30 APPLICATION OF THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCINOGENS TO PER AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES. PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) CONSTITUTE A LARGE CLASS OF ENVIRONMENTALLY PERSISTENT CHEMICALS USED IN INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS. HUMAN EXPOSURE TO PFAS IS EXTENSIVE, AND PFAS CONTAMINATION HAS BEEN REPORTED IN DRINKING WATER AND FOOD SUPPLIES AS WELL AS IN THE SERUM OF NEARLY ALL PEOPLE. THE MOST WELL-STUDIED MEMBER OF THE PFAS CLASS, PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID (PFOA), INDUCES TUMORS IN ANIMAL BIOASSAYS AND HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH ELEVATED RISK OF CANCER IN HUMAN POPULATIONS. GENX, ONE OF THE PFOA REPLACEMENT CHEMICALS, INDUCES TUMORS IN ANIMAL BIOASSAYS AS WELL. USING THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCINOGENS FRAMEWORK FOR CANCER HAZARD IDENTIFICATION, WE CONSIDERED THE EXISTING EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, TOXICOLOGICAL AND MECHANISTIC DATA FOR 26 DIFFERENT PFAS. WE FOUND STRONG EVIDENCE THAT MULTIPLE PFAS INDUCE OXIDATIVE STRESS, ARE IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE, AND MODULATE RECEPTOR-MEDIATED EFFECTS. WE ALSO FOUND SUGGESTIVE EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT SOME PFAS CAN INDUCE EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS AND INFLUENCE CELL PROLIFERATION. EXPERIMENTAL DATA INDICATE THAT PFAS ARE NOT GENOTOXIC AND GENERALLY DO NOT UNDERGO METABOLIC ACTIVATION. DATA ARE CURRENTLY INSUFFICIENT TO ASSESS WHETHER ANY PFAS PROMOTE CHRONIC INFLAMMATION, CELLULAR IMMORTALIZATION OR ALTER DNA REPAIR. WHILE MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO ADDRESS DATA GAPS, EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT SEVERAL PFAS EXHIBIT ONE OR MORE OF THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCINOGENS.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
10 4999  31 PERINATAL PROGRAMMING OF CIRCADIAN CLOCK-STRESS CROSSTALK. AN INTACT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CIRCADIAN CLOCKS AND THE STRESS SYSTEM IS IMPORTANT FOR MAINTAINING PHYSIOLOGICAL HOMEOSTASIS UNDER RESTING CONDITIONS AND IN RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL STIMULI. THERE IS ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE FOR A RECIPROCAL INTERACTION BETWEEN BOTH-FROM THE SYSTEMIC TO THE MOLECULAR LEVEL. DISRUPTION OF THIS INTERACTION BY EXTERNAL FACTORS SUCH AS SHIFTWORK, JETLAG, OR CHRONIC STRESS INCREASES THE RISK OF DEVELOPING METABOLIC, IMMUNE, OR MOOD DISORDERS. FROM EXPERIMENTS IN RODENTS, WE KNOW THAT BOTH SYSTEMS MATURATE DURING THE PERINATAL PERIOD. DURING THAT TIME, EXOGENOUS FACTORS SUCH AS STRESS OR ALTERATIONS IN THE EXTERNAL PHOTOPERIOD MAY CRITICALLY AFFECT-OR PROGRAM-PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS LATER IN LIFE. THIS DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING PROCESS HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO MATERNAL STRESS SIGNALS REACHING THE EMBRYO, WHICH LASTINGLY CHANGE GENE EXPRESSION THROUGH THE INDUCTION OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. DESPITE THE WELL-KNOWN FUNCTION OF THE ADULT CIRCADIAN SYSTEM IN TEMPORAL COORDINATION OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR, THE ROLE OF MATERNAL AND EMBRYONIC CIRCADIAN CLOCKS DURING PREGNANCY AND POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT IS STILL POORLY DEFINED. A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CIRCADIAN-STRESS CROSSTALK AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF DEVELOPMENT MAY HELP TO IMPROVE STRESS RESISTANCE AND DEVISE PREVENTIVE AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES AGAINST CHRONIC STRESS-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
