1 5343 146 RADIATION-STIMULATED EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING OF ADAPTIVE-RESPONSE GENES IN THE LUNG: AN EVOLUTIONARY GIFT FOR MOUNTING ADAPTIVE PROTECTION AGAINST LUNG CANCER. HUMANS ARE CONTINUOUSLY EXPOSED TO LOW-LEVEL IONIZING RADIATION FROM NATURAL SOURCES. HOWEVER, HARSHER RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS PERSISTED DURING OUR PLANET'S EARLY YEARS AND MAMMALS SURVIVED VIA AN EVOLUTIONARY GIFT--A SYSTEM OF RADIATION-INDUCED NATURAL PROTECTIVE MEASURES (ADAPTIVE PROTECTION). THIS SYSTEM INCLUDES ANTIOXIDANTS, DNA REPAIR, APOPTOSIS OF SEVERELY DAMAGED CELLS, EPIGENETICALLY REGULATED APOPTOSIS (EPIAPOPTOSIS) PATHWAYS THAT SELECTIVELY REMOVE PRECANCEROUS AND OTHER ABERRANT CELLS, AND IMMUNITY AGAINST CANCER. WE PROPOSE A NOVEL MODEL IN WHICH THE PROTECTIVE SYSTEM IS REGULATED AT LEAST IN PART VIA RADIATION-STRESS-STIMULATED EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING (EPIREPROGRAMMING) OF ADAPTIVE-RESPONSE GENES. HIGH-DOSE RADIATION CAN PROMOTE EPIGENETICALLY SILENCING OF ADAPTIVE-RESPONSE GENES (EPISILENCING), FOR EXAMPLE VIA PROMOTER-ASSOCIATED DNA AND/OR HISTONE METHYLATION AND/OR HISTONE DEACETYLATION. EVIDENCE IS PROVIDED FOR LOW LINEAR-ENERGY-TRANSFER (LET) RADIATION-ACTIVATED NATURAL PROTECTION (ANP) AGAINST HIGH-LET ALPHA-RADIATION-INDUCED LUNG CANCER IN PLUTONIUM-239 EXPOSED RATS AND RADON-PROGENY-EXPOSED HUMANS. USING A REVISED HORMETIC RELATIVE RISK MODEL FOR CANCER INDUCTION THAT ACCOUNTS FOR BOTH EPIGENETIC ACTIVATION (EPIACTIVATION) AND EPISILENCING OF GENES, WE DEMONSTRATE THAT, ON AVERAGE, >80% OF ALPHA-RADIATION-INDUCED RAT LUNG CANCERS WERE PREVENTED BY CHRONIC, LOW-RATE GAMMA-RAY ANP. INTERESTINGLY, LIFETIME EXPOSURE TO RESIDENTIAL RADON AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'S ACTION LEVEL OF 4 PCI L(-1) APPEARS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH ON AVERAGE A > 60% REDUCTION IN LUNG CANCER CASES, RATHER THAN AN INCREASE. WE HAVE USED UNDERLINED ITALICS TO INDICATE NEWLY INTRODUCED TERMINOLOGY.	2009	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
2 5341  61 RADIATION-HORMESIS PHENOTYPES, THE RELATED MECHANISMS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND THERAPY. HUMANS ARE CONTINUOUSLY EXPOSED TO IONIZING RADIATION THROUGHOUT LIFE FROM NATURAL SOURCES THAT INCLUDE COSMIC, SOLAR, AND TERRESTRIAL. MUCH HARSHER NATURAL RADIATION AND CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTS EXISTED DURING OUR PLANET'S EARLY YEARS. MAMMALS SURVIVED THE HARSHER ENVIRONMENTS VIA EVOLUTIONARILY-CONSERVED GIFTS ? A CONTINUOUSLY EVOLVING SYSTEM OF STRESS-INDUCED NATURAL PROTECTIVE MEASURES (I.E., ACTIVATED NATURAL PROTECTION [ANP]). THE CURRENT PROTECTIVE SYSTEM IS DIFFERENTIALLY ACTIVATED BY STOCHASTIC (I.E., VARIABLE) LOW-RADIATION-DOSE THRESHOLDS AND WHEN OPTIMALLY ACTIVATED IN MAMMALS INCLUDES ANTIOXIDANTS, DNA DAMAGE REPAIR, P53-RELATED APOPTOSIS OF SEVERELY-DAMAGED CELLS, REACTIVE-OXYGEN-SPECIES (ROS)/REACTIVE-NITROGEN-SPECIES (RNS)- AND CYTOKINE-REGULATED AUXILIARY APOPTOSIS THAT SELECTIVELY REMOVES ABERRANT CELLS (E.G., PRECANCEROUS CELLS), SUPPRESSION OF DISEASE PROMOTING INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNITY AGAINST CANCER CELLS. THE INTERCELLULAR-SIGNALING-BASED PROTECTIVE SYSTEM IS REGULATED AT LEAST IN PART VIA EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING OF ADAPTIVE-RESPONSE GENES. WHEN THE SYSTEM IS OPTIMALLY ACTIVATED, IT PROTECTS AGAINST CANCER AND SOME OTHER DISEASES, THEREBY LEADING TO HORMETIC PHENOTYPES (E.G., REDUCED DISEASE INCIDENCE TO BELOW THE BASELINE LEVEL; REDUCED PAIN FROM INFLAMMATION-RELATED PROBLEMS). HERE, SOME EXPRESSED RADIATION HORMESIS PHENOTYPES AND RELATED MECHANISMS ARE DISCUSSED ALONG WITH THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND THERAPY.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
