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Research from the University of Rochester suggests to have found evidence that the key to longevity may reside in a gene, as published in the journal Cell. The gene sirtuin 6 has been found to be responsible for more efficient DNA repair in species with longer lifespans, findings illuminate new targets for anti-aging research and …
Prolonged exposure of the central amygdala to elevated corticosteroids facilitates long term anxiety and pain through activation of glucocorticoid receptors and corticotropin releasing factors, but the underpinning mechanisms maintaining the responses are not known. Chronic phenotypes can be sustained by epigenetic mechanisms including histone modifications such as deacetylation. In this study which is published in …