11 1749  27 EARLY LIFE INTERVENTIONS CAN SHAPE AGING. IT IS WELL DOCUMENTED THAT THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE DEVELOPING FETUS, INCLUDING AVAILABILITY OF NUTRIENTS AND PRESENCE OF TOXINS, CAN HAVE MAJOR IMPACT ON ADULT PHENOTYPE, AGE-RELATED TRAITS AND RISK OF CHRONIC DISEASE. THERE IS ALSO ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE THAT POSTNATAL ENVIRONMENT CAN IMPACT ADULT CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO EVOLUTIONARY FITNESS, HEALTH, AND AGING. TO DETERMINE WHETHER EARLY LIFE HORMONAL INTERVENTIONS CAN ALTER TRAJECTORY OF AGING, WE HAVE EXAMINED THE EFFECTS OF EARLY LIFE GROWTH HORMONE (GH) REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN PROP1(DF) (AMES DWARF) MICE WHICH ARE GH DEFICIENT AND REMARKABLY LONG LIVED. TWICE-DAILY GH INJECTIONS BETWEEN THE AGES OF TWO AND EIGHT WEEKS COMPLETELY NORMALIZED ("RESCUED") A NUMBER OF ADULT METABOLIC CHARACTERISTICS BELIEVED TO CONTRIBUTE TO EXTENDED LONGEVITY OF THESE MUTANTS. IMPORTANTLY, LONGEVITY OF AMES DWARF MICE WAS REDUCED BY EARLY LIFE GH TREATMENT. THIS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH HISTONE H3 MODIFICATIONS. WE CONCLUDE THAT THE TRAJECTORY OF MAMMALIAN AGING CAN BE MODIFIED BY EARLY LIFE INTERVENTIONS. MECHANISTIC LINKS AMONG INTERVENTIONS DURING POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT, ADULT METABOLIC CHARACTERISTICS, AGING, AND LONGEVITY, APPARENTLY INVOLVE EPIGENETIC PHENOMENA.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
12 2616  29 EPIGENOME MODULATION INDUCED BY KETOGENIC DIETS. KETOGENIC DIETS (KD) ARE DIETARY STRATEGIES LOW IN CARBOHYDRATES, NORMAL IN PROTEIN, AND HIGH, NORMAL, OR REDUCED IN FAT WITH OR WITHOUT (VERY LOW-CALORIES KETOGENIC DIET, VLCKD) A REDUCED CALORIC INTAKE. KDS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY, METABOLIC DISEASES AND RELATED DISORDERS, NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES, AND VARIOUS PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS SUCH AS CANCER, NONALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE, AND CHRONIC PAIN. SEVERAL STUDIES HAVE INVESTIGATED THE INTRACELLULAR METABOLIC PATHWAYS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF THESE DIETS. ALTHOUGH EPIGENETIC CHANGES ARE AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT DETERMINANTS OF AN ORGANISM'S ABILITY TO ADAPT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES, DATA ON THE EPIGENETIC CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE DIETARY PATHWAYS ARE STILL LIMITED. THIS REVIEW PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR EPIGENETIC CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH KDS.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
13 2597  33 EPIGENETICS OF SUBCELLULAR STRUCTURE FUNCTIONING IN THE ORIGIN OF RISK OR RESILIENCE TO COMORBIDITY OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC AND CARDIOMETABOLIC DISORDERS. MECHANISMS CONTROLLING MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION, PROTEIN FOLDING IN THE ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM (ER) AND NUCLEAR PROCESSES SUCH AS TELOMERE LENGTH AND DNA REPAIR MAY BE SUBJECT TO EPIGENETIC CUES THAT RELATE THE GENOMIC EXPRESSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES IN EARLY STAGES OF LIFE. THEY MAY ALSO BE INVOLVED IN THE COMORBID APPEARANCE OF CARDIOMETABOLIC (CMD) AND NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS (NPD) DURING ADULTHOOD. MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION AND PROTEIN FOLDING IN THE ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM ARE ASSOCIATED WITH OXIDATIVE STRESS AND ELEVATED INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM LEVELS AND MAY ALSO UNDERLIE THE VULNERABILITY FOR COMORBID CMD AND NPD. MITOCHONDRIA PROVIDE KEY METABOLITES SUCH AS NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (NAD+), ATP, ALPHA-KETOGLUTARATE AND ACETYL COENZYME A THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR MANY TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC PROCESSES. THEY ARE ALSO A SOURCE OF FREE RADICALS. ON THE OTHER HAND, EPIGENETIC MARKERS IN NUCLEAR DNA DETERMINE MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS. THE ER IS THE SUBCELLULAR ORGANELLE IN WHICH SECRETORY PROTEINS ARE FOLDED. MANY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS STOP THE ABILITY OF CELLS TO PROPERLY FOLD PROTEINS AND MODIFY POST-TRANSLATIONALLY SECRETORY AND TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEINS LEADING TO ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS AND OXIDATIVE STRESS. ER FUNCTIONING MAY BE EPIGENETICALLY DETERMINED. CHRONIC ER STRESS IS EMERGING AS A KEY CONTRIBUTOR TO A GROWING LIST OF HUMAN DISEASES, INCLUDING CMD AND NPD. TELOMERE LOSS CAUSES CHROMOSOMAL FUSION, ACTIVATION OF THE CONTROL OF DNA DAMAGE-RESPONSES, UNSTABLE GENOME AND ALTERED STEM CELL FUNCTION, WHICH MAY UNDERLIE THE COMORBIDITY OF CMD AND NPD. THE LENGTH OF TELOMERES IS RELATED TO OXIDATIVE STRESS AND MAY BE EPIGENETICALLY PROGRAMMED. PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN DNA REPAIR MAY BE EPIGENETICALLY PROGRAMMED AND MAY CONTRIBUTE TO DISEASES. IN THIS PAPER, WE DESCRIBE SUBCELLULAR MECHANISMS THAT ARE DETERMINED BY EPIGENETIC MARKERS AND THEIR POSSIBLE RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DEVELOP CMD AND NPD.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
14 5809  28 STRAWBERRY AND HUMAN HEALTH: EFFECTS BEYOND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY. THE USEFULNESS OF A DIET RICH IN VEGETABLES AND FRUITS ON HUMAN HEALTH HAS BEEN WIDELY RECOGNIZED: A HIGH INTAKE OF ANTIOXIDANT AND BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS MAY IN FACT PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE PREVENTION OF SEVERAL DISEASES, SUCH AS CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR, NEURODEGENERATIVE, AND OTHER CHRONIC PATHOLOGIES. THE STRAWBERRY (FRAGARIA X ANANASSA DUCH.) POSSESSES A REMARKABLE NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION IN TERMS OF MICRONUTRIENTS, SUCH AS MINERALS, VITAMIN C, AND FOLATES, AND NON-NUTRIENT ELEMENTS, SUCH AS PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS, THAT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN HEALTH. ALTHOUGH STRAWBERRY PHENOLICS ARE KNOWN MAINLY FOR THEIR ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIONS, RECENT STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT THEIR BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES ALSO SPREAD TO OTHER PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN CELLULAR METABOLISM AND CELLULAR SURVIVAL. THIS PAPER HAS THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF REVIEWING CURRENT INFORMATION ABOUT THE POTENTIAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN THE EFFECTS ELICITED BY STRAWBERRY POLYPHENOLS ON HUMAN HEALTH, DEVOTING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE LATEST FINDINGS.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
