Epigenetics in biology and medicine
By: editor, Manel Esteller.
Contributors: Esteller, Manel.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780849372896
Subjects: DNA -- Methylation; Histones; Epigenesis; Carcinogenesis; Epigenesis, Genetic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epigenetics and cancer: DNA methylation / Santiago Ropero and Manel Esteller; title: Epigenetics and cancer: histone modifications / Mario F. Fraga and Manel Esteller; title: Epigenetic drugs: DNA demethylating agents / Ehab Atallah, Guillermo Garcia-Manero; title: Epigenetic drugs: histone deacetylase inhibitors / Melissa Peart, Ricky W. Johnstone; title: Sirtuins in biology and disease / Alejandro Vaquero, Danny Reinberg; title: MicroRNAs in cell biology and disease / Muller Fabbri, Carlo M. Croce, George A. Calin; title: Chromatin modifications by polycomb complexes / Miguel Vidal; title: Epigenetics and its genetic syndromes / Richard J. Gibbons; title: Epigenetics and immunity / Esteban Ballestar and Bruce C. Richardson; title: Aetiology of major psychosis: why do we need epigenetics? / Gabriel Oh and Arturas Petronis; title: Epigenetics and cardiovascular disease / Gertrund Lund and Silvio Zaina; title: Epigenetics and plant biology / Luis Valledor ... [et al.]; title: Epigenetics, environment, and evolution / Douglas M. Ruden, Parsa Rasouli, Xiangyi Lu; title: Epigenetics and epigenomics / José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Reiner Siebert.