An update of epigenetic drugs for the treatment of cancers and brain diseases: a comprehensive review

Z Sahafnejad, S Ramazi, A Allahverdi - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epigenetics has long been recognized as a significant field in biology and is defined as the
investigation of any alteration in gene expression patterns that is not attributed to changes in …

Epigenetics and metabolism in health and disease

E Tzika, T Dreker, A Imhof - Frontiers in genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In the next 10 years, one billion people are estimated to suffer from disabling consequences
of metabolic disorders, making them the number one noncommunicable disease on a global …

Epidrug repurposing: discovering new faces of old acquaintances in cancer therapy

M Montalvo-Casimiro, R González-Barrios… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gene mutations are strongly associated with tumor progression and are well known in
cancer development. However, recently discovered epigenetic alterations have shown the …

MicroRNAs and epigenetics strategies to reverse breast cancer

MM Rahman, AC Brane, TO Tollefsbol - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is a sporadic disease with genetic and epigenetic components. Genomic
instability in breast cancer leads to mutations, copy number variations, and genetic …

Epigenetics of sepsis

A Binnie, JLY Tsang, P Hu, G Carrasqueiro… - Critical Care …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Recent evidence from the fields of microbiology and immunology, as well as a
small number of human sepsis studies, suggest that epigenetic regulation may play a central …

Computer-aided biomarker discovery for precision medicine: data resources, models and applications

Y Lin, F Qian, L Shen, F Chen, J Chen… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Biomarkers are a class of measurable and evaluable indicators with the potential to predict
disease initiation and progression. In contrast to disease-associated factors, biomarkers …

Association of smoking, alcohol use, and betel quid chewing with epigenetic aberrations in cancers

TH Wang, SM Hsia, YH Shih, TM Shieh - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Numerous environmental factors such as diet, alcohol use, stress, and environmental
chemicals are known to elicit epigenetic changes, leading to increased rates of cancers and …

Computational methods and next-generation sequencing approaches to analyze epigenetics data: profiling of methods and applications

I Arora, TO Tollefsbol - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
Epigenetics is mainly comprised of features that regulate genomic interactions thereby
playing a crucial role in a vast array of biological processes. Epigenetic mechanisms such …

Epidrugs in the therapy of central nervous system disorders: a way to drive on?

MG Gladkova, E Leidmaa, EA Anderzhanova - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The polygenic nature of neurological and psychiatric syndromes and the significant impact
of environmental factors on the underlying developmental, homeostatic, and neuroplastic …

Using what we already have: uncovering new drug repurposing strategies in existing omics data

JM Pulley, JP Rhoads, RN Jerome… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The promise of drug repurposing is to accelerate the translation of knowledge to treatment of
human disease, bypassing common challenges associated with drug development to be …