15  650  24 BISPHENOL A AND HUMAN CHRONIC DISEASES: CURRENT EVIDENCES, POSSIBLE MECHANISMS, AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. BISPHENOL-A (BPA) IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST VOLUME CHEMICALS PRODUCED WORLDWIDE, WITH OVER 6BILLION POUNDS PRODUCED AND OVER 100T RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE EACH YEAR. RECENT EXTENSIVE LITERATURE HAS RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT ITS POSSIBLE IMPLICATION IN THE ETIOLOGY OF SOME HUMAN CHRONIC DISEASES SUCH AS DIABETES, OBESITY, REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, BIRTH DEFECTS, CHRONIC RESPIRATORY AND KIDNEY DISEASES AND BREAST CANCER. IN THIS REVIEW, WE PRESENT THE HIGHLIGHTED EVIDENCES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BPA EXPOSURE AND HUMAN CHRONIC DISEASES AND WE DISCUSS ITS EVENTUAL MECHANISMS OF ACTION, ESPECIALLY GENETIC, EPIGENETIC AND ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION MECHANISMS WITH THE POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT OF OXIDATIVE STRESS, MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION AND CELL SIGNALING.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
16 5213  23 PRESYMPTOMATIC RISK ASSESSMENT FOR CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. THE PREVALENCE OF COMMON CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (CNCDS) FAR OVERSHADOWS THE PREVALENCE OF BOTH MONOGENIC AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES COMBINED. ALL CNCDS, ALSO CALLED COMPLEX GENETIC DISEASES, HAVE A HERITABLE GENETIC COMPONENT THAT CAN BE USED FOR PRE-SYMPTOMATIC RISK ASSESSMENT. COMMON SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS (SNPS) THAT TAG RISK HAPLOTYPES ACROSS THE GENOME CURRENTLY ACCOUNT FOR A NON-TRIVIAL PORTION OF THE GERM-LINE GENETIC RISK AND WE WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO IDENTIFY THE REMAINING MISSING HERITABILITY IN THE FORM OF RARE VARIANTS, COPY NUMBER VARIANTS AND EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS. HERE, WE DESCRIBE A NOVEL MEASURE FOR CALCULATING THE LIFETIME RISK OF A DISEASE, CALLED THE GENETIC COMPOSITE INDEX (GCI), AND DEMONSTRATE ITS PREDICTIVE VALUE AS A CLINICAL CLASSIFIER. THE GCI ONLY CONSIDERS SUMMARY STATISTICS OF THE EFFECTS OF GENETIC VARIATION AND HENCE DOES NOT REQUIRE THE RESULTS OF LARGE-SCALE STUDIES SIMULTANEOUSLY ASSESSING MULTIPLE RISK FACTORS. COMBINING GCI SCORES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RISK INFORMATION PROVIDES AN ADDITIONAL TOOL FOR CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING. THE GCI CAN BE POPULATED WITH HERITABLE RISK INFORMATION OF ANY TYPE, AND THUS REPRESENTS A FRAMEWORK FOR CNCD PRE-SYMPTOMATIC RISK ASSESSMENT THAT CAN BE POPULATED AS ADDITIONAL RISK INFORMATION IS IDENTIFIED THROUGH NEXT-GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES.	2010	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
17 2568  30 EPIGENETICS OF ALCOHOL-RELATED LIVER DISEASES. ALCOHOL-RELATED LIVER DISEASE (ARLD) IS A PRIMARY CAUSE OF CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES. DESPITE ADVANCES IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF ARLD, IT REMAINS A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM ASSOCIATED WITH SIGNIFICANT MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY, EMPHASISING THE NEED TO ADOPT NOVEL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF ARLD AND ITS COMPLICATIONS. EPIGENETIC CHANGES ARE INCREASINGLY BEING RECOGNISED AS CONTRIBUTING TO THE PATHOGENESIS OF MULTIPLE DISEASE