3 1162  37 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
4 5468  32 RESISTANCE TRAINING AND REDOX HOMEOSTASIS: CORRELATION WITH AGE-ASSOCIATED GENOMIC CHANGES. REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS EFFECTIVE AS PREVENTION AND TREATMENT FOR DIFFERENT CHRONIC CONDITIONS RELATED TO THE AGEING PROCESSES. IN FACT, A SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE HAS BEEN LINKED TO A WORSENING OF CELLULAR AGEING BIOMARKERS SUCH AS TELOMERE LENGTH (TL) AND/OR SPECIFIC EPIGENETIC CHANGES (E.G. DNA METHYLATION), WITH INCREASE OF THE PROPENSITY TO AGING-RELATED DISEASES AND PREMATURE DEATH. EXTENDING OUR PREVIOUS FINDINGS, WE AIMED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT 12 WEEKS OF LOW FREQUENCY, MODERATE INTENSITY, EXPLOSIVE-TYPE RESISTANCE TRAINING (EMRT) MAY ATTENUATE AGE-ASSOCIATED GENOMIC CHANGES. TO THIS AIM, TL, GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION, TRF2, KU80, SIRT1, SIRT2 AND GLOBAL PROTEIN ACETYLATION, AS WELL AS OTHER PROTEINS INVOLVED IN APOPTOTIC PATHWAY (BCL-2, BAX AND CASPASE-3), ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSE (TRXR1 AND MNSOD) AND OXIDATIVE DAMAGE (MYELOPEROXIDASE) WERE EVALUATED BEFORE AND AFTER EMRT IN WHOLE BLOOD OR PERIPHERAL MONONUCLEAR CELLS (PBMCS) OF ELDERLY SUBJECTS. OUR FINDINGS CONFIRM THE POTENTIAL OF EMRT TO INDUCE AN ADAPTIVE CHANGE IN THE ANTIOXIDANT PROTEIN SYSTEMS AT SYSTEMIC LEVEL AND SUGGEST A PUTATIVE ROLE OF RESISTANCE TRAINING IN THE REDUCTION OF GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION. MOREOVER, WE OBSERVED THAT EMRT COUNTERACTS THE TELOMERES' SHORTENING IN A MANNER THAT PROVED TO BE DIRECTLY CORRELATED WITH THE AMELIORATION OF REDOX HOMEOSTASIS AND EFFICACY OF TRAINING REGIME, EVALUATED AS IMPROVEMENT OF BOTH MUSCLE'S POWER/STRENGTH AND FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
5 4019  28 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
6 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
7 4736  34 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 2776  30 EXTRAUTERINE GROWTH RESTRICTION ON PULMONARY VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN ADULT MALE RATS: THE ROLE OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. OBJECTIVE: EARLY POSTNATAL LIFE IS CONSIDERED AS A CRITICAL TIME WINDOW FOR THE DETERMINATION OF LONG-TERM METABOLIC STATES AND ORGAN FUNCTIONS. EXTRAUTERINE GROWTH RESTRICTION (EUGR) CAUSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADULT-ONSET CHRONIC DISEASES, INCLUDING PULMONARY HYPERTENSION. HOWEVER, THE EFFECTS OF NUTRITIONAL DISADVANTAGES DURING THE EARLY POSTNATAL PERIOD ON PULMONARY VASCULAR CONSEQUENCES IN LATER LIFE ARE NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD. OUR STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST WHETHER EPIGENETICS DYSREGULATION MEDIATES THE CELLULAR MEMORY OF THIS EARLY POSTNATAL EVENT. METHODS AND RESULTS: TO TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS, WE ISOLATED PULMONARY VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS BY MAGNETIC-ACTIVATED CELL SORTING FROM EUGR AND CONTROL RATS. A POSTNATAL INSULT, NUTRITIONAL RESTRICTION-INDUCED EUGR CAUSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN INCREASED PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE AT 9 WEEKS OF AGE IN MALE SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS. METHYL-DNA IMMUNE PRECIPITATION CHIP, GENOME-SCALE MAPPING STUDIES TO SEARCH FOR DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED LOCI BETWEEN CONTROL AND EUGR RATS, REVEALED SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN CYTOSINE METHYLATION BETWEEN EUGR AND CONTROL RATS. EUGR CHANGES THE CYTOSINE METHYLATION AT APPROXIMATELY 500 LOCI IN MALE RATS AT 9 WEEKS OF AGE, PRECEDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND THESE REPRESENT THE CANDIDATE LOCI FOR