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The epigenetics of aging and neurodegeneration.

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Current knowledge about the major epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation and DNA demethylation, chromatin remodeling and non-coding RNAs, as well as the involvement of these mechanisms in normal aging and in the pathophysiology of the most common neurodegenerative diseases are reviewed.
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This article is published in Progress in Neurobiology.The article was published on 2015-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 314 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Epigenetic regulation of neurogenesis & Epigenetics of schizophrenia.

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How neuroinflammation contributes to neurodegeneration.

TL;DR: Observations indicate that therapies targeting glial cells might provide benefit for those afflicted by neurodegenerative disorders, because the environment is affected during disease in a cascade of processes collectively termed neuroinflammation.
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Predicting Age Using Neuroimaging: Innovative Brain Ageing Biomarkers.

TL;DR: Evidence supporting the use of neuroimaging-based 'brain age' as a biomarker of an individual's brain health is presented and controversies surrounding brain age are discussed.
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Alzheimer’s disease: pathogenesis, diagnostics, and therapeutics

TL;DR: The present review discusses the current state of the art in AD therapeutics and diagnostics, including labeling and imaging techniques employed as contrast agents for better visualization and sensing of the plaques and points to an urgent need for nanotechnology as an efficient therapeutic strategy to increase the bioavailability of drugs in the central nervous system.
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β-Hydroxybutyrate: A Signaling Metabolite

TL;DR: The ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate represents an essential carrier of energy from the liver to peripheral tissues when the supply of glucose is too low for the body's energetic needs, such as during periods of prolonged exercise, starvation, or absence of dietary carbohydrates.
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Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors

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The Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Problems on the Road to Therapeutics

TL;DR: It has been more than 10 years since it was first proposed that the neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be caused by deposition of amyloid β-peptide in plaques in brain tissue and the rest of the disease process is proposed to result from an imbalance between Aβ production and Aβ clearance.
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The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14

TL;DR: Two small lin-4 transcripts of approximately 22 and 61 nt were identified in C. elegans and found to contain sequences complementary to a repeated sequence element in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of lin-14 mRNA, suggesting that lin- 4 regulates lin- 14 translation via an antisense RNA-RNA interaction.
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Chromatin Modifications and Their Function

TL;DR: The surface of nucleosomes is studded with a multiplicity of modifications that can dictate the higher-order chromatin structure in which DNA is packaged and can orchestrate the ordered recruitment of enzyme complexes to manipulate DNA.
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