STATES. HARNESSING THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE STUDY OF EPIGENETICS (E.G., NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING, DNA METHYLATION ASSAYS, HISTONE MODIFICATION PROFILING AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES LIKE MACHINE LEARNING) HAS RESULTED IN A SEISMIC SHIFT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ARLD. KNOWLEDGE OF THESE TECHNIQUES AND ADVANCES IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE FOR THE PRACTICING HEPATOLOGIST AND RESEARCHERS ALIKE. ACCORDINGLY, IN THIS REVIEW ARTICLE WE WILL SUMMARISE THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ALCOHOL-INDUCED EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF ARLD, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DNA HYPER/HYPO METHYLATION, HISTONE MODIFICATIONS, CHANGES IN NON-CODING RNA, 3D CHROMATIN ARCHITECTURE AND ENHANCER-PROMOTER INTERACTIONS. ADDITIONALLY, WE WILL DISCUSS THE STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES USED IN THE STUDY OF ARLD (E.G. SINGLE-CELL SEQUENCING). WE WILL ALSO HIGHLIGHT THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF CHEMOKINES AND THEIR PROINFLAMMATORY ROLE IN THE CONTEXT OF ARLD. LASTLY, WE WILL EXAMINE THE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF EPIGENETICS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF ARLD.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
18 1162  32 CONTRASTING EFFECTS OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC STRESS ON THE TRANSCRIPTOME, EPIGENOME, AND IMMUNE RESPONSE OF ATLANTIC SALMON. STRESS EXPERIENCED DURING EARLY LIFE MAY HAVE LASTING EFFECTS ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, WITH IMPACTS ON HEALTH AND DISEASE DEPENDENT ON THE NATURE AND DURATION OF THE STRESSOR. THE EPIGENOME IS ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI DURING EARLY LIFE AND REPRESENTS A POTENTIAL MECHANISM THROUGH WHICH STRESS MAY CAUSE LONG-LASTING HEALTH EFFECTS. HOWEVER, THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE EPIGENOME RESPONDS DIFFERENTLY TO CHRONIC VS ACUTE STRESSORS IS UNCLEAR, ESPECIALLY FOR NON-MAMMALIAN SPECIES. WE EXAMINED THE EFFECTS OF ACUTE STRESS (COLD-SHOCK DURING EMBRYOGENESIS) AND CHRONIC STRESS (ABSENCE OF TANK ENRICHMENT DURING LARVAL-STAGE) ON GLOBAL GENE EXPRESSION (USING RNA-SEQ) AND DNA METHYLATION (USING RRBS) IN THE GILLS OF ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) FOUR MONTHS AFTER HATCHING. CHRONIC STRESS INDUCED PRONOUNCED TRANSCRIPTIONAL DIFFERENCES, WHILE ACUTE STRESS CAUSED FEW LASTING TRANSCRIPTIONAL EFFECTS. HOWEVER, BOTH ACUTE AND CHRONIC STRESS CAUSED LASTING AND CONTRASTING CHANGES IN THE METHYLOME. CRUCIALLY, WE FOUND THAT ACUTE STRESS ENHANCED TRANSCRIPTIONAL IMMUNE RESPONSE TO A PATHOGENIC CHALLENGE (BACTERIAL LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE, LPS), WHILE CHRONIC STRESS SUPPRESSED IT. WE IDENTIFIED STRESS-INDUCED CHANGES IN PROMOTER AND GENE-BODY METHYLATION THAT WERE ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED EXPRESSION FOR A SMALL PROPORTION OF IMMUNE-RELATED GENES, AND EVIDENCE OF WIDER EPIGENETIC REGULATION WITHIN SIGNALLING PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN IMMUNE RESPONSE. OUR RESULTS SUGGEST THAT STRESS CAN AFFECT IMMUNO-COMPETENCE THROUGH EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS, AND HIGHLIGHT THE MARKEDLY DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF CHRONIC LARVAL AND ACUTE EMBRYONIC STRESS. THIS KNOWLEDGE COULD BE USED TO HARNESS THE STIMULATORY EFFECTS OF ACUTE STRESS ON IMMUNITY, PAVING THE WAY FOR IMPROVED STRESS AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT THROUGH EPIGENETIC CONDITIONING.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
