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SUBMITTER: Sfera A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4543923 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sfera Adonis A Cummings Michael M Osorio Carolina C
Frontiers in medicine 20150821
The interaction between living organisms and the environment requires a balancing act between genomic and epigenomic forces. Inflammation and cellular proliferation are kept in check by the genes, which code for their components and the microRNAs, which are capable of silencing the transcription of these genes. Acetylcholine (ACh) may play a unique role in the maintenance of this equilibrium, as the epigenomic inhibition of the gene coding for nicotinic receptors, and disinhibits the gene causin ...[more]