"The DNA remains the same, but psychological and behavioral tendencies are inherited." "The mechanisms of behavioral epigenetics underlie not only deficits and weaknesses but strengths and resiliencies, too." ". . . the methyl groups significantly altered the behavior of whichever gene they wed, inhibiting its transcription, much like a jealous spouse". Eso explica muchas cosas. "This time, after the usual damage had been done, they infused their brains with trichostatin A, a drug that can remove methyl groups. . . .“It was crazy to think that injecting it straight into the brain would work,” says Szyf. “But it did. It was like rebooting a computer.”" "They found excess methylation of genes in the suicide brains’ hippocampus, a region critical to memory acquisition and stress response."
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:57:43 +0000
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