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Epigenetic Regulation of Toxicity of Environmental Toxicants or Stresses

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The epigenetic regulation mechanisms can provide us a possibility that a small set of molecules potentially govern many important molecular signaling pathways to regulate the biological processes. We here focused on the methylation, acetylation, microRNAs (miRNAs), and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) to introduce and to discuss the contributions of epigenetic regulation to toxicity induction of environmental toxicants or stresses and the underlying mechanisms. These investigations may open a new window to understand the full story on the toxicity induction in nematodes exposed to environmental toxicants or stresses.

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Wang, D. (2019). Epigenetic Regulation of Toxicity of Environmental Toxicants or Stresses. In: Molecular Toxicology in Caenorhabditis elegans. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3633-1_12

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