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Spirit, mind, & brain a psychoanalytic examination of spirituality and religion / by Ostow, Mortimer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Spirit -- Mind -- Religion -- Spirituality and religion -- The human-divine encounter : a developmental, epigenetic scheme -- The qualities of God -- Brain -- Mood regulation -- Apocalypse -- Demonic spirituality : infanticide, self-sacrifice, and fundamentalism -- Analyzing an account of a spiritual experience.…”
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Cytokines and CD4 T cells dance partners at the immunology ball /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Naive CD4 T cells differentiate into various Th effector classes -- Each Th cell type has a specific function in responding to infectious agents -- Differentiated states may be plastic -- Cytokine activated cytokine production -- Epigenetic regulation of Th differentiation.…”
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The language of genetics an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…-- How genes rescued Darwinian evolution -- Genetics and the evolutionary tree of life -- The genetics of human evolution -- The rainbow diversity of humanity -- The genetic basis of disease -- Guarding our genomes : the impact of epigenetics -- Genetic engineering -- Genetics and the big questions of life.…”
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Yeast studies on ageing

Table of Contents: “…Contents: History of studies on yeast ageing -- Senescence factor, molecular memory, and age locus -- Mitochondria and ageing -- Age asymmetry and cell quality control -- Epigenetic gene regulation and ageing -- Genome instability as a cause of ageing -- Replicative and chronological lifespans -- Nutrient effects on lifespan -- Ageing in the wild.…”
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O-GlcNAc, an essential regulator of numerous cellular pathways

Table of Contents: “…Contents: O-GlcNAc -- A Novel Intracellular Glycan -- Biosynthesis of O-GlcNAc -- Mechanisms by which O-GlcNAc regulates proteins -- Cellular pathways and diseases regulated by O-GlcNAc -- Epigenetics and transcription -- Translation -- Cell cycle -- Nutritional sensing -- Neurodegeneration -- Cancer -- The cellular stress response.…”
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The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology

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Cancer stem cells

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Introduction to normal and cancer stem cell (CSCs) -- Leukemia CSCs -- Solid tumor CSCs -- Possible origin of CSCs -- Functional assays for CSCs -- Conversion of non-CSCs to CSCs -- Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) -- CSC plasticity and heterogeneity -- Signaling and epigenetic regulators of CSCs -- CSC niche -- Role of CSCs in therapeutic resistance -- Strategies for targeting CSCs.…”
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Animal behavioral genetics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Nature vs. nurture behaviors -- Epigenetics -- Innate vs. learned behaviors -- Emotional drivers in the brain -- The seek/fear switch -- Emotional traits have a heritable component -- New things are scary and attractive -- Different types of fear -- Measuring temperament in animals -- Animal welfare and genetics -- Biological systems overload -- An animal is like a country -- Future research -- Don't let bad become normal!.…”
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Biology of Sex Differences

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Cell & Bioscience

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Oxidatively generated damage to DNA mechanistic aspects and formation in cells /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Oxidative stress and cellular oxidants -- Nucleobase degradation pathways induced by hydroxyl radical, singlet oxygen and one-electron oxidants -- Oxidatively generated damage to cellular DNA: single and tandem lesions -- Epigenetic marks: enzymatic oxidation of 5-methycytosine -- Measurement of oxidized bases: chromatographic and enzymatic assays -- Base oxidation products formed in cellular DNA upon exposure to ionizing radiations and UVA component of solar light.…”
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DNA methylation as a tumor marker implications for diagnosis, early detection and risk assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: How genes are silenced epigenetically via cytosine methylation and chromatin remodeling -- Assays for detecting gene promoter methylation in biological fluids -- Challenges for developing methylation-based assays -- Lung cancer case-control study of gene promoter methylation in sputum -- Predicting risk for lung cancer through gene methylation detection in plasma -- Gene promoter methylation as a diagnostic tool for lung, colon, prostate, and bladder cancer.…”
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Maternal nutrition, fetal development and long-term health

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Early embryo development: the interplay between morphogenesis and the environment -- Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) concept -- How maternal nutrition influences events around conception and changes the programme of development -- Maternal over or under-nutrition can both cause adverse health risk -- Mechanistic understanding of how poor maternal nutrition leads to adult disease involving epigenetic, molecular, cellular, metabolic, and physiologic components.…”
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Polydactyl zinc finger proteins software and hardware for genomes /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Development of a universal system for gene regulation -- A diversity of recognition domains -- Phage display -- Targeted endogenous gene regulation in cells and organisms -- The specificity issue and genome size -- Genomic specificity requires polydactyl proteins -- Transcription factor libraries: a powerful new strategy -- Cutting and pasting genes and genomes -- Zinc finger enzymes and designer epigenetic modifications -- Zinc finger nucleases: scissors for genome surgery -- Recombinases -- Gene delivery vehicles.…”
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Sex hormones development, regulation and disorders /

Table of Contents: “…Young, Thomas Borch -- Sex hormone receptors and epigenetics in breast cancer / Makoto Nagahara, Dave S.B. …”
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Clinical and Molecular Allergy

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A Time for Metabolism and Hormones

Table of Contents: “…The Epigenetic And Metabolic Language Of the Circadian Clock -- Molecular Architecture of the Circadian Clock in Mammals -- Circadian Mechanisms in Bioenergetics and Cell Metabolism -- Control of metabolism by central and peripheral clocks in Drosophila -- Circadian post-transcriptional control of metabolism -- Redox and Metabolic Oscillations in the Clockwork -- Rev-erbs: Integrating Metabolism Around the Clock -- Control of sleep-wake cycles in Drosophila -- Circadian metabolomics: insights for biology and medicine -- Rhythms within rhythms: the importance of oscillations for glucocorticoid hormones -- The genetics of autism spectrum disorders. .…”
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Omics approaches and large-scale data analysis in ageing research 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Key biogerontology questions -- Molecular signature of ageing -- Transcriptome sequencing -- RNA-seq of ageing tissues and calorie restriction -- Microarrays & Proteomics -- Epigenetic changes with age -- Other large-scale approaches -- Approaches & challenges for data analysis -- Functional enrichment -- Adaptive responses to ageing -- Plasticity of the ageing process -- Human ageing genomic resources -- GenAge database -- The genome as the digital code of life -- Genetic determinants of human longevity -- The naked mole-rat genome resource -- Sequencing the bowhead whale genome.…”
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Bovine genomics

Table of Contents: “…Womack -- Linkage mapping / Stephanie McKay and Robert Schnabel -- The bovine X and Y chromosomes / Abel Ponce DeLeon and Wansheng Liu -- Comparative genomics and evolution / Denis Larkin -- Sequencing the bovine genome / Kim Worley, Richard Gibbs -- Bovine genome architecture / Dave Adelson -- Bovine epigenetics and epigenomics / Xiuchun Tian -- Mapping quantitative trait loci / Joel Weller -- Genome wide association studies and linkage disequilibrium in cattle / M.E. …”
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The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes an amazing multifaceted model /

Table of Contents: “…-- Epidemiological survey -- InlA and InlB play interdependent roles during feto-placental listeriosis -- Roles of InlA and InlB in infection -- Comparative genomics -- Histone modifications -- Epigenetics and bacterial infectious diseases.…”
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