MEDIATING THE PATHOGENESIS OF PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE THAT OCCURS LATER IN LIFE. GENE ONTOLOGY ANALYSIS ON DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED GENES SHOWED THAT HYPERMETHYLATED GENES IN EUGR ARE VASCULAR DEVELOPMENT-ASSOCIATED GENES AND HYPOMETHYLATED GENES IN EUGR ARE LATE-DIFFERENTIATION-ASSOCIATED AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION GENES. WE VALIDATED CANDIDATE DYSREGULATED LOCI WITH THE QUANTITATIVE ASSAYS OF CYTOSINE METHYLATION AND GENE EXPRESSIONS. CONCLUSION: THESE RESULTS DEMONSTRATE THAT EPIGENETICS DYSREGULATION IS A STRONG MECHANISM FOR PROPAGATING THE CELLULAR MEMORY OF EARLY POSTNATAL EVENTS, CAUSING CHANGES IN THE EXPRESSION OF GENES AND LONG-TERM SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PULMONARY HYPERTENSION, AND FURTHER PROVIDING A NEW INSIGHT INTO THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF EUGR-RELATED PULMONARY HYPERTENSION.	2014	
                                                                    
9 4528  19 MULTIGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF CADMIUM ON THE LIFESPAN AND FERTILITY OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. ALTHOUGH THE DAMAGE AND TOLERANCE MECHANISMS OF CD STRESS ARE KNOWN, THE DATA ON GENETIC RISK ARE LIMITED. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASSESS THE CHRONIC TOXICITY OF CD, GENETIC RESPONSES, AND MULTIGENERATIONAL EFFECTS IN FIVE GENERATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. FOR EACH GENERATION, LIFESPAN AND FERTILITY WERE STATISTICALLY ANALYSED AND THE EXPRESSION OF APOPTOSIS- (P53 AND CASPASE-3) AND EPIGENESIS-RELATED (DDNMT2 AND DMBD2/3) GENES WAS EXAMINED. LIFESPAN AND FERTILITY SIGNIFICANTLY DECLINED UNDER CD STRESS AND THESE EFFECTS WERE MAINTAINED FOR TWO GENERATIONS AND ONE GENERATION, RESPECTIVELY, WHEN CD STRESS WAS REMOVED. THE EXPRESSION OF P53 AND CASPASE-3 WAS SIGNIFICANTLY UP-REGULATED AFTER EXPOSURE, SUGGESTING THAT APOPTOSIS CONTRIBUTES TO THE RESISTANCE MECHANISM. THEIR ALTERED EXPRESSION WAS RETAINED FOR TWO GENERATIONS. FURTHERMORE, HIGH EXPRESSION OF DDNMT2 AND DMBD2/3 ACCOMPANIED CD EXPOSURE, WHICH WAS PASSED ON TO THREE GENERATIONS, SUGGESTING THAT GENETIC MODIFICATIONS IN APOPTOSIS-RELATED GENES ARE CARRIED TO THE OFFSPRING THROUGH EPIGENETIC REGULATION.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
10 3591  24 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
11  660  29 BLOOD LEVELS OF T-CELL RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLES (TRECS) PROVIDE AN INDEX OF EXPOSURE TO TRAUMATIC STRESS IN MICE AND HUMANS. EXPOSURE TO STRESS TRIGGERS BIOLOGICAL CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE BODY. ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT ALTERATIONS IN IMMUNE SYSTEM FUNCTION ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRESS-ASSOCIATED ILLNESSES SUCH AS MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, INCREASING INTEREST IN IDENTIFYING IMMUNE MARKERS THAT PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO MENTAL HEALTH. RECOMBINATION EVENTS DURING T-CELL RECEPTOR REARRANGEMENT AND T-CELL MATURATION IN THE THYMUS PRODUCE CIRCULAR DNA FRAGMENTS CALLED T-CELL RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLES (TRECS) THAT CAN BE UTILIZED AS INDICATORS OF THYMIC FUNCTION AND NUMBERS OF NEWLY EMIGRATING T-CELLS. GIVEN DATA SUGGESTING THAT STRESS AFFECTS THYMUS FUNCTION, WE EXAMINED WHETHER BLOOD LEVELS OF TRECS MIGHT SERVE AS A QUANTITATIVE PERIPHERAL INDEX OF CUMULATIVE STRESS EXPOSURE AND ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES. WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT CHRONIC STRESS EXPOSURE WOULD COMPROMISE THYMUS FUNCTION AND PRODUCE CORRESPONDING DECREASES IN LEVELS OF TRECS. IN MALE MICE, EXPOSURE TO CHRONIC SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS (CSDS) PRODUCED THYMIC INVOLUTION, ADRENAL HYPERTROPHY, AND DECREASED LEVELS OF TRECS IN BLOOD. EXTENDING THESE STUDIES TO HUMANS REVEALED ROBUST INVERSE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN LEVELS OF CIRCULATING TRECS AND CHILDHOOD EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE. CELL-TYPE SPECIFIC ANALYSES ALSO REVEALED ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN TREC LEVELS AND BLOOD CELL COMPOSITION, AS WELL AS CELL-TYPE SPECIFIC METHYLATION CHANGES IN CD4T + AND CD8T + CELLS. ADDITIONALLY, TREC LEVELS CORRELATED WITH EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION, A COMMON BIOMARKER OF STRESS EXPOSURE. OUR FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE ALIGNMENT BETWEEN FINDINGS IN MICE AND HUMANS AND SUGGEST THAT BLOOD-BORNE TRECS ARE A TRANSLATIONALLY-RELEVANT BIOMARKER THAT CORRELATES WITH, AND PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO, THE CUMULATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND IMMUNE-RELATED IMPACTS OF STRESS EXPOSURE IN MAMMALS.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
12 1174  29 CONTRIBUTION OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS TO TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF CHRONIC RADIOACTIVE EXPOSURE OF NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER LIVING FOR A LONG TIME IN THE ZONE OF THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER. THE ACCIDENT AT THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (CHNPP) LED TO THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF CHRONIC RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION ON POPULATIONS OF ORGANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF GENOME INSTABILITY. WHEN THE DESTABILIZATION OF GENOME, DIFFERENT GENETIC DAMAGES OCCUR, THE ACCUMULATION OF WHICH LEADS TO THE FORMATION OF MUTATIONS, MORPHOLOGICAL ANOMALIES, AND MORTALITY IN THE OFFSPRING. THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE MANIFESTATION OF TRANSGENERATIONAL EVENTS IN THE OFFSPRING OF IRRADIATED PARENTS ARE NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD. IN THIS STUDY, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE FEATURES OF THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS (TES) ON THE LONG-TERM BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHNPP ARE CONSIDERED. IN THIS WORK, SPECIMENS OF D. MELANOGASTER OBTAINED FROM NATURAL POPULATIONS IN 2007 IN THE AREAS OF THE CHNPP WITH HETEROGENEOUS RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION WERE STUDIED. THE DESCENDANTS FROM THESE POPULATIONS WERE MAINTAINED IN LABORATORY (INBRED) CONDITIONS FOR 160 GENERATIONS. A STABLE TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF DOMINANT LETHAL MUTATIONS (DLMS) TO THE OFFSPRING OF ALL STUDIED POPULATIONS WAS SHOWN. THE DLM FREQUENCIES STRONGLY WERE CORRELATED WITH THE LEVEL OF SURVIVAL OF OFFSPRING. THE MEAN FREQUENCIES OF RECESSIVE SEX-LINKED LETHAL MUTATIONS VARIED AT THE LEVEL OF SPONTANEOUS POINT MUTATIONS. THE SIMULTANEOUS PRESENCE OF P, HOBO AND I ELEMENTS INDICATES THAT THE STUDIED POPULATIONS DO NOT HAVE A DEFINITE CYTOTYPE, THEIR PHENOTYPIC STATUS IS UNSTABLE. THE BEHAVIOR OF TES IN THE GENOMES OF OFFSPRING DEPENDS NOT ONLY ON PARENTAL EXPOSURE, BUT ALSO ON ORIGIN OF POPULATION, DISTANCE TO THE CHNPP, AND INBRED CONDITIONS. THE OBTAINED RESULTS CONFIRM THE HYPOTHESIS THAT TES ARE INVOLVED IN TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND ACCUMULATION OF MUTATIONS BY THE OFFSPRING OF IRRADIATED PARENTS. THE TES PATTERN PRESENT IN THE CHERNOBYL GENOMES OF D. MELANOGASTER IS A PECULIAR OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISM FOR THE REGULATION OF PLASTICITY AND ADAPTATION OF POPULATIONS LIVING FOR MANY GENERATIONS UNDER CONDITIONS OF A TECHNOGENICALLY CAUSED RADIATION BACKGROUND.	2022	

