This inclusive volume is the most complete book on applied epigenetics, focusing epigenetic diseases and disorders that affect human systems, and modes of treatment
Section I: Overview
1. An Overview of Medical Epigenetics Trygve O.
Tollefsbol
Section II: Basic Principles of Epigenetics
2. DNA Methylation: Basic Principles Cynthia A.
Moylan and Susan K. Murphy
3. Histone-deacetylases as a therapeutic target in
neurodegenerative diseases Farahnaz Sananbenesi and Andre
Fischer
4. Basic principles of noncoding RNAs in epigenetics
Ilaria Panzeri, Grazisa Rossetti and Massimiliano Pagani
Section III: General Medical Aspects of Epigenetics
5. Epidemiological Epigenetics in Medicine
Alexander Vaiserman
6. Lifestyle and Preventive Medical Epigenetics Marcus
V. Gomes
7. Environmental Medical Epigenetics: A Review of
Epigenetically-induced Medical Risks Generated from Exposures in
Our Air, Food, and Personal Products Rachel L. Miller
8. Behavioral Medical Epigenetics Olivia H. Cox and
Richard S. Lee
9. Medical Epigenetics in Twins Joel C. Eissenberg
10. Epigenetic Biomarkers of Disease Philip D. Voyias,
Abhilasha Patel and Ramesh P. Arasaradnam
11. Prognostic Epigenetics Anup Sharma, Eihab
Abdelfatah, Maryam Al Eissa and Nita Ahuja
Section IV: Epigenetics of System Disorders
12. Immune System Disorders and Epigenetics Stuti Mehta
and Kate L. Jeffrey
13. Pulmonary Diseases and Epigenetics Hong Peng,
Dandan Zong, Zijing Zhou and Ping Chen
14. Cardiovascular Disorders and Epigenetics Charbel
Abi Khalil
15. Epigenomics of Intestinal Disease Daniel Rory Kelly
and Theresa Alenghat
16. Epigenetics of Skin Disorders Shuaihantian Luo and
Qianjin Lu
17. Epigenetics in Bone and Joint Disorders N. Altorok,
S. Nada, V. Nagaraja and Bashar Kahaleh
18. Epigenetics of Muscle Disorders Viviana Moresi,
Nicoletta Marroncelli, Eva Pigna and Sergio Adamo
19. Epigenetics of Psychiatric Disorders Marija
Kundakovic
20. Epigenetic Alterations in Endocrine-dependent Cancers:
Implications of Endocrine Dysfunctions Genevieve
Deblois and Mathieu Lupien
21. Reproductive Disease Epigenetics Rafael
Oliva*
22. Epigenetics in Ocular Medicine Verity F. Oliver,
Katherine A. van Bysterveldt and Shannath L. Merbs*
Section V: Multi-system Medical Epigenetics
23. Pediatric Diseases and Epigenetics Judith G.
Hall*
24. Epigenetics of Infectious Diseases Kate L. Seib and
Michael P. Jennings
25. Clinical Utility of Solid Tumor Epigenetics Søren
Kristiansen and György Sölétormos
26. Epigenetic Control in Human Normal Follicular Thyroid
Cells and in Thyroid Carcinoma Zeus Andrea Antonello and
Carmelo Nucera
27. Epigenetics in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cristina
Giorgio, Carmela Dell’Aversana and Lucia Altucci
28. Epigenetic Regulation in Cancer Metastasis Huan
Wang, Yukun Zhang, Adam Kriska and Hong Chen
29. Epigenetics in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine
Philipp Zimmer, Alexander Schenk and Wilhelm Bloch
30. Epigenetic Mechanisms and Inheritance of Acquired
Susceptibility to Disease Rajesh C. Miranda, Nihal A. Salem,
Annette S. Fincher, Amanda H. Mahnke and Sasha G. Burrowes
Section VI. Pharmacology of Epigenetics
31. Toxicology and Epigenetics Jian Tajbakhsh and
Jatinder Singh
32. Pharmacoepigenomics Ramón Cacabelos and Clara
Torrellas
Section VII: Therapeutic Epigenetics
33. Therapeutics and DNA Methylation Inhibitors Sheena
Bhalla and Shyamala C. Navada
34. Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors in Medical Therapeutics
Pusoon Chun
35. NAD+-dependent Deacetylases and Medical Therapy
Ashok Kumar, Louisa Ben-Aderet, Jinan Elayan and Mona
Dvir-Ginzberg*
36. Experimental Approaches Towards Histone Acetyltransferase
Inhibitors as Therapeutics H. Wapenaar and Frank J.
Dekker
37. Histone Methylation Modifiers in Medical Therapeutics
Patrick Trojer 38. Therapeutics of
Epigenetic-based RNA molecules Costas Koufaris* and Vicky
Nicolaidou
39. Natural Epigenetic-modifying Molecules in Medical Therapy
Avinash Kumar, Nasir A. Butt and Anait S. Levenson
40. Outcome of Combining Epigenetic Drugs with Other
Treatments in the Clinic Paromita Raha
41. Epigenetics of Pain Management Beverley
Greenwood-Van Meerveld, Dawn Prusator, Casey Ligon, Anthony C.
Johnson and Rachel D. Moloney
42. Personalized Epigenetics Michael Bitzer and Nisar
P. Malek
43. Epigenetics and Regenerative Medicine: Neural and
Skeletal Muscle Perspectives Constantin Heil and Daniela
Palacios
44. Stem Cell Epigenetics in Medical Therapy Baoli
Cheng, Liqi Shu and Peng Jin
Section VIII: Medical Epigenetics: Future Prospects
45. Prospective Advances in Medical Epigenetics Junjie
Xiao and Guoping Li
Dr. Tollefsbol is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and a Senior Scientist in the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, Integrative Center for Aging Research, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University Wide Microbiome Center, and the Comprehensive Diabetes Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is Director of the UAB Cell Senescence Culture Facility which he established in 1999. Dr. Tollefsbol trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Research Professor with members of the National Academy of Science at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. He earned doctorates in molecular biology and osteopathic medicine from the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center and his bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Houston. He has received prior funding from the NCI, NHLBI, NIMH and other federal institutes as well as the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) among many other sources.
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