19 6484  26 TOXICOLOGIC PROFILE OF ACRYLONITRILE. ACRYLONITRILE IS A MONOMER USED EXTENSIVELY AS A RAW MATERIAL IN THE MANUFACTURING OF ACRYLIC FIBERS, PLASTICS, SYNTHETIC RUBBERS, AND ACRYLAMIDE. IT HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A PROBABLE HUMAN CARCINOGEN ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS OF NUMEROUS CHRONIC RAT BIOASSAYS. THE PRESENT REPORT SUMMARIZES THE TOXICITY DATA ON ACRYLONITRILE AND REVIEWS AVAILABLE DATA CONCERNING THE MECHANISM (GENETIC VERSUS EPIGENETIC) BY WHICH ACRYLONITRILE IS CARCINOGENIC IN RATS. FROM THE EVALUATION OF THE RELEVANT TOXICITY DATA, IT CAN BE CONCLUDED THAT ACRYLONITRILE IS INDEED CARCINOGENIC TO RATS AFTER EITHER ORAL OR INHALATIONAL EXPOSURE. HOWEVER, INFORMATION ON OTHER MAMMALIAN SPECIES IS LACKING, AND, MOREOVER, THE EXACT MECHANISM OF THE CARCINOGENIC PROCESS IS UNCLEAR. THEREFORE, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO CONDUCT AN ADDITIONAL LONG-TERM INHALATION CARCINOGENICITY STUDY WITH ACRYLONITRILE IN MICE, AS WELL AS STUDIES INTO THE MECHANISM BY WHICH ACRYLONITRILE INDUCES (BRAIN) TUMORS IN RATS (GENETIC VERSUS EPIGENETIC).	1998	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
20 4399  33 MODULATION OF GENOMIC AND POSTGENOMIC ALTERATIONS IN NONCANCER DISEASES AND CRITICAL PERIODS OF LIFE. GENOMIC AND POSTGENOMIC CHANGES ARE EXTENSIVELY INVESTIGATED IN CANCER RESEARCH. SIMILAR ALTERATIONS, AFFECTING GENOME, TRANSCRIPTOME, MIRNOME AND/OR PROTEOME END-POINTS, HAVE BEEN DETECTED IN A VARIETY OF OTHER CHRONIC DEGENERATIVE DISEASES, SUCH AS ATHEROSCLEROSIS, DEGENERATIVE HEART DISEASES, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASES, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, EYE DISEASES, DIABETES, METABOLIC SYNDROME, SKIN AGEING AND ALOPECIA. NO GENERALIZATION CAN BE MADE DUE TO THE MYRIAD OF DIVERSE CLINICAL ENTITIES CLASSIFIED AS CHRONIC DEGENERATIVE DISEASES. MOREOVER, THE DETECTION OF MOLECULAR CHANGES DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY IMPLY THEIR CAUSAL ROLE. NEVERTHELESS, COMMON MECHANISMS, SUCH AS DNA DAMAGE, EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS, OXIDATIVE STRESS, AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION, IN ADDITION TO GENETIC PREDISPOSITION, ARE OFTEN INVOLVED IN NONCANCER DISEASES. WE DEBATE HERE IN MORE DETAIL THE SUBJECTS OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND OF SKIN DISEASES. MOREOVER, WE DISCUSS OUR EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES SUGGESTING THAT GENOMIC AND POSTGENOMIC CHANGES DO ALSO OCCUR DURING CRITICAL PERIODS OF LIFE, INCLUDING THE PRENATAL LIFE, THE PERINATAL PERIOD, AND AGEING. IN ADDITION, WE COMMENT ON THE FINDING THAT STEM-DERIVED CELLS ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO MOLECULAR DAMAGE THAN MORE DIFFERENTIATED CELLS. ALL THESE DATA ARE VIEWED IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. IN FACT, THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE GENOMIC AND POSTGENOMIC ALTERATIONS OCCURRING NOT ONLY IN SEVERAL PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS BUT ALSO IN PARAPHYSIOLOGICAL SITUATIONS THAT AFFECT CRITICAL PERIODS OF LIFE CAN BE MODULATED BY MEANS OF DIETARY AND PHARMACOLOGICAL AGENTS. THE DISCOVERY THAT CHEMOPREVENTIVE AGENTS ARE ALSO ABLE TO ATTENUATE NUCLEOTIDE DAMAGE IN STEM-DERIVED CELLS WARRANTS FURTHER STUDIES IN VIEW OF POSSIBLE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS.	2009