13 4875  37 OVEREXPRESSION OF AKT1 ENHANCES ADIPOGENESIS AND LEADS TO LIPOMA FORMATION IN ZEBRAFISH. BACKGROUND: OBESITY IS A COMPLEX, MULTIFACTORIAL DISORDER INFLUENCED BY THE INTERACTION OF GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS. OBESITY INCREASES THE RISK OF CONTRACTING MANY CHRONIC DISEASES OR METABOLIC SYNDROME. RESEARCHERS HAVE ESTABLISHED SEVERAL MAMMALIAN MODELS OF OBESITY TO STUDY ITS UNDERLYING MECHANISM. HOWEVER, A LOWER VERTEBRATE MODEL FOR CONVENIENTLY PERFORMING DRUG SCREENING AGAINST OBESITY REMAINS ELUSIVE. THE SPECIFIC AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO CREATE A ZEBRAFISH OBESITY MODEL BY OVER EXPRESSING THE INSULIN SIGNALING HUB OF THE AKT1 GENE. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: SKIN ONCOGENIC TRANSFORMATION SCREENING SHOWS THAT A STABLE ZEBRAFISH TRANSGENIC OF TG(KRT4HSA.MYRAKT1)(CY18) DISPLAYS SEVERELY OBESE PHENOTYPES AT THE ADULT STAGE. IN TG(KRT4:HSA.MYRAKT1)(CY18), THE EXPRESSION OF EXOGENOUS HUMAN CONSTITUTIVELY ACTIVE AKT1 (MYRAKT1) CAN ACTIVATE ENDOGENOUS DOWNSTREAM TARGETS OF MTOR, GSK-3ALPHA/BETA, AND 70S6K. DURING THE EMBRYONIC TO LARVAL TRANSITORY PHASE, THE SPECIFIC OVER EXPRESSION OF MYRAKT1 IN SKIN CAN PROMOTE HYPERTROPHIC AND HYPERPLASTIC GROWTH. FROM 21 HOUR POST-FERTILIZATION (HPF) ONWARDS, MYRAKT1 TRANSGENE WAS ECTOPICALLY EXPRESSED IN SEVERAL MESENCHYMAL DERIVED TISSUES. THIS MAY BE THE RESULT OF THE INTEGRATION POSITION EFFECT. TG(KRT4:HSA.MYRAKT1)(CY18) CAUSED A RAPID INCREASE OF BODY WEIGHT, HYPERPLASTIC GROWTH OF ADIPOCYTES, ABNORMAL ACCUMULATION OF FAT TISSUES, AND BLOOD GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE AT THE ADULT STAGE. REAL-TIME RT-PCR ANALYSIS SHOWED THE MAJORITY OF KEY GENES ON REGULATING ADIPOGENESIS, ADIPOCYTOKINE, AND INFLAMMATION ARE HIGHLY UPREGULATED IN TG(KRT4:HSA.MYRAKT1)(CY18). IN CONTRAST, THE MYOGENESIS- AND SKELETOGENESIS-RELATED GENE TRANSCRIPTS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DOWNREGULATED IN TG(KRT4:HSA.MYRAKT1)(CY18), SUGGESTING THAT EXCESS ADIPOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION OCCURS AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER MESENCHYMAL DERIVED TISSUES. CONCLUSION/SIGNIFICANCE: COLLECTIVELY, THE FINDINGS OF THIS STUDY PROVIDE DIRECT EVIDENCE THAT AKT1 SIGNALING PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BALANCING NORMAL LEVELS OF FAT TISSUE IN VIVO. THE OBESE ZEBRAFISH EXAMINED IN THIS STUDY COULD BE A NEW POWERFUL MODEL TO SCREEN NOVEL DRUGS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUMAN OBESITY.	2012	
         
14 6642  30 UNRAVELING THE PATHOGENESIS OF ASTHMA AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE OVERLAP: FOCUSING ON EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. ASTHMA AND COPD OVERLAP (ACO) IS CHARACTERIZED BY PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH PERSISTENT AIRFLOW LIMITATION AND FEATURES OF BOTH ASTHMA AND COPD. IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH A HIGHER FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY OF EXACERBATIONS, A FASTER LUNG FUNCTION DECLINE, AND A HIGHER HEALTHCARE COST. SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION IN COPD AND ASTHMA IS DRIVEN BY TYPE 1 T HELPER (TH1) AND TH2 IMMUNE RESPONSES, RESPECTIVELY, BOTH OF WHICH MAY CONTRIBUTE TO AIRWAY REMODELING IN ACO. ACO-RELATED BIOMARKERS CAN BE CLASSIFIED INTO FOUR CATEGORIES: NEUTROPHIL-MEDIATED INFLAMMATION, TH2 CELL RESPONSES, ARACHIDONIC ACID-EICOSANOIDS PATHWAY, AND METABOLITES. GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS ARE KEY CONTRIBUTORS TO THE COMPLEXITY OF ACO AND ARE REGULATED BY EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS, INCLUDING DNA METHYLATION, HISTONE MODIFICATIONS, AND NON-CODING RNAS. THUS, THIS REVIEW FOCUSES ON THE LINK BETWEEN EPIGENETICS AND ACO, AND OUTLINES THE FOLLOWING: (I) INHERITING EPIGENOTYPES WITHOUT CHANGE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI, OR EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO INHALED PARTICLES PLUS INTERMITTENT EXPOSURE TO SPECIFIC ALLERGENS; (II) EPIGENETIC MARKERS DISTINGUISHING ACO FROM COPD AND ASTHMA; (III) POTENTIAL EPIGENETIC DRUGS THAT CAN REVERSE OXIDATIVE STRESS, GLUCOCORTICOID INSENSITIVITY, AND CELL INJURY. IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF THE EPIGENETIC REGULATIONS HOLDS GREAT VALUE TO GIVE DEEPER INSIGHT INTO THE MECHANISMS, AND CLARIFY THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IN ACO.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
15 3764  34 INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF DNA METHYLATION AND GENE EXPRESSION DATA IDENTIFIES EPAS1 AS A KEY REGULATOR OF COPD. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) IS A COMPLEX DISEASE. GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ARE KNOWN TO CONTRIBUTE TO COPD RISK AND DISEASE PROGRESSION. THEREFORE WE DEVELOPED A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO IDENTIFY KEY REGULATORS OF COPD THAT INTEGRATES GENOME-WIDE DNA METHYLATION, GENE EXPRESSION, AND PHENOTYPE DATA IN LUNG TISSUE FROM COPD AND CONTROL SAMPLES. OUR INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS IDENTIFIED 126 KEY REGULATORS OF COPD. WE IDENTIFIED EPAS1 AS THE ONLY KEY REGULATOR WHOSE DOWNSTREAM GENES SIGNIFICANTLY OVERLAPPED WITH MULTIPLE GENES SETS ASSOCIATED WITH COPD DISEASE SEVERITY. EPAS1 IS DISTINCT IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER KEY REGULATORS IN TERMS OF METHYLATION PROFILE AND DOWNSTREAM TARGET GENES. GENES PREDICTED TO BE REGULATED BY EPAS1 WERE ENRICHED FOR BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES INCLUDING SIGNALING, CELL COMMUNICATIONS, AND SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT. WE CONFIRMED THAT EPAS1 PROTEIN LEVELS ARE LOWER IN HUMAN COPD LUNG TISSUE COMPARED TO NON-DISEASE CONTROLS AND THAT EPAS1 GENE EXPRESSION IS REDUCED IN MICE CHRONICALLY EXPOSED TO CIGARETTE SMOKE. AS EPAS1 DOWNSTREAM GENES WERE SIGNIFICANTLY ENRICHED FOR HYPOXIA RESPONSIVE GENES IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS, WE TESTED EPAS1 FUNCTION IN HUMAN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS. EPAS1 KNOCKDOWN BY SIRNA IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IMPACTED GENES THAT SIGNIFICANTLY OVERLAPPED WITH EPAS1 DOWNSTREAM GENES IN LUNG TISSUE INCLUDING HYPOXIA RESPONSIVE GENES, AND GENES ASSOCIATED WITH EMPHYSEMA SEVERITY. OUR FIRST INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF GENOME-WIDE DNA METHYLATION AND GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES ILLUSTRATES THAT NOT ONLY DOES DNA METHYLATION PLAY A 'CAUSAL' ROLE IN THE MOLECULAR PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF COPD, BUT IT CAN BE LEVERAGED TO DIRECTLY IDENTIFY NOVEL KEY MEDIATORS OF THIS PATHOPHYSIOLOGY.	2015	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
16 5464  26 RESILIENCE IN LONG-TERM VIRAL INFECTION: GENETIC DETERMINANTS AND INTERACTIONS. VIRUS-INDUCED NEUROLOGICAL SEQUELAE RESULTING FROM INFECTION BY THEILER'S MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS (TMEV) ARE USED FOR STUDYING HUMAN CONDITIONS RANGING FROM EPILEPTIC SEIZURES TO DEMYELINATING DISEASE. MOUSE STRAINS ARE TYPICALLY CONSIDERED SUSCEPTIBLE OR RESISTANT TO TMEV INFECTION BASED ON VIRAL PERSISTENCE AND EXTREME PHENOTYPES, SUCH AS DEMYELINATION. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A BROADER SPECTRUM OF PHENOTYPIC OUTCOMES BY INFECTING STRAINS OF THE GENETICALLY DIVERSE COLLABORATIVE CROSS (CC) MOUSE RESOURCE. WE EVALUATED THE CHRONIC-INFECTION GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES OF HIPPOCAMPI AND THORACIC SPINAL CORDS FOR 19 CC STRAINS IN RELATION TO PHENOTYPIC SEVERITY AND TMEV PERSISTENCE. STRAINS WERE CLUSTERED BASED ON SIMILAR PHENOTYPIC PROFILES AND TMEV LEVELS AT 90 DAYS POST-INFECTION, AND WE CATEGORIZED DISTINCT TMEV RESPONSE PROFILES. THE THREE MOST COMMON PROFILES INCLUDED "RESISTANT" AND "SUSCEPTIBLE," AS BEFORE, AS WELL AS A "RESILIENT" TMEV RESPONSE GROUP WHICH EXPERIENCED BOTH TMEV PERSISTENCE AND MILD NEUROLOGICAL PHENOTYPES EVEN AT 90 DAYS POST-INFECTION. EACH PROFILE HAD A DISTINCT GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURE, ALLOWING THE IDENTIFICATION OF PATHWAYS AND NETWORKS SPECIFIC TO EACH TMEV RESPONSE GROUP. CC FOUNDER HAPLOTYPES FOR GENES INVOLVED IN THESE PATHWAYS/NETWORKS REVEALED CANDIDATE RESPONSE-SPECIFIC ALLELES. THESE ALLELES DEMONSTRATED PLEIOTROPY AND EPIGENETIC (MIRNA) REGULATION IN LONG-TERM TMEV INFECTION, WITH PARTICULAR RELEVANCE FOR RESILIENT MOUSE STRAINS.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
17 6584  25 TRIGGERING RECEPTORS EXPRESSED ON MYELOID CELLS 1 : OUR NEW PARTNER IN HUMAN ONCOLOGY? INFLAMMATION IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE HALLMARKS OF CANCER. INDEED, STRONG EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT CHRONIC INFLAMMATION PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN ONCOGENESIS, PROMOTING GENOME INSTABILITY, EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS, PROLIFERATION AND DISSEMINATION OF CANCER CELLS. MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTES (MPS) HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS KEY CONTRIBUTORS OF THE INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE IN SEVERAL SOLID HUMAN NEOPLASIA, PROMOTING ANGIOGENESIS AND CANCER PROGRESSION. ONE OF THE MOST DESCRIBED AMPLIFIERS OF MPS PRO-INFLAMMATORY INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE IS THE TRIGGERING RECEPTORS EXPRESSED ON MYELOID CELLS 1 (TREM-1). GROWING EVIDENCE SUGGESTS TREM-1 INVOLVEMENT IN ONCOGENESIS THROUGH CANCER RELATED INFLAMMATION AND THE SURROUNDING TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT. IN HUMAN ONCOLOGY, HIGH LEVELS OF TREM-1 AND/OR ITS SOLUBLE FORM HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH POORER SURVIVAL DATA IN SEVERAL SOLID MALIGNANCIES, ESPECIALLY IN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND LUNG CANCER. TREM-1 SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER IN HUMAN ONCOLOGY AND COULD BE USED AS A NEW THERAPEUTIC TARGET OF INTEREST IN HUMAN ONCOLOGY (TREM-1 INHIBITORS, TREM-1 AGONISTS). MORE CLINICAL STUDIES ARE URGENTLY NEEDED TO CONFIRM TREM-1 (AND TREM FAMILY) ROLES IN THE PROGNOSIS AND THE TREATMENT OF HUMAN SOLID CANCERS.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
18 2597  31 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	
                                                                                                                                                                               
19 6550  32 TRANSGENERATIONAL ACCUMULATION OF RADIATION DAMAGE IN SMALL MAMMALS CHRONICALLY EXPOSED TO CHERNOBYL FALLOUT. THE PURPOSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN THE ANALYSIS OF THE LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF A MODEL MAMMALIAN SPECIES, THE BANK VOLE (CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS, SCHREBER), WHICH WERE CHRONICALLY EXPOSED TO LOW DOSES OF IONIZING RADIATION OVER 22 ANIMAL GENERATIONS WITHIN 10 YEARS FOLLOWING THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT. THE TIME COURSE OF THE BIOLOGICAL END-POINTS (CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS IN BONE MARROW CELLS AND EMBRYONIC LETHALITY) WAS COMPARED WITH THE TIME COURSE OF THE WHOLE-BODY ABSORBED DOSE RATE FROM EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL EXPOSURE IN THE STUDIED POPULATIONS INHABITING MONITORING SITES IN BELARUS WITH DIFFERENT GROUND DEPOSITION OF RADIONUCLIDES. THE YIELD OF CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS AND, IN LESSER DEGREE, EMBRYONIC LETHALITY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINATION OF THE MONITORING AREAS IN A DOSE-DEPENDENT MANNER. AS A MAIN FEATURE OF THE LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE UNDER LOW DOSE RATE IRRADIATION, PERMANENTLY ELEVATED LEVELS OF CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS AND AN INCREASING FREQUENCY OF EMBRYONIC LETHALITY HAVE DEVELOPED OVER 22 ANIMAL GENERATIONS. THIS CONTRASTS WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE WOULD GRADUALLY DISAPPEAR SINCE IN THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME THE WHOLE-BODY ABSORBED DOSE RATE DECREASED EXPONENTIALLY WITH A HALF-VALUE TIME OF ABOUT 2.5-3 YEARS. FURTHERMORE, GRAVID FEMALES WERE CAPTURED, AND THEIR OFFSPRING, BORN AND GROWN UP UNDER CONTAMINATION-FREE LABORATORY CONDITIONS, SHOWED THE SAME ENHANCED LEVEL OF CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS. THEREFORE THE AUTHORS SUGGEST THAT, ALONG WITH THE BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE INDIVIDUAL EXPOSURE OF EACH ANIMAL, THE OBSERVED CELLULAR AND SYSTEMIC EFFECTS REFLECT THE TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND ACCUMULATION, VIA GENETIC AND/OR EPIGENETIC PATHWAYS, OF DAMAGE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE CHRONIC LOW-DOSE RATE EXPOSURE OF THE PRECEDING GENERATIONS OF ANIMALS. THEY ALSO SUGGEST THAT THE LEVEL OF THE ACCUMULATED TRANSMISSIBLE DAMAGE IN THE INVESTIGATED POPULATIONS WILL DECREASE IN FUTURE DUE TO THE FURTHER RECESSION OF THE CHRONIC EXPOSURE AND AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SELECTION PROCESSES.	2006	
                                                                
20   19  29 5-AZACYTYDINE AND RESVERATROL REVERSE SENESCENCE AND AGEING OF ADIPOSE STEM CELLS VIA MODULATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS AND AUTOPHAGY. OBESITY AND ENDOCRINE DISORDERS HAVE BECOME PREVALENT ISSUES IN THE FIELD OF BOTH HUMAN AND VETERINARY MEDICINE. EQUINE METABOLIC SYNDROME IS A COMPLEX DISORDER INVOLVING ALTERNATION IN METABOLISM AND CHRONIC SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION. IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT UNFAVOURABLE MICROENVIRONMENT OF INFLAMED ADIPOSE TISSUE NEGATIVELY AFFECTS ADIPOSE STEM CELL POPULATION (ASC) RESIDING WITHIN, MARKEDLY LIMITING THEIR THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL. ASCS(EMS) ARE CHARACTERIZED BY INCREASED SENESCENCE APOPTOSIS, EXCESSIVE ACCUMULATION OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS), MITOCHONDRIA DETERIORATION AND "AUTOPHAGIC FLUX." THE AIM OF THE PRESENT STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE WHETHER TREATMENT OF ASCS(EMS) WITH A COMBINATION OF 5-AZACYTYDINE (AZA) AND RESVERATROL (RES) WOULD REVERSE AGED PHENOTYPE OF THESE CELLS. FOR THIS REASON, WE PERFORMED THE FOLLOWING ANALYZES: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (RT-PCR), MICROSCOPIC (IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE, TEM) AND FLOW CYTOMETRY (JC-1, ROS, KI67). WE EVALUATED THE MITOCHONDRIAL STATUS, DYNAMICS AND CLEARANCE AS WELL AS AUTOPHAGIC PATHWAYS. FURTHERMORE, WE INVESTIGATED EPIGENETIC ALTERNATIONS IN TREATED CELLS BY MEASURING THE EXPRESSION OF TET GENES AND ANALYSIS OF DNA METHYLATION STATUS. WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT AZA/RES TREATMENT OF ASCS(EMS) IS ABLE TO REJUVENATE THESE CELLS BY MODULATING MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION OVER FISSION. AFTER AZA/RES TREATMENT, ASCS(EMS) WERE CHARACTERIZED BY INCREASED PROLIFERATION RATE, DECREASED APOPTOSIS AND SENESCENCE AND LOWER ROS ACCUMULATION. OUR FINDINGS OFFER A NOVEL APPROACH AND POTENTIAL TARGETS FOR THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF AZA/RES IN AMELIORATING STEM CELL DYSFUNCTIONS.	2019