DNA damage—how and why we age?

M Yousefzadeh, C Henpita, R Vyas, C Soto-Palma… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aging is a complex process that results in loss of the ability to reattain homeostasis following
stress, leading, thereby, to increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Many factors contribute …

Sarcopenia: aging-related loss of muscle mass and function

L Larsson, H Degens, M Li, L Salviati… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Sarcopenia is a loss of muscle mass and function in the elderly that reduces mobility,
diminishes quality of life, and can lead to fall-related injuries, which require costly …

Current perspectives in the application of medicinal plants against cancer: novel therapeutic agents

S Gezici, N Şekeroğlu - Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth and
proliferation. It has become a major health problem in the past decades and is now the …

The genetic landscape of high-risk neuroblastoma

TJ Pugh, O Morozova, EF Attiyeh, S Asgharzadeh… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma is a malignancy of the developing sympathetic nervous system that often
presents with widespread metastatic disease, resulting in survival rates of less than 50%. To …

Oncotator: cancer variant annotation tool

AH Ramos, L Lichtenstein, M Gupta… - Human …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Oncotator is a tool for annotating genomic point mutations and short nucleotide
insertions/deletions (indels) with variant‐and gene‐centric information relevant to cancer …

ATR inhibitors as a synthetic lethal therapy for tumours deficient in ARID1A

CT Williamson, R Miller, HN Pemberton… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Identifying genetic biomarkers of synthetic lethal drug sensitivity effects provides one
approach to the development of targeted cancer therapies. Mutations in ARID1A represent …

Radiation therapy and anti-tumor immunity: exposing immunogenic mutations to the immune system

C Lhuillier, NP Rudqvist, O Elemento, SC Formenti… - Genome medicine, 2019 - Springer
The expression of antigens that are recognized by self-reactive T cells is essential for
immune-mediated tumor rejection by immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Growing …

The association between germline BRCA2 variants and sensitivity to platinum‐based chemotherapy among men with metastatic prostate cancer

MM Pomerantz, S Spisák, L Jia, AM Cronin, I Csabai… - Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Breast cancer 2 (BRCA2)‐associated breast and ovarian cancers are
sensitive to platinum‐based chemotherapy. It is unknown whether BRCA2‐associated …

Hydroxylation of 5-methylcytosine by TET1 promotes active DNA demethylation in the adult brain

JU Guo, Y Su, C Zhong, G Ming, H Song - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Cytosine methylation is the major covalent modification of mammalian genomic DNA and
plays important roles in transcriptional regulation. The molecular mechanism underlying the …

Dynamic reprogramming of H3K9me3 at hominoid-specific retrotransposons during human preimplantation development

H Yu, M Chen, Y Hu, S Ou, X Yu, S Liang, N Li, M Yang… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Reprogramming of H3K9me3-dependent heterochromatin is required for early development.
How H3K9me3 is involved in early human development remains, however, largely unclear …