Monoamine neurotransmitters control basic emotions and affect major depressive disorders

Y Jiang, D Zou, Y Li, S Gu, J Dong, X Ma, S Xu… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common and complex mental disorder, that adversely
impacts an individual's quality of life, but its diagnosis and treatment are not accurately …

Biological embedding of experience: a primer on epigenetics

MJ Aristizabal, I Anreiter… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Biological embedding occurs when life experience alters biological processes to affect later
life health and well-being. Although extensive correlative data exist supporting the notion …

Development of an epigenetic clock resistant to changes in immune cell composition

A Tomusiak, A Floro, R Tiwari, R Riley… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic clocks are age predictors that use machine-learning models trained on DNA CpG
methylation values to predict chronological or biological age. Increases in predicted …

Redox signaling at the crossroads of human health and disease

J Zuo, Z Zhang, M Luo, L Zhou, EC Nice, W Zhang… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Redox biology is at the core of life sciences, accompanied by the close correlation of redox
processes with biological activities. Redox homeostasis is a prerequisite for human health …

Burning down the house: reinventing drug discovery in psychiatry for the development of targeted therapies

AH Miller, CL Raison - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in neuroscience, limited progress has been made in develo** new and
better medications for psychiatric disorders. Available treatments in psychiatry rely on a few …

Progesterone as an anti-inflammatory drug and immunomodulator: new aspects in hormonal regulation of the inflammation

TA Fedotcheva, NI Fedotcheva, NL Shimanovsky - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The specific regulation of inflammatory processes by steroid hormones has been actively
studied in recent years, especially by progesterone (P4) and progestins. The mechanisms of …

The impact of life stress on hallmarks of aging and accelerated senescence: Connections in sickness and in health

CE Lyons, M Razzoli, A Bartolomucci - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chronic stress is a risk factor for numerous aging-related diseases and has been shown to
shorten lifespan in humans and other social mammals. Yet how life stress causes such a …

Cell-type-specific effects of age and sex on human cortical neurons

JF Chien, H Liu, BA Wang, C Luo, A Bartlett… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Altered transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of brain cell types may contribute to
cognitive changes with advanced age. Using single-nucleus multi-omic DNA methylation …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation identifies shared associations across neurodegenerative disorders

MF Nabais, SM Laws, T Lin, CL Vallerga, NJ Armstrong… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background People with neurodegenerative disorders show diverse clinical syndromes,
genetic heterogeneity, and distinct brain pathological changes, but studies report overlap …

Mineralocorticoid receptors dampen glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity to stress via regulation of FKBP5

J Hartmann, T Bajaj, C Klengel, C Chatzinakos, T Ebert… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Responding to different dynamic levels of stress is critical for mammalian survival. Disruption
of mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) signaling is proposed to …