1  6528 142 TRANSCRIPTIONAL CORRELATES OF CHRONIC ALCOHOL NEUROADAPTATION IN DROSOPHILA LARVAE. WHEN PRESENTED WITH THE CHOICE, DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER FEMALES WILL OFTEN PREFER TO LAY EGGS ON FOOD CONTAINING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL. WHILE, IN SOME CASES, THIS BEHAVIORAL DECISION CAN PROVIDE A SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE TO THE DEVELOPING LARVAE, IT CAN ALSO LEAD TO DEVELOPMENTAL AND COGNITIVE PROBLEMS. ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION CAN AFFECT EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS, EPISODIC MEMORY, AND OTHER BRAIN FUNCTION CAPACITIES. HOWEVER, IN THE FRUIT FLY, THE INITIAL COGNITIVE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO REVERSE UPON PERSISTENT EXPOSURE TO ALCOHOL. USING AN OLFACTORY CONDITIONING ASSAY WHERE AN ODORANT IS IMPLEMENTED AS A CONDITIONED STIMULUS AND PAIRED WITH A HEAT SHOCK AS AN UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS, A PREVIOUS STUDY HAS SHOWN THAT WHEN EXPOSED TO A SHORT ACUTE DOSE OF ALCOHOL, DROSOPHILA LARVAE CAN NO LONGER LEARN THIS ASSOCIATION. INTERESTINGLY, UPON PROLONGED CHRONIC ALCOHOL EXPOSURE, LARVAE SEEM TO SUCCESSFULLY AVOID THE CONDITIONED STIMULUS JUST AS WELL AS CONTROL ALCOHOL-NAIVE LARVAE, SUGGESTIVE OF ALCOHOL-INDUCED NEUROADAPTATIONS. HOWEVER, THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH DROSOPHILA ADAPT TO THE PRESENCE OF ALCOHOL REMAINS UNKNOWN. IN THIS STUDY, WE EXPLORE THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL CORRELATES OF NEUROADAPTATION IN DROSOPHILA LARVAE EXPOSED TO CHRONIC ALCOHOL TO UNDERSTAND THE GENETIC AND CELLULAR COMPONENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ADAPTATION. FOR THIS, WE EMPLOYED RNA SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY TO EVALUATE DIFFERENCES IN GENE EXPRESSION IN THE BRAIN OF LARVAE CHRONICALLY EXPOSED TO ALCOHOL. OUR RESULTS SUGGEST THAT ALCOHOL-INDUCED NEUROADAPTATIONS ARE MODULATED BY A DIVERSE ARRAY OF SYNAPTIC GENES WITHIN THE LARVAL BRAIN THROUGH A SERIES OF EPIGENETIC MODULATORS.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
2  1346  41 DETECTION OF TRANSGENERATIONAL SPERMATOGENIC INHERITANCE OF ADULT MALE ACQUIRED CNS GENE EXPRESSION CHARACTERISTICS USING A DROSOPHILA SYSTEMS MODEL. AVAILABLE INSTANCES OF INHERITANCE OF EPIGENETIC TRANSGENERATIONAL PHENOTYPE ARE LIMITED TO ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES DURING EMBRYONIC AND ADULT GONADAL DEVELOPMENT. ADULT EXPOSURES CAN ALSO AFFECT GAMETOGENESIS AND THEREBY POTENTIALLY RESULT IN REPROGRAMMING OF THE GERMLINE. ALTHOUGH EXAMPLES OF EPIGENETIC EFFECTS ON GAMETOGENESIS EXIST, IT IS NOTABLE THAT TRANSGENERATIONAL INHERITANCE OF ENVIRONMENT-INDUCED ADULT PHENOTYPE HAS NOT YET BEEN REPORTED. EPIGENETIC CODES ARE CONSIDERED TO BE CRITICAL IN NEURAL PLASTICITY. A DROSOPHILA SYSTEMS MODEL OF PENTYLENETETRAZOLE (PTZ) INDUCED LONG-TERM BRAIN PLASTICITY HAS RECENTLY BEEN DESCRIBED. IN THIS MODEL, CHRONIC PTZ TREATMENT OF ADULT MALES CAUSES ALTERATIONS IN CNS TRANSCRIPTOME. HERE, WE DESCRIBE OUR SEARCH FOR TRANSGENERATIONAL SPERMATOGENIC INHERITANCE OF PTZ INDUCED GENE EXPRESSION PHENOTYPE ACQUIRED BY ADULT DROSOPHILA MALES. WE GENERATED CNS TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILES OF F(1) ADULTS AFTER TREATING F(0) ADULT MALES WITH PTZ AND OF F(2) ADULTS RESULTING FROM A CROSS BETWEEN F(1) MALES AND NORMAL FEMALES. SURPRISINGLY, MICROARRAY CLUSTERING SHOWED F(1) MALE PROFILE AS CLOSEST TO F(1) FEMALE AND F(0) MALE PROFILE CLOSEST TO F(2) MALE. DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES IN F(1) MALES, F(1) FEMALES AND F(2) MALES SHOWED SIGNIFICANT OVERLAP WITH THOSE CAUSED BY PTZ. INTERESTINGLY, MICROARRAY EVIDENCE ALSO LED TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF UPREGULATED RRNA IN F(2) MALES. NEXT, WE GENERATED MICROARRAY EXPRESSION PROFILES OF ADULT TESTIS FROM F(0) AND F(1) MALES. FURTHER SURPRISING, CLUSTERING OF CNS AND TESTIS PROFILES AND MATCHING OF DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES IN THEM PROVIDED EVIDENCE OF A SPERMATOGENIC MECHANISM IN THE TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECT OBSERVED. TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, WE REPORT FOR THE FIRST TIME DETECTION OF TRANSGENERATIONAL SPERMATOGENIC INHERITANCE OF ADULT ACQUIRED SOMATIC GENE EXPRESSION CHARACTERISTIC. THE DROSOPHILA SYSTEMS MODEL OFFERS AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THE EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE PHENOMENON. THE FINDING THAT ADULT ACQUIRED TRANSCRIPTOMIC ALTERATION IN SOMA IS SPERMATOGENICALLY INHERITED ACROSS GENERATIONS HAS POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS IN HUMAN HEALTH AND EVOLUTION.	2009	

3  5344  37 RADIOBIOLOGICAL FEATURES IN OFFSPRING OF NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER AFTER CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT. IN THEIR NATURAL HABITATS, POPULATIONS OF ORGANISMS ARE FACED WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CHRONIC LOW-INTENSITY RADIATION, CAUSING A WIDE RANGE OF RADIOBIOLOGICAL EFFECTS (FROM RADIOSENSITIVITY TO RADIOADAPTIVE RESPONSE AND HORMESIS). IN THIS STUDY, SPECIMENS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER WERE SELECTED FROM TERRITORIES OF THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION. THE ISOGENIC STOCKS DERIVED FROM THESE SPECIMENS REPRESENT THE GENETIC SYSTEMS OF CURRENT POPULATIONS AND MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO STUDY RADIORESISTANCE AND ITS MECHANISMS IN FUTURE GENERATIONS UNDER CONTROLLED LABORATORY CONDITIONS. PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT TRANSGENERATIONAL RADIATION EFFECTS AT THE LEVEL OF LETHAL MUTATIONS AND SURVIVAL RATE ARE UNSTABLE AND DEPEND NOT ONLY ON THE LEVEL OF CHRONIC LOW-INTENSITY IRRADIATION, BUT ALSO ON OTHER FACTORS. A SINGLE ACUTE IRRADIATION EXPOSURE OF OFFSPRING WHOSE PARENTS INHABITED A SITE WITH A HIGHER LEVEL OF CHRONIC IRRADIATION MADE IT POSSIBLE TO REVEAL PRONOUNCED RADIORESISTANT FEATURES IN THE OFFSPRING. AND THE OFFSPRING WHOSE PARENTS WERE EXPOSED TO RADIATION LEVELS CLOSE TO THE NATURAL RADIATION BACKGROUND, ON THE CONTRARY, ACQUIRED RADIOSENSITIVE FEATURES. THEIR RESPONSE TO ACUTE EXPOSURE INCLUDES A HIGH-FREQUENCY OF LETHAL MUTATIONS AND A SHORT LIFESPAN. THE DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CHRONIC PARENTAL EXPOSURE IS CAUSED BY DIFFERENCES IN THE ACTIVITIES OF CERTAIN TRANSPOSONS THAT DESTABILIZE THE GENOME. OUR DATA CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS (VIA TRANSPOSON ACTIVITY) OF THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL RADIATION EXPOSURE ON THE HEALTH AND ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL OF POPULATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TECHNOGENICALLY INCREASED RADIATION BACKGROUND.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
4  6555  38 TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF GAMMA RADIATION DOSE AND DOSE RATE ON DROSOPHILA FLIES IRRADIATED AT AN EARLY EMBRYONAL STAGE. IONIZING RADIATION (IR) KILLS CELLS MAINLY THROUGH INDUCTION OF DNA DAMAGES AND THE SURVIVING CELLS MAY SUFFER FROM MUTATIONS. TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF IR ARE WELL DOCUMENTED, BUT THE EXACT MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THEM ARE LESS WELL UNDERSTOOD; THEY INCLUDE INDUCTION OF MUTATIONS IN GERM CELLS AND EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE. PREVIOUSLY, EFFECTS IN THE OFFSPRING OF MICE AND ZEBRAFISH EXPOSED TO IR HAVE BEEN REPORTED. A FEW STUDIES ALSO SHOWED INDICATIONS OF TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION IN HUMANS, PARTICULARLY IN NUCLEAR POWER WORKERS. IN THE PRESENT PROJECT, SHORT- AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF LOW-DOSE-RATE (LDR; 50 AND 97 MGY/H) AND HIGH-DOSE-RATE (HDR; 23.4, 47.1 AND 495 GY/H) IR IN DROSOPHILA EMBRYOS WERE INVESTIGATED. THE EMBRYOS WERE IRRADIATED AT DIFFERENT DOSES AND DOSE RATES AND RADIOSENSITIVITY AT DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES WAS INVESTIGATED. ALSO, THE SURVIVAL OF LARVAE, PUPAE AND ADULTS DEVELOPED FROM EMBRYOS IRRADIATED AT AN EARLY STAGE (30 MIN AFTER EGG LAYING) WERE STUDIED. THE LARVAL CRAWLING AND PUPATION HEIGHT ASSAYS WERE APPLIED TO INVESTIGATE RADIATION EFFECTS ON LARVAL LOCOMOTION AND PUPATION BEHAVIOR, RESPECTIVELY. IN PARALLEL, THE OFFSPRING FROM 3 GY IRRADIATED EARLY-STAGE EMBRYOS WERE FOLLOWED UP TO 12 GENERATIONS AND ABNORMAL PHENOTYPES WERE STUDIED. ACUTE EXPOSURE OF EMBRYOS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT SHOWED THAT THE EARLY STAGE EMBRYO IS THE MOST SENSITIVE. THE EFFECTS ON LARVAL LOCOMOTION SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DOSE RATES BUT A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE OF LOCOMOTION ACTIVITY ABOVE 7 GY WAS OBSERVED. THE RESULTS INDICATE THAT EMBRYOS EXPOSED TO THE LOW DOSE RATES HAVE SHORTER ECLOSION TIMES. AT THE SAME CUMULATIVE DOSE (1 UP TO 7 GY), HDR IS MORE EMBRYOTOXIC THAN LDR. WE ALSO FOUND A RADIATION-INDUCED DEPIGMENTATION ON MALES (A5 SEGMENT OF THE DORSAL ABDOMEN, A5PIG(-)) THAT CAN BE TRANSMITTED UP TO 12 GENERATIONS. THE PHENOMENON DOES NOT FOLLOW THE CLASSICAL MENDELIAN LAWS OF SEGREGATION.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
5  5165  29 PRECLINICAL RESERPINE MODELS RECAPITULATING MOTOR AND NON-MOTOR FEATURES OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE: ROLES OF EPIGENETIC UPREGULATION OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN AND AUTOPHAGY IMPAIRMENT. RESERPINE IS AN EFFECTIVE DRUG FOR THE CLINICAL TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION. IT ALSO INDUCES PARKINSON'S DISEASE (PD)-LIKE SYMPTOMS IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE INHIBITION OF MONOAMINE VESICULAR TRANSPORTERS, THUS DECREASING THE LEVELS OF MONOAMINE NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE BRAIN. HOWEVER, THE PRECISE MECHANISMS REMAIN UNCLEAR. HEREIN, WE AIMED TO DEVELOP A PRECLINICAL RESERPINE MODEL RECAPITULATING THE NON-MOTOR AND MOTOR SYMPTOMS OF PD AND INVESTIGATE THE UNDERLYING POTENTIAL CELLULAR MECHANISMS. INCUBATION OF RESERPINE INDUCED APOPTOSIS, LED TO THE ACCUMULATION OF INTRACELLULAR REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS), LOWERED DNA METHYLATION OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN GENE, RESULTED IN ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN PROTEIN DEPOSITION, AND ELEVATED THE RATIO OF LC3-II/LC3-I AND P62 IN CULTURED SH-SY5Y CELLS. FEEDING RESERPINE DOSE-DEPENDENTLY SHORTENED THE LIFESPAN AND CAUSED IMPAIRMENT OF MOTOR FUNCTIONS IN MALE AND FEMALE DROSOPHILA. MOREOVER, LONG-TERM ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF RESERPINE LED TO MULTIPLE MOTOR AND NON-MOTOR SYMPTOMS, INCLUDING CONSTIPATION, PAIN HYPERSENSITIVITY, OLFACTORY IMPAIRMENT, AND DEPRESSION-LIKE BEHAVIORS IN MICE. THE MECHANISTIC STUDIES SHOWED THAT CHRONIC RESERPINE EXPOSURE CAUSED HYPOMETHYLATION OF THE ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN GENE AND UP-REGULATED ITS EXPRESSION AND ELEVATED THE RATIO OF LC3-II/LC3-I AND EXPRESSION OF P62 IN THE SUBSTANTIA NIGRA OF MICE. THUS, WE ESTABLISHED PRECLINICAL ANIMAL MODELS USING RESERPINE TO RECAPITULATE THE MOTOR AND NON-MOTOR SYMPTOMS OF PD. CHRONIC RESERPINE EXPOSURE EPIGENETICALLY ELEVATED THE LEVELS OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN EXPRESSION POSSIBLE BY LOWERING THE DNA METHYLATION STATUS AND INDUCING AUTOPHAGIC IMPAIRMENT IN VITRO AND IN VIVO.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
6  1174  38 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	
                           
7  5427  30 REGULATION OF SOCIAL STRESS AND NEURAL DEGENERATION BY ACTIVITY-REGULATED GENES AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS. TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF BOTH DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS AND THEIR ACCOMPANYING GLIAL CELLS IS OF GREAT INTEREST IN THE SEARCH FOR THERAPIES FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS SUCH AS PARKINSON'S DISEASE (PD). IN THIS REVIEW, WE COLLATE TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES IDENTIFIED IN ADULT DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS IN RESPONSE TO EITHER PROLONGED SOCIAL DEPRIVATION OR SOCIAL ENRICHMENT, AND COMPARE THEM WITH CHANGES IDENTIFIED IN MAMMALIAN DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS DURING NORMAL DEVELOPMENT, STRESS, INJURY, AND NEURODEGENERATION. SURPRISINGLY, A SMALL SET OF ACTIVITY-REGULATED GENES (ARG) ENCODING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, AND A SPECIFIC PATTERN OF EPIGENETIC MARKS ON GENE PROMOTERS, ARE CONSERVED IN DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS OVER THE LONG EVOLUTIONARY PERIOD BETWEEN MAMMALS AND INSECTS. IN ADDITION TO THEIR CLASSICAL FUNCTION AS IMMEDIATE EARLY GENES TO MARK ACUTE NEURONAL ACTIVITY, THESE ARG TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS ARE REPURPOSED IN BOTH INSECTS AND MAMMALS TO RESPOND TO CHRONIC PERTURBATIONS SUCH AS SOCIAL ENRICHMENT, SOCIAL STRESS, NERVE INJURY, AND NEURODEGENERATION. WE SUGGEST THAT THESE ARG TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND EPIGENETIC MARKS MAY REPRESENT IMPORTANT TARGETS FOR FUTURE THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION STRATEGIES IN VARIOUS NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS INCLUDING PD.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
8  4528  27 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
9  5981  35 TET2 PROMOTES PATHOGEN INFECTION-INDUCED MYELOPOIESIS THROUGH MRNA OXIDATION. VARIETIES OF RNA MODIFICATION FORM THE EPITRANSCRIPTOME FOR POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION. 5-METHYLCYTOSINE (5-MC) IS A SPARSE RNA MODIFICATION IN MESSENGER RNA (MRNA) UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS. THE FUNCTION OF RNA 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE (5-HMC) OXIDIZED BY TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION (TET) PROTEINS IN DROSOPHILA HAS BEEN REVEALED MORE RECENTLY. HOWEVER, THE TURNOVER AND FUNCTION OF 5-MC IN MAMMALIAN MRNA HAVE BEEN LARGELY UNKNOWN. TET2 SUPPRESSES MYELOID MALIGNANCIES MOSTLY IN AN ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT MANNER, AND IS IMPORTANT IN RESOLVING INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN AN ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY-INDEPENDENT WAY. MYELOPOIESIS IS A COMMON HOST IMMUNE RESPONSE IN ACUTE AND CHRONIC INFECTIONS; HOWEVER, ITS EPIGENETIC MECHANISM NEEDS TO BE IDENTIFIED. HERE WE DEMONSTRATE THAT TET2 PROMOTES INFECTION-INDUCED MYELOPOIESIS IN AN MRNA OXIDATION-DEPENDENT MANNER THROUGH ADAR1-MEDIATED REPRESSION OF SOCS3 EXPRESSION AT THE POST-TRANSCRIPTION LEVEL. TET2 PROMOTES BOTH ABDOMINAL SEPSIS-INDUCED EMERGENCY MYELOPOIESIS AND PARASITE-INDUCED MAST CELL EXPANSION THROUGH DECREASING MRNA LEVELS OF SOCS3, A KEY NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF THE JAK-STAT PATHWAY THAT IS CRITICAL FOR CYTOKINE-INDUCED MYELOPOIESIS. TET2 REPRESSES SOCS3 EXPRESSION THROUGH ADAR1, WHICH BINDS AND DESTABILIZES SOCS3 MRNA IN A RNA EDITING-INDEPENDENT MANNER. FOR THE UNDERLYING MECHANISM OF TET2 REGULATION AT THE MRNA LEVEL, TET2 MEDIATES OXIDATION OF 5-MC IN MRNA. TET2 DEFICIENCY LEADS TO THE TRANSCRIPTOME-WIDE APPEARANCE OF METHYLATED CYTOSINES, INCLUDING ONES IN THE 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION OF SOCS3, WHICH INFLUENCES DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA FORMATION FOR ADAR1 BINDING, PROBABLY THROUGH CYTOSINE METHYLATION-SPECIFIC READERS, SUCH AS RNA HELICASES. OUR STUDY REVEALS A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN REGULATORY ROLE OF TET2 AT THE EPITRANSCRIPTOMIC LEVEL, PROMOTING MYELOPOIESIS DURING INFECTION IN THE MAMMALIAN SYSTEM BY DECREASING 5-MCS IN MRNAS. MOREOVER, THE INHIBITORY FUNCTION OF CYTOSINE METHYLATION ON DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA FORMATION AND ADAR1 BINDING IN MRNA REVEALS ITS NEW PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE IN THE MAMMALIAN SYSTEM.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                          
10  4935  28 PATERNAL COCAINE TAKING ELICITS EPIGENETIC REMODELING AND MEMORY DEFICITS IN MALE PROGENY. PATERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS INCLUDING EXPOSURE TO DRUGS OF ABUSE CAN PRODUCE PROFOUND EFFECTS ON THE PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF OFFSPRING VIA EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS. HERE WE SHOW THAT ADULT DRUG-NAIVE MALE OFFSPRING OF COCAINE-EXPOSED SIRES HAVE MEMORY FORMATION DEFICITS AND ASSOCIATED REDUCTIONS IN NMDA RECEPTOR-MEDIATED HIPPOCAMPAL SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY. REDUCED LEVELS OF THE ENDOGENOUS NMDA RECEPTOR CO-AGONIST D-SERINE WERE ACCOMPANIED BY INCREASED EXPRESSION OF THE D-SERINE DEGRADING ENZYME D-AMINO ACID OXIDASE (DAO1) IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS OF COCAINE-SIRED MALE PROGENY. INCREASED DAO1 TRANSCRIPTION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ENRICHMENT OF PERMISSIVE EPIGENETIC MARKS ON HISTONE PROTEINS IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS OF MALE COCAINE-SIRED PROGENY, SOME OF WHICH WERE ENHANCED NEAR THE DAO1 LOCUS. FINALLY, HIPPOCAMPAL ADMINISTRATION OF D-SERINE REVERSED BOTH THE MEMORY FORMATION AND SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY DEFICITS. COLLECTIVELY, THESE RESULTS DEMONSTRATE THAT PATERNAL COCAINE EXPOSURE PRODUCES EPIGENETIC REMODELING IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS LEADING TO NMDA RECEPTOR-DEPENDENT MEMORY FORMATION AND SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IMPAIRMENTS ONLY IN MALE PROGENY, WHICH HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MALE DESCENDANTS OF CHRONIC COCAINE USERS.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
11  5970  19 TESTOSTERONE ACTS WITHIN THE MEDIAL AMYGDALA OF RATS TO REDUCE INNATE FEAR TO PREDATOR ODOR AKIN TO THE EFFECTS OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII INFECTION. RATS INFECTED WITH THE PROTOZOAN TOXOPLASMA GONDII EXHIBIT A REDUCED AVERSION TO CAT ODOR. THIS BEHAVIORAL CHANGE IS THOUGHT TO INCREASE TROPHIC TRANSMISSION OF THE PARASITE. INFECTED MALE RATS ALSO SHOW A GREATER TESTICULAR SYNTHESIS OF TESTOSTERONE AND EPIGENETIC CHANGE IN ARGININE VASOPRESSIN WITHIN THE MEDIAL AMYGDALA. HERE, WE SHOW THAT EXOGENOUS SUPPLY OF TESTOSTERONE WITHIN MEA OF UNINFECTED CASTRATES RECAPITULATES REDUCTION IN INNATE FEAR AKIN TO BEHAVIORAL CHANGE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PARASITE. WE ALSO SHOW THAT CASTRATION POST ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRONIC INFECTION PRECLUDES CHANGES IN FEAR AND MEDIAL AMYGDALA ARGININE VASOPRESSIN IN THE INFECTED MALE RATS. THESE OBSERVATIONS SUPPORT THE ROLE OF GONADAL HORMONES AND PURSUANT NEUROENDOCRINE CHANGES IN MEDIATING THE LOSS OF FEAR IN THE INFECTED RATS. THIS WORK ALSO DEMONSTRATES THAT TESTOSTERONE ACTING SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE MEDIAL AMYGDALA SUFFICIENTLY EXPLAINS REDUCED DEFENSIVE BEHAVIORS OFTEN OBSERVED DURING THE APPETITIVE COMPONENT OF REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORS.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
12  3622  37 IN VIVO ANTAGONISTIC ROLE OF THE HUMAN T-CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS TYPE 1 REGULATORY PROTEINS TAX AND HBZ. ADULT T CELL LEUKEMIA (ATL) IS AN AGGRESSIVE MALIGNANCY SECONDARY TO CHRONIC INFECTION BY THE HUMAN T-CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS TYPE 1 (HTLV-1) INFECTION. TWO VIRAL PROTEINS, TAX AND HBZ, PLAY CENTRAL ROLES IN ATL LEUKEMOGENESIS. TAX EXPRESSION TRANSFORMS T CELLS IN VITRO AND INDUCES ATL-LIKE DISEASE IN MICE. TAX ALSO INDUCES A ROUGH EYE PHENOTYPE AND INCREASES HEMOCYTE COUNT IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER, INDICATIVE OF TRANSFORMATION. AMONG MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS, TAX MODULATES THE EXPRESSION OF THE ENHANCER OF ZESTE HOMOLOG 2 (EZH2), A METHYLTRANSFERASE OF THE POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 (PRC2), LEADING TO H3K27ME3-DEPENDENT REPROGRAMMING OF AROUND HALF OF CELLULAR GENES. HBZ IS A NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF TAX-MEDIATED VIRAL TRANSCRIPTION. HBZ EFFECTS ON EPIGENETIC SIGNATURES ARE UNDEREXPLORED. HERE, WE ESTABLISHED AN HBZ TRANSGENIC FLY MODEL, AND DEMONSTRATED THAT, UNLIKE TAX, WHICH INDUCES NF-KAPPAB ACTIVATION AND ENHANCED PRC2 ACTIVITY CREATING AN ACTIVATION LOOP, HBZ NEITHER INDUCES TRANSFORMATION NOR NF-KAPPAB ACTIVATION IN VIVO. HOWEVER, OVEREXPRESSION OF TAX OR HBZ INCREASES THE PRC2 ACTIVITY AND BOTH PROTEINS DIRECTLY INTERACT WITH PRC2 COMPLEX CORE COMPONENTS. IMPORTANTLY, OVEREXPRESSION OF HBZ IN TAX TRANSGENIC FLIES PREVENTS TAX-INDUCED NF-KAPPAB OR PRC2 ACTIVATION AND TOTALLY RESCUES TAX-INDUCED TRANSFORMATION AND SENESCENCE. OUR RESULTS ESTABLISH THE IN VIVO ANTAGONISTIC EFFECT OF HBZ ON TAX-INDUCED TRANSFORMATION AND CELLULAR EFFECTS. THIS STUDY HELPS UNDERSTANDING LONG-TERM HTLV-1 PERSISTENCE AND CELLULAR TRANSFORMATION AND OPENS PERSPECTIVES FOR NEW THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES TARGETING THE EPIGENETIC MACHINERY IN ATL.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
13   683  32 BRAIN PLASTICITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AFTER ETHANOL CONSUMPTION IN C57BL/6J MICE. ACUTE OR CHRONIC ADMINISTRATIONS OF HIGH DOSES OF ETHANOL IN MICE ARE KNOWN TO PRODUCE SEVERE COGNITIVE DEFICITS LINKED TO HIPPOCAMPAL DAMAGE. HOWEVER, WE RECENTLY REPORTED THAT CHRONIC AND MODERATE ETHANOL INTAKE IN C57BL/6J MICE INDUCED CHROMATIN REMODELING WITHIN THE BDNF PROMOTERS, LEADING TO BOTH ENHANCED BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF) EXPRESSION AND HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS UNDER FREE-CHOICE PROTOCOL. WE PERFORMED HERE A SERIES OF CELLULAR AND BEHAVIORAL STUDIES TO ANALYZE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE MODIFICATIONS. WE SHOWED THAT A 3-WEEK CHRONIC FREE-CHOICE ETHANOL CONSUMPTION IN C57BL/6J MICE LED TO A DECREASE IN DNA METHYLATION OF THE BDNF GENE WITHIN THE CA1 AND CA3 SUBFIELDS OF THE HIPPOCAMPUS, AND UPREGULATED HIPPOCAMPAL BDNF SIGNALING PATHWAYS MEDIATED BY ERK, AKT AND CREB. HOWEVER, THIS ACTIVATION DID NOT AFFECT LONG-TERM POTENTIATION IN THE CA1. CONVERSELY, ETHANOL INTAKE IMPAIRED LEARNING AND MEMORY CAPACITIES ANALYZED IN THE CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING TEST AND THE NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TASK. IN ADDITION, ETHANOL INCREASED BEHAVIORAL PERSEVERATION IN THE BARNES MAZE TEST BUT DID NOT ALTER THE MOUSE OVERALL SPATIAL CAPACITIES. THESE DATA SUGGESTED THAT IN CONDITIONS OF CHRONIC AND MODERATE ETHANOL INTAKE, THE CHROMATIN REMODELING LEADING TO BDNF SIGNALING UPREGULATION IS PROBABLY AN ADAPTIVE PROCESS, ENGAGED VIA EPIGENETIC REGULATIONS, TO COUNTERACT THE COGNITIVE DEFICITS INDUCED BY ETHANOL.	2015	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
14  1277  28 DATA ON RNA-SEQ ANALYSIS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER DURING AGEING. AGEING IS DEFINED AS GRADUAL DECLINE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL, CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR STATE OF AN ORGANISM WITH TIME. THE AGE-ASSOCIATED CELL DYSFUNCTIONS USUALLY CAUSE CHRONIC DISEASES SUCH AS DIABETES, CANCERS AND OTHER AGE-RELATED DISEASES. MANY OF THE GENES AND PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN AGEING ARE CONSERVED IN DIFFERENT SPECIES. THESE GENES AND PATHWAYS HAVE BEEN CATEGORISED INTO NINE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR HALLMARKS, NAMELY, GENOMIC INSTABILITY, TELOMERE ATTRITION, LOSS OF PROTEOSTASIS, MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION, EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS, DEREGULATED NUTRIENT SENSING, STEM CELL EXHAUSTION, CELLULAR SENESCENCE AND ALTERED INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION. DESPITE COUNTLESS STUDIES ON AGEING, THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF AGEING IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. HERE, WE PERFORMED GENOME WIDE TRANSCRIPTOME MAPPING OF AGEING PROCESS IN D. MELANOGASTER. IN WHICH, TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS CONDUCTED ON THE 1 DAY AND 60 DAYS FLIES. ILLUMINA HISEQ PLATFORM WERE USED TO GENERATE RAW DATA. AFTERWARDS, FURTHER ANALYSIS INCLUDING DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS, GO CLASSIFICATION AND KEGG PATHWAY ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS WERE PERFORMED. THE RAW DATA WERE UPLOADED TO SRA DATABASE AND THE BIOPROJECT ID IS PRJNA718442. THESE DATA PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH IN ORDER TO DISCOVER THE GENES AND PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN AGEING.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
15  4946  28 PATERNAL PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS REPROGRAMS HEPATIC GLUCONEOGENESIS IN OFFSPRING. BOTH EPIDEMIOLOGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL STUDIES DEMONSTRATE THAT CHRONIC PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS EXERTS ADVERSE EFFECTS ON THE INITIATION AND/OR PROGRESSION OF MANY DISEASES. HOWEVER, INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF THIS ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REMAINS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. HERE, USING A C57BL/6 MOUSE MODEL OF RESTRAINT STRESS, WE SHOW THAT OFFSPRING OF STRESSED FATHERS EXHIBIT HYPERGLYCEMIA DUE TO ENHANCED HEPATIC GLUCONEOGENESIS AND ELEVATED EXPRESSION OF PEPCK. MECHANISTICALLY, WE IDENTIFY AN EPIGENETIC ALTERATION AT THE PROMOTER REGION OF THE SFMBT2 GENE, A MATERNALLY IMPRINTED POLYCOMB GENE, LEADING TO A DOWNREGULATION OF INTRONIC MICRORNA-466B-3P, WHICH POST-TRANSCRIPTIONALLY INHIBITS PEPCK EXPRESSION. IMPORTANTLY, HYPERGLYCEMIA IN F1 MICE IS REVERSED BY RU486 TREATMENT IN FATHERS, AND DEXAMETHASONE ADMINISTRATION IN F0 MICE PHENOCOPIES THE ROLES OF RESTRAINT STRESS. THUS, WE PROVIDE EVIDENCE SHOWING THE EFFECTS OF PATERNAL PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS ON THE REGULATION OF GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN OFFSPRING, WHICH MAY HAVE PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH AND DISEASE RISK INHERITED FROM FATHERS.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
16  6777  21 [ASSOCIATION OF P-MOBILE ELEMENT ACTIVITY AND DNA METHYLATION PATTERN CHANGES IN THE CONDITIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER PROLONGED IRRADIATION]. ASSOCIATION OF THE RADIOSENSITIVITY AND EPIGENETIC PATTERN DNA CHANGES AT THE CONDITIONS OF PROLONGED IRRADIATION WAS INVESTIGATED. TWO LABORATORY DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER STRAINS (CANTON-S AND RI) IRRADIATED FOR 20 GENERATIONS TO LOW DOSES RATE (1.2 X 10(-1), 0.8 X 10(-8) AND 0.12 X 10(-8) GY/S) WERE USED AS EXPERIMENTAL OBJECTS. DNA FOR THE ANALYSIS WAS EXTRACTED SEPARATELY FOR THE FLIES OF MALES AND FEMALES. RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASES GLUL, GLAL WERE USED. RESTRICTION ANALYSIS HAS SHOWN THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT DNA METHYLATED PATTERNS FOR MALES AND FEMALES AS FOR CONTROL AND EXPOSED VARIANTS. AT THE CHRONIC IRRADIATION THERE WAS THE DECLINE OF METHYLATION LEVEL AT THE ENZYMES GLUL, GLAL SITES RECOGNITION.	2010	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
17  5974  30 TET1 IN NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS OPPOSES DEPRESSION- AND ANXIETY-LIKE BEHAVIORS. DEPRESSION IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DISEASE BURDEN, YET CURRENT THERAPIES FULLY TREAT <50% OF AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS. INCREASING EVIDENCE IMPLICATES EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN DEPRESSION AND ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTION. HERE WE EXAMINED A POSSIBLE ROLE FOR THE DNA DIOXYGENASE, TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN 1 (TET1), IN DEPRESSION-RELATED BEHAVIORAL ABNORMALITIES. WE APPLIED CHRONIC SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS, AN ETHOLOGICALLY VALIDATED MOUSE MODEL OF DEPRESSION-LIKE BEHAVIORS, AND EXAMINED TET1 EXPRESSION CHANGES IN NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS (NAC), A KEY BRAIN REWARD REGION. WE SHOW DECREASED TET1 EXPRESSION IN NAC IN STRESS-SUSCEPTIBLE MICE ONLY. SURPRISINGLY, SELECTIVE KNOCKOUT OF TET1 IN NAC NEURONS OF ADULT MICE PRODUCED ANTIDEPRESSANT-LIKE EFFECTS IN SEVERAL BEHAVIORAL ASSAYS. TO IDENTIFY TET1 TARGETS THAT MEDIATE THESE ACTIONS, WE PERFORMED RNASEQ ON NAC AFTER CONDITIONAL DELETION OF TET1 AND FOUND THAT IMMUNE-RELATED GENES ARE THE MOST HIGHLY DYSREGULATED. MOREOVER, MANY OF THESE GENES ARE ALSO UPREGULATED IN THE NAC OF RESILIENT MICE AFTER CHRONIC SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS. THESE FINDINGS REVEAL A NOVEL ROLE FOR TET1, AN ENZYME IMPORTANT FOR DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION, IN THE BRAIN'S REWARD CIRCUITRY IN MODULATING STRESS RESPONSES IN MICE. WE ALSO IDENTIFY A SUBSET OF GENES THAT ARE REGULATED BY TET1 IN THIS CIRCUITRY. THESE FINDINGS PROVIDE NEW INSIGHT INTO THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF DEPRESSION, WHICH CAN AID IN FUTURE ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG DISCOVERY EFFORTS.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
18   586  31 BEHAVIOURAL AND EPIGENETIC EFFECTS OF PATERNAL EXPOSURE TO CANNABINOIDS DURING ADOLESCENCE ON OFFSPRING VULNERABILITY TO STRESS. CHRONIC CANNABINOID EXPOSURE DURING ADOLESCENCE IN MALE RATS INDUCES CHRONIC COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL IMPAIRMENTS. HOWEVER, THE IMPACT OF THIS FORM OF EXPOSURE ON OFFSPRING VULNERABILITY TO STRESS IS UNKNOWN. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THE BEHAVIOURAL AND EPIGENETIC EFFECTS OF STRESS IN THE OFFSPRING OF MALE RATS WHOSE FATHERS WERE EXPOSED TO CANNABINOIDS DURING ADOLESCENCE. MALE ADOLESCENT OFFSPRING OF WIN55,212-2 (1.2 MG/KG) TREATED RATS WERE EXPOSED DURING ONE WEEK TO VARIABLE STRESSORS AND SUBJECTED TO BEHAVIOURAL TESTS OF ANXIETY AND EPISODIC-LIKE MEMORY, FOLLOWED BY AN ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION AND EXPRESSION OF DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES ENZYMES DNMT1 AND DNMT3A MRNA IN THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX. STRESS EXPOSURE INDUCED A SIGNIFICANT ANXIOGENIC-LIKE EFFECT BUT DID NOT AFFECT THE EPISODIC-LIKE MEMORY IN THE OFFSPRING OF WIN55,212-2 EXPOSED FATHERS IN COMPARISON TO THE OFFSPRING OF NON-EXPOSED FATHERS. THESE BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES WERE SUBSEQUENT TO A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION AND DNMT1 AND DNMTA3 TRANSCRIPTION IN THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX. THESE DATA SUGGEST THAT THE DELETERIOUS EFFECT OF CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO CANNABINOIDS DURING ADOLESCENCE ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE EXPOSED INDIVIDUALS BUT MAY INCREASE THE VULNERABILITY TO STRESS-INDUCED ANXIETY IN THE OFFSPRING AND ALTER THEIR EPIGENETIC PROGRAMMING.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
19  6215  27 THE INVOLVEMENT OF ADAR1 IN ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTION BY REGULATING BDNF VIA MIR-432. BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF) IS A BIOMARKER OF DEPRESSION. RECENT STUDIES HAVE FOUND ADENOSINE DEAMINASE ACTING ON RNA1 (ADAR1) IS A NOVEL TARGET BEING SENSITIVE TO STRESS AT EPIGENETIC LEVEL. THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION MECHANISM OF STRESS-RELATED DEPRESSION IS STILL UNCLEAR SO FAR. TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL REGULATING MECHANISM OF ADAR1 ON BDNF, OVER AND LOW EXPRESSION OF ADAR1 IN PC12 AND SH-SY5Y CELL LINES ARE PREPARED. IN THE MEANWHILE, CHRONIC UNPREDICTABLE STRESS (CUS) MICE ARE TREATED WITH ADAR1 INDUCER (INTERFERON-GAMMA, IFN-GAMMA). ADAR1 REGULATES BDNF EXPRESSION, WHICH IS PROVEN BY THAT OVER AND LOW EXPRESSIONS OF ADAR1 INCREASE AND DECREASE BDNF MRNA AND PROTEIN RESPECTIVELY IN VITRO. ADDITIONALLY, ADAR1 INDUCER ALLEVIATES THE DEPRESSIVE-LIKE BEHAVIOR OF CUS MICE BY RECOVERING THE DECREASED BDNF PROTEIN IN BRAIN AND SERUM. MOREOVER, OVER AND LOW EXPRESSIONS OF ADAR1 REDUCE AND ENHANCE MICRORNA-432 (MIR-432) EXPRESSION RESPECTIVELY IN VITRO. FURTHERLY, OVER AND LOW MIR-432 EXPRESSIONS LEAD TO DECREASED AND INCREASED BDNF AND ADAR1 MRNA, PROTEIN AND IMMUNOREACTIVITY RESPECTIVELY IN VITRO. THE ABOVE RESULTS DEMONSTRATE THAT ADAR1 IS INVOLVED IN ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTION BY REGULATING BDNF VIA MIR-432. THOSE NOVEL FINDINGS CAN PROVIDE A NEW IDEA FOR THE STUDY OF EPIGENETIC REGULATION MECHANISM, EARLY DIAGNOSIS, AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF STRESS-RELATED DEPRESSION.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
20  4949  27 PATERNAL TRANSMISSION OF STRESS-INDUCED PATHOLOGIES. BACKGROUND: THERE HAS BEEN RECENT INTEREST IN THE POSSIBILITY THAT EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF STRESS-INDUCED VULNERABILITY. HERE, WE FOCUSED ON POSSIBLE PATERNAL TRANSMISSION WITH THE SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS PARADIGM. METHODS: ADULT MALE MICE EXPOSED TO CHRONIC SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS OR CONTROL NONDEFEATED MICE WERE BRED WITH NORMAL FEMALE MICE, AND THEIR OFFSPRING WERE ASSESSED BEHAVIORALLY FOR DEPRESSIVE- AND ANXIETY-LIKE MEASURES. PLASMA LEVELS OF CORTICOSTERONE AND VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR WERE ALSO ASSAYED. TO DIRECTLY ASSESS THE ROLE OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS, WE USED IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF); BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENTS WERE CONDUCTED ON OFFSPRING OF MICE FROM IVF-CONTROL AND IVF-DEFEATED FATHERS. RESULTS: WE SHOW THAT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE OFFSPRING FROM DEFEATED FATHERS EXHIBIT INCREASED MEASURES OF SEVERAL DEPRESSION- AND ANXIETY-LIKE BEHAVIORS. THE MALE OFFSPRING OF DEFEATED FATHERS ALSO DISPLAY INCREASED BASELINE PLASMA LEVELS OF CORTICOSTERONE AND DECREASED LEVELS OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR. HOWEVER, MOST OF THESE BEHAVIORAL CHANGES WERE NOT OBSERVED WHEN OFFSPRING WERE GENERATED THROUGH IVF. CONCLUSIONS: THESE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT, ALTHOUGH BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATIONS THAT OCCUR AFTER CHRONIC SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS CAN BE TRANSMITTED FROM THE FATHER TO HIS MALE AND FEMALE F1 PROGENY, ONLY VERY SUBTLE CHANGES MIGHT BE TRANSMITTED EPIGENETICALLY UNDER THE CONDITIONS TESTED.	2011