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Epigenetics and Cancer, Part B
- 1st Edition, Volume 71 - October 14, 2010
- Editors: Zdenko Herceg, Toshikazu Ushijima
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 0 8 6 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 0 8 6 5 - 3
Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the mo… Read more
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Request a sales quoteGenes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the most widely used model organisms, describes the latest genetic discoveries in relation to neural circuit development and activity.
- Explores the latest topics in neural circuits and behavior research in zebrafish, drosophila, C.elegans, and mouse models
- Includes methods for testing with ethical, legal, and social implications
- Critically analyzes future prospects
Geneticists, molecular biologists, neurobiologists
SECTION I. Epigenetic changes induced by environmental and dietary/lifestyle factors
- Induction of epigenetic alterations by dietary and other environmental factors
- Induction of epigenetic alterations by chronic inflammation
- Exposure in utero and early-life exposure and epigenetic alterations
- Folate, one carbone metabolism & DNA methylation in cancer
- Epigenetic biomarkers for cancer pathophysiology
- Detection of epigenetic changes in body fluids
- Epigenetic biomarkers for cancer risk assessment
- Epigenetics in molecular epidemiology
- Epigenetic cancer prevention
- Epigenetics databases and computational methodologies
John C. Mathers and Caroline Relton
Toshikazu Ushijima
Kent L. Thornburg
Robyn Ward
SECTION II. Epigenetic biomarkers
Dajun Deng
Triantafillos Liloglou
Toshikazu Ushijima
SECTION III. Application of epigenetics in molecular epidemiology and epigenetic cancer prevention
Yasuhito Yuasa
Jia Chen
SECTION IV. Epigenetic databases
Drs Maté Ongenaert
- No. of pages: 314
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 71
- Published: October 14, 2010
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123808646
- eBook ISBN: 